Maria Fedorova’s new book looks at how the Volga famine of 1920 catalyzed exchanges of food aid, technology, and agricultural ideas. Humanitarian, yes, and also deeply political.
A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
Eat This Newsletter 294: All wet
* A water sommelier walks into a spa ...
* Never mind food prices, how did water get so costly?
* Arizona attempts to keep Saudi Arabia out of its aquifers.
All the news that's fit to drink at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-294-all-wet/
New month, new episode, a chat with Berliner Luisa Weiss about how she became a food blogger, how that changed her life, and how the Berlin food scene is changing.
https://eatthispodcast.com/berlin
ETN 288: Adverse
Those Lancet UPF papers, the cost of lying about beef, and the much misunderstood tonka bean. It isn't often that the US is more cautious on food safety than the EU, but the tonka bean's coumarin is one exception.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-288-adverse/
Eat This Newsletter 284: Marketing
Food bank economics, Pasta Grannies behaving badly, white olives, a eulogy for “foodie”, tariffs on “English” tea, and some food-flavoured Ig Nobel prizes.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-284-marketing/
Eat This Newsletter 281, where food is so much more than just something to eat.
* How do we change the way we eat?
* Fungi to biofortify wheat
* In Kashmir, bread and lotus flowers
* Senegal's madd for local development
* Metal mouth and blanched basil
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-281-food-plus/
Eat This Newsletter 280: colonial cultural history of two very different items, a gift to UPF regulation, English farmers' shattered dreams, and too much disturbing food safety news.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-280-gordian/
Eat This Newsletter 276: Sharp practice is alive and well marketing dairy products to countries in Africa, as Ireland's big dairies know well. Also, food deserts, colourful carrots, garlic seeds, and Neanderthal butchery styles.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-276-diversities/
Eat This Newsletter 275
* Neanderthal fat factory; yes they could
* A history of school lunches in the USA; unintended consequences
* Pity the Snack Food Giants; sales plunge
* Big not-so-pink trouble in the rice fields.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-275-infrastructure/