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• Moon Rocks Wanted (guest episode) (Tue, Jan 28, 2025)
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• Is My Dentist Scamming Me? (guest episode) (Tue, Jan 14, 2025)
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• Why Are Kids Dipping Cookies in Ranch, Are Food Comas Real, and What's Inside the Mummy's Stomach? (Tue, Dec 17, 2024)
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• Hacking Taste (encore) (Tue, Dec 10, 2024)
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• The Curiously Strong Story of Mint (Tue, Dec 03, 2024)
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• Dishwashing Debates: The Soapy Science Behind Everyone's Favorite Chore (Tue, Nov 19, 2024)
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• V is for Vitamin (encore) (Tue, Nov 12, 2024)
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• Bringing Salmon Home: The Story of the World's Largest Dam Removal Project (Mon, Nov 04, 2024)
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• Potatoes in Space! (encore) (Tue, Oct 29, 2024)
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• Absinthe: The World's Most Dangerous Drink? (Tue, Oct 15, 2024)
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• From Trash to Treasure: Why's It So Hard to Save Restaurant Leftovers From the Dumpster? (Tue, Oct 01, 2024)
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• Smashing Pumpkin Myths: What's Big, Orange, and Having an Identity Crisis? (Tue, Sep 17, 2024)
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• Meet the Queen of Kiwi: The 96-Year-Old Woman Who Transformed America's Produce Aisle (ENCORE) (Tue, Sep 10, 2024)
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• Deli is Short For Delicious—But Are Your Pastrami and Bologna Sandwiches Giving You Cancer? (Tue, Sep 03, 2024)
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• What's the Buzz on Eating Bugs? Can Insects Really Save the World? (Tue, Aug 20, 2024)
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• The Billion Dollar War Behind U.S. Rum (Planet Money) (Tue, Aug 06, 2024)
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• The Interstitium (Radiolab) (Tue, Jul 23, 2024)
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• Are Hush Puppies Racist? Is A2 Milk Really Healthier? And What's Up With Wedding Cake? Ask Gastropod! (Tue, Jul 09, 2024)
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• Why Does Everyone Have Food Allergies These Days? (Tue, Jun 25, 2024)
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• The Bagelization of America (encore) (Tue, Jun 18, 2024)
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• The Birth of Cool: How Refrigeration Changed Everything (Tue, Jun 11, 2024)
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• Omega 1-2-3 (encore) (Tue, Jun 04, 2024)
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• Sugar's Dark Shadow (Tue, May 28, 2024)
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• (Guest) Are Fast Food Jingles Pop Music? (Tue, May 21, 2024)
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• Why Are Restaurants So Loud? Plus the Science Behind the Perfect Playlist (Tue, May 14, 2024)
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• The Food Explorer (encore) (Tue, May 07, 2024)
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• Meet the Most Famous American You’ve Never Heard Of: His Legacy is Excellent French Fries and Monsanto (Tue, Apr 30, 2024)
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• All You Can Eat: The True Story Behind America's Most Popular Seafood (Tue, Apr 16, 2024)
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• The World Is Your Oyster: How Our Favorite Shellfish Could Save Coastlines Worldwide (Tue, Apr 02, 2024)
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• Eat This, Not That: The Surprising Science of Personalized Nutrition (encore) (Tue, Mar 26, 2024)
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• Bam! How Did Cajun Flavor Take Over the World? (Tue, Mar 19, 2024)
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• Anything's Pastable (Guest Episode) (Tue, Mar 12, 2024)
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• Can You Patent a Pizza? (Tue, Mar 05, 2024)
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• Super Fry: The Fight for the Golden Frite (encore) (Tue, Feb 27, 2024)
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• Dining at the (Other) Top of the World: Hunger, Fruitcake, and the Race to Reach the South Pole (Tue, Feb 20, 2024)
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• Dining at the Top of the World: Arctic Adaptation, Abundance, and...Ice Cream (Tue, Feb 06, 2024)
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• Cork Dork: Inside the Weird World of Wine Appreciation (encore) (Tue, Jan 23, 2024)
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• It's Tea Time: Pirates, Polyphenols, and a Proper Cuppa (encore) (Tue, Jan 09, 2024)
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• The Case of the Confusing Bitter Beverages: Vermouth, Amaro, Aperitivos, and Other Botanical Schnapps (Tue, Dec 19, 2023)
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• Rice, Rice Baby (Tue, Dec 05, 2023)
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• Ask Gastropod: White Chocolate, Jimmies, Chile vs. Mustard Burns, and Asparagus Pee (Tue, Nov 21, 2023)
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• Pumpkin Spice Hero: The Thrilling But Tragic True Story of Nutmeg (Tue, Nov 07, 2023)
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• Beans, Beans, the Magical Fruit (Tue, Oct 24, 2023)
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• Raised and Glazed: Don’t Doubt the Doughnut (Tue, Oct 10, 2023)
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• We'd Like to Teach The World to Slurp: The Weird and Wonderful Story of Ramen's Rise to Glory (Tue, Sep 26, 2023)
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• First Foods: Learning to Eat (encore) (Tue, Sep 19, 2023)
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• All Aboard the Tuna Rollercoaster! Join the King of Fish for a Wild Ride that Involves Ernest Hemingway and (of course) Jane Fonda (Tue, Sep 05, 2023)
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• The Keto Paradox: Fad Diet *and* Life-Saving Medical Treatment (Tue, Aug 22, 2023)
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• Secrets of Sourdough (encore) (Tue, Aug 08, 2023)
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• Watch It Wiggle: The Jell-O Story (encore) (Tue, Jul 25, 2023)
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• Where's the Beef? Lab-Grown Meat is Finally on the Menu (Tue, Jul 11, 2023)
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• The Incredible Egg (encore) (Tue, Jun 27, 2023)
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• Good Shit: How Humanure Could Save Agriculture—and the Planet (Tue, Jun 20, 2023)
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• Gettin' Fizzy With It (Encore) (Tue, Jun 13, 2023)
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• Who's Eating Who: Pineapples and You (Tue, Jun 06, 2023)
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• You've Lost That Hungry Feeling (Tue, May 23, 2023)
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• Fish & Chips: Uncovering the Forgotten Jewish and Belgian Origins of the Iconic British Dish (Tue, May 09, 2023)
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• What Connects Bones, Bird Poop, and Toxic Green Slime? Hint: Without It, Half of Us Wouldn't Be Alive Today (Tue, Apr 25, 2023)
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• All the Feels: How Texture Makes Taste (Tue, Apr 11, 2023)
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• The Fruit that Could Save the World (Tue, Mar 28, 2023)
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• Meet Taro, the Poke Bowl's Missing Secret Ingredient (Tue, Mar 14, 2023)
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• Always Coca-Cola: Coca, Kola, and the *Real* Secret Formula (Tue, Feb 28, 2023)
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• Here Comes Truffle (Tue, Feb 14, 2023)
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• Museums and the Mafia: The Secret History of Citrus (encore) (Tue, Jan 31, 2023)
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• The End of the Calorie (encore) (Tue, Jan 17, 2023)
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• Champagne Wishes: The Tastes of Celebration (Tue, Dec 20, 2022)
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• Caviar Dreams: The Tastes of Celebration (Tue, Dec 06, 2022)
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• What Is Native American Cuisine? (Encore) (Tue, Nov 22, 2022)
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• That Old Chestnut: A Nutty Tale, of Love, Loss, and Reconnection (Tue, Nov 08, 2022)
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• Prescription Dinner: Can Meals Be Medicine? (Tue, Oct 25, 2022)
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• Trouble in Paradise: Coconut War Waters and Coconut Oil Controversies (Tue, Oct 11, 2022)
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• Does the Western Megadrought Mean the End of Cheap Cheese and Ice Cream? (Tue, Sep 27, 2022)
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• Lunch Gets Schooled (encore) (Wed, Sep 21, 2022)
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• What Do Aliens Eat? Food in Sci-Fi and Fantasy (Tue, Sep 13, 2022)
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• Guest Episode: The Umami Mama by Unexplainable (Tue, Aug 30, 2022)
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• Gut Feeling (Tue, Aug 16, 2022)
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• Green Gold: Our Love Affair With Olive Oil (encore) (Tue, Aug 02, 2022)
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• How Ketchup Got Thick (Wed, Jul 20, 2022)
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• Delivery Wars (Tue, Jul 05, 2022)
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• The Milk of Life (Tue, Jun 21, 2022)
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• Poultry Power: The Fried Chicken Chronicles (encore) (Tue, Jun 07, 2022)
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• Guest episode: Montréal by Not Lost (Tue, May 31, 2022)
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• Reinventing the Eel (Mon, May 16, 2022)
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• Monsanto or MonSatan? How—and Why—a St. Louis Startup Became a Hated Herbicide Giant (Tue, May 03, 2022)
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• The Way the Cookie Crumbles (Tue, Apr 19, 2022)
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• Black Gold: The Future of Food...We Throw Away (Tue, Apr 05, 2022)
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• Gum's the Word: A Sticky Story (Tue, Mar 22, 2022)
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• Déjà-Brew: How Coffee Got Bad, Then Worse, and, Finally, Good Again (Tue, Mar 08, 2022)
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• Grounds for Revolution: the Stimulating Story of How Coffee Shaped the World (Tue, Feb 22, 2022)
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• The Fortune Cookie Quest (Tue, Feb 08, 2022)
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• Guest Episode: Graveyard Cookies and Dollhouse Crimes (Tue, Jan 25, 2022)
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• Mango Mania: How the American Mango Lost its Flavor—and How it Might Just Get it Back (encore) (Tue, Jan 18, 2022)
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• Guest Episode: Scents and Sensibility (Tue, Jan 11, 2022)
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• Your Mystery Date (Tue, Dec 21, 2021)
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• The Most Interesting Oil in the World (Tue, Dec 07, 2021)
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• Are Plant- and Fungus-Based Meats Really Better than the Real Thing? (Wed, Nov 24, 2021)
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• Guest Episode: The Doorbell by Nice Try! (Wed, Nov 17, 2021)
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• Balls *and* Brains: The Science and History of Offal (Tue, Nov 09, 2021)
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• Trick or Treat: Soul Cakes, Candy Corn, and Sugar Skulls Galore! (Tue, Oct 26, 2021)
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• Buried Treasure: Weeds, Seeds, and Zombies (Mon, Oct 11, 2021)
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• The Barrel That Could Save A Forest (Tue, Sep 28, 2021)
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• Tofu for You: Meet the Cult Leader, the Spy, and the Pioneering Woman Chinese Doctor Who Brought Tofu to the West (Tue, Sep 14, 2021)
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• The Great Gastropod Pudding Off (encore) (Mon, Aug 30, 2021)
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• It's All Going to Pot: the Science and Economics of Edibles (Tue, Aug 17, 2021)
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• Baked: How Pot Brownies and Pate de Fruits Fueled an Edible Cannabis Revolution (Tue, Aug 03, 2021)
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• The Bottle vs. Tap Battle Finale: Alkaline H2O, Lead Pipes, and, Yes, Water Sommeliers (Tue, Jul 20, 2021)
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• Bottled Vs. Tap: The Battle to Quench Our Thirst (Tue, Jul 06, 2021)
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• Chocpocalypse Now! Quarantine and the Future of Food (Tue, Jun 22, 2021)
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• Guest Episode: Immune Boosting, Is It a Bust? | Science Vs (Tue, Jun 08, 2021)
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• Guest Episode: How Much Water Do You Actually Need a Day? (Tue, Jun 01, 2021)
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• First Class Fare (Tue, May 25, 2021)
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• Guest Episode: How To Save a Planet (Tue, May 18, 2021)
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• You're Wrong About Prohibition (Tue, May 11, 2021)
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• So Hot Right Now: Why We Love the Chile Pepper (Tue, Apr 27, 2021)
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• Easy A: The SuperRad Story of Home Economics (Tue, Apr 13, 2021)
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• Where There's Smoke, There's ... Whiskey, Fish, and Barbecue! (Tue, Mar 30, 2021)
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• Phage Against the Machine (Tue, Mar 16, 2021)
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• Guest Episode: Mission: ImPASTAble from The Sporkful (Tue, Mar 09, 2021)
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• Why Thai? (Tue, Mar 02, 2021)
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• Hot Tips (Tue, Feb 16, 2021)
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• TV Dinners (Wed, Feb 03, 2021)
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• The Brightest Bulb (Tue, Dec 22, 2020)
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• Like Water in the Desert (Tue, Dec 08, 2020)
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• The Magic Cube (Tue, Nov 24, 2020)
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• The Big Apple Episode (Tue, Nov 10, 2020)
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• The Hangover: Part Gastropod (Tue, Oct 27, 2020)
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• Snack Attack! (Tue, Oct 13, 2020)
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• This Spud's For You (Tue, Sep 29, 2020)
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• Moo-Dunnit: How Beef Replaced Bison on the American Plains—and Plate (Tue, Sep 15, 2020)
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• What the Shell? Cracking the Lobster's Mysteries (Mon, Aug 31, 2020)
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• Guest Episode: Rocky Road with Science Diction (Tue, Aug 25, 2020)
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• Shatter-Proof: How Glass Took Over the Kitchen—and Ended Child Labor (Mon, Aug 17, 2020)
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• The Most Dangerous Fruit in America (Mon, Aug 03, 2020)
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• Dig for Victory (Tue, Jun 16, 2020)
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• Shared Plates: How Eating Together Makes Us Human (Wed, Jun 03, 2020)
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• Pizza Pizza! (Tue, May 19, 2)(020 -0000 18:40:00, )
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• Eating the Wild: Bushmeat, Game, and the Fuzzy Line Between Them (Tue, May 05, 2020)
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• Eating the Rainbow: Or, the Mystery of the Orange Oranges, the Red M&Ms, and the Blue Raspberry (Tue, Apr 21, 2020)
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• A Tale To Warm The Cockles Of Your Heart (Tue, Apr 07, 2020)
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• White vs. Wheat: The Food Fight of the Centuries (Tue, Mar 24, 2020)
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• Licorice: A Dark and Salty Stranger (Tue, Mar 10, 2020)
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• To Fight Climate Change, Bank on Soil (Tue, Feb 25, 2020)
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• Move Over Gin, We’ve Got Tonic Fever (Tue, Feb 11, 2020)
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• The United States of McDonald’s (Tue, Jan 28, 2020)
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• Dinner Plate Invasion: Lionfish, Tiger Shrimp, and Feral Pigs, Oh My! (Mon, Jan 13, 2020)
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• Meet the Queen of Kiwi: the 96-Year-Old Woman Who Transformed America’s Produce Aisle (Tue, Dec 17, 2019)
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• Are Insect Guts the Secret to the Most Delicious Kimchi? (Tue, Dec 03, 2019)
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• Menu Mind Control (Mon, Nov 18, 2019)
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• Of Ghost Foods and Culinary Extinction (Tue, Nov 05, 2019)
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• Tiki Time! (Tue, Oct 22, 2019)
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• What’s CRISPR Doing in our Food? (Tue, Oct 08, 2019)
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• Happy Birthday to Us: Gastropod Turns Five (Tue, Sep 24, 2019)
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• Celebrate Mexico’s True National Holiday with the Mysteries of Mole (Tue, Sep 10, 2019)
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• Running on Fumes: Strawberry’s Dirty Secret (Tue, Aug 27, 2019)
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• Omega 1-2-3 (Tue, Aug 13, 2019)
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• Meet Sharbat, the Ancestor of Sorbet, Syrup, Shrub, Sherbet, and Pretty Much Everything Else Cool (Tue, Aug 06, 2019)
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• Super Fry: The Fight for the Golden Frite (Wed, Jun 19, 2019)
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• Eat This, Not That: The Surprising Science of Personalized Nutrition (Mon, Jun 10, 2019)
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• Guts and Glory (Tue, May 21, 2019)
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• BONUS: Introducing Science Rules! with Bill Nye (Thu, May 16, 2019)
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• The Great Gastropod Pudding Off (Mon, May 06, 2019)
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• Potatoes in Space! (Tue, Apr 23, 2019)
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• The Curry Chronicles (Tue, Apr 09, 2019)
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• The Bagelization of America (Tue, Mar 26, 2019)
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• Can Diet Stop Alzheimer’s? (Mon, Mar 11, 2019)
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• Seeds of Immortality (Mon, Mar 04, 2019)
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• Pick A Pawpaw: America’s Forgotten Fruit (Tue, Feb 26, 2019)
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• Eating to Win: Gatorade, Muscle Milk, and… Chicken Nuggets? (Tue, Feb 12, 2019)
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• The Secret History of the Slave Behind Jack Daniel’s Whiskey (Mon, Jan 28, 2019)
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• Sweet and Low (Calorie): The Story of Artificial Sweeteners (Tue, Jan 15, 2019)
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• Dirty Tricks and Data: The Great Soda Wars, Part 2 (Tue, Dec 18, 2018)
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• Souring on Sweet: The Great Soda Wars, Part 1 (Tue, Dec 04, 2018)
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• The Truth is in the Tooth: Braces, Cavities, and the Paleo Diet (Mon, Nov 19, 2018)
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• Who Invented Mac and Cheese? (Tue, Nov 13, 2018)
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• How the Carrot Became Orange, and Other Stories (Tue, Nov 06, 2018)
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• The Incredible Egg (Tue, Oct 23, 2018)
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• Espresso and Whisky: The Place of Time in Food (Tue, Oct 09, 2018)
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• Why These Animals? (Tue, Sep 25, 2018)
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• Mango Mania: How the American Mango Lost its Flavor—and How it Might Just Get it Back (Tue, Sep 11, 2018)
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• Keeping it Fresh: Preservatives and The Poison Squad (Tue, Aug 28, 2018)
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• Watch It Wiggle: The Jell-O Story (Tue, Aug 14, 2018)
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• Out of the Fire, Into the Frying Pan (Tue, Jun 19, 2018)
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• Hotbox: The Oven From Turnspit Dogs to Microwaves (Tue, Jun 05, 2018)
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• Feed the World: How the U.S. Became the World’s Biggest Food Aid Donor—And Why That Might Not be Such a Great Thing (Tue, May 22, 2018)
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• Ripe for Global Domination: The Story of the Avocado (Tue, May 08, 2018)
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• Meet the Man Who Found, Finagled, and Ferried Home the Foods We Eat Today (Tue, Apr 24, 2018)
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• Who Faked My Cheese? (Tue, Apr 10, 2018)
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• Marching on our Stomachs: The Science and History of Feeding the Troops (Tue, Mar 27, 2018)
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• Cooking the Books with Yotam and Nigella (Tue, Mar 13, 2018)
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• Cutting the Mustard (Tue, Feb 27, 2018)
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• Remembrance of Things Pasta: A Saucy Tale (Tue, Feb 13, 2018)
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• We’ve Lost It: The Diet Episode (Tue, Jan 30, 2018)
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• Meet Saffron, the World’s Most Expensive Spice (Tue, Jan 16, 2018)
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• Secrets of Sourdough (Mon, Dec 18, 2017)
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• Green Gold: Our Love Affair with Olive Oil (Tue, Dec 05, 2017)
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• Women, Food, Power … and Books! (Tue, Nov 21, 2017)
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• Crantastic: The Story of America’s Berry (Tue, Nov 07, 2017)
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• Cannibalism: From Calories to Kuru (Tue, Oct 24, 2017)
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• Eataly World and the Future of Food Shopping (Tue, Oct 10, 2017)
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• What the Fluff is Marshmallow Creme? (Tue, Sep 26, 2017)
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• Lunch Gets Schooled (Mon, Sep 11, 2017)
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• Sour Grapes: The History and Science of Vinegar (Tue, Aug 29, 2017)
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• The Birds and The Bugs (Tue, Aug 15, 2017)
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• It’s Tea Time: Pirates, Polyphenols, and a Proper Cuppa (Tue, Aug 01, 2017)
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• Peanuts: Peril and Promise (Tue, Jun 20, 2017)
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• Fake Food (Tue, Jun 06, 2017)
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• Here’s Why You Should Care About Southern Food (Mon, May 22, 2017)
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• Better Believe It’s Butter (Tue, May 09, 2017)
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• Meet Koji, Your New Favorite Fungus (Tue, Apr 25, 2017)
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• V is for Vitamin (Mon, Apr 10, 2017)
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• Hacking Taste (Tue, Mar 14, 2017)
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• Cork Dork: Inside the Weird World of Wine Appreciation (Tue, Feb 28, 2017)
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• To Eat or Not to Eat Meat (Tue, Feb 14, 2017)
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• We Heart Chocolate (Tue, Jan 31, 2017)
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• Inventing the Restaurant: From Bone Broth to Michelin (Tue, Jan 17, 2017)
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• Gettin’ Fizzy With It (Tue, Dec 13, 2016)
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• The Spice Curve: From Pepper to Sriracha with Sarah Lohman (Tue, Nov 29, 2016)
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• The Buzz on Honey (Tue, Nov 15, 2016)
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• What is Native American Cuisine? (Tue, Nov 01, 2016)
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• Counting Fish (Tue, Oct 04, 2016)
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• Seaweed Special (Tue, Sep 13, 2016)
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• The Salt Wars (Tue, Aug 23, 2016)
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• Kombucha Culture (Mon, Aug 08, 2016)
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• Keeping Kosher: When Jewish Law Met Processed Food (Tue, Jul 26, 2016)
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• Poultry Power: The Fried Chicken Chronicles (Tue, Jul 12, 2016)
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• Outside the Box: The Story of Food Packaging (Tue, Jun 28, 2016)
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• Who Invented the Cherry Tomato? (Tue, Jun 14, 2016)
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• Everything Old is Brew Again (Tue, May 31, 2016)
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• Museums and the Mafia: The Secret History of Citrus (Tue, Apr 19, 2016)
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• Grand Theft Food (Tue, Apr 05, 2016)
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• Caffeine: The World’s Most Popular Drug (Mon, Mar 21, 2016)
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• The Maple Boom (Tue, Mar 08, 2016)
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• First Foods: Learning to Eat (Tue, Feb 23, 2016)
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• The Food of Love (Tue, Feb 09, 2016)
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• The End of the Calorie (Tue, Jan 26, 2016)
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• End-Of-Year Feast (Tue, Dec 15, 2015)
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• The Mushroom Underground (Tue, Nov 17, 2015)
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• Peak Booze (Tue, Nov 03, 2015)
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• Mezcal: Everything but the Worm (Tue, Oct 20, 2015)
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• The Good, The Bad, The Cilantro (Tue, Oct 06, 2015)
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• The Bitter Truth (Tue, Sep 22, 2015)
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• The United States of Chinese Food (Tue, Aug 25, 2015)
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• The Whole Hog (Tue, Aug 11, 2015)
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• The Scoop on Ice Cream (Tue, Jul 28, 2015)
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• Crunch, Crackle, and Pop (Tue, Jul 14, 2015)
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• Field Recordings (Tue, Jun 30, 2015)
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• The Cocktail Hour (Tue, May 26, 2015)
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• Gastropod on Gastropods (Mon, May 04, 2015)
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• Savor Flavor (Tue, Apr 21, 2015)
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• Say Cheese! (Mon, Mar 23, 2015)
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• No Scrubs: Breeding a Better Bull (Tue, Feb 17, 2015)
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• Breakfast of Champions (Tue, Jan 20, 2015)
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• Kale of the Sea (Tue, Dec 09, 2014)
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• Bite: Smoked Pigeon and Other Subnatural Delights (Tue, Nov 25, 2014)
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• The Microbe Revolution (Tue, Nov 11, 2014)
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• Dan Barber’s Quest for Flavor (Tue, Oct 14, 2014)
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• Episode 1: The Golden Spoon (Sat, Sep 06, 2014)
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