New SBS podcast explores changing attitudes to food

Food writer Lee Tran Lam is embarking on a culinary podcast adventure.

SBS Audio’s newest podcast Should You Really Eat That? explores the cultural, social, and nutritional confusion over the staples in our diet, like rice, bread, tea, coffee, cheese, and seafood.

Starting Thursday 12 October, the show will explore changing attitudes to rice, bread, cheese and other staples across the world – and how confusing it is keeping up with what’s ‘good’ for you.

Should you put olive oil or salt in your coffee, as recent food trends suggest? And which seafoods are actually sustainable?

Lam (pictured above) uncovers why some foods get a bad rap in Australia yet are enthusiastically consumed in other parts of the world.

“The idea for the podcast started when I read a dietician’s advice that they’d never put white rice in their shopping trolley, yet the grain feeds millions around the world and so many national dishes are built around white rice,” Lam says.

“Similarly, humans have also been eating bread for thousands of years, but there’s now so much anti-bread sentiment. So, in the podcast we try to make sense of that: what’s happening to shift our perceptions and palates?”

New episodes will be available weekly on SBS Audio, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other streaming platforms.