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Sugar's Dark Shadow
Your pantry's sweetest ingredient has an extremely bitter history. The sap-producing grass known as sugarcane has been grown and enjoyed by humans fo…
1 year, 9 months ago
(Guest) Are Fast Food Jingles Pop Music?
From our friends at Switched on Pop: Where were you when you learned that the McDonald's jingle "I'm lovin' it" was originally part of a full-fledged…
1 year, 10 months ago
Why Are Restaurants So Loud? Plus the Science Behind the Perfect Playlist
When you go out for a meal, it’s not just what's on your plate that matters, it's what's in your eardrums, too. From dining rooms so loud you have to…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Food Explorer (encore)
You've probably never heard of David Fairchild. But if you've savored kale, mango, peaches, dates, grapes, a Meyer lemon, or a glass of craft beer la…
1 year, 10 months ago
Meet the Most Famous American You’ve Never Heard Of: His Legacy is Excellent French Fries and Monsanto
In his day, Luther Burbank was a horticultural rock star: everyone from opera singers to movie stars and European royalty to an Indian guru traveled …
1 year, 10 months ago
All You Can Eat: The True Story Behind America's Most Popular Seafood
Americans eat more shrimp than any other seafood: on average, each person in the US gobbles up close to six pounds of the cheap crustaceans every yea…
1 year, 11 months ago
The World Is Your Oyster: How Our Favorite Shellfish Could Save Coastlines Worldwide
If we at Gastropod were asked to name a perfect food, the oyster would be at the top of our list. Oysters are pretty much always our answer to the qu…
1 year, 11 months ago
Eat This, Not That: The Surprising Science of Personalized Nutrition (encore)
This episode, we've got the exclusive on the preliminary results of the world's largest personalized nutrition experiment. Genetic epidemiologist Tim…
1 year, 11 months ago
Bam! How Did Cajun Flavor Take Over the World?
If "Cajun-style" only makes you think of spicy chicken sandwiches and popcorn shrimp, you need to join us in the Big Easy this episode, to meet the r…
2 years ago
Anything's Pastable (Guest Episode)
After Dan’s pasta shape, cascatelli, was launched, people everywhere were cooking with it and sending him photos of what they were making. As excitin…
2 years ago