Celebrating Passover and Easter Thousands of years of ritual food
From the first last supper to the resurrection roll.
Category: Podcasts
A historian of bread on the history of bread "There is no good, no bad, only bread"
William Rubel doesn’t think there is good bread or bad bread, but he knows what he likes.
Prehistoric food globalisation 0h, East is East, and West is West ... Or maybe not
The first farmers and their crops moved much further, much earlier, than previously thought. As they did so they grew the confidence, the resources and the knowledge to move up into the mountains and down into the river basins.
We need to talk about meat Good or bad, right or wrong, now or never
Meat exercises the imagination in a way no other food can match. Some people have always wanted to ban carnivory. For others it is an essential fuel. And now, meat is central to nutrition, sustainability, health and capitalism. What does meat mean?
Better baking through chemistry The food fight that changed the US constitution
Fake news. A Senate bought and paid for. Newspapers printing press releases verbatim. And all more than 100 years ago.