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
- 2025-02-26 09:35
- last episode published
- 2025-02-25 18:20
- publication frequency
- 14.27 days
- Contributors
- Gastropod
- Owner Author
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 269
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- Categories
- Society & Culture Food History Science & Medicine Arts
Recommendations
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| Jana Wiese | Ob Honig, Kombucha oder Koffein: Food-Themen aus allen möglichen Perspektiven mit zwei Hosts, die alles selber ausprobieren und viele Expert_innen befragen. | 2017-01-17 |
Episodes
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| 2025-02-25 | During World War II, the Soviet city of Leningrad was surrounded, cut off from food supplies for nearly two and a half years. People were desperate: they ate boiled leather, machine oil, toothpaste, and wallpaper paste just to stay alive. But, in the c... |
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| 2025-02-11 |
No Buzz Booze: The History and Science of Going Low- or No-Alcohol Dry January may be over, but, for many people, drinking less alcohol or none at all is an increasingly common choice year-round. And, unlike in the past, when dealcoholized options were few and far between—and had a well-deserved reputation for tasting... |
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| 2025-01-28 | (Guest episode) On September 18, 1998, an unusual ad ran in USA Today — a company called John's Estate Sales was looking to buy a moon rock. But the phone number on the ad didn't lead to, say, a store front in a strip mall. Instead, the phone number be... |
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| 2025-01-14 | (Guest episode) Matt wants to know how to tell if he’s being scammed by his dentist. To find the answer, we open up the surprising history of dentistry, ask why it seems so different from internal medicine, and drill down on why dental insurance doesn’... |
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| 2024-12-17 |
Why Are Kids Dipping Cookies in Ranch, Are Food Comas Real, and What's Inside the Mummy's Stomach? Just in time for the holidays, Ask Gastropod is back with a plate full of listener questions for your listening delight! You came to us with mysteries both large and small, both ancient and eternal, and, honestly, all totally fascinating. Such as: What... |
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| 2024-12-10 | Taste is the oldest of our five senses, and yet perhaps the least understood. It's far more complicated than salty versus sweet: new research is dramatically expanding our knowledge of taste, showing that it's intimately connected to obesity, mood, imm... |
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| 2024-12-03 | What’s the coolest flavor of the holiday season? It's peppermint, obviously, and it’s showing up in everything from coffee to chocolate and cookies to ice cream right now. But while standing in line for a peppermint mocha is a standard feature of the h... |
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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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