The freedom Italian prisoners enjoy around food came as a shock
Cooking in Maximum Security
29/12/2025 | 23 mins.
This is a way also to say “I’m a subject” in a place that tries to transform me into an object. I’m a subject. As a subject, I want to eat what I want today.
Cash remains a most effective gift
15/12/2025 | 19 mins.
Poor people need money and they know what to spend it on
A Berliner Speaks
01/12/2025
In 2005, Luisa Weiss launched The Wednesday Chef, an early food blog. Today she has three books to her credit and continues to write about food.
A Fresh Look at Domestication
17/11/2025 | 31 mins.
Selection had nothing to do with transforming grass into wheat, or any other aspect of domestication.
Using food to explore all manner of topics, from agriculture to zoology. Eat This Podcast tries to go beyond the obvious to see how the food we eat influences and is influenced by history, archaeology, trade, chemistry, economics, geography, evolution, religion — you get the picture. We don’t do recipes, except when we do, or restaurant reviews, ditto. We do offer an eclectic smorgasbord of tasty topics.