Welcome to MatPat’s final Food Theory. In this VERY special episode, Santi is baking Matt a cake to celebrate all of our times together on the channel. But this isn’t just any cake, NO! It’s a cake ...

Roughly a decade ago, whimsy ruled everything we ate. Don’t believe me? We served everything in mason jars until it practically became a Portlandia sketch—and loved anything pickled to the point that ...

Food Theory takes a moment to reflect on its journey — from viral videos and fast food deep-dives to fan-favorite science breakdowns — and now it’s ready to evolve. In this transparent and thoughtful ...

In my book The Omnivorous Mind (Harvard Univ. Press, 2012) and in other writings, I have argued that we humans each have a "theory of food" that guides how, how much, and what we eat. This theory of ...