Eat This Newsletter 300. Blowing my own trumpet, and also morel cultivation, “Achieving Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Diets,” a real man making quiche, and part of the whole truth about whole grains.
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The self-sufficiency in food trope is always a myth that authoritarians use to stoke fear and drive voters their way. Currently editing my next episode about this very topic.
That was an utter joy. Thank you for the introduction. "If by healthy you mean disgusting" will live forever rent-free in my brain.
More than a little, I would say. But not as funny as the time my photograph of two button mushrooms got flagged as way to risqué for anyone to see.
So glad I survived the "adult content".
One of the most unfortunate aspects of the modern food system is that we have gotten so efficient at crop production that markets and policies have been created to divert crop production to massively inefficient ends (calories lost feeding animals or burned as fuel).
Trevor Warmedahl with the abomasum of a goat kid, a common source of rennet for artisanal cheesemaking.
New Episode: In Search of the Real Cheeses
After 10 years as a commercial cheesemaker, Trevor Warmedahl set off to learn about “other, older ways to go about the fermentation of milk and the care of dairy livestock and the making of cheese”. eatthispodcast.com/cheese-trek
#podcast #cheese
What's your interpretation of the biblical quotation? Have no fear? Or That the butcher is the one who has no fear?
A paper fan from Japan with a painting of a cucumber on it to improve its ability to collect the user.
ETN 299: Supply lines down, linking continues
1) Cool as a cucumber, with added nomenclature
2) Meat and mushrooms, apostasy in Texas and Iowa
3) Anchovies, the best on the internet?
4) Olive Oil Tourism, the deets
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Filed under: You can lead a horse to water ...
Maybe a campaign that had BBQ once a week to celebrate, rather than "running on BBQ" would also resonate.
Alas, not a gift to me.
Clusters of ripe, violet olives on a leafy branch.
New episode: the paradox of old-fashioned modern olive oil.
Some olive oil millers in Provence go out of their way to develop flavours that the EU calls “defects”. These oils can't be called extra-virgin, but they sell anyway.
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#podcast #food #olives
Today, in Annals of Machine Transcription: IT Desk Podcast and Heed This Podcast.
I quite like No. 2.
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I ought to update that page, I suppose, but, you know …
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Here's a great letter in AJCN explaining the autocorrelation problem. Published in 2011, but nothing ever changes...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The new $200 billion request is basically equivalent to the cost for universal free school breakfasts and lunches for all students across the United States for a decade
the average eater's approach to eating - not unlike like the average voter's approach to politics - has no consistent unifying theory of why they eat what they eat or real understanding of much of anything to do with food, from political economy to nutrition.
I seem unable to say this where it ought to be, but also, Ann-Margret in Ken Russell's 1975 film of Tommy.
Brainfood: History edition
Just let me have my little fun...
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog: agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/brai...
#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #seeds
”Does a photo faked to show Vavilov in the card index of a library not undermine that intent?”
”The article, at its core, is about how Lysenko’s fake science, intended to demonstrate the superiority of Marxist theory, was responsible for the death by starvation not only of Nikolai Vavilov but also of uncountable millions of Russians."
A faked photo of Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov among the seed drawers of the Institute of Applied Botany in St Petersburg
I’m resurrecting my post from this day in 2021 because I think the fundamental question still requires some sort of answer.
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Better out than in.
Nibbles: Agricultural expansion maps, Brassica diversity, Not against the grain, South African seedbanks, Safer peanuts, Diné seedbank
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/nibb...
#genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity
I remember him!
Thanks. It was indeed a hard one to pitch, especially in 300 characters or less. So many interesting nuggets of information.
Cover artwork: fresh yellow-green olive oil emerging from the centrifuge and flowing down a chute.
Extra virgin olive oil appeared in 1960, after a decade of scandalous adulteration. Then, it denoted quality. Today, not so much.
“I would argue,” says Carl Ipsen, “that a bigger problem today than fraud is transportation and storage.”
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