286 Episodes

  1. Counting Fish

    Published: 10/4/2016

  2. Seaweed Special

    Published: 9/13/2016

  3. The Salt Wars

    Published: 8/23/2016

  4. Kombucha Culture

    Published: 8/8/2016

  5. Keeping Kosher: When Jewish Law Met Processed Food

    Published: 7/26/2016

  6. Poultry Power: The Fried Chicken Chronicles

    Published: 7/12/2016

  7. Outside the Box: The Story of Food Packaging

    Published: 6/28/2016

  8. Who Invented the Cherry Tomato?

    Published: 6/14/2016

  9. Everything Old is Brew Again

    Published: 5/31/2016

  10. Museums and the Mafia: The Secret History of Citrus

    Published: 4/19/2016

  11. Grand Theft Food

    Published: 4/5/2016

  12. Caffeine: The World’s Most Popular Drug

    Published: 3/21/2016

  13. The Maple Boom

    Published: 3/8/2016

  14. First Foods: Learning to Eat

    Published: 2/23/2016

  15. The Food of Love

    Published: 2/9/2016

  16. The End of the Calorie

    Published: 1/26/2016

  17. End-Of-Year Feast

    Published: 12/15/2015

  18. States’ Plates

    Published: 12/1/2015

  19. The Mushroom Underground

    Published: 11/17/2015

  20. Peak Booze

    Published: 11/3/2015

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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.