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Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

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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 throu...

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Episodes (573)

Seaweed Special

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The Salt Wars

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Aug 23, 201640:07pending

Kombucha Culture

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Aug 8, 201640:36pending

Keeping Kosher: When Jewish Law Met Processed Food

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Jul 26, 201642:00pending

Poultry Power: The Fried Chicken Chronicles

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Jul 12, 201644:33pending

Outside the Box: The Story of Food Packaging

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Jun 28, 201643:09pending

Who Invented the Cherry Tomato?

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Jun 14, 201635:25pending

Everything Old is Brew Again

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May 31, 201642:57pending

Museums and the Mafia: The Secret History of Citrus

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Apr 19, 201641:44pending

Grand Theft Food

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Apr 5, 201637:59pending

Caffeine: The World’s Most Popular Drug

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Mar 21, 201641:15pending

The Maple Boom

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Mar 8, 201636:28pending

First Foods: Learning to Eat

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Feb 23, 201648:27pending

The Food of Love

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Feb 9, 201639:12pending

The End of the Calorie

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Jan 26, 201646:25pending

End-Of-Year Feast

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Dec 15, 201533:56pending

The Mushroom Underground

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Nov 17, 201539:40pending

Peak Booze

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Nov 3, 201534:46pending

Mezcal: Everything but the Worm

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Oct 20, 201544:39pending

The Good, The Bad, The Cilantro

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Oct 6, 201532:46pending

The Bitter Truth

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Sep 22, 201545:23pending

The United States of Chinese Food

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Aug 25, 201544:14pending

The Whole Hog

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Aug 11, 201529:32pending

The Scoop on Ice Cream

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Jul 28, 201546:13pending

Crunch, Crackle, and Pop

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Jul 14, 201527:27pending

Field Recordings

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Jun 30, 201530:44pending

The Cocktail Hour

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May 26, 201551:43pending

Gastropod on Gastropods

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May 4, 201529:17pending

Savor Flavor

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Apr 21, 201554:38pending

Say Cheese!

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Mar 23, 201556:43pending

No Scrubs: Breeding a Better Bull

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Feb 17, 201537:24pending

Breakfast of Champions

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Jan 20, 201544:04pending

Kale of the Sea

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Dec 9, 201437:56pending

Bite: Smoked Pigeon and Other Subnatural Delights

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Nov 25, 201417:24pending

The Microbe Revolution

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Nov 11, 201439:48pending

Dan Barber’s Quest for Flavor

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Oct 14, 201445:57pending

Episode 1: The Golden Spoon

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Sep 6, 201444:35pending
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