This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, The Most Interesting Oil in the World, first released on December 7, 2021. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.

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This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, Your Mystery Date, first released on December 21, 2021. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.

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This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, Good Shit: How Humanure Could Save Agriculture—and the Planet, first released on June 20, 2023. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.

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This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, That Old Chestnut: A Nutty Tale of Love, Loss, and Reconnection, first released on November 8, 2022. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.

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This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, Balls *and* Brains: The Science and History of Offal, first released on November 9, 2021. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.

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This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, It’s All Going to Pot: The Science and Economics of Edibles, first released on Aug. 17, 2021. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.

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This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, Can Diet Stop Alzheimer’s?, first released on March 11, 2019. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.

PRE-ROLL

NURSE: So I’m going to read you a little story. Your task will be to try to repeat back as much of the story as you can remember. Word to word repetition is ideal. But if not, just try your best. And if you feel like it’s gonna help you out, you can choose to close your eyes to help visualize the details. Are you ready?

PATIENT: Yes.

NURSE: Okay.

CYNTHIA GRABER: Listeners, pay attention

NICOLA TWILLEY: You can close your eyes too, although not if you’re driving

GRABER: We are going to quiz you on this later.

NURSE: Martha Jackson was riding through the forest near Lake Superior in Canada picking blueberries for her grandmother when her horse was stung on the nose by a bumblebee. The horse jumped over the bushes and left the trail. She hit a tree branch and fell to the ground and her arm was broken. When she stood up her horse had disappeared. She called out powderpuff but the animal never returned.

TWILLEY: So what does Martha Jackson and her horse Powderpuff have to do with food, you may be wondering? I mean, other than the blueberries she was gathering for her grandmother.

GRABER: We promise to tell you, but first—you’re listening to Gastropod, the podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history. I’m Cynthia Graber,

TWILLEY: And I’m Nicola Twilley. And this episode, we’re in New York City, with the scoop on some cutting-edge research into whether Alzheimer’s can be prevented using food.

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This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, The Microbe Revolution, first released on Nov. 11, 2014. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.

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This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, Easy A: The SuperRad Story of Home Economics, first released on April 13, 2021. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.

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This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, Eat This, Not That: The Surprising Science of Personalized Nutrition, first released on June 10, 2019. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.

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