Gastropod
Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley
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 throu...
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Episodes (573)
TV Dinners
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The Brightest Bulb
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Like Water in the Desert
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The Magic Cube
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The Big Apple Episode
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The Hangover: Part Gastropod
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Snack Attack!
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This Spud's For You
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Moo-Dunnit: How Beef Replaced Bison on the American Plains—and Plate
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What the Shell? Cracking the Lobster's Mysteries
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Guest Episode: Rocky Road with Science Diction
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Shatter-Proof: How Glass Took Over the Kitchen—and Ended Child Labor
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The Most Dangerous Fruit in America
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Dig for Victory
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Shared Plates: How Eating Together Makes Us Human
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Pizza Pizza!
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Eating the Wild: Bushmeat, Game, and the Fuzzy Line Between Them
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Eating the Rainbow: Or, the Mystery of the Orange Oranges, the Red M&Ms, and the...
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A Tale To Warm The Cockles Of Your Heart
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White vs. Wheat: The Food Fight of the Centuries
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Licorice: A Dark and Salty Stranger
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To Fight Climate Change, Bank on Soil
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Move Over Gin, We’ve Got Tonic Fever
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The United States of McDonald’s
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Dinner Plate Invasion: Lionfish, Tiger Shrimp, and Feral Pigs, Oh My!
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Meet the Queen of Kiwi: the 96-Year-Old Woman Who Transformed America’s Produce...
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Are Insect Guts the Secret to the Most Delicious Kimchi?
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Menu Mind Control
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Of Ghost Foods and Culinary Extinction
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Tiki Time!
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What’s CRISPR Doing in our Food?
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Happy Birthday to Us: Gastropod Turns Five
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Celebrate Mexico’s True National Holiday with the Mysteries of Mole
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Running on Fumes: Strawberry’s Dirty Secret
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Omega 1-2-3
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Meet Sharbat, the Ancestor of Sorbet, Syrup, Shrub, Sherbet, and Pretty Much Eve...
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Super Fry: The Fight for the Golden Frite
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Eat This, Not That: The Surprising Science of Personalized Nutrition
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Guts and Glory
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BONUS: Introducing Science Rules! with Bill Nye
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The Great Gastropod Pudding Off
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Potatoes in Space!
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The Curry Chronicles
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The Bagelization of America
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Can Diet Stop Alzheimer’s?
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Seeds of Immortality
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Pick A Pawpaw: America’s Forgotten Fruit
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Eating to Win: Gatorade, Muscle Milk, and… Chicken Nuggets?
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The Secret History of the Slave Behind Jack Daniel’s Whiskey
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Sweet and Low (Calorie): The Story of Artificial Sweeteners
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