More Sustainable School Meals Researchers in Sweden optimised school lunches to reduce GHG emissions while staying essentially the same. Negative result very positive; no changes in amount eaten, amount wasted and meal satisfaction. eatthispodcast.com/schoolfood #podcasts #food #nutrition

So picky!

Eat This Newsletter 303. Too much to summarise in such a confined space, but I believe it will satisfy your need for food-related goodies encountered online. Try it at buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #food #newsletters

Brainfood: Indigenous edition – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/05/brai... #conservation #agrobiodiversity #genebanks #Indigenouspeople

Latest episode looks at the hipster baristas and Chinese espresso, both of which show that even traditions that define an identity are not as immutable as people sometimes think they are. eatthispodcast.com/espresso/ #podcasts #food #coffee

Humble crop beats superfood – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/05/humb... #conservation #agrobiodiversity #development #quinoa #potato

Brainfood: Spatial data edition – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/05/brai... #conservation #agrobiodivesity #spatialdata #GIS

That distribution really is massively skewed.

Brassica on the brink: Collards in the Sahara? – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/05/bras... #conservation #ethnobotany #economicbotany #agrobiodiversity

Collard greens are strongly linked to Black foodways in the US South. They are also valued in Morocco on the edge of the Sahara, although the outside world has only just found out about that. That raises so many questions. eatthispodcast.com/collards #food #agriculture #podcasts #Morocco

Terrific news on peanut domestication.

Great news, that rare alleles can rapidly increase in frequency when they confer an advantage in a different environment. I'd love to see sequencing data from the many populations of Ceccarelli's composite crosses now growing across Italy (and elsewhere).

Let's hear it for the guava!

tsp to smbc: Culinary Vernacular and the Evolution of Language in Personal Recipes recipes.hypotheses.org/27696 Pity many of the images, which the captions suggest might be interesting, are not visible on the page, for me.

A Mycelial Thread Through Human History – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/04/a-my... #archaeology #fungi #agrobiodiversity

I particularly love this insight from Amiel at @gourmetlives.bsky.social about how food media has spent so much time trying to capture people who are not actually very interested in food

Genebanks can drive the diversification agenda – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/04/gene... #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #conservation #seeds #diets #sustainability

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. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #food #newsletters

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).

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

It was a scam! Jonathan lives.

JSTOR in a pickle with Jeremy – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/03/jsto...

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 buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #food #newsletters

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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. eatthispodcast.com/old-oil #podcast #food #olives

Today, in Annals of Machine Transcription: IT Desk Podcast and Heed This Podcast. I quite like No. 2. If you want to be sure to hear the podcast, with hand-corrected transcript, head over to eatthispodcast.com/subscribe-2/ I ought to update that page, I suppose, but, you know … #podcasts #food

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

I’m resurrecting my post from this day in 2021 because I think the fundamental question still requires some sort of answer. jeremycherfas.net/blog/nikolai...

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

Thanks. It was indeed a hard one to pitch, especially in 300 characters or less. So many interesting nuggets of information.

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.” eatthispodcast.com/evoo #podcast #food #OliveOil

Eat This Newsletter 297: Proudly Inefficient This time around, efficiency is a very poor metric when it comes to cooking, supply chains, microwaves and breakfast. Read it at buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #newsletter #food

WorldVeg secures over 90% of its global vegetable collections in the Arctic - World Vegetable Center avrdc.org/worldveg-gen...

”You are more likely to find the raw ingredients for a better future for the food system at the Waffle House than you are at your local farmers’ market.” Gabriel Rosenberg and Jan Dutkiewicz talking about their new book Feed The People! eatthispodcast.com/ftp #agriculture #food #podcast

Another chance for Bambara groundnut – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/the-...

Is the food system broken? No, say @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and Gabriel Rosenberg. Their new book explains Why Industrial Food Is Good and How To Make It Even Better. We had a good chat, from cellular agriculture to labour in the food industry. eatthispodcast.com/ftp #agriculture #policy

It looks pretty and Prince Charles (lol) said it's sustainable is, uh, not how you adjudicate environmental impact.

New issue of Eat This Newsletter. - Botanists in the newsletter - Diversity in the field - Milk in the cupboard - Georgia in the news - Olives in the ground - Rice in the bank Read (and subscribe?) at buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #newsletter #food

Brainfood: Diversity of Sugarcane, Rice, Lentils, Olives, Sweetpotato, Cassava, Beans, Buckwheat, Pigeon pea, Landscapes – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/brai... #agrobiodiversity #conservation #genebanks #biodiversity #seeds

Too gnomic? Never!

Food Notes from an American Prison Edward Hasbrouck reflects on his time in a federal penitentiary, where the kinds of cooking Italian maximum security inmates get up to would have been completely unthinkable. eatthispodcast.com/lewisburg #food #prison #podcasts

“Let the scientists and their interpreters fight it out over single nutrients. Eat food and enjoy your dinner.” Noted on this day in 2010, still noteworthy today. www.foodpolitics.com/2010/02/conf... #food #nutrition

“Boar’s Head reopens Virginia deli meat plant tied to deadly listeria outbreak” I’m sure it will be absolutely fine. apnews.com/article/boar... #food

Pecan inside – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/02/peca... #conservation #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #history #nuts

Some good news! arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

If only there was some way of preventing measles arstechnica.com/health/2026/...