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Gastropod: Enhanced Eating with Dan Pashman
Have you ever wondered how to avoid sandwich sogginess, what scented soap to pair with your restaurant order, and whether airplane food can be made to taste of anything at all? Dan Pashman, host of The Sporkful, has, and his new book, Eat More Better, is filled with...
Pear Bulb
IMAGE: "Die Glühbirne," 2015, from "The Light Inside," photograph by Radu Zaciu. German slang for light bulb is "die Glühbirne," or "the glow pear." As Romanian photograph Radu Zaciu explained to Petapixel, his latest series, "The Light Inside," was originally...
Gastropod: Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast: the most important meal of the day. Or is it? In this episode of Gastropod, we explore the science and history behind the most intentionally designed, the most industrialized, and the most argued about meal of all. Armed with a healthy dose of caffeine...
Holy Radish Water, Scientists!
IMAGE: Bottles of holy water (available at the Sacramentals Foundation of Omaha, Nebraska) and a radish. In a paper published in the journal Psychological Reports in 1979, Sandra Lenington measured the mean growth of 12 radish seeds watered with holy water against...
Outsourcing the Mouth
Until recently, the question of whether an apple was truly ripe could only be answered by destroying it. The human mouth, with its variety of multi-functional sensory detection mechanisms, provides the traditional—and, until recently, the most reliable—guide. But once...
Gastropod: Night of the Living Radishes
For this special New Year episode, Gastropod transports you to Oaxaca, Mexico, for the legendary Night of the Radishes, celebrated the night before Christmas eve, where locals present their most elaborate and inventive radish carvings. You’ll also get a taste of...
Gastropod: Kale of the Sea
Call off the search for the new kale: we've found it, and it's called kelp! In this episode of Gastropod, we explore the science behind the new wave of seaweed farms springing up off the New England coast, and discover seaweed's starring role in the peopling of the...
Gastropod: The Microbe Revolution
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of years, you’ve probably heard about the human microbiome. Research into the composition, function, and importance of the galaxy of bacteria, fungi, and viruses that, when we’re healthy, live in symbiotic...
100 Shades of French Fry
For just two days this weekend, a gallery on New York's Lower East Side hosted a pop-up French fry exhibition. IMAGE: A French fry on the Bowery. All photos in this post by Nicola Twilley. It was a PR stunt put together by craft condiment contender Sir Kensington,...
Gastropod: What America *Could* Taste Like
And we're back! It's time for your fortnightly dose of Gastropod. This is our first sound "bite"—a mini-programme to tide you over between our monthly in-depth episodes. In it, my co-host, Cynthia Graber, and I discuss two of the most interesting food history and...
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