Episodios

  • Bog to Bottle: The memory of cranberries
    Nov 3 2025

    From sacred berry to global superfood, this episode traces the cranberry’s journey across cultures, centuries, and continents. We explore its Indigenous origins, colonial transformations, global migrations, and modern reinventions, from pemmican and purgatory rituals to Thanksgiving feasts and skincare serums. With anecdotes from Russia, Sweden, Chile, and India, this tart fruit reveals a surprisingly rich anthropology of memory, trade, and taste.


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    19 m
  • Ashwaghanda, the wellness root
    Oct 27 2025

    Stories regarding the magical ashwaghanda root from India.

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    23 m
  • #37 Pumpkin and the color of Fall
    Oct 19 2025

    In this episode we dive into the rich tapestry of pumpkin history, from ancient rituals to modern-day traditions. You'll discover how this unassuming gourd became a cultural icon across the globe.

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    19 m
  • #36 Chestnuts: The taste of October
    Oct 7 2025

    In this autumnal offering, we gather around the fire to explore the humble chestnut as a vessel of memory, migration, and ritual. From Catalonia’s La Castanyada to global traditions of roasting and remembrance, this episode cracks open stories nestled in the shell. Whether you’ve held a paper cone of roasted chestnuts in a bustling plaza or watched them split open in your own kitchen, this is a celebration of how food carries us home.


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    22 m
  • #35 Sour Sunshine: Rituals of the Star Fruit
    Sep 25 2025

    Native to Southeast Asia and steeped in folklore, politics, and paradox, the star fruit (carambola) reveals its five-pointed layers: from colonial trade routes to modern wellness trends, from Filipino political insults to Vietnamese folktales, from ancestral remedies to neurotoxic caution.


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    20 m
  • #34 Ginger, rooted in spice
    Sep 14 2025

    From ancient Ayurvedic medicine to Caribbean healing tonics, ginger has traveled across empires, oceans, and kitchens. In this episode, we trace the journey of ginger. With proverbs, rituals, and some storytelling, we explore how this humble rhizome became a global language of flavor.

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    18 m
  • #33 Round, Resilient, Sacred: The Garbanzo Across Cultures
    Sep 7 2025

    A poetic journey through the garbanzo bean’s migrations, meanings, and meals. From Neolithic kitchens to modern street carts, we explore how this humble legume became a global symbol of survival, ritual, and belonging.


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    17 m
  • #32 Tonka: The Aromatic Whisper of the Amazon
    Aug 31 2025

    In this episode, we follow the tonka bean—a fragrant seed with roots deep in the Amazon and branches tangled in colonial trade, perfumery, and ritual. Once banned, now coveted, tonka carries the scent of contradiction: vanilla and tobacco, memory and longing, sweetness and sorrow. Through its journey, we explore how aroma becomes archive, how desire is distilled into resin, and how a single seed can whisper stories of migration, enchantment, and grief.


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    20 m