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...

Nibbles: Ancient Mexican seedbank, Indian millets, Foraged foods, Soybean breeding, Apple breeding, Albanian heirlooms, Bangladesh fish genebank – Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/nibb... #genebanks #conservation #agrobiodiversity #seedsaving #seedbank #plantbreeding

Eat This Podcast: The Miracle of Salt Talking to Naomi Duguid about her book The Miracle of Salt and we managed to avoid the whole pink salt diet trick nonsense. So should you. Listen at eatthispodcast.com/salt #food #podcast #salt

Brainfood: Tech helping #genebanks with... Taxonomic identification, Niche mapping, Drones, Phenomics, Yield analysis... Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/brai... #conservation #technology #biodiversity #agrobiodiversity #heirloomseeds

Earlier this week I posted a roundup of papers describing recent improvements to the "software" of #genebanks agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/brai.... Next Monday, it's the turn of genebank "hardware." Keep up to date: agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/how-...

Eat This Newsletter 283 * “What They Ate Was Disgusting, Filthy, and Backward” * “A Cabal of Dark Forces” * “An Increasingly Landless Agricultural System” * “Bad News for Farmers” * “Health Honeys” Read it for free at buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #newsletter #food #agriculture

Nibbles: Supermarkets, Cate Blanchett, ABS, Transformation, Medieval haymaking, Aurochs re-wilding, Breed concept (with follow-up here agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/a-br...) Agricultural #Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/nibb... #genebanks #agrobiodiversity #conservation

Given that the Nova system is for classifying the production of food not it's nutritional value is anyone surprised it is a poor classification system to use in nutritional studies? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Kicking off a new series talking to John Speth about that Neanderthal fat factory and a better explanation for why, when you look at nitrogen isotope ratios, Neanderthals seem to be even more carnivorous than lions and tigers. www.eatthispodcast.com/maggots/ #podcast #food #agriculture

Plant Genetic Resources is planning a special edition: Unlocking the Potential of National Genebanks - Tools, Strategies and Impact Metrics for sustainable Global Conservation. Katherine Baum of the Australian Grains Genebank is the Guest Editor, deadline 31 October 2025. Sounds like fun!

Just uploaded a new episode to Patreon and grateful to all my subscribers there. But ... discovered I can sell an individual episode for $3.00 which becomes $4.50 from an iPhone. My tip: listen for free tomorrow and subscribe directly. #podcast #food #agriculture

Cate Blanchett on... #genebanks! www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/cate...

"Frozen potato products—most of which are french fries—now account for an average of about 50 percent of potato per capita availability at 58 pounds per person after decades of steady increases." No surprise, but good to have the data. ers.usda.gov/data-product... #food #agriculture #potatoes

Readers with a long memory will remember that I promised I would keep an eye on the manifesto that was supposed to come out of the 3rd International Agrobiodiversity Congress... Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog agro.biodiver.se/2025/09/the-...

Nice to be back at home after extended absences, but so much catching up to do. That's why I haven't promoted the latest Eat This Newsletter until now, but here it is for your entertainment. buttondown.com/jeremycherfa... #newsletters #food #agriculture

If you’re puzzled by recent claims about “authentic” Parmigiano-Reggiano you might want to listen to Zachary Nowak explain how the rules effectively trapped the cheese in aspic. www.eatthispodcast.com/what-makes-p... #podcast #food #parmigiano-reggiano