EATEN No. 24: Snacks is a smorgasbord of intellectual nibbles, from the soft power of Choco Pies in South Korea to the history of midnight snacking in early modern England and the origins of duty free.

Contributors include:

• Hugh Kapernaros on the ebb and flow of the Koulouri trail in the Mediterranean
• Sithara Ranasinghe on Sri Lankan history through its snack vendors
• Ilze Vitola on Banana-mania in Soviet Latvia
• Elizabeth Case on snacking at the bottom of the world