Jonathan Green

Melbourne

Talks on the radio. Somewhere. Lapsed Meanjin editor. CarltonFC tragic. Typing on unceded Wurundjeri land. Making musings on Substack. he/him.

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Articles

Have food critics become too nice? - ABC listen

5 days ago | abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Sarah Allely

Food criticism has changed a lot since John Lethlean wrote for publications like The Age and The Australian. Over a 25 year career, John chronicled Australia's shifting tastes, watching dining fads come and go. Ultimately, his career came to an end after one line in a review got him into hot water. • Guest: John Lethlean - former restaurant critic and author of Post Script: The good, bad and occasionally ugly bits from a 25 year career in Australian food writing
Abalone cultural heritage in Tasmania and overtourism in the Canary Islands

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Jonathan Green

First Nations in Tasmania have now secured permanent cultural fishing rights for abalone, and now they’re putting it back on the dining tables of Tasmanians. And the civil engineer who quit his job to campaign against the construction of a port in Tenerife.
Blueprints Blocked: The Engineer Who Derailed Tenerife’s Port Plans

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Ali Benton

In 2016, Spanish civil engineer and avid scuba diver, Carlos Mallo Molina quit his job to protest the plans for a huge recreational boat and ferry terminal in Tenerife. Thanks to his relentless efforts, the project was scrapped in 2021. Now, in 2025, Carlos has been honoured with the Goldman Prize — the environmental world’s equivalent of a Nobel. GUEST: Carlos Mallo Molina, civil engineer, environmental activist and CEO of global marine conservation organisation, InnoceaniaPRODUCER: Ali Benton
Abalone cultural heritage acknowledged in Tasmania

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Sarah Allely

Abalone has a forty-thousand-year cultural heritage in Tasmania and it’s finally being recognised and revived. First Nations in Tasmania have secured permanent cultural fishing rights for abalone, and now they’re putting it back on the dining tables of Tasmanians. Professor Emma Lee sees this fishing rights deal as a possible pathway to a treaty for Tasmania, because it's an example of Indigenous people, government, research and commercial collaborating for the greater good.
Bruce Shapiro's America, the money behind the 'Enhanced Games', and an ancient Roman cookbook

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Jonathan Green

US President Trump is threatening to deport a group of men to war torn South Sudan. We track the money behind the Enhanced Games - a kind of Olympics on steroids. And there is much to learn from a famous cookbook from ancient Rome.
The money behind the Enhanced Games - an "Olympics on steroids"

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Jack Schmidt

In May 2026, a resort in Las Vegas will host the inaugural Enhanced Games, where athletes will be free to use performance enhancing drugs. The controversial event is the brainchild of Australian businessman Aron D'Souza, and has gained support from the likes of billionaire Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr.Guest: Josh Gabert-Doyon, journalist and podcast producer for Financial Times
Food for sport - High performance eating - ABC listen

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Kim Jirik |Carey Dell |Rhiannon Brown

Many of us imagine that an athlete's diet consists of sports supplements providing carefully calibrated doses of carbohydrates, protein and electrolytes, but for ancient Olympians, a diet of cheese or figs was seemingly enough. In truth, whole foods are still the most important part of an athlete's diet today, as we discover on our culinary tour of the sporting world.
Which came first? An ode to the egg

4 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Kim Jirik |Peter de Kruijff |Richard Girvan

The egg is an extraordinary thing. In the pantheon of miraculous food chemistry, it takes on a range of essential roles. From helping cakes and soufflés to rise, to bringing disparate ingredients and flavours into a unified whole. They can also take on a starring role, whether fried, scrambled or poached. Eggs frequently appear in art, literature, design, and philosophy, too, and they are at the heart of the age-old paradox: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Food fight - How war changed the way we eat - ABC listen

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Jonathan Green |Kim Jirik |Carey Dell |Rhiannon Brown

In times of war, food and nourishment can determine victory or defeat. Welcome to the world of military food. Armies once lived off the land, but now they can live off a sealed, freeze-dried pouch. Imagining, making and storing combat-ready food leads global food science, which means that each and every one of us eats a little like a soldier.
Sunday Extra 13 April 2025

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Jonathan Green

Australia has the highest per capita amount of super in the world, but with the share market volatility, should we be doing superannuation differently? And the AEC explains how they work out who goes where on the ballot. It is not as high tech as you might think.