A history-focused newsletter exploring the origins and evolution of food taboos, centered on pork prohibitions in ancient Hebrew, Roman and related cultures. Each issue pairs primary-source quotations and art with narrative essays on how a dietary rule became a marker of identity.
Website: https://pigspigspigs.substack.com
A series-based newsletter that digs into the hidden history and context behind topics such as Japanese dashi, the Falmouth Road Race and flamenco guitarist Vicente Amigo. Each multi-part series combines historical research, revisionist framing and listening or reading recommendations.
Each issue takes a popular food or wellness claim, traces its history, and checks it against the actual studies, noting where the evidence stops. Issues also include practical elements such as a congee recipe and kitchen advice.
A personal newsletter by Ernie, a law student in London, mixing updates on bar course life and career news with long-form food history essays, such as an archaeology of butter chicken versus chicken tikka masala. Readers get candid personal writing alongside cooking-adjacent deep dives.
Long-form, heavily structured articles on the history and science of human nutrition, including a deep dive into Japanese longevity and a chronicle of diets from the Paleolithic era to ultra-processed foods. Readers get source-cited analysis that separates myth from evidence and correlation from causation.
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