Gastropod

Food with a side of science and history. Every other week, co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley serve up a brand new episode exploring the hidden history and surprising science behind a different food- or farming-related topic, from aquaculture to ancient feasts, from cutlery to chile peppers, and from microbes to Malbec. We interview experts, visit labs, fields, and archaeological digs, and generally have lots of fun while discovering new ways to think about and understand the world through food. Find us online at gastropod.com, follow us on Twitter @gastropodcast, and like us on Facebook at facebook.com/gastropodcast.

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That Old Chestnut: A Nutty Tale, of Love, Loss,...
49 min
102
Prescription Dinner: Can Meals Be Medicine?
43 min
103
Trouble in Paradise: Coconut War Waters and Coc...
46 min
104
Does the Western Megadrought Mean the End of Ch...
49 min
105
Lunch Gets Schooled (encore)
51 min
106
What Do Aliens Eat? Food in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
45 min
107
Guest Episode: The Umami Mama by Unexplainable
35 min
108
Gut Feeling
46 min
109
Green Gold: Our Love Affair With Olive Oil (enc...
47 min
110
How Ketchup Got Thick
41 min
111
Delivery Wars
32 min
112
The Milk of Life
48 min
113
Poultry Power: The Fried Chicken Chronicles (en...
43 min
114
Guest episode: Montréal by Not Lost
47 min
115
Reinventing the Eel
43 min
116
Monsanto or MonSatan? How—and Why—a St. Louis S...
47 min
117
The Way the Cookie Crumbles
47 min
118
Black Gold: The Future of Food...We Throw Away
46 min
119
Gum's the Word: A Sticky Story
46 min
120
Déjà-Brew: How Coffee Got Bad, Then Worse, and,...
54 min
121
Grounds for Revolution: the Stimulating Story o...
47 min
122
The Fortune Cookie Quest
36 min
123
Guest Episode: Graveyard Cookies and Dollhouse ...
30 min
124
Mango Mania: How the American Mango Lost its Fl...
35 min
125
Guest Episode: Scents and Sensibility
39 min