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Gastropod — 288 episodes

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Feel the Beet: The Most Fascinating Woman You've Never Heard Of

2

White vs. Wheat: The Food Fight of the Centuries

3

Protein, Pyramids, and Politics: The Forgotten Stories and Controversial Science Behind Government Dietary Advice

4

Sushi's Extraordinary Evolution: From Pickle to Primetime

5

SNAP To It! Why Food Stamps Matter To All of Us—And Why They're Under Threat

6

When is a Pancake Not a Pancake?

7

OXO, Cuisinart, and Julia Child: The Secret (Accessible) History Behind Your Kitchen

8

Ripe for Global Domination: The Story of the Avocado

9

Canned Tomatoes and the Myth of the San Marzano

10

Is Your Cinnamon Fake? Where Does Kefir Come From? Plus: Why Is Citric Acid In Everything? Ask Gastropod!

11

Forget Plain Vanilla: You'll Never See The World's Favorite Flavor the Same Way Again

12

From Fountain of Youth to Fruit on the Bottom: How Yoghurt Finally Made it Big in America

13

Yes, You Really Can Make Food From Thin Air—And We Tried It

14

Pizza Pizza!

15

Everything You Know About Metabolism Is Wrong

16

Durian Delight and Feijoa Fun: Adventures in Banned, Forgotten, and Unusual Fruit

17

Talking Taco

18

Tomatoes: A Love Story

19

The Most Dangerous Fruit in America

20

The Colorful Tale of Mexico's A-maize-ing Grain

21

Should You Be Eating Poison Oak?

22

Ask Gastropod: Bubblegum, Meal Kits, and the Real Truth About Rooibos

23

Feasting With Montezuma: Food and Farming in a Floating City

24

Bananageddon! Say Goodbye to *the* Banana, and Hello to the Weird and Wonderful World of Bananas, Plural

25

Going Bananas: How a Tropical Treat Became the World's Favorite Fruit

26

Do We Really Have Beer to Thank for the First Writing and Cities?

27

Seed Oil Scare: The Curious Case of Canola

28

Nutrition Advice Decoded: What Foods Are Actually Good For Us, What Should We Avoid, and Why Is It All SO Confusing?

29

The Rise and Fall of Quinoa: From Incan "Superfood" to Buddha Bowl Basic

30

The Shocking True Story of the World's First Seed Bank—And The Scientists Who Sacrificed Their Lives to Save It

31

No Buzz Booze: The History and Science of Going Low- or No-Alcohol

32

Moon Rocks Wanted (guest episode)

33

Is My Dentist Scamming Me? (guest episode)

34

Why Are Kids Dipping Cookies in Ranch, Are Food Comas Real, and What's Inside the Mummy's Stomach?

35

Hacking Taste (encore)

36

The Curiously Strong Story of Mint

37

Dishwashing Debates: The Soapy Science Behind Everyone's Favorite Chore

38

V is for Vitamin (encore)

39

Bringing Salmon Home: The Story of the World's Largest Dam Removal Project

40

Potatoes in Space! (encore)

41

Absinthe: The World's Most Dangerous Drink?

42

From Trash to Treasure: Why's It So Hard to Save Restaurant Leftovers From the Dumpster?

43

Smashing Pumpkin Myths: What's Big, Orange, and Having an Identity Crisis?

44

Meet the Queen of Kiwi: The 96-Year-Old Woman Who Transformed America's Produce Aisle (ENCORE)

45

Deli is Short For Delicious—But Are Your Pastrami and Bologna Sandwiches Giving You Cancer?

46

What's the Buzz on Eating Bugs? Can Insects Really Save the World?

47

The Billion Dollar War Behind U.S. Rum (Planet Money)

48

The Interstitium (Radiolab)

49

Are Hush Puppies Racist? Is A2 Milk Really Healthier? And What's Up With Wedding Cake? Ask Gastropod!

50

Why Does Everyone Have Food Allergies These Days?

51

The Bagelization of America (encore)

52

The Birth of Cool: How Refrigeration Changed Everything

53

Omega 1-2-3 (encore)

54

Sugar's Dark Shadow

55

(Guest) Are Fast Food Jingles Pop Music?

56

Why Are Restaurants So Loud? Plus the Science Behind the Perfect Playlist

57

The Food Explorer (encore)

58

Meet the Most Famous American You’ve Never Heard Of: His Legacy is Excellent French Fries and Monsanto

59

All You Can Eat: The True Story Behind America's Most Popular Seafood

60

The World Is Your Oyster: How Our Favorite Shellfish Could Save Coastlines Worldwide

61

Eat This, Not That: The Surprising Science of Personalized Nutrition (encore)

62

Bam! How Did Cajun Flavor Take Over the World?

63

Anything's Pastable (Guest Episode)

64

Can You Patent a Pizza?

65

Super Fry: The Fight for the Golden Frite (encore)

66

Dining at the (Other) Top of the World: Hunger, Fruitcake, and the Race to Reach the South Pole

67

Dining at the Top of the World: Arctic Adaptation, Abundance, and...Ice Cream

68

Cork Dork: Inside the Weird World of Wine Appreciation (encore)

69

It's Tea Time: Pirates, Polyphenols, and a Proper Cuppa (encore)

70

The Case of the Confusing Bitter Beverages: Vermouth, Amaro, Aperitivos, and Other Botanical Schnapps

71

Rice, Rice Baby

72

Ask Gastropod: White Chocolate, Jimmies, Chile vs. Mustard Burns, and Asparagus Pee

73

Pumpkin Spice Hero: The Thrilling But Tragic True Story of Nutmeg

74

Beans, Beans, the Magical Fruit

75

Raised and Glazed: Don’t Doubt the Doughnut

76

We'd Like to Teach The World to Slurp: The Weird and Wonderful Story of Ramen's Rise to Glory

77

First Foods: Learning to Eat (encore)

78

All Aboard the Tuna Rollercoaster! Join the King of Fish for a Wild Ride that Involves Ernest Hemingway and (of course) Jane Fonda

79

The Keto Paradox: Fad Diet *and* Life-Saving Medical Treatment

80

Secrets of Sourdough (encore)

81

Watch It Wiggle: The Jell-O Story (encore)

82

Where's the Beef? Lab-Grown Meat is Finally on the Menu

83

The Incredible Egg (encore)

84

Good Shit: How Humanure Could Save Agriculture—and the Planet

85

Gettin' Fizzy With It (Encore)

86

Who's Eating Who: Pineapples and You

87

You've Lost That Hungry Feeling

88

Fish & Chips: Uncovering the Forgotten Jewish and Belgian Origins of the Iconic British Dish

89

What Connects Bones, Bird Poop, and Toxic Green Slime? Hint: Without It, Half of Us Wouldn't Be Alive Today

90

All the Feels: How Texture Makes Taste

91

The Fruit that Could Save the World

92

Meet Taro, the Poke Bowl's Missing Secret Ingredient

93

Always Coca-Cola: Coca, Kola, and the *Real* Secret Formula

94

Here Comes Truffle

95

Museums and the Mafia: The Secret History of Citrus (encore)

96

The End of the Calorie (encore)

97

Champagne Wishes: The Tastes of Celebration

98

Caviar Dreams: The Tastes of Celebration

99

What Is Native American Cuisine? (Encore)

100

That Old Chestnut: A Nutty Tale, of Love, Loss, and Reconnection

101

Prescription Dinner: Can Meals Be Medicine?

102

Trouble in Paradise: Coconut War Waters and Coconut Oil Controversies

103

Does the Western Megadrought Mean the End of Cheap Cheese and Ice Cream?

104

Lunch Gets Schooled (encore)

105

What Do Aliens Eat? Food in Sci-Fi and Fantasy

106

Guest Episode: The Umami Mama by Unexplainable

107

Gut Feeling

108

Green Gold: Our Love Affair With Olive Oil (encore)

109

How Ketchup Got Thick

110

Delivery Wars

111

The Milk of Life

112

Poultry Power: The Fried Chicken Chronicles (encore)

113

Guest episode: Montréal by Not Lost

114

Reinventing the Eel

115

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

116

The Way the Cookie Crumbles

117

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

118

Gum's the Word: A Sticky Story

119

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

120

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

121

The Fortune Cookie Quest

122

Guest Episode: Graveyard Cookies and Dollhouse Crimes

123

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

124

Guest Episode: Scents and Sensibility

125

Your Mystery Date

126

The Most Interesting Oil in the World

127

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

128

Guest Episode: The Doorbell by Nice Try!

129

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

130

Trick or Treat: Soul Cakes, Candy Corn, and Sugar Skulls Galore!

131

Buried Treasure: Weeds, Seeds, and Zombies

132

The Barrel That Could Save A Forest

133

Tofu for You: Meet the Cult Leader, the Spy, and the Pioneering Woman Chinese Doctor Who Brought Tofu to the West

134

The Great Gastropod Pudding Off (encore)

135

It's All Going to Pot: the Science and Economics of Edibles

136

Baked: How Pot Brownies and Pate de Fruits Fueled an Edible Cannabis Revolution

137

The Bottle vs. Tap Battle Finale: Alkaline H2O, Lead Pipes, and, Yes, Water Sommeliers

138

Bottled Vs. Tap: The Battle to Quench Our Thirst

139

Chocpocalypse Now! Quarantine and the Future of Food

140

Guest Episode: Immune Boosting, Is It a Bust? | Science Vs

141

Guest Episode: How Much Water Do You Actually Need a Day?

142

First Class Fare

143

Guest Episode: How To Save a Planet

144

You're Wrong About Prohibition

145

So Hot Right Now: Why We Love the Chile Pepper

146

Easy A: The SuperRad Story of Home Economics

147

Where There's Smoke, There's ... Whiskey, Fish, and Barbecue!

148

Phage Against the Machine

149

Guest Episode: Mission: ImPASTAble from The Sporkful

150

Why Thai?

151

Hot Tips

152

TV Dinners

153

The Brightest Bulb

154

Like Water in the Desert

155

The Magic Cube

156

The Big Apple Episode

157

The Hangover: Part Gastropod

158

Snack Attack!

159

This Spud's For You

160

Moo-Dunnit: How Beef Replaced Bison on the American Plains—and Plate

161

What the Shell? Cracking the Lobster's Mysteries

162

Guest Episode: Rocky Road with Science Diction

163

Shatter-Proof: How Glass Took Over the Kitchen—and Ended Child Labor

164

The Most Dangerous Fruit in America

165

Dig for Victory

166

Shared Plates: How Eating Together Makes Us Human

167

Pizza Pizza!

168

Eating the Wild: Bushmeat, Game, and the Fuzzy Line Between Them

169

Eating the Rainbow: Or, the Mystery of the Orange Oranges, the Red M&Ms, and the Blue Raspberry

170

A Tale To Warm The Cockles Of Your Heart

171

White vs. Wheat: The Food Fight of the Centuries

172

Licorice: A Dark and Salty Stranger

173

To Fight Climate Change, Bank on Soil

174

Move Over Gin, We’ve Got Tonic Fever

175

The United States of McDonald’s

176

Dinner Plate Invasion: Lionfish, Tiger Shrimp, and Feral Pigs, Oh My!

177

Meet the Queen of Kiwi: the 96-Year-Old Woman Who Transformed America’s Produce Aisle

178

Are Insect Guts the Secret to the Most Delicious Kimchi?

179

Menu Mind Control

180

Of Ghost Foods and Culinary Extinction

181

Tiki Time!

182

What’s CRISPR Doing in our Food?

183

Happy Birthday to Us: Gastropod Turns Five

184

Celebrate Mexico’s True National Holiday with the Mysteries of Mole

185

Running on Fumes: Strawberry’s Dirty Secret

186

Omega 1-2-3

187

Meet Sharbat, the Ancestor of Sorbet, Syrup, Shrub, Sherbet, and Pretty Much Everything Else Cool

188

Super Fry: The Fight for the Golden Frite

189

Eat This, Not That: The Surprising Science of Personalized Nutrition

190

Guts and Glory

191

BONUS: Introducing Science Rules! with Bill Nye

192

The Great Gastropod Pudding Off

193

Potatoes in Space!

194

The Curry Chronicles

195

The Bagelization of America

196

Can Diet Stop Alzheimer’s?

197

Seeds of Immortality

198

Pick A Pawpaw: America’s Forgotten Fruit

199

Eating to Win: Gatorade, Muscle Milk, and… Chicken Nuggets?

200

The Secret History of the Slave Behind Jack Daniel’s Whiskey

201

Sweet and Low (Calorie): The Story of Artificial Sweeteners

202

Dirty Tricks and Data: The Great Soda Wars, Part 2

203

Souring on Sweet: The Great Soda Wars, Part 1

204

The Truth is in the Tooth: Braces, Cavities, and the Paleo Diet

205

Who Invented Mac and Cheese?

206

How the Carrot Became Orange, and Other Stories

207

The Incredible Egg

208

Espresso and Whisky: The Place of Time in Food

209

Why These Animals?

210

Mango Mania: How the American Mango Lost its Flavor—and How it Might Just Get it Back

211

Keeping it Fresh: Preservatives and The Poison Squad

212

Watch It Wiggle: The Jell-O Story

213

Out of the Fire, Into the Frying Pan

214

Hotbox: The Oven From Turnspit Dogs to Microwaves

215

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

216

Ripe for Global Domination: The Story of the Avocado

217

Meet the Man Who Found, Finagled, and Ferried Home the Foods We Eat Today

218

Who Faked My Cheese?

219

Marching on our Stomachs: The Science and History of Feeding the Troops

220

Cooking the Books with Yotam and Nigella

221

Cutting the Mustard

222

Remembrance of Things Pasta: A Saucy Tale

223

We’ve Lost It: The Diet Episode

224

Meet Saffron, the World’s Most Expensive Spice

225

Secrets of Sourdough

226

Green Gold: Our Love Affair with Olive Oil

227

Women, Food, Power … and Books!

228

Crantastic: The Story of America’s Berry

229

Cannibalism: From Calories to Kuru

230

Eataly World and the Future of Food Shopping

231

What the Fluff is Marshmallow Creme?

232

Lunch Gets Schooled

233

Sour Grapes: The History and Science of Vinegar

234

The Birds and The Bugs

235

It’s Tea Time: Pirates, Polyphenols, and a Proper Cuppa

236

Peanuts: Peril and Promise

237

Fake Food

238

Here’s Why You Should Care About Southern Food

239

Better Believe It’s Butter

240

Meet Koji, Your New Favorite Fungus

241

V is for Vitamin

242

Hacking Taste

243

Cork Dork: Inside the Weird World of Wine Appreciation

244

To Eat or Not to Eat Meat

245

We Heart Chocolate

246

Inventing the Restaurant: From Bone Broth to Michelin

247

Gettin’ Fizzy With It

248

The Spice Curve: From Pepper to Sriracha with Sarah Lohman

249

The Buzz on Honey

250

What is Native American Cuisine?

251

Counting Fish

252

Seaweed Special

253

The Salt Wars

254

Kombucha Culture

255

Keeping Kosher: When Jewish Law Met Processed Food

256

Poultry Power: The Fried Chicken Chronicles

257

Outside the Box: The Story of Food Packaging

258

Who Invented the Cherry Tomato?

259

Everything Old is Brew Again

260

Museums and the Mafia: The Secret History of Citrus

261

Grand Theft Food

262

Caffeine: The World’s Most Popular Drug

263

The Maple Boom

264

First Foods: Learning to Eat

265

The Food of Love

266

The End of the Calorie

267

End-Of-Year Feast

268

The Mushroom Underground

269

Peak Booze

270

Mezcal: Everything but the Worm

271

The Good, The Bad, The Cilantro

272

The Bitter Truth

273

The United States of Chinese Food

274

The Whole Hog

275

The Scoop on Ice Cream

276

Crunch, Crackle, and Pop

277

Field Recordings

278

The Cocktail Hour

279

Gastropod on Gastropods

280

Savor Flavor

281

Say Cheese!

282

No Scrubs: Breeding a Better Bull

283

Breakfast of Champions

284

Kale of the Sea

285

Bite: Smoked Pigeon and Other Subnatural Delights

286

The Microbe Revolution

287

Dan Barber’s Quest for Flavor

288

Episode 1: The Golden Spoon