Ric Brewer got his first taste of snails by gate-crashing a high-school French club field trip to a French restaurant in Seattle. He ate the escargots on a dare but loved them — so much so that...
https://civileats.com/2015/06/12/snails-the-slowest-food-of-all-audio/
Throughout human history, if you wanted to make a dish taste like strawberry, you had no choice but to add a strawberry. But in the 19th century, scientists began to understand how to synthesize ...
https://civileats.com/2015/04/22/gastropod-why-does-grape-candy-taste-so-fake-audio/
This is the story you’ll often hear about how humans discovered cheese: one hot day nine thousand years ago, a nomad was on his travels, and brought along some milk in an animal stomach—a sor...
https://civileats.com/2015/03/31/gastropod-the-secret-history-of-cheese/
In 1900, the average dairy cow in America produced 424 gallons of milk each year. By 2000, that figure had more than quadrupled, to 2,116 gallons. In this episode of Gastropod, we explore the inc...
https://civileats.com/2015/02/19/no-scrubs-breeding-a-better-bull-audio/
Armed with a healthy dose of caffeine chronopharmacology, we embark on a global breakfast tour that exposes the worldwide dominance of Nutella, as well as the toddler kimchi acclimatization proce...
https://civileats.com/2015/01/22/breakfast-the-most-important-meal-of-the-day-or-is-it-audio/
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 ...
https://civileats.com/2014/12/15/gastropod-kale-of-the-sea-audio/
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 galaxy of bacteria, fungi, and viruses that–when ...
https://civileats.com/2014/11/13/gastropod-the-microbiome-revolution-audio/
Editor’s note: The following post comes to you from the creators of Gastropod, the new podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history. It’s hard to imagine now, but ...
https://civileats.com/2014/10/14/gastropod-dan-barbers-quest-for-flavor-audio/