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Hello!


Brand new episode for your archaeogastronomical delight!


Out there lies the strange island with the vertical
stone walls. How lovely it is here. Down there
beneath one’s feet, the great, great sea, seemingly
boundless with high mountain islands, swimming in
grey mist, and up here a tiny little world unto itself.

Jørgen Falk Rønne, 1921


This tiny wild speck of land in the north Atlantic Ocean...Home to a family for 8 generations. Growing food in the harshest of natural environments. Perhaps one of the most challenging places to be a farmer. What humans started doing ten thousand years ago... How and why this family are still there? And what does that tells us about our food system today?

Enjoy the fascinating conversation I had with journalist and author Tim Ecott about his lovely new book Eva and the Island.


Recommendations for the week

Overnight, everything was dead’: the Teesside fisherman turned activist dubbed the Mr Bates of the seas:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/23/overnight-everything-was-dead-the-teeside-fisherman-turned-activist-dubbed-the-mr-bates-of-the-seas


Food, identity and how climate is already changing Europe’s sense of itself

https://yiannisbaboulias.substack.com/p/food-identity-and-how-climate-is?r=1dfo2&shareImageVariant=card


Buy the book here:

https://www.waterstones.com/book/eva-and-the-island/tim-ecott/9781837733767


Much love

Thom

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