Merch!
Eat This Podcast
Talking about anything around food
  • Home
  • Collections
  • Get in Touch
  • Donate
  • Archive

New episodes and Eat This Newsletter by (never shared).

history

There are 19 posts tagged history (this is page 1 of 4).

Post navigation

Feed Your Baby Like a Fascist A balance and a clock are essential for industrialised motherhood

Mussolini made the trains run on time, but that doesn’t work for hungry infants

24 December 2022 | 17 Webmentions | Comment

A Restaurant’s Reckoning Is it OK to eat at Piggie Park?

“The corollary to white innocence is white passivity, the feeling that what one’s ancestors did was so messed up that it couldn’t possibly make a difference where one eats a barbecue sandwich.”

Continue Reading →
in Podcasts | 28 November 2022 | 4 Webmentions | 2 Comments

Empire and grain From prehistory to today, empires grew on their ability to tax grains

The ability to tax wheat moving through choke points gives empires their power, even today.

Continue Reading →
in Podcasts | 4 July 2022 | 21 Webmentions | 2 Comments

Grain and transport As wheat travelled, it created the modern world

Moving wheat from where it grows to where it is eaten shaped the world

Continue Reading →
in Podcasts | 20 June 2022 | 7 Webmentions | Comment

Persephone’s secret The Eleusinian Mysteries and the making of the modern economy

Why did the participants in the Eleusinian Mysteries leave no trace of what it was about?

Continue Reading →
in Podcasts | 13 June 2022 | 14 Webmentions | Comment

Post navigation

Independent Publisher empowered by WordPress

Why did the participants in the Eleusinian Mysteries leave no trace of what it was about?