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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 you eat and why—and deliver plenty of tasty tidbits along the way.

121 episodes • 0 archived •

E115

Sami Tamimi on the Delicious Complexity of Palestinian Food

E115·

Aug 21, 2020

33 mins

E114

Elderberries Don’t Boost Your Immune System, and Other Coronavirus Myths Debunked

E114·

Aug 7, 2020

26 mins

E113

Why We Need Black-Owned Food Media

E113·

Jul 24, 2020

56 mins

E112

Chef Dominique Crenn on Eating as Activism—and the Secret to Phenomenal Sandwiches

E112·

Jul 10, 2020

33 mins

E111

Swollen Hands, Rampant Contagion, No Sick Days: Processing Chicken During a Pandemic

E111·

Jun 26, 2020

25 mins

E110

White People Own 98 Percent of Rural Land. Young Farmers Are Asking for It Back.

E110·

Jun 12, 2020

25 mins

E109

A Science-Loving Chef's Guide to Eating Safely Right Now

E109·

May 29, 2020

24 mins

E108

How Does Your Pandemic Garden Grow?

E108·

May 15, 2020

22 mins

E107

Should Restaurants Be Saved?

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May 1, 2020

31 mins

E106

Recipe for Escape

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Apr 17, 2020

31 mins

E105

The Food Workers Who Brave Coronavirus to Feed Us

E105·

Apr 3, 2020

25 mins

E104

Your Best Dinner Option Is Hiding in Your Pantry

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Mar 20, 2020

30 mins

E103

Many Restaurants May Never Re-Open After Coronavirus

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Mar 19, 2020

22 mins

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103 – The Golden Arches’ Long Shadow on Black America

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Mar 6, 2020

27 mins

E102

102 – You've Never Met Anyone Like This Bee Hunter

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Feb 21, 2020

17 mins

E101

101 – Michael Pollan on the Iowa Farmers Who Will Sway the Election

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Feb 3, 2020

32 mins

E100

100 – Who Are the Millennial Farmers?

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Jan 24, 2020

27 mins

E99

Chicken, Waffles, and Smashing the Patriarchy

E99·

Jan 10, 2020

23 mins

E66

The Bizarre Fad Diet Taking the Far Right by Storm

E66·

Dec 27, 2019

25 mins

E99

99 – This Lab Makes Real Meat—But Not From Animals. Will You Eat It?

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Dec 13, 2019

31 mins

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98 – The Leftovers

E98·

Nov 28, 2019

17 mins

E97

97 – 5 Presidential Candidates Dish on the Future of Food

E97·

Nov 15, 2019

34 mins

E96

96 – Beef Got Us Into This Mess. But Can It Also Help Reverse Global Warming?

E96·

Nov 1, 2019

32 mins

E95

95 – In Vino Veritas

E95·

Oct 18, 2019

31 mins

E94

94 – “All the Delicious Foods Are Dying”

E94·

Oct 4, 2019

36 mins

E93

Trailer - Eating in Climate Chaos

E93·

Sep 30, 2019

1 min

E92

92 – There Is Such Thing as a Free (School) Lunch

E92·

Sep 20, 2019

31 mins

E91

91 – Your Next Designer Apple Product Is Crunchy and Sweet

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Sep 6, 2019

17 mins

E90

90 – The Real Problem With Chipotle Burritos

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Aug 23, 2019

17 mins

E89

89 – The Gangster Gardener and the Drunken Botanist

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Aug 9, 2019

26 mins

E88

88 – New Coke Didn’t Fail. It Was Murdered.

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Jul 26, 2019

31 mins

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87 – The Dirt on Truffles

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Jul 12, 2019

25 mins

E86

86 – Meet the Farmers Saving Your Food From Climate Chaos

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Jun 28, 2019

23 mins

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85 – A Syrian Refugee Cures Homesickness With Hummus

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Jun 14, 2019

15 mins

E84

84 – The Problem With Home-Cooked Meals

E84·

May 31, 2019

31 mins

E83

83 – Nobody Puts Vegetables in the Corner

E83·

May 17, 2019

18 mins

E82

82 – Passover in Prison

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May 3, 2019

12 mins

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81 – High Steaks

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Apr 19, 2019

28 mins

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80 – Helen Oyeyemi's Delightfully Sinister Gingerbread

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Apr 5, 2019

19 mins

E79

79 – The Words This Food Critic Will Never Use

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Mar 22, 2019

22 mins

E78

78 – How Slavery's Brutal Legacy Lingers in American Cooking

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Mar 8, 2019

31 mins

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77 – "Bao" Director Domee Shi Gives a Sweet Dumpling a Dark Twist

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Feb 22, 2019

24 mins

E76

76 – What It Feels Like to Be Big in America

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Feb 8, 2019

25 mins

E75

75 – Cooking Chicken With Beto O’Rourke

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Jan 25, 2019

25 mins

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74 – The Cult of the Chili Pepper

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Jan 11, 2019

25 mins

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39 – Songs That Make Food Taste Better

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Dec 28, 2018

23 mins

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73 – The Five-Second Rule, and Other Food Myths Busted

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Dec 14, 2018

21 mins

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72 – These Spices Will Transform Your Life

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Nov 30, 2018

24 mins

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71 – When Food Stamps "Turn Your Life Around"

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Nov 16, 2018

27 mins

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70 – Sheriff Corndog

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Nov 2, 2018

16 mins

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69 – Samin Nosrat Gets Salty

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Oct 19, 2018

31 mins

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68 – The Godfather of Mexican Wine

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Oct 5, 2018

10 mins

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67 – The Shocking Reason Why Millions of Animals Drowned in North Carolina

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Sep 21, 2018

24 mins

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66 – The Bizarre Fad Diet Taking the Far Right by Storm

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Sep 7, 2018

25 mins

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65 – What to Cook for Your Favorite Author

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Aug 24, 2018

34 mins

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64 – Finding Salvation in Salad

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Aug 10, 2018

29 mins

E63

63 – Farmers Are Growing Squash That Actually Taste Good

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Jul 27, 2018

30 mins

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62 – Just Give People Money

E62·

Jul 13, 2018

23 mins

E61

61 – Comic W. Kamau Bell on Getting Coffee While Black

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Jun 29, 2018

24 mins

E60

60 – (Not) Eating Animals

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Jun 15, 2018

26 mins

E59

59 – Bonus: Alice Waters

E59·

Jun 8, 2018

45 mins

E58

58 – How to Grow Your Own Cocktail

E58·

May 31, 2018

26 mins

E57

57 - Bonus: Introducing The Mother Jones Podcast

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May 25, 2018

28 mins

E56

56 – What the Rajneeshee Cult Was Cooking Up

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May 18, 2018

28 mins

E55

55 – This Is the Best Kind of Milk

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May 4, 2018

20 mins

E54

54 – Did Drinking Give Me Cancer?

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Apr 20, 2018

36 mins

E53

53 – When Sexual Harassment Is on the Menu

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Apr 6, 2018

28 mins

E52

52 – This Is Your Dinner on Weed

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Mar 23, 2018

29 mins

E51

51 – You Thought You Knew Spam. You Knew Nothing.

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Mar 9, 2018

32 mins

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50 – The Year's Best Movies Are Secretly About Food

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Feb 23, 2018

35 mins

E49

49 – It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Get an Ethical Cup of Coffee

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Feb 9, 2018

35 mins

E48

48 – This Science Will Make You Feel Better About What You Eat

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Jan 26, 2018

24 mins

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47 – Not Just Granola: How Hippies Reinvented American Cuisine

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Jan 12, 2018

29 mins

29 – This Simple Advice Completely Changed the Way I Eat

Dec 29, 2017

25 mins

46 – Dinner and a Movie

Dec 15, 2017

16 mins

45 – Restaurant Workers Say #MeToo

Dec 1, 2017

28 mins

44 – When Dinner Gets Awkward

Nov 17, 2017

20 mins

43 – Robin Sloan's Hilarious and Bizarre Food Novel

Nov 3, 2017

13 mins

42 – After Napa’s Inferno, “We’re Still Standing”

Oct 20, 2017

19 mins

41 – Do Farmers Still Love Trump?

Oct 6, 2017

29 mins

40 – She Packs Your Brussels Sprouts and Lives in Fear

Sep 22, 2017

17 mins

39 – Songs That Make Food Taste Better

Sep 8, 2017

23 mins

38 – W. Kamau Bell and the Case of the Racist Skittles

Aug 25, 2017

25 mins

37 – The Agony and Ecstasy of Eating 330 Hamburgers

Aug 11, 2017

29 mins

36 – Farmers Are Living Dangerously

Jul 28, 2017

20 mins

35 – We Watch “Game of Thrones” for the Food Porn

Jul 14, 2017

29 mins

34 – You Are What You Eat, Donald Trump

Jun 30, 2017

26 mins

33 – Inside Silicon Valley's Race to the Best Fake Meat

Jun 16, 2017

20 mins

32 – As a Fat Person, "I Felt Like I Always Had to Apologize for Myself"

Jun 2, 2017

28 mins

31 – Everything You Love About Food Means Nothing to This Guy

May 19, 2017

19 mins

30 – Sex, Drugs, and Oysters: What It's Really Like to Work at a Fancy Restaurant

May 5, 2017

23 mins

29 – This Simple Advice Completely Changed the Way I Eat

Apr 21, 2017

25 mins

28 – What a Cool New Podcast About Shipping Can Teach You About Coffee

Apr 7, 2017

31 mins

27 – The Bizarre, True-Crime Story of New England’s Seafood King

Mar 24, 2017

28 mins

26 - The Science of Why People Don’t Believe in Food Science

Mar 10, 2017

24 mins

25 – Is Your Favorite Restaurant Standing Up for Immigrants?

Feb 24, 2017

25 mins

24 - Somali Refugees Make Better Pancakes

Feb 10, 2017

21 mins

23 - Save the Chocolate

Jan 27, 2017

26 mins

22 - You Don’t Get Fat For the Reasons You Think

Jan 13, 2017

23 mins

21 – The Secret Lives of Chefs

Dec 16, 2016

28 mins

20 - 5 Cookbooks That Wowed Us in 2016

Dec 2, 2016

28 mins

19 - Top Chef's Tom Colicchio Talks Trump

Nov 18, 2016

27 mins

18 – Eat Like a President

Nov 4, 2016

33 mins

17 - Mark Bittman’s Recipe for the Next Presidency

Oct 21, 2016

25 mins

16 - What Fox News Missed in Chinatown

Oct 7, 2016

34 mins

15 - What American Food is Missing

Sep 23, 2016

24 mins

14 - The Science of What Kids Eat

Sep 9, 2016

38 mins

13 – Can Fast Food Be Healthy?

Aug 26, 2016

34 mins

12 – You’re Eating a Lie

Aug 12, 2016

28 mins

11 - Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel - Real Mexican Food

Jul 29, 2016

35 mins

10 - Tunde Wey - Cooking While Black

Jul 15, 2016

27 mins

9 - Andy Bellatti - The Politics of Health Advice

Jul 1, 2016

25 mins

8 - Michael Pollan – Magic Mushrooms

Jun 17, 2016

50 mins

7 - Monica Jain - Fishy Business

Jun 3, 2016

26 mins

6 - Bill Marler - Outbreak!

May 20, 2016

31 mins

5 - Amanda Cohen and Adam Danforth - Meat and Veggie Showdown

May 6, 2016

29 mins

4 - Saru Jayaraman - The Tipping Point

Apr 22, 2016

32 mins

3 - Bettina Elias Siegel - Cafeteria Confidential

Apr 8, 2016

23 mins

2 - Marta Zaraska - Zebra Meat and Vegan Butchers

Mar 25, 2016

31 mins

1 - Brian Wansink - Choose Your Plate Wisely

Mar 11, 2016

25 mins

Trailer - Introducing Bite

Mar 4, 2016

1 min

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