Eat This Newsletter 095
Walking tours, revisionist history, jail (click) bait, authenticity, dairy, maltodextrin
We need to talk about meat Good or bad, right or wrong, now or never
Meat exercises the imagination in a way no other food can match. Some people have always wanted to ban carnivory. For others it is an essential fuel. And now, meat is central to nutrition, sustainability, health and capitalism. What does meat mean?
A tragedy foretold
I’ve more or less given up on the story of Xylella in Italy. It is just too distressing. But I continue to follow the news as best as I can, which today brought a post containing this little nugget: Three thousand eradicated trees, as foreseen by Silletti’s plan, would have represented a drop in the…
Eat This Newsletter 094
Mostly meat, but also beets, fondue and cookbooks
Ancient Greek food porn All that meat in Homer? Not what you think
I know I come across as an old fuddy duddy, but I do wish that people who had something really interesting to say, like Flint Dibble, an archaeologist, would say it in an article, even an article somewhere awful like Medium. So I've attempted to present these 22 tweets here for other old fuddy duddies…