Gastropod
Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley
4.7from 5,489 ratings
- 293
- Episodes
- 67
- Transcribed
- 5,489
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
About Gastropod
Food with a side of science and history. Every other week, co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley serve up a brand new episode exploring the hidden history and surprising science behind a different food- or farming-related topic, from aquaculture to ancient feasts, from cutlery to chile peppers, and from microbes to Malbec. We interview experts, visit labs, fields, and archaeological digs, and generally have lots of fun while discovering new ways to think about and understand the world through food. Find us online at gastropod.com, follow us on Twitter @gastropodcast, and like us on Facebook at facebook.com/gastropodcast.
- Publisher
- Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley
- Category
- arts · history · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Sept 2014
- Latest episode
- 3 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
67 of 293 episodes have a transcript.
3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Free Food: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Foraging
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Fibermaxxing FTW: Meet the Neglected Nutrient That's the Key to Health
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Eat Bison to Save Bison
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Free Food: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Foraging
Published 3 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But foraging persisted even among agricultural communities. And for communities that didn't have agriculture, they practiced a sort of shepherding of wild foods, planting them in certain areas or selecting for them, managing the landscape to encourage the growth of the plants they wanted to eat. […]
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- 4.7 / 5
- 3,623 ratings
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- 4.7 / 5
- 1,866 ratings
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