{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Food for Geopolitical Thought w\/ Anny Gaul","description":" Food doesn\u2019t often enter conversations about foreign policy, but it is integral to it. Our relationship to food shapes ideas of identity and nationalism and is continuously impacted by the forces of history. Technological, social, and political changes inform and alter global foodways over time. And in today\u2019s interconnected world, food supply chains are inextricable from geopolitics.  In this episode, the Institute for Global Affairs\u2019 Jonathan Guyer is joined by Anny Gaul, a cultural historian and professor of Arabic studies at the University of Maryland, to explore the geopolitics of food in the Middle East. They discuss Anny\u2019s new book, Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato, and how global events both shape and are informed by one of our most basic forms of sustenance.  Check out Nile Nightshade: https:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/books\/nile-nightshade\/paper   Read an excerpt of the book in Foreign Policy: https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2025\/11\/07\/egypt-tomato-price-food-agriculture-culinary-history\/   Find Anny on X: https:\/\/x.com\/annygaul  ","author_name":"None Of The Above","author_url":"https:\/\/www.noneoftheabovepodcast.org\/","html":"