Gastropod

Gastropodby Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley·25 Feb 2020

Our glaciers are melting, our forests are on fire, our harvests are increasingly decimated by either floods and drought.

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Gastropodby Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley·11 Feb 2020

Just a few decades ago, gin & tonics were considered rather stodgy and boring, the drink of suburbanites at the golf club. Today, the century-old drink is hot again.

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Gastropodby Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley·28 Jan 2020

McDonald's is mind-boggling. According to Adam Chandler, author of the recent book, Drive-Thru Dreams, it sells roughly 75 burgers every second and serves 68 million people every day—equivalent to...

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Gastropodby Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley·13 Jan 2020

Across America, feral pigs are on the rampage, wrecking fields of crops, hunting local wildlife to extinction, and even attacking humans.

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Gastropodby Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley·17 Dec 2019

The produce section of most American supermarkets in the 1950s was minimal to a fault, with only a few dozen fruits and vegetables to choose from: perhaps one kind of apple, one kind of lettuce, a...

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Gastropodby Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley·3 Dec 2019

This side dish of spicy, bubbly, funky pickled vegetables is such a staple in Korea that no meal is considered complete without it—but, recently, kimchi has found its way into burgers, pasta...

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Gastropodby Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley·18 Nov 2019

At its most basic, a menu is simply a way for a restaurant to communicate its offerings and their prices to its customers.

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Gastropodby Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley·5 Nov 2019

The earliest humans favored juicy, meaty mammoth at mealtimes. Ancient Romans loved their favorite herb, silphium, so much that they sprinkled it on everything from lamb to melon.

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Gastropodby Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley·22 Oct 2019

Tiki bars are hot these days: you can enjoy a fruity tropical drink while surrounded by faux-Polynesian décor in most major cities around the U.S.

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Gastropodby Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley·8 Oct 2019

You've probably heard the hype: CRISPR will revolutionize biotech, cure disease, resurrect extinct species, and even create new-and-(not-so)-improved humans.

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Gastropodby Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley·24 Sept 2019

We launched Gastropod in September 2014, which means we're turning five this month, and that's approximately 100 in podcast years.

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Gastropodby Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley·10 Sept 2019

In the United States, Cinco de Mayo is an excuse for margarita-fueled partying. But in Mexico, that date—the anniversary of a military triumph over Napoleon on May 5, 1862—is marked by a parade and...

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Gastropodby Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley·27 Aug 2019

This episode, we tell an age-old tale: an innocent young berry heads west to make its fame and fortune—but sells its soul in the process.

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Gastropodby Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley·13 Aug 2019

Based on all the hype, you'd be forgiven for believing that the fish oils known as omega-3s are solution to every problem.

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