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.
- Website
- https://gastropod.com
- Description
- Food with a Side of Science& History
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-19 19:26
- last episode published
- 2024-11-19 16:46
- publication frequency
- 14.28 days
- Contributors
- Gastropod
- Owner Author
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 262
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- Categories
- Society & Culture Food History Science & Medicine Arts
Recommendations
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Episodes
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| 2024-11-19 |
Dishwashing Debates: The Soapy Science Behind Everyone's Favorite Chore Next week, the US celebrates the dishwashing Olympics—also known as Thanksgiving. But how best to tackle the washing-up after the big meal can cause as much conflict as your uncle’s hot takes at the table. Do dishes get cleaner when they’re hand-washed... |
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| 2024-11-12 | They're added to breakfast cereal, bread, and even Pop-Tarts, giving the sweetest, most processed treats a halo of health. Most people pop an extra dose for good measure, perhaps washing it down with fortified milk. But what are vitamins—and how did th... |
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| 2024-11-04 |
Bringing Salmon Home: The Story of the World's Largest Dam Removal Project The Klamath River on the California-Oregon border was once the third largest salmon river in the continental U.S. There were so many fish, indigenous histories claim that you could cross the river walking across their backs—which made the peoples who l... |
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| 2024-10-29 | Today, a half century after Neil Armstrong took one small step onto the surface of the Moon, there are still just ten humans living in space—the crew of the International Space Station. But, after decades of talk, both government agencies and entrepren... |
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| 2024-10-15 | To painters and poets in late-1800s France, absinthe was "the green muse" or the "green fairy," an almost magical potion that promised vivid dreams, wild ideas, and artistic inspiration with every sip. By the 1910s, this once incredibly popular herbal ... |
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| 2024-10-01 |
From Trash to Treasure: Why's It So Hard to Save Restaurant Leftovers From the Dumpster? Every day, at the end of service, restaurants throw away tons of entirely edible food: heaps of pastries and whole loaves of bread, vegetables chopped but not cooked, noodle dough, fish off-cuts, and more. An estimated 20 billion meals's worth of still... |
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| 2024-09-17 |
Smashing Pumpkin Myths: What's Big, Orange, and Having an Identity Crisis? It’s already begun: that time of the year now known across the land as Decorative Gourd Season. Squash are everywhere—carved into jack o’lanterns on front porches, adorning our sideboards and porches with strange shapes and autumn colors, and of course... |
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| 2024-09-10 |
Meet the Queen of Kiwi: The 96-Year-Old Woman Who Transformed America's Produce Aisle (ENCORE) The produce section of most American supermarkets in the 1950s was minimal to a fault, with only a few dozen fruits and vegetables to choose from: perhaps one kind of apple, one kind of lettuce, a yellow onion, a pile of bananas. Today, grocery stores ... |
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| 2024-09-03 |
Deli is Short For Delicious—But Are Your Pastrami and Bologna Sandwiches Giving You Cancer? School’s back in session, and kids are boarding the bus with lunchboxes in tow. Many of them contain sandwiches stuffed with turkey and ham slices, bologna, even salami—but where did these staples of the lunch break, not to mention the charcuterie plat... |
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| 2024-08-20 |
What's the Buzz on Eating Bugs? Can Insects Really Save the World? About ten years ago, insects were constantly being hyped as the future of food. Headlines proclaimed that, within the decade, everyone would be eating bugs as part of their daily diet—and saving the planet in the process. But while the buzz on edible i... |
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