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...