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

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

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 buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #newsletter #food #water

Genebank data at a crossroads – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/gene... #genebanks #datamanagement #conservation #biodiversity

Frozen 2: This time it’s crop diversity – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/froz... #conservation #biodiversity #cryopreservation #cropdiversity #genebanks

Guardian of a (nearly) forgotten staple honoured – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2026/01/guar... #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #seeds #conservation #breadfruit #pacific #hawaii

Everything you ever wanted to know about cruciferous vegetables but were afraid to ask

New Eat This Newsletter 293: Normal Service Parmigian-Reggiano’s Hail Mary pass Gastronationalism in Italy and the Levant Gourmet undead Read it at buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #newsletter #food

In my latest blog, I reflect on a tumultuous 2025, leaving the chaotic U.S. for Italy. As I transition to my new role at Johns Hopkins, I will focus on sustaining hope for systemic change despite ongoing global challenges. The journey continues. shorturl.at/Ct8IE

New episode: Cooking in Maximum Security. Prisoners in Italian maximum security prisons have a right to cook in their cells. A new book shares their recipes and the tools they invent to make them. #podcast #food #Italy eatthispodcast.com/prison

Some new posts up on #theFoodArchive on the latest in food & nutrition science, politics and culture. Check it out! Happy 2026 everyone! www.thefoodarchive.com

“I made a writing garden. It's full of weeds. It's messy. Nothing is polished. It's not perfect. We have cookies.” Read this. It made me cry. Thank you Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy sightlessscribbles.com/the-coloniza...

The easiest way to be absolutely certain that the gift you give is exactly what the recipient wants. eatthispodcast.com/give-again #podcast #nutrition #poverty @give-directly.bsky.social

This is an article (Open Access - very important) that I developed from a paper I delivered at the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium held on 28–29 May 2024 at TU Dublin. It may be of interest to anyone interested in food in Ireland - enjoy!

Antibiotic use on farms rose 16% last year, after having dropped significantly from 2015-2017. This matters. Antibiotics in livestock help drive antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which are a threat to human (and animal) health. @kennytorrella.bsky.social reports. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Seems reasonable.

New month, new episode, a chat with Berliner Luisa Weiss @luisaweiss.bsky.social about how she became a food blogger, how that changed her life, and how the Berlin food scene is changing. eatthispodcast.com/berlin #podcast #food #Berlin

If this is the kind of thing you enjoy, Enjoy! www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/... #food #agriculture

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. #food #nutrition #newsletter

It’s too nice an afternoon to spend indoors finishing up tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter, but someone has to examine a case in which US food safety regulation is more stringent than the EU’s. Sign up at buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/ to get it. #newsletter #FoodSafety

Second big meat company forced to roll back 'net zero' claims www.thenewlede.org/2025/11/tyso...

Großartiges Eintauchen in eine Mini-Nische der Forschung: Haben Menschen aktiv und bewusst die wilden Getreidepflanzen zu immer wertvolleren Nahrungsquellen selektiert oder wurde durch ihr Verhalten eine eh vorhandene Tendenz der pflanzlichen Entwicklung unabsichtlich gefördert? #NerdsAtWork

A Fresh Look at Domestication According to Robert Spengler, it wasn’t human selection that turned grass into wheat, or wolves into dogs. Domestication just happened in response to changes in the environment. eatthispodcast.com/domestication #podcast #agriculture #archaeology

More, from Marion Nestle, on the ByHeart baby botulism problem. foodpolitics.com/2025/11/not-s… Seeing the company wriggle and say that the Clostridium found in a sample could have come from elsewhere tells me all I need to know. #newslettere#food_safetyty

Want to stay up to date on food & nutrition science, politics and culture? Check out The Food Archive and subscribe on the upper right side of the home page: www.thenutritionarchive.com

New episode: Revolutions are Born in Breadlines. 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. eatthispodcast.com/usa-ussr #podcast #agriculture #history

Pitchforks! Now!

Results important because lots of attention is going into this issue (1700 studies!), and this overview strongly suggests there's no strong data on whether food-packaging microplastics are important, and we shld devote attention and effort to issues we know are important (e.g., nitrogen pollution).

Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings The people who need a healthy diet most can’t afford one, while the people who can easily afford it don’t seem to want it. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #food #newsletter #nutrition

Eat This Newsletter 286: Cravings Cruising the internet highway seeking nutritious alternatives to slop. This week, unaffordable healthy diets, undesirable healthy diets, truck stops, forest gardens, and gluten. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #food #newsletters #nutrition

”We’re talking about 1 in 8 American households and something like 12 percent of all grocery sales in the U.S. ... It’s like watching the worst game of chicken ever, and it’s not clear Democrats or Republicans really realize just how much is at stake.” Why aren't people sharpening their pitchforks?

Nibbles: Millennium #Seed Bank 25th, NPGS, Maize germplasm, Breadfruit genebank, Banana #genebank – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/nibb...

In 2008, staff at a Chinese takeaway in Dublin cooked themselves up a special treat after hours. One thing led to another and today you can find something similar not only across Ireland but around the world, as I learned from @gastroirl.bsky.social eatthispodcast.com/spice-bag #food #Ireland

Eat This Newsletter 285: Antsy The new EAT-Lancet report “allows two servings of animal-source foods per day—drawn from fish, yogurt, milk, cheese, or meat”. What if the yoghurt contains ants? One serving, or two?

Brainfood: Data edition... Biodiversity intactness, Landuse change, Drought stress, Crop suitability, Yield variance, Phenotypic data Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/brai...

Eat This Newsletter 285: Antsy Life's little certainties: birth, death, and school lunch money. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa...

Dept. of Good to Have it Confirmed "There are hundreds of different large-scale wine scandals that suggest the institutions responsible for reviewing, rating, and certifying wine don’t deserve the reputations they pride themselves on." www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-myth-o... #wine

I might be inviting trouble here, but something my guest said on the latest episode of the podcast led me to do some digging, and that led me to write Is Histamine Intolerance a Thing? www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/is-hist... #histamine #fermentation

Amen.

Nibbles: Fiona Hay, Richard Ellis, FAO exhibition, Peasants, Wheat breeding, Svalbard, Søren Ejlersen, Ephraim Bull, Heirloom apples, Caffeine, Collards history – Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/10/nibb... #conservation #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #biodiversity #seeds

Revisiting Historical Recipes Even if you manage to make an old recipe, you’re left with an insoluble mystery: how should it taste? If you’re in search of some notion of authenticity, that is the ultimate stumbling block. There is just no way to know. Or is there? eatthispodcast.com/past-taste

Good morning! If you listen to podcasts, enjoy food traditions, have a listen to my latest episode about Ukrainian food, history, tradition, family & land! It's an interview with the super-talented @oliahercules.bsky.social who I wanted to speak to for years! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The American Public Health Association is hosting a webinar, "The Changing Climate and Our Food & Nutrition System." Join me and Kris Ebi this Thursday at 3 pm EST. Register here: apha.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

And very good it is too.

Eat This Newsletter 284: Marketing Food bank economics, Pasta Grannies behaving badly, while olives, a eulogy for “foodie”, tariffs on “English” tea, and some food-flavoured Ig Nobel prizes. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #newsletter #food #agriculture

When all you have is a hammer ...

Good to know!

Terrific @scientificdiscovery.dev post on randomized controlled trials in @ourworldindata.org. Including this important chart on the impact of pre-registration. Magically, when people had to pre-register outcomes, many of the benefits disappeared. ourworldindata.org/randomized-c...

Good news from the #genebank world? Say it ain't so. Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/gene...

An amazing site (linked by Andy Baio) that tracks parking officers in San Francisco in real time. Two questions. Will the city shut it down? No. Are the cops tracking the leaderboard? Officer 0440 needs to shape up, clearly. walzr.com/sf-parking/a...