This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, The Fruit That Could Save the World, first released on March 28, 2023. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.
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The Fruit that Could Save the World
Can bread really grow on trees? This episode, meet the all-star, super productive, low-maintenance, gluten-free carbohydrate of the future. Did we mention it's also delicious? How can one fruit—that's also a vegetable and a staple starch—become chips, crackers, and cheesecake, while also serving as the perfect platform for sour cream and cheese when baked like a potato? And, if it's so great, why in the world did the mutineers on HMS Bounty throw its seedlings overboard? Today, believers say this one tree could be a potential solution to climate change, deforestation, food insecurity, and world hunger. Join us as we taste this wonder fruit for ourselves, and find out whether the hype is real. Can breadfruit really help save the world?
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TRANSCRIPT Here Comes Truffle
This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, Here Comes Truffle, first released on February 14, 2023. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.
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TRANSCRIPT Prescription Dinner
This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, Prescription Dinner: Can Meals Be Medicine?, first released on October 25, 2022. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.
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TRANSCRIPT Caviar Dreams
This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, Caviar Dreams: The Tastes of Celebration, first released on December 12, 2022. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.
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TRANSCRIPT What Do Aliens Eat?
This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, What Do Aliens Eat? Food in Sci-Fi and Fantasy, first released on September 13, 2022. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.
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TRANSCRIPT How Ketchup Got Thick
This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, How Ketchup Got Thick, first released on July 19, 2022. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.
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TRANSCRIPT The Way the Cookie Crumbles
This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode, The Way the Cookie Crumbles, first released on April 19, 2022. It is provided as a courtesy and may contain errors.
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TRANSCRIPT Déjà-Brew
The Way the Cookie Crumbles
If you’ve baked up a batch of chocolate chip cookies, enjoyed a nice cup of tea and biscuits, or somehow scarfed a sleeve of Oreos, you will know that cookies—or biscuits, as they were known for most of their existence, and still are in much of the Anglophone world—are one of humanity's greatest inventions. But you probably won't know that they started their illustrious career, more than four thousand years ago, as a kind of beer bouillon cube! This episode, we explore how this food of soldiers and sailors was transformed as it spread all over the world, fueling trade and empire, becoming the world's first industrial food, and shaping culture and language along the way. Featuring cookies as preventative medicine, the biscuit feud that followed the Oreo, and the true story of where the chocolate chip cookie really came from—you'll want to pour yourself a nice tall glass of milk for this one! Or, you know, put on the kettle for a cuppa...
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