Food has become cheaper and more abundant over the past 70 years or so by ignoring external costs. As a result, our planet and our health have suffered untold damage. Is it even possible to turn the food system around? Listen at https://eatthispodcast.com/paradox
A space for mostly short form stuff and responses to things I see elsewhere.
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/
Eat This Newsletter 274: That Administration thwarts its own healthy ambitions, plus ancient avocados, Vietnamese food fraud, and a fight between yeast and sourdough. In the 17th century.
Read (and subscribe?) at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-274-pushmi-pullyu/
How do you cure a dietary disease caused by poverty? Give sufferers better food.
“The hospital doctors all knew: give them a decent diet.” Knowing wasn’t enough.
“We can’t improve the peasants’ diet. That’s that’s not our job. We’re doctors.”
So whose job is it?
https://eatthispodcast.com/pellagra
Eat This Newsletter 270
Eggflation excuses, the sad saga of the British sliced loaf, what to grow in a nuclear winter, hot dance food science PhD, and a sober accounting of the US's food-related losses.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-270-concentrated-profits/
Time again for Eat This Newsletter.
- Some things called pepper
- Welsh oats
- Chickens with olives
- Hot potatoes
- Civil Eats’ Food Policy Tracker
Read (and subscribe) at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-267-more-diversity/
Latest episode: Food facts are not the answer to fear of foods
Charlotte Biltekoff, author of Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge, on how industrial food and real food talk past one another.
https://eatthispodcast.com/real-food