Dec 20, 2021
In this episode of Eat My Globe, our host, Simon Majumdar, looks at the history of the food that has become so beloved of our Christmas season.
If you want to know why we celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December, where mince pies or Christmas pudding originated, or the gargantuan meals of medieval royalty, then this...
Dec 13, 2021
In this next episode of Eat My Globe, our host, Simon Majumdar, examines food fraud and food adulteration.
Since the beginning of records, we see the constant battle between customers buying food and those who attempt to defraud them.
The battle has continued right through history to the present day with the methods of...
Dec 6, 2021
In this episode of Eat My Globe, our host, Simon Majumdar, talks to one of our regular guests, the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University, Paul Freedman, about his terrific new book,“Why Food Matters.”
Along the way, they talk about food in feast and famine, its roles in ethnicity and cultural...
Nov 29, 2021
In this episode of Eat My Globe, our host, Simon Majumdar, looks at the fabulous life stories of four of the extraordinary men who helped create the world of food television we love so much today.
Some names such as, James Beard, will be very familiar to you. But others, such as Britain’s irrepressible Keith Floyd may...
Nov 22, 2021
In this episode of Eat My Globe, our host, Simon Majumdar looks atthe fabulous life stories of four of the women who helped create thefood television we love so much today.
You will, of course, know aboutone of our subjects, Julia Child. But what about her predecessor,Dione Lucas? Or, her U.K. equivalent, Fanny...