A great piece from @HipXander on why your crawfish boil might be a little more expensive this year nationalgeographic.com/environment/ar…

Our listeners have great questions—and we’ve got answers! We uncover why cake has a starring role in weddings, where hushpuppies got their name & whether the dairy intolerant (including our own Cynthia!) can enjoy A2 milk, in the return of “Ask Gastropod!” gastropod.com/are-hush-puppi…

If you’ve had fried fish in the Southern US, you may have had “hushpuppies,” fried cornmeal balls, as an appetizer—but despite legends of Confederate soldiers using them to quiet dogs, likely no canines were involved in the name. We explore in our latest: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/are…

You may have heard of hushpuppies, but you likely haven’t heard of Romeo Govan or his famous red horse bread. Robert F. Moss helps answer a listener question about these fried treats—and reveals the forgotten Black chef who invented them: gastropod.com/are-hush-puppi…

If you’ve ever wondered how wedding cakes become so elaborate (and so expensive), you can thank Queen Victoria. In our new installment of Ask Gastropod, how cake became the big cheese of weddings, via a tour through the history of matrimonial desserts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/are…

You may have seen a milk called A2 popping up at grocery stores with claims that anyone, lactose intolerant included, can enjoy a glass. But what is this “new” milk, & is regular milk actually bad for us? @LifeatPurdue dairy expert Dennis Savaino explains: gastropod.com/are-hush-puppi…

Our very own Cynthia is what they call a “lactose maldigester.” But could a 10,000-year-old milk called A2 allow her to enjoy the white stuff again? Our co-host volunteers as guinea pig in a dairy experiment in our latest episode! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/are…

Fridges are our go-to way of storing food, but they’re not good for the planet or even good for a lot of our food. Gastropod's nicolatwilley, author of a new book on refrigeration, says there are chiller options for our cold storage challenges. open.spotify.com/episode/69JU4t…

Back on one of my favorite topics, food and climate change: how edible plants mostly seen as weeds or survival food could help make African food systems more resilient. news.mongabay.com/2024/07/in-sub…

Big news: the Biden admin just gave out $2 billion to farmers for loan discrimination theguardian.com/us-news/articl… —a topic we covered in our recent episode on sugarcane and its long, dark history: gastropod.com/sugars-dark-sh…

We love pawpaws! An interesting undark story about the challenges of spreading the pawpaw love — and if you're new to the bandwagon of this forgotten American fruit, check out our episode all about it: gastropod.com/pick-a-pawpaw-…

What a way to end our week! We're honored to have been chosen as a finalist for podcasts in the IACP Culinary 🍴 Digital Media Awards, in some very good company—congrats to all of the finalists!! Vox Media @eater

People all over the world enjoy insects as staple foods, and lots of people say that those of us in the Western world should all be adding grubs to our grub. This episode: can eating insects really help solve climate change and world hunger? gastropod.com/whats-the-buzz…

Insects have been on the menu for as long as we’ve been human: some of the oldest bone tools were used to dig up termite mounds. So why do most Western eaters see insects as disgusting rather than delicious? Why we’re bugged out in our newest: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wha…

10 yrs ago, headlines proclaimed we’d soon be eating bugs all the time. But that swarm of attention has nearly turned to crickets, even as bugs are enjoyed all over the world. We’re investigating what it'll take to get Western diners on the bug bandwagon: gastropod.com/whats-the-buzz…

Swapping bugs for animal protein could have huge environmental benefits: bugs use 10x less water than livestock, take up 10x less land & release far fewer greenhouse gases. So why isn’t everyone farming them? The challenges of the edible insect industry: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wha…

This bug saves lemurs! In our latest episode, the story of how this bacon-flavored bug is helping to reduce poaching of endangered lemurs in Madagascar: gastropod.com/whats-the-buzz…

Humans have likely been salting, drying or fermenting meat as long as we’ve been human: it makes meat longer-lasting, easier to carry,& even more delicious! In our new episode, we trace the meaty history behind these lunchbox & charcuterie platter staples: gastropod.com/deli-is-short-…

The deli sandwich, so meaty you have to unhinge your jaw for a bite, a staple of Jewish delis, especially in NYC. But you might not know that delis weren’t Jewish, but German, from the start. How the deli become a canonically Jewish space in our newest: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/del…

Whether it's When Harry Met Sally's orgasmic pastrami, jokes & deals in @maiseltv, or Annie Hall's controversial sandwich, the Jewish deli stars in American culture. How the deli’s “third space” role in the 1900s helped it spread across NYC & the country: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/del…