Dishwashing Debates: The Soapy Science Behind Everyone's Favorite Chore

V is for Vitamin (encore)

Bringing Salmon Home: The Story of the World's Largest Dam Removal Project

Potatoes in Space! (encore)

Absinthe: The World's Most Dangerous Drink?

From Trash to Treasure: Why's It So Hard to Save Restaurant Leftovers From the Dumpster?

Smashing Pumpkin Myths: What's Big, Orange, and Having an Identity Crisis?

Meet the Queen of Kiwi: The 96-Year-Old Woman Who Transformed America's Produce Aisle (ENCORE)

Deli is Short For Delicious—But Are Your Pastrami and Bologna Sandwiches Giving You Cancer?

What's the Buzz on Eating Bugs? Can Insects Really Save the World?

The Billion Dollar War Behind U.S. Rum (Planet Money)

The Interstitium (Radiolab)

Are Hush Puppies Racist? Is A2 Milk Really Healthier? And What's Up With Wedding Cake? Ask Gastropod!

Why Does Everyone Have Food Allergies These Days?

The Bagelization of America (encore)

The Birth of Cool: How Refrigeration Changed Everything

Omega 1-2-3 (encore)

Sugar's Dark Shadow

(Guest) Are Fast Food Jingles Pop Music?

Why Are Restaurants So Loud? Plus the Science Behind the Perfect Playlist

The Food Explorer (encore)

Meet the Most Famous American You’ve Never Heard Of: His Legacy is Excellent French Fries and Monsanto

All You Can Eat: The True Story Behind America's Most Popular Seafood

The World Is Your Oyster: How Our Favorite Shellfish Could Save Coastlines Worldwide

Eat This, Not That: The Surprising Science of Personalized Nutrition (encore)

Bam! How Did Cajun Flavor Take Over the World?

Anything's Pastable (Guest Episode)

Can You Patent a Pizza?

Super Fry: The Fight for the Golden Frite (encore)

Dining at the (Other) Top of the World: Hunger, Fruitcake, and the Race to Reach the South Pole

Dining at the Top of the World: Arctic Adaptation, Abundance, and...Ice Cream

Cork Dork: Inside the Weird World of Wine Appreciation (encore)

It's Tea Time: Pirates, Polyphenols, and a Proper Cuppa (encore)

The Case of the Confusing Bitter Beverages: Vermouth, Amaro, Aperitivos, and Other Botanical Schnapps

Rice, Rice Baby

Ask Gastropod: White Chocolate, Jimmies, Chile vs. Mustard Burns, and Asparagus Pee

Pumpkin Spice Hero: The Thrilling But Tragic True Story of Nutmeg

Beans, Beans, the Magical Fruit

Raised and Glazed: Don’t Doubt the Doughnut

We'd Like to Teach The World to Slurp: The Weird and Wonderful Story of Ramen's Rise to Glory

First Foods: Learning to Eat (encore)

All Aboard the Tuna Rollercoaster! Join the King of Fish for a Wild Ride that Involves Ernest Hemingway and (of course) Jane Fonda

The Keto Paradox: Fad Diet *and* Life-Saving Medical Treatment

Secrets of Sourdough (encore)

Watch It Wiggle: The Jell-O Story (encore)

Where's the Beef? Lab-Grown Meat is Finally on the Menu

The Incredible Egg (encore)

Good Shit: How Humanure Could Save Agriculture—and the Planet

Gettin' Fizzy With It (Encore)

Who's Eating Who: Pineapples and You

You've Lost That Hungry Feeling

Fish & Chips: Uncovering the Forgotten Jewish and Belgian Origins of the Iconic British Dish

What Connects Bones, Bird Poop, and Toxic Green Slime? Hint: Without It, Half of Us Wouldn't Be Alive Today

All the Feels: How Texture Makes Taste

The Fruit that Could Save the World

Meet Taro, the Poke Bowl's Missing Secret Ingredient

Always Coca-Cola: Coca, Kola, and the *Real* Secret Formula

Here Comes Truffle

Museums and the Mafia: The Secret History of Citrus (encore)

The End of the Calorie (encore)

Champagne Wishes: The Tastes of Celebration

Caviar Dreams: The Tastes of Celebration

What Is Native American Cuisine? (Encore)

That Old Chestnut: A Nutty Tale, of Love, Loss, and Reconnection

Prescription Dinner: Can Meals Be Medicine?

Trouble in Paradise: Coconut War Waters and Coconut Oil Controversies

Does the Western Megadrought Mean the End of Cheap Cheese and Ice Cream?

Lunch Gets Schooled (encore)

What Do Aliens Eat? Food in Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Guest Episode: The Umami Mama by Unexplainable

Gut Feeling

Green Gold: Our Love Affair With Olive Oil (encore)

How Ketchup Got Thick

Delivery Wars

The Milk of Life

Poultry Power: The Fried Chicken Chronicles (encore)

Guest episode: Montréal by Not Lost

Reinventing the Eel

Monsanto or MonSatan? How—and Why—a St. Louis Startup Became a Hated Herbicide Giant

The Way the Cookie Crumbles

Black Gold: The Future of Food...We Throw Away

Gum's the Word: A Sticky Story

Déjà-Brew: How Coffee Got Bad, Then Worse, and, Finally, Good Again

Grounds for Revolution: the Stimulating Story of How Coffee Shaped the World

The Fortune Cookie Quest

Guest Episode: Graveyard Cookies and Dollhouse Crimes

Mango Mania: How the American Mango Lost its Flavor—and How it Might Just Get it Back (encore)

Guest Episode: Scents and Sensibility

Your Mystery Date

The Most Interesting Oil in the World

Are Plant- and Fungus-Based Meats Really Better than the Real Thing?

Guest Episode: The Doorbell by Nice Try!

Balls *and* Brains: The Science and History of Offal

Trick or Treat: Soul Cakes, Candy Corn, and Sugar Skulls Galore!

Buried Treasure: Weeds, Seeds, and Zombies

The Barrel That Could Save A Forest

Tofu for You: Meet the Cult Leader, the Spy, and the Pioneering Woman Chinese Doctor Who Brought Tofu to the West

The Great Gastropod Pudding Off (encore)

It's All Going to Pot: the Science and Economics of Edibles

Baked: How Pot Brownies and Pate de Fruits Fueled an Edible Cannabis Revolution

The Bottle vs. Tap Battle Finale: Alkaline H2O, Lead Pipes, and, Yes, Water Sommeliers

Bottled Vs. Tap: The Battle to Quench Our Thirst

Chocpocalypse Now! Quarantine and the Future of Food

Guest Episode: Immune Boosting, Is It a Bust? | Science Vs

Guest Episode: How Much Water Do You Actually Need a Day?

First Class Fare

Guest Episode: How To Save a Planet

You're Wrong About Prohibition

So Hot Right Now: Why We Love the Chile Pepper

Easy A: The SuperRad Story of Home Economics

Where There's Smoke, There's ... Whiskey, Fish, and Barbecue!

Phage Against the Machine

Guest Episode: Mission: ImPASTAble from The Sporkful

Why Thai?

Hot Tips

TV Dinners

The Brightest Bulb

Like Water in the Desert

The Magic Cube

The Big Apple Episode

The Hangover: Part Gastropod

Snack Attack!

This Spud's For You

Moo-Dunnit: How Beef Replaced Bison on the American Plains—and Plate

What the Shell? Cracking the Lobster's Mysteries

Guest Episode: Rocky Road with Science Diction

Shatter-Proof: How Glass Took Over the Kitchen—and Ended Child Labor

The Most Dangerous Fruit in America

Dig for Victory

Shared Plates: How Eating Together Makes Us Human

Pizza Pizza!

Eating the Wild: Bushmeat, Game, and the Fuzzy Line Between Them

Eating the Rainbow: Or, the Mystery of the Orange Oranges, the Red M&Ms, and the Blue Raspberry

A Tale To Warm The Cockles Of Your Heart

White vs. Wheat: The Food Fight of the Centuries

Licorice: A Dark and Salty Stranger

To Fight Climate Change, Bank on Soil

Move Over Gin, We’ve Got Tonic Fever

The United States of McDonald’s

Dinner Plate Invasion: Lionfish, Tiger Shrimp, and Feral Pigs, Oh My!

Meet the Queen of Kiwi: the 96-Year-Old Woman Who Transformed America’s Produce Aisle

Are Insect Guts the Secret to the Most Delicious Kimchi?

Menu Mind Control

Of Ghost Foods and Culinary Extinction

Tiki Time!

What’s CRISPR Doing in our Food?

Happy Birthday to Us: Gastropod Turns Five

Celebrate Mexico’s True National Holiday with the Mysteries of Mole

Running on Fumes: Strawberry’s Dirty Secret

Omega 1-2-3

Meet Sharbat, the Ancestor of Sorbet, Syrup, Shrub, Sherbet, and Pretty Much Everything Else Cool

Super Fry: The Fight for the Golden Frite

Eat This, Not That: The Surprising Science of Personalized Nutrition

Guts and Glory

BONUS: Introducing Science Rules! with Bill Nye

The Great Gastropod Pudding Off

Potatoes in Space!

The Curry Chronicles

The Bagelization of America

Can Diet Stop Alzheimer’s?

Seeds of Immortality

Pick A Pawpaw: America’s Forgotten Fruit

Eating to Win: Gatorade, Muscle Milk, and… Chicken Nuggets?

The Secret History of the Slave Behind Jack Daniel’s Whiskey

Sweet and Low (Calorie): The Story of Artificial Sweeteners

Dirty Tricks and Data: The Great Soda Wars, Part 2

Souring on Sweet: The Great Soda Wars, Part 1

The Truth is in the Tooth: Braces, Cavities, and the Paleo Diet

Who Invented Mac and Cheese?

How the Carrot Became Orange, and Other Stories

The Incredible Egg

Espresso and Whisky: The Place of Time in Food

Why These Animals?

Mango Mania: How the American Mango Lost its Flavor—and How it Might Just Get it Back

Keeping it Fresh: Preservatives and The Poison Squad

Watch It Wiggle: The Jell-O Story

Out of the Fire, Into the Frying Pan

Hotbox: The Oven From Turnspit Dogs to Microwaves

Feed the World: How the U.S. Became the World’s Biggest Food Aid Donor—And Why That Might Not be Such a Great Thing

Ripe for Global Domination: The Story of the Avocado

Meet the Man Who Found, Finagled, and Ferried Home the Foods We Eat Today

Who Faked My Cheese?

Marching on our Stomachs: The Science and History of Feeding the Troops

Cooking the Books with Yotam and Nigella

Cutting the Mustard

Remembrance of Things Pasta: A Saucy Tale

We’ve Lost It: The Diet Episode

Meet Saffron, the World’s Most Expensive Spice

Secrets of Sourdough

Green Gold: Our Love Affair with Olive Oil

Women, Food, Power … and Books!

Crantastic: The Story of America’s Berry

Cannibalism: From Calories to Kuru

Eataly World and the Future of Food Shopping

What the Fluff is Marshmallow Creme?

Lunch Gets Schooled

Sour Grapes: The History and Science of Vinegar

The Birds and The Bugs

It’s Tea Time: Pirates, Polyphenols, and a Proper Cuppa

Peanuts: Peril and Promise

Fake Food

Here’s Why You Should Care About Southern Food

Better Believe It’s Butter

Meet Koji, Your New Favorite Fungus

V is for Vitamin

Hacking Taste

Cork Dork: Inside the Weird World of Wine Appreciation

To Eat or Not to Eat Meat

We Heart Chocolate

Inventing the Restaurant: From Bone Broth to Michelin

Gettin’ Fizzy With It

The Spice Curve: From Pepper to Sriracha with Sarah Lohman

The Buzz on Honey

What is Native American Cuisine?

Counting Fish

Seaweed Special

The Salt Wars

Kombucha Culture

Keeping Kosher: When Jewish Law Met Processed Food

Poultry Power: The Fried Chicken Chronicles

Outside the Box: The Story of Food Packaging

Who Invented the Cherry Tomato?

Everything Old is Brew Again

Museums and the Mafia: The Secret History of Citrus

Grand Theft Food

Caffeine: The World’s Most Popular Drug

The Maple Boom

First Foods: Learning to Eat

The Food of Love

The End of the Calorie

End-Of-Year Feast

The Mushroom Underground

Peak Booze

Mezcal: Everything but the Worm

The Good, The Bad, The Cilantro

The Bitter Truth

The United States of Chinese Food

The Whole Hog

The Scoop on Ice Cream

Crunch, Crackle, and Pop

Field Recordings

The Cocktail Hour

Gastropod on Gastropods

Savor Flavor

Say Cheese!

No Scrubs: Breeding a Better Bull

Breakfast of Champions

Kale of the Sea

Bite: Smoked Pigeon and Other Subnatural Delights

The Microbe Revolution

Dan Barber’s Quest for Flavor

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