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Jeremy Cherfas
I'll be talking to @historicalitalianfood about food in Rome from Aeneas to Alfredo.
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Now to wait and see, and hope that I haven’t overfaced my willing microbe helpers with all that rich food.
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The latest episode hears a freelance food historian talk about the history of bread. It was a fun chat and just a tad exasperating so please, if you're tempted to hurl a loaf at your podcast player, please make it a nice squishy supermarket loaf. Episode at https://www.eatthispodcast.com/william-rubel/ and clickable link in the bio, as usual.
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Latest episode of the podcast now up, talking about food, power, pubs and politics in Ireland. http://ow.ly/U8zm30mdTik
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Our Daily Bread 26 - Wheats and Measures http://ow.ly/jVLd30lxI4x Eight wheat seeds of silver gets you 5 pounds 10 ounces of bread. The very first English law about food regulated the size of a standard loaf of bread. The Assize of Bread and Ale kept the price constant, but that price bought more or less bread depending on the price of wheat. It never was a very useful system, for bakers or bread buyers, but it survived from at least 1266 until 1836 and provides an opportunity to consider a pound of silver versus a pound of bread.
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Our Daily Bread 18 - Allied forever http://ow.ly/2vIi30lqICw Size brings benefits to bakeries as much as to flour mills. The episode tells a small part of the story of how George Weston turned a bakery route in Toronto into one of the biggest food companies in the world, responsible for more brands of bread than you can imagine. And not just the bread, but many of the ingredients that make megabakeries possible.
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Our Daily Bread 16 - Water and Power http://ow.ly/dcKc30loDEM The rotary quern was perhaps the first labour-saving device. Using water power, rather than muscles, to turn the millstone made it even more efficient. Without watermills, it is doubtful whether ancient Romans could have enjoyed their bread and circuses. Because they require capital investment and skilled workers, watermills also set the trend for concentration in the food industry.
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Our Daily Bread 08 - Nikolay Ivanovich Vavilov http://ow.ly/nxbJ30liJUz This short episode fails to do justice to the man who, more than anyone, first grasped the importance of knowing where and how wheat arose. It does, however, explain why Vavilov wanted to collect the 'building blocks' of future food security, for wheat and many other crops. In more than 60 countries, Vavilov and his colleagues gathered diversity from farmers' fields; they died protecting their collections.
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Latest episode looks at food-borne illness. Are industrial food chains worse than farmers' markets? Nobody knows. Listen at https://www.eatthispodcast.com/food-safety-and-industry-concentration/
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Latest episode asks whatever happened to British veal. Time was when veal calves were kept in the dark. Now it seems to be consumers. We shine a light on how male dairy calves have found a better place in the British food system. https://www.eatthispodcast.com/whatever-happened-to-british-veal/ #podcast
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