Plated Earth

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares a legend from Malaysia that tells how red bananas came to be, and why some cultures choose not to eat these sacred fruits. Craving more? Go back to Episode 76 for the Food Fable on yellow bananas!

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares an original fiction story, creating an origin for folklore that claims eating a passion fruit will cause one to fall in love with the next person they lay eyes on.

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares an original fiction story, creating an origin for folklore that claims eating a passion fruit will cause one to fall in love with the next person they lay eyes on.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares a legend of how peppermint candy canes were invented by a German choirmaster who needed to keep his choir kids quiet during a Christmas ceremony.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares an African folktale that is based off of Aesop’s Fable, The Tortoise and the Hare.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares the history of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), as well as a story inspired by the yearly celebration.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells a story from ancient Greek and Roman mythology about how cabbage (and subsequently kale) came to be, and why kale is traditionally eaten before and after a night of carousing.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable ties together the meaning behind Snake Fruit’s nickname, Fruit of Memory, and its proper name, Salak, which it shares with a legendary haunted mountain in West Java: Mount Salak.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells a legend of Queen Victoria and the fabled extent of her desire for fresh mangosteen.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable explores the apricot’s cultural importance around the world, and also tells a story from Greek mythology about the hero, Hercules, and his mission to steal the golden fruit of Hesperides.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells a legend from Aztec mythology about how the agave plant came to be.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of the kiwi bird from Maori tradition, and shows how the bird came to share its name with the kiwi fruit.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of an ancient Persian creation myth about how humans were born from a rhubarb plant.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells a tale from Filipino folklore of how the papaya tree came to be.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells a legend from Greek mythology about how mint got its name and signature smell.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells a legend from Norse mythology about how the beetroot got its blood-red color.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares several examples of the date’s significance in Middle Eastern culture, and tells a legend from North Africa about one of the most popular date varieties, the Deglet Noor, which translates from Arabic as the “Date of Light”.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of cauliflower’s transformation over history as it evolved from the wild cabbage plant.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the legendary love story of Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei from the Tang Dynasty of ancient China, and shows how Yang’s love for lychee fruit may have led to the Emperor’s own downfall.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of Saint Nicholas, before he became known as Santa Claus, and how his generosity sparked the tradition of leaving oranges in stockings on Christmas Eve.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells of many myths of basil from around the world, notably the legend in Christian tradition of Saint Helena, who was led to an epic discovery on her pilgrimage in Jerusalem thanks to basil plants.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a legend from Bolivia about how potatoes came to be.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a myth from the Philippines that explains how the banana tree came to be. It also highlights several other folk tales and superstitions associated with the fruit from around the world.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells of a few legends surrounding mushrooms and their sometimes curious, circular growth pattern, known in many myths as a fairy ring.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is about a young boy, teasingly nicknamed “Willy Rotten” by his peers, whose father comforts him by telling the story of how giants once roamed the earth, thanks to the medlar fruit. The giants’ origin story is inspired by the works of 16th century author, François Rabelais, which chronicle the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a tale from China about a greedy pear farmer who encounters a monk with a magical pear tree.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is an adaptation from an 1845 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, “The Little Elder Tree Mother”, and it tells the tale of a little boy who discovers the magical powers of the elderberry tree.