- Jayson Lusk explains Changes in Meat Supply and Demand and what that actually means, at least in the US …
- … where lack of meat is not part of greater food insecurity.
- Another topinambour, monsieur?
- The University of Pisa gets to promote the natural variability of the fig.
- Faster, breeder! More! More!
- Why should you care that Scottish Archaeologists Discover Ruins of Massive Lost Wine-Bottle Glass Factory? Because bottle technology changed tastes, as will be explained in nest week’s episode.
Eat This Newsletter 123 Meat matters
No meat shortage, no vegetable left behind, not enough figs, tasty maize, bulky barley, old bottles.
Eat This Newsletter 122 Ecumenical
It’s all connected; pre-Roman Britons, Easter, Passover, cookies. Objects of worship.
- Other diseases still matter. Olive “leprosy” remains serious. The science.
- The Counter dug deep into the mysterious flour shortage.
- Chickens and hares like unto gods, says The Guardian, and long before Easter.
- How Maxwell House Coffee appropriated Passover.
- In 2006, it seems I had a premonition about empty tomb cookies, recently brought to light.
Eat This Newsletter 121
Seafood, smut and sourdough, and a reminder about Soviet food.
- Neanderthals enjoyed seafood. Well, why wouldn’t they?
- The right kind of smut is so good. Clickbait, right?
- Keep your sourdough small, with The Perfect Loaf’s guide.
- ICYMI, six years ago I talked to Mary Neuberger about a conference on Culture and Cuisine in Russia & Eastern Europe.
- Several of those conference papers are in a special issue of Gastronomica, the journal for food studies.
Eat This Newsletter 120 An opportunity?
Fungi, chicken of the woods, silver darlings and more besides. With a Letter from Rome for subscribers.
- Extraordinary Fungal Masks used by the Indigenous People of North America and Asia
- The Italian Farmer Returning Chickens to the Wild. I don’t envy him collecting about 1000 eggs a day from the woods.
- How herring in the North Sea could sour the Brexit trade negotiations.
- If you don’t know it, and even if you do, listen to Singing the Fishing, in my opinion the best of the marvellous BBC Radio Ballads.
- Covid–19 and the future of food from Chris Smaje of Small Farm Future. Long-term hopeful.
- “The Gastronomica Editorial Collective is seeking dispatches about food in the time of COVID–19.”
- Here’s mine … Life here in lockdown land honestly hasn’t been that bad. I’ve written a bit about it here and here.
Eat This Newsletter 119 Ceci n'est pas une poire
Apples and pears, nutmeg and mace, beans and pulses, lifestyles and life.
- Isabella dalla Ragione, seeker after old varieties of fruit and corrective of art historians
- Nutmeg is not black gold. It’s Pantone160c gold.
- Cool Beans are having their moment, and not just on “meatless Mondays”.
- Because “Meatless Mondays” are not enough.