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About The Plants We Eat: From apples and artichokes to digitalis and peyote, our world is full of amazing plants that we interact with on a daily basis. This greenery can sustain us, intoxicate us, cure us of disease, and even kill us. Join us as we investigate the surprising history, biology, and culture behind The Plants We Eat.
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It’s great to be back! Let’s start with a sticky little (okay, big) legume with a big flavor profile!
Cows provide us with leather and meat, but use a lot of grass, grain, and water. Silkworms provide us with silk and silkworm pupae, and all it costs are a few mulberry leaves!
No meal is complete without maggots…
Beetles…not just for breakfast anymore!
The first in a short series that we’re calling The Bugs We Eat. Sure it seems gross, but they’re actually pretty good!
Yes, Marsh Mallows are a real thing — and no, those fluffy white clouds you are placing into your hot cocoa are not real marshmallows.
How did it take us so long to get to The King of Fruits?
Don’t eat the berries! But the leaves….well, as long they’re from the proper holly they’re not bad at all!
A delicious snack once you get past the sharp bits!
The most amazing flower you will ever see, and a tasty fruit too!
It makes your muscles big….kinda.
Gluten Free means Flat Cookies
An Asian plant that isn’t really grown in Asia that much anymore.
Is it a seed or a sports drink?
For our 50th podcast — Should we care whether a food is genetically modified? The short answer is yes. The long answer is quite a bit more complicated.
If it weren’t for genetically modified papaya we might not have papaya at all.
A tasty little fruit that takes dozens if not hundreds of children’s lives every year.
And for our last podcast of season 2, a (very) oldie but goodie!
What fruit is native to the United States, tastes oddly tropical, and is about as popular as eating mud? Yep, you got it — the Paw Paw.
Pies…and poison?
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- Oh no!...What happened to the podcast? I hope you both are doing well & will be returning to record more awesome episodes. This show is so enjoyable & full of interesting information. I miss it.
one of my favorite podcasts.
Awesome show. Thank you Jeff, Cindy and the UNC Botanical Gardens for making this possible. Plant nerds are some of my favorite people 😉
very nice podcast,very informative