288 Episodes

  1. Delivery Wars

    Published: 7/5/2022

  2. The Milk of Life

    Published: 6/21/2022

  3. Poultry Power: The Fried Chicken Chronicles (encore)

    Published: 6/7/2022

  4. Guest episode: Montréal by Not Lost

    Published: 5/31/2022

  5. Reinventing the Eel

    Published: 5/16/2022

  6. Monsanto or MonSatan? How—and Why—a St. Louis Startup Became a Hated Herbicide Giant

    Published: 5/3/2022

  7. The Way the Cookie Crumbles

    Published: 4/19/2022

  8. Black Gold: The Future of Food...We Throw Away

    Published: 4/5/2022

  9. Gum's the Word: A Sticky Story

    Published: 3/22/2022

  10. Déjà-Brew: How Coffee Got Bad, Then Worse, and, Finally, Good Again

    Published: 3/8/2022

  11. Grounds for Revolution: the Stimulating Story of How Coffee Shaped the World

    Published: 2/22/2022

  12. The Fortune Cookie Quest

    Published: 2/8/2022

  13. Guest Episode: Graveyard Cookies and Dollhouse Crimes

    Published: 1/25/2022

  14. Mango Mania: How the American Mango Lost its Flavor—and How it Might Just Get it Back (encore)

    Published: 1/18/2022

  15. Guest Episode: Scents and Sensibility

    Published: 1/11/2022

  16. Your Mystery Date

    Published: 12/21/2021

  17. The Most Interesting Oil in the World

    Published: 12/7/2021

  18. Are Plant- and Fungus-Based Meats Really Better than the Real Thing?

    Published: 11/24/2021

  19. Guest Episode: The Doorbell by Nice Try!

    Published: 11/17/2021

  20. Balls *and* Brains: The Science and History of Offal

    Published: 11/9/2021

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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.