
Bite is a podcast for people who think hard about their food. Join acclaimed food and farming blogger Tom Philpott, Mother Jones editors Kiera Butler and Maddie Oatman, and a tantalizing guest list of writers, farmers, scientists, and chefs as they uncover the surprising stories behind what ends up on your plate. We'll help you digest the food news du jour, explore the politics and science of what... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 121 | Founded | 10 years ago |
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On this episode, we hear from chef and writer Sami Tamimi, Yotam Ottolenghi’s partner and author of the new cookbook Falastin that brings you right into the center of one of the globe’s most hotly contested territories, Isreali-occupied Palestine. An... more
Our inboxes have been filled to the brim with advice from people peddling vitamins, herbs, and diets—all claiming that the product that they were hawking would help supercharge the body’s defenses to ward off the coronavirus. Is there any truth to th... more
“When we don’t own our media, we will not own our messages,” says Stephen Satterfield, the founder of the food culture magazine Whetstone, and one of the only Black owners of a major food publication. Satterfield talks about the challenges of finding... more
Dominique Crenn famously nabbed her first cooking job, at the legendary San Francisco restaurant Stars, without ever having gone to culinary school. She went on to become the first female chef in North America to hold three Michelin stars for her res... more
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Tuned in for the first time to hear some guy making generalizations about what people think and do about their health namely “immune systems”. I won’t listen to someone who talks down to people. Increasing one’s immunity (you don’t want to do this he says) does NOT result in an anaphylaxis condition as he reported. Extremism here helps no one. ...And to insult us by saying a system is not one thing (as he says people believe) -it’s complicated. Really? His words and attitude sound like those of ... more
I have learned so much from this podcast. Food-related topics that I would have never been aware of. And a joy to listen to. Maddie, Kiera and Tom are wonderful hosts!
It’s obvious that the Mother Jones team puts extraordinary effort into finding guests that are authentic and truly care about being a positive force in this world.
But what sets Bite apart is the variety of episodes, the super practical takeaways and the sincerity that Tom, Kiera and Maddie bring to the show — it’s consistent, it’s human, and it’s entertaining :)
but nutrition is my field as health ecologist/biochemistry-sociology lifestyle-environmentalist, e.g., all dis-ease/discomfort effect, not cause, sign of hypoglycemia/low glucose brain-fuel, the symptom of blood-pollution, fake food as unevolved to digest by earliest ancestors crawling on ground, easting green cabbage or big spinach, red & miniature, respectively, hybrids, like recipes' new chemicals shock after eye-bags & dark circles/edema/water retained to cushion live tissues bruised by und... more
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