Podcast appearances and mentions of nicola twilley

Life-saving advancements have come a long way, but engineering artificial blood has been a challenge. Nicola Twilley is a New Yorker contributor and co-host of the podcast Gastropod. She talks to Krys Boyd about the breakthroughs — and setbacks — in the quest for artificial blood, why it's needed more than ever, and why eyes are on Big Pharma to finance it. Her article is “The Long Quest for Artificial Blood.”  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Listen Live by phone over ZenoRadio: (641) 741-2308 (585) 652-0611 Call Caryn's personal archive number to hear the most recent five episodes of It's All About Food: 1-701-719-0885     Nicola Twilley, Frostbite Nicola Twilley* is author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Penguin Press, June 2024), and co-host of the award-winning Gastropod podcast, which looks at food through the lens of history and science, and which is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network in partnership with Eater. Her first book, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, was co-authored with Geoff Manaugh and was named one of the best books of 2021 by Time Magazine, NPR, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of Edible Geography. She lives in Los Angeles.

We eat apples in the summer and enjoy bananas in the winter. When we do this, we go against the natural order of life which is towards death and decay. What gives? This week, Latif Nasser spoke with Nicola Twilley, the author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves. Twilley spent over a decade reporting about how we keep food alive as it makes its way from the farm to our table. This conversation explores the science of cold, how fruits hold a secret to eternal youth, and how the salad bag, of all things, is our local grocery store's unsung hero.Special thanks to Jim Lugg and Jeff WoosterEPISODE CREDITS: Reported by Latif Nasser and Nicola Twilleywith help from Maria Paz GutierrezProduced by Maria Paz GutierrezOriginal music from Jeremy BloomSound design contributed by Jeremy Bloomwith mixing help from Arianne WackFact-checking by Emily Krieger and Edited by Alex NeasonEPISODE CITATIONS:Articles  New Yorker Article - How the Fridge Changed Flavor (https://zpr.io/32TuSmAc2HbQ)by Nicola TwilleyNew Yorker Article - Africa's Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration (https://zpr.io/3g9VdgKMAiHf) by Nicola TwilleyBooks Frostbite (https://zpr.io/Mg3Q7JCBvcAg) by Nicola TwilleySignup for our newsletter!! It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)!Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today.Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org.Leadership support for Radiolab's science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The Good Food team — host Evan Kleiman and producers Gillian Ferguson, Laryl Garcia, and Elina Shatkin — choose their favorite segments of the year. Nicola Twilley takes a cold plunge into the history of refrigeration. Chef Fadi Kattan is on a mission to document and share Palestinian foods, traditions, and the work of home cooks. Filmmaker Peter Byck casts a lens on the maverick farmers and scientists working to solve the climate crisis. In her latest docuseries, Pati Jinich showcases the politics, culture, and cuisine of the US/Mexico borderlands.

The “cold chain” that delivers our food is inconspicuous but vast. The US alone boasts around 5.5 billion cubic feet of refrigerated space; that’s 150 Empire State Buildings’ worth of freezers. Now, the developing world is catching up. On Zero, Nicola Twilley, author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, discusses how refrigeration became so ubiquitous and what our reliance on it means for our palates and the planet. Explore further: Past episode with Stacey Abrams on how kitchen-table decisions can cut emissions Past episode with journalist George Monbiot on how the world’s food system needs a radical rethink Past episode with two vertical farming companies taking agriculture indoors Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Mythili Rao. Special thanks this week to Kira Bindrim, Aaron Rutkoff and Monique Mulima. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/green.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are hush puppies racist? Why do we celebrate weddings with a multi-tiered, super fancy, sometimes not particularly tasty, very expensive cake? Can a dairy-intolerant person actually drink a glass of A2 milk?  These three questions came from listeners. Just not our listeners. They came to Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley, hosts of Gastropod, a show that investigates the history and science behind the foods we eat. Our host Jonquilyn Hill called them up to ask about the show, and play an episode from their Ask Gastropod series.  Check out Gastropod. Let us know what questions you want us to look into for future episodes of Explain It to Me: Call 1-800-618-8545, email us at askvox@vox.com, or fill out this form. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Impact of Refrigeration on Food, Health, and the Planet: Nicola Twilley, author of “Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves,” details the historical development of refrigeration, its profound impact on food preservation, diets, and urbanization. The conversation also covers the technological and environmental challenges posed by refrigeration, alternative food preservation methods, and the consequences for small farmers and the global food system. Nicola also shares insights into the health implications of refrigeration and the innovative solutions being explored to reduce its environmental footprint.

Dr. Hoffman continues his conversation with Nicola Twilley, author of author of “Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves.” 

In this episode, Michael and Diana talk with Nicola Twilley, the author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Penguin Press, June 2024), and co-host of the award-winning Gastropod podcast, which looks at food through the lens of history and science. They discuss supply chains, how refrigerated beef changed America, and the trade-offs of refrigeration, among other things.  Nicola Twilley is an author and podcast host, and you can find more information on her here.  Michael T. Roberts is the Executive Director of the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy at UCLA Law. Diana Winters is the Deputy Director of the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy at UCLA Law. You can buy Frostbite here. You can listen to Nicky's podcast, Gastropod, here. You can find Nicky's latest articles in The New Yorker here.    

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola TwilleyPrime Future Newsletter by Janette BarnardThe Great Beef Bonanza and the Fall of the Cattle Kingdom"Our ancestors learned to control fire before modern humans even evolved. But our ability to command cold at will dates back a little more than 150 years. Mechanical cooling refrigeration produced by human artifice as opposed to the natural chill offered by weather dependent snow and ice wasn't achieved until the mid 1700s and wasn't commercialized until the late 1800s, and it wasn't domesticated until the 1920s."That is a quote from the book that we're gonna be talking about here today, Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley. I'm very excited to dive into this book. There's so much here on the history of refrigeration and we take for granted how much refrigeration has changed our food system and our world in a number of profound ways.But I'm also excited to not be tackling this massive project by myself. Coming back for another episode is my good friend, animal agtech venture capitalist, and creator of the Prime Future newsletter, Janette Barnard. Also from Twilley's book: "It's impossible to make sense of our global food system until you understand the mysterious logic of the all-but-invisible network of thermal control that underpins it. We overcame not just rot, but seasonality and geography as well."Listen as Janette and Tim unpack their takeaways from this incredible book about the history of refrigeration.

This hour, a look at refrigeration and how it's shaped what we eat and how we live with Nicola Twilley, author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves. Plus, we'll take a look at what we can learn about someone from the inside and outside of their refrigerator. GUESTS:  Nicola Twilley: Co-host of the podcast “Gastropod,” and author of the new book, Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves Peyton Dix: Social media strategist, content creator, writer, and co-host of the podcast “Lemme Say This”   Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show. The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode.  Colin McEnroe and Bradley O'Connor contributed to this show, which originally aired July 11, 2024.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, the New Yorker contributor, "Gastropod" co-host and all-around wonderful storyteller talks with Jane Black about her fascinating — fascinating! — new book on refrigeration. Frostbite tells the remarkable story of how the invention of, well, cold transformed food, our planet and ourselves. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"Engrossing...hard to put down."—The New York Times Book Review“Frostbite is a perfectly executed cold fusion of science, history, and literary verve . . . as a fellow nonfiction writer, I bow down. This is how it's done.”—Mary Roach, author of Fuzz and StiffAn engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our entire relationship with food—for better and for worseHow often do we open the fridge or peer into the freezer with the expectation that we'll find something fresh and ready to eat? It's an everyday act—but just a century ago, eating food that had been refrigerated was cause for both fear and excitement. The introduction of artificial refrigeration overturned millennia of dietary history, launching a new chapter in human nutrition. We could now overcome not just rot, but seasonality and geography. Tomatoes in January? Avocados in Shanghai? All possible.In Frostbite, New Yorker contributor and cohost of the award-winning podcast Gastropod Nicola Twilley takes listeners on a tour of the cold chain from farm to fridge, visiting off-the-beaten-path landmarks such as Missouri's subterranean cheese caves, the banana-ripening rooms of New York City, and the vast refrigerated tanks that store the nation's orange juice reserves. Today, nearly three-quarters of everything on the average American plate is processed, shipped, stored, and sold under refrigeration. It's impossible to make sense of our food system without understanding the all-but-invisible network of thermal control that underpins it. Twilley's eye-opening book is the first to reveal the transformative impact refrigeration has had on our health and our guts; our farms, tables, kitchens, and cities; global economics and politics; and even our environment.In the developed world, we've reaped the benefits of refrigeration for more than a century, but the costs are catching up with us. We've eroded our connection to our food and redefined what “fresh” means. More important, refrigeration is one of the leading contributors to climate change. As the developing world races to build a US-style cold chain, Twilley asks: Can we reduce our dependence on refrigeration? Should we? A deeply researched and reported, original, and entertaining dive into the most important invention in the history of food and drink, Frostbite makes the case for a recalibration of our relationship with the fridge—and how our future might depend on it.Nicola Twilley* is author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Penguin Press, June 2024), and co-host of the award-winning Gastropod podcast, which looks at food through the lens of history and science, and which is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network in partnership with Eater. Her first book, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, was co-authored with Geoff Manaugh and was named one of the best books of 2021 by Time Magazine, NPR, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of Edible Geography. She lives in Los Angeles.https://www.nicolatwilley.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

Journalist and podcaster Nicola Twilley has dedicated years to the study of refrigeration. AudioFile's Alan Minskoff tells host Jo Reed how this is one of the most important environmental studies of the year. The audiobook reveals the significance of cooling food and the cost to the environment of doing so, as well as its effect on flavor. Twilley is witty and ably simplifies science. She describes the elements of the “cold chain” that bring us our food, but bemoans how the convenience of the fridge often displaces flavor and sacrifices vitamins.  Read our review of the audiobook at our website. Published by Penguin Audio.  Discover thousands of audiobook reviews and more at AudioFile's website.      Support for our podcast comes from Dreamscape, an award-winning audiobook publisher with a catalog that includes authors L.J. Shen, Freida McFadden, and Annie Ernaux. For more information, visit dreamscapepublishing.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Among the many things that we take for granted in the age of indulgence is refrigeration. In “Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves”, Nicola Twilley brings us the history of what is arguably among the top three inventions of the century. She went far down many rabbit holes including orange juice tank farms, meat lockers, banana ripening rooms and frigid warehouses to uncover the different layers of refrigeration. What is the story behind tunas being transported in coffins? What is fridge dating? And why didn't Abraham Lincoln ever have a banana? Tune in for many such anecdotes both amusing and revealing in equal measure.

Frank starts the show joined by WABC host Dominic Carter to discuss both Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. endorsing Trump. He moves on to talk with Marvin Scott, a veteran journalist on PIX11, with over 50 years of experience and the author of the book As I Saw It. They talk about the evolution of journalism and interesting stories from the business. Frank talks about the falling recruitment numbers for the United States Navy. He also sits down with Nicola Twilley, a journalist and author, whose latest book is Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves. They talk about how refrigeration has changed the food we eat. Frank hosts a midnight panel consisting of stand-up comedian, Fred Rubino and Ralph Romeo, an actor, radio talk show host and personal trainer. They cover the sinking of an Italian superyacht, Walmart shoppers, the assassination attempt on Trump and much more. Frank wraps up the show talking about Ed Kelce, the father of football players Jason and Travis Kelce, being banned off X as well as the sad passing of former wrestler Sid Vicious. He is also joined by Noam Laden for News You Can Use and he opens listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frank talks about the falling recruitment numbers for the United States Navy. He also sits down with Nicola Twilley, a journalist and author, whose latest book is Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves. They talk about how refrigeration has changed the food we eat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicola Twilley, journalist and author, whose latest book is “Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves” Topic: how refrigeration has changed the food we eat Book: https://www.amazon.com/Frostbite-Refrigeration-Changed-Planet-Ourselves/dp/0735223289 Social Media: https://x.com/nicolatwilley?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.instagram.com/nicolatwilley/?hl=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, it's all about food inventions and innovations. Nicola Twilley reveals the secret history of refrigeration, from ingenious fridge designs to Rwanda's pioneering “coldscape.” Plus, meat scientist Chris Calkins invents new cuts of steaks, and Dan Pashman wonders if the food tech takeover is actually a bust. Finally, we share a recipe for the pope's spaghetti.Get this week's recipe for Spaghetti with Prosciutto, Parmesan and Peas here.We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotipsListen to Milk Street Radio on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nicola Twilley is co-host of the Gastropod podcast and the author of a new book, 'Frostbite - How refrigeration changed our food, our planet and ourselves'.She delves into the secrets of the 'cold chain', a little understood part of our food supply that has a fascinating history and has changed how we eat today.

The “cold chain” that delivers our food is inconspicuous but vast. The US alone boasts around 5.5 billion cubic feet of refrigerated space; that's 150 Empire State Buildings' worth of freezers. Now, the developing world is catching up. On Zero, Nicola Twilley, author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, discusses how refrigeration became so ubiquitous and what our reliance on it means for our palates and the planet.  Explore further: Past episode with Stacey Abrams on how kitchen-table decisions can cut emissions Past episode with journalist George Monbiot on how the world's food system needs a radical rethink  Past episode with two vertical farming companies taking agriculture indoors Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Mythili Rao. Special thanks this week to Kira Bindrim, Aaron Rutkoff and Monique Mulima. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/green.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The refrigerator has become so common that we may not give it a great deal of thought, but this one appliance has had a tremendous influence on the way we live at home. And yet, less than 100 years ago, people didn't have refrigerators at all. Nicola Twilley is the author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

In this fascinating episode, we dive into 'The Untold Story of Refrigeration' with Nicola Twilley, acclaimed author of the book Frostbite and co-host of the podcast 'Gastropod'. Join us as we explore the hidden history and profound impact of refrigeration on our lives, from ancient ice harvesting to the sophisticated cold chain logistics that keep our global food supply fresh.Nicola takes us on a journey through time, revealing how refrigeration has revolutionised everything from food preservation to medicine, and even the very way we live. You'll learn about the unexpected innovations that led to the modern refrigerator, the environmental challenges of keeping things cool, and the surprising ways refrigeration continues to shape our world today.Whether you're a history buff, a science enthusiast, or just curious about the everyday technology we often take for granted, this episode will change the way you think about cold storage forever.Key Topics Discussed:- The origins of refrigeration: How ancient civilisations kept things cool- The invention of the refrigerator: Key milestones and inventors- The cold chain: How refrigeration transformed global food distribution- The environmental impact of refrigeration and what's being done to address it- Future innovations in refrigeration technology- Nicola Twilley's personal journey into researching and writing about refrigerationEpisode Highlights:- *[00:03:15]* – The origins of refrigeration and its early adopters- *[00:15:42]* – How the modern refrigerator came to be- *[00:25:30]* – The cold chain: An unsung hero of global food systems- *[00:37:10]* – The environmental challenges of refrigeration today- *[00:45:20]* – Future trends in refrigeration technologyCall to Action:If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and leave a review on your favourite podcast platform. Don't forget to share this episode with friends!Links and Resourceshttps://www.nicolatwilley.com/bio/Gastropod Podcasthttps://x.com/nicolatwilleyhttps://www.instagram.com/nicolatwilley/Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet and OurselvesIntro and outro music, 'Time for a Coffee'  Bob Wells © 2020Question or comment? Send us a text message.www.undercurrentstories.com

What happens when a project grows way beyond its original scope? We talk with Nicola Twilley about her new book  Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet and Ourselves, originally envisioned as an article. In this episode we cover being fluid with our plans, research, rewriting, the differences between writing alone and with a partner, and how what looks like bad luck can turn into a blessing. Nicola Twilley is the coauthor of Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, named one of the best books of 2021 by Time, NPR, The Guardian, and the Financial Times. She is cohost of Gastropod, an award-winning podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker.  This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe

Have you ever heard of Polly Pennington? The badass pHD chemist who changed refrigeration? Nicola Twilley joins Gary, Bobby, and Allison again to talk about early brewing trends in America and M.E. Pennington's story. GRAB THE BOOKGrab your copy of "Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves" here! -> https://respect-the-beer.captivate.fm/frostbiteNICOLA TWILLEY BIONicola Twilley is the author of "Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves" and co-host of Gastropod, a podcast looking at food through the lens of history and science.Nicky was raised in England and currently based out of Los Angeles, where she is making use of the abundant sunshine to pretend she has a green thumb. She also frequently contributes to The New Yorker.--Got a question about beer or just want to get social? Join the RtB Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/respectingthebeer--TIMELINE00:00 Introduction and Welcome00:25 The Importance of Lager in Beer Culture03:34 Steam Beer and Refrigeration Challenges07:45 The Evolution of Refrigeration in Brewing11:22 Polly Pennington: The Unsung Hero of Refrigeration18:16 What else is in the book?--Hosts:Bobby FleshmanAllison McCoy-FleshmanGary ArdntMusic by Sarah Lynn HussRecorded & Produced by David KalsowBrought to you by McFleshman's Brewing Co

You know that disappointing feeling when you're ready to make a delicious meal, but you crack open the refrigerator only to find mushy tomatoes, dried-out bread, or oozing strawberries?Refrigeration fundamentally changes the chemistry of our food, but at this point, most of the United States' food system relies on the use of refrigerators. Almost three-quarters of the food on an average American's plate has been refrigerated during production, shipping, and storage. So how did we end up relying so heavily on the fridge? And on a warming planet, can refrigeration keep its cool?A new book called Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves challenges the definition of “freshness” and our relationship with the fridge. SciFri's John Dankosky talks with author Nicola Twilley, co-host of the podcast “Gastropod.”Read an excerpt from Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet.Transcript for this segment will be available after the show airs on sciencefriday.com. Subscribe to this podcast. Plus, to stay updated on all things science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters.

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 Nicola Twilley, author of a new book on refrigeration, says there are chiller options for our cold storage challenges. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Miles Bryan, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Beer is best served cold but it wasn't that way for most of human history! Nicola Twilley joins Gary, Bobby, and Allison to talk about the history of refrigeration and how brewers changed the world (of refrigeration). GRAB THE BOOKGrab your copy of "Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves" here! -> https://respect-the-beer.captivate.fm/frostbiteNICOLA TWILLEY BIONicole Twilley is the author of "Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves" and co-host of Gastropod, a podcast looking at food through the lens of history and science.Nicky was raised in England and currently based out of Los Angeles, where she is making use of the abundant sunshine to pretend she has a green thumb. She also frequently contributes to The New Yorker.Got a question about beer or just want to get social? Join the RtB Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/respectingthebeer--EPISODE TIMELINE00:00 Introducing Nicola Twilley00:45 The History of Cold and Refrigeration03:25 Early Innovations in Creating Cold, Ice Harvesting05:52 The Role of Thermodynamics in Refrigeration10:30 The Natural Ice Industry and Its Challenges13:14 Refrigeration's Impact on Brewing17:12 The Evolution of Beer Storage and Transportation29:23 Conclusion, Come Back for Part 2--Hosts:Bobby FleshmanAllison McCoy-FleshmanGary ArdntMusic by Sarah Lynn HussRecorded & Produced by David KalsowBrought to you by McFleshman's Brewing Co

We've been on a food & farming run this week. First, we talked with America's “lunatic farmer,” Joel Salatin, about how regenerative agriculture can regenerate the United States. And we followed that up with the food blogger and writer Nicola Twilley who explained about how refrigeration has transformed not only our food, and our planet, but also ourselves. Our guest today, Andrea Freeman, makes food policy central to the politics of America from its foundations to today. Her provocative new book, Ruin Their Crops On the Ground is intended as a kind of Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era. From the genocidal Trail of Tears to the anything but “free” school lunches in America today, Freeman argues that food has been always used by American corporate and political interests as a weapon of conquest and control.Andrea Freeman, a pioneer in the field of food politics, is a professor at Southwestern Law School. A Fulbright scholar and author of Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice, Freeman has published and appeared in the Washington Post, Salon, The Takeaway, Here & Now, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Black Agenda Report, and more. She lives in Los Angeles.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

A couple of days ago, America's most controversial regenerative farmer, Joel Salatin, came on the show to explain how industrialized farming is killing our soil, our bodies and our souls. Today, the Los Angeles based food writer and podcaster Nicola Twilley offers a more nuanced account of the impact of industrialization on our food, our planet and ourselves. In her excellent new book, Frostbite, Twilley explains how industrialized refrigeration technology has revolutionized every aspect of the food cycle - from farm to table. Acknowledging its self-evident benefits (year round bananas, tomatoes & ice cream), Twilley also warns of the dark side of the refrigeration revolution, particularly its environmental impact which, she argues, is the central cause of global warming. Modify our refrigerated food economy, Twilley says, and the planet will cool down. Chilling.Nicola Twilley* is author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Penguin Press, June 2024), and co-host of the award-winning Gastropod podcast, which looks at food through the lens of history and science, and which is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network in partnership with Eater. Her first book, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, was co-authored with Geoff Manaugh and was named one of the best books of 2021 by Time Magazine, NPR, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of Edible Geography. She lives in Los Angeles.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Ever wondered what it's like to explore a gas giant located 700 light years away from Earth? Buckle up as we unpack the mysteries of exoplanet WASP-39b, a fascinating celestial body larger than Jupiter. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we reveal groundbreaking insights into its atmosphere, including the presence of gases like carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, water vapor, and sodium. Discover how this tidally locked planet experiences dramatic temperature differences between its day and night sides, painting a vivid picture of the extreme conditions that exist far beyond our solar system.If you've ever considered bringing a parrot into your home, you won't want to miss the heartfelt stories and valuable advice shared in this segment. From the mischievous antics of a budgie named Oshkosh Bagosh to a comprehensive study on parrot-owner relationships, we cover the emotional highs and practical challenges of parrot ownership. Learn about the common behavioral issues that parrots and their owners face, such as aggression and excessive vocalization, as well as the deep emotional bonds that form in these unique relationships.Our special guest, Nicola Twilley, takes us on an enlightening journey through the world of refrigeration with her latest book, "Frostbite." From the origins of cold storage facilities to the intricate science of preserving produce, Nicola's curiosity and firsthand experiences offer a fresh perspective on this often overlooked facet of our daily lives. We also explore her other works, including the podcast Gastropod, and gain insights into the broader implications of our refrigerated food system. Frostbite!Nicola Twilley on XWebisteGastropodBunsen and Beaker Links to support us!Our Website!The Bunsen and Beaker Website has adorable merch with hundreds of different combinations of designs and apparel- all with Printful- one of the highest quality companies we could find!www.bunsenbernerbmd.comSign up for our Weekly Newsletter!Bunsen and Beaker on Twitter:Bunsen and Beaker on TikTok:Support the Show.For Science, Empathy, and Cuteness!Being Kind is a Superpower.https://twitter.com/bunsenbernerbmd

This hour, a look at refrigeration and how it's shaped what we eat and how we live with Nicola Twilley, author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves. Plus, we'll take a look at what we can learn about someone from the inside and outside of their refrigerator. GUESTS:  Nicola Twilley: Co-host of the podcast “Gastropod,” and author of the new book, Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves Peyton Dix: Social media strategist, content creator, writer, and co-host of the podcast “Lemme Say This”   Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show. The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode.  Colin McEnroe and Bradley O'Connor contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on AirTalk, the Los Angeles City Attorney's office filed a lawsuit against an Airbnb influencer for illegally listing properties on vacation rental platforms. Also on the show, the latest on the Kroger and Albertsons merger; author Nicola Twilley stops by to talk about her new book ‘Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves;' we rundown what to expect from the upcoming Republican National Convention; our TV critics review the best TV of the year so far; and more. LA City Attorney sues Airbnb influencer for listing rent-controlled units (00:17) Latest on Kroger & Albertsons merger (18:37) New book explores the history of refrigeration (34:04) What to expect from next week's RNC (50:51) How do you solve household battles? (1:08:34) TV-Talk (1:25:26)

Three-quarters of everything on the American plate is shipped and refrigerated —which is pretty revolutionary. Nicola Twilley, co-host of Gastropod, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how just a century ago we relied on local butchers and farmers – which could mean a feast or famine diet – and how refrigeration hit the scene and completely changed how we eat. Her book is “Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves.”

Nicola Twilley is the author of “Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves” and the co-host of Gastropod. Ricky Mulvey caught up with Twilley for a conversation about: - The cold chain and our economy. - Finding investment opportunities inside of refrigerators. - And one reason why Unilever gave up on ice cream. - A new technology changing how we eat fruits and vegetables. Companies mentioned: COLD, WMT, UL, YUMC Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: Nicola Twilley Producer: Mary Long Engineers: Desiree Jones, Chace Pryzlepa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amazon joins the likes of Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Alphabet above $2T. Who is least likely to stay there? (00:21) Jason Moser and Bill Mann discuss: - Tips for playing the long game with the 2024 election cycle ramping up - Amazon joining the $2T club, and which member is most likely to experience a big fall. - Disappointing earnings for Walgreen's and Nike, while McCormick keeps business zesty. (19:11) Author Nicola Twilley talks about her new book Frostbite, the development of modern refrigeration, and what its evolution can teach us about the development of other technologies today. (31:22) Jason and Bill break down two stocks on their radar: Disney and Itron. Stocks discussed: AMZN, RMD, WBA, NKE, NVDA, DIS, ITRI Host: Dylan Lewis Guests: Jason Moser, Bill Mann, Nicola Twilley, Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Tim Sparks, Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nicola Twilley takes a cold plunge into the history of refrigeration. Lucas Sin explains how to use the freezer to improve cooking. Adrienne Borlongan jettisoned a career in nursing to explore ice cream production. For two decades, Michael Buch has watched Silver Lake change around his shop, Pazzo Gelato. At the farmer's market, Elaine Marumoto-Perez and her brother use apricots to make ice cream and donate portions of each pint to charity.

Almost everything we eat – bananas, sushi, lettuce, beef – is part of the “cold chain,” a vast network of refrigerated warehouses, shipping containers, display cases and finally, our own refrigerators that underpin our global food system. We've only been able to create cold when we want it for about 150 years, but in that time, refrigeration “has changed our height, our health, and our family dynamics; it has shaped our kitchens, ports and cities; and it has reconfigured global economics and politics,” writes food and science writer Nicola Twilley in her new book, Frostbite. We'll talk to her about how the whole system works, what it might look like in the future and why exactly your chopped salad comes in that weird little bag. Guests: Nicola Twilley, author, Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves; cohost, podcast Gastropod - and frequent contributor to the New Yorker

Is it just too hot?  Then come along for this talk about Frostbite by Nicola Twilley on the history & future of refrigeration. You can read up on some outtakes and extra stuff at the blog: https://www.ediblegeography.com/And order your own copy of the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/551601/frostbite-by-nicola-twilley/Of course, if you have your favorite local bookshop - buy one there. If you'd like more Nicola Twilley, you can see her on her book tour - details here: https://www.nicolatwilley.com/events/or catch more interviews with her here: https://www.nicolatwilley.com/frostbite/Some come along, and listen to thoughts on ThermoKing, and learn about my emerging Grand Unified Theory of American Food.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com Threads: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood& some other socials... @THoAFood

Happy publication day to Frostbite by Nicola Twilley! Listen to editor Ann Godoff share backstory on the book, and stay tuned for a reading from the audiobook.About the book: An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our entire relationship with food—for better and for worse.Read more: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/551601/frostbite-by-nicola-twilley/Follow us online—Website: https://www.penguin.com/penguin-press-overview/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penguinpress/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/penguinpress TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepenguinpress Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PenguinPress/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/10489701/admin/feed/posts/

In an argument there are usually two things going on that make it so difficult. Listen as I begin this episode by explaining what those two important things are and how to fix them so you can then move forward and resolve the argument. Source: Jim Ferrell author of The Anatomy of Peace (https://amzn.to/4erYLUP). Everyday you open and close your fridge a million times without giving it much thought. Yet, your refrigerator is part of a technology that has completely changed our lives. The concept of refrigerating food is only about 150 years old, but it is impossible to imagine life today without it. Listen as I speak with Nicola Twilley about this. She is a writer, frequent contributor to The New Yorker, host of the podcdcast Gastropod (https://gastropod.com/category/podcasts/) and author of the book: Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (https://amzn.to/3VuXNP0) . She reveals the good and bad consequences of refrigeration. And there are plenty of both. Why are there volcanoes? That molten hot lava that comes to the surface when a volcano erupts came from somewhere but most of us don't really understand where or how or why. Do volcanoes have a purpose? While they are destructive, could they also be helpful – even necessary? Why do volcanoes erupt? Why do they go dormant? To understand all of this and why you might even owe your existence on earth to volcanoes, listen to my guest Tamsin Mather. She is a professor of earth sciences at the University of Oxford and author of the book Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves (https://amzn.to/3xk4DyI). For many women, carrying a purse is a necessity. And because they go everywhere and carry everything, purses can get pretty gross. Yet they are seldom cleaned. Listen as I explain the problem this creates which is not just a “yuck factor” issue, it can be a real health concern. https://finderskeypurse.com/blogs/finderskeypurse-com-blog/how-dirty-is-your-purse-plus-how-to-keep-it-clean Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Kate sits down with author and co-host of the Gastropod Podcast, Nicola Twilley, to talk about her new book Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves. Nicola has written an absolute page-turner exploring the massive and far-reaching impacts of refrigeration on just about every aspect of our lives, not since the dawn of agriculture has something changed our world so radically. In this episode, her and Kate explore the domestication of cold - which, very much unlike fire - is a recent phenomenon. The cold chain is new - not even 150 years old - and its impacts on our health and the environment, on biodiversity and flavor, are big. It's a technology that can slow time, delay death, and shift our geography. It has led to the marketing of an apple by an astronaut, the reinvention of the tomato many times over, and so much more. We talk about biodiversity loss, death, and also how we might re-imagine the cold chain in light of the global cold rush. This is an episode not to be missed and a book you won't be able to put down!Sponsored By:REDMOND REAL SALTMine to Table Salt from Utah, Redmond Real Salt is packed full of 60+ Trace Minerals and is a staple in my kitchen. Find their salt, Re-Lyte Hydration Powder, and so much more here. Use code MINDBODYSOIL_15 for 15% off!redmond.lifeSUNDRIES FARM GARLICHand grown Sundries Farm Garlic is certified disease-free and grown in the volcanic soils of Idaho. With a range of soft and hard-neck varietals the unmatched flavor and big cloves are perfect for both your seed and culinary needs. Pre-order now for shipping in September. sundriesfarm.comSupport the Podcast:SubstackLeave a one-time TipFind Nicola:Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (out June 25th)GastropodInstagram: @nicolatwilleyX: @nicolatwilleyConnect with Kate:Instagramemail: kate@groundworkcollective.com

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by author and podcaster Nicola Twilley to talk about her new book,”Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves.” Follow Nicola: @nicolatwilley

Americans consume more shrimp than salmon and tuna combined. But where's it all coming from? Listen to this episode of Gastropod before you throw another shrimp on the barbie this Memorial Day. Gastropod is a part of the Vox Media Podcast Network in partnership with Eater. This episode was produced by Cynthia Graber, and co-hosted by Nicola Twilley and Claudia Geib. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From our friends at Switched on Pop: Where were you when you learned that the McDonald's jingle "I'm lovin' it" was originally part of a full-fledged pop song by Justin Timberlake and Pharrell that flopped on the charts but found staying power as a slogan? For us, it was recording our live episode about sponsored content in pop back in March 2024, and we have not been the same since. Shaken by this revelation, we found ourselves asking, "What else don't we know about fast food jingles?" Turns out, it's a lot. From Taco Bell to Popeye's to Chili's, the music of fast food represent some of the most familiar melodies in society, across state lines and generations. But the stories behind those songs, and the way that fast food production and pop music production often move in parallel, was something we never saw coming. Since we are music experts but amateur foodies, we invited the brilliant hosts of Gastropod, Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley, to help serve up the history of fast food and its changing role in culture. Tune in and pig out with us as we listen and debate the artistic and ethical implications of the sounds of fast food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Where were you when you learned that the McDonald's jingle "I'm lovin' it" was originally part of a full-fledged pop song by Justin Timberlake and Pharrell that flopped on the charts but found staying power as a slogan? For us, it was recording our live episode about sponsored content in pop back in March 2024, and we have not been the same since. Shaken by this revelation, we found ourselves asking, "What else don't we know about fast food jingles?" Turns out, it's a lot. From Taco Bell to Popeye's to Chili's, the music of fast food represent some of the most familiar melodies in society, across state lines and generations. But the stories behind those songs, and the way that fast food production and pop music production often move in parallel, was something we never saw coming once. Since we are music experts but amateur foodies, we invited the brilliant hosts of Eater's Gastropod podcast, Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley, to help serve up the history of fast food and its changing role in culture. Tune in and pig out with us as we listen and debate the artistic and ethical implications of the sounds of fast food. More Check out more episodes of Gastropod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is a conversation with writer and noted architecture critic Geoff Manaugh, who has written for the The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Financial Times Magazine, New Scientist, Cabinet Magazine, The Daily Beast, Wired UK amongst many other publications. He also co-authored with Nicola Twilley the book ‘Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, and A Burglar's Guide to the City on the relationship between crime and architecture. And most recently, a ghost story he wrote called ‘Ernest' back in 2017 was adapted for film and recently released on Netflix under the title ‘We Have A Ghost', which was beautiful and fun and clever and I recommend you watch it after listening to this episode. Don't forget to like, write a review and share the podcast amongst your friends and colleagues, and support the podcast on https://patreon.com/nearfuturelaboratory Find all of our artifacts from the future, including 'The Manual of Design Fiction' over at https://shop.nearfuturelaboratory.com Thank you for listening!

Experimental psychologist Charles Spence introduces us to gastrophysics, the science of how the brain melds color, smell and sound to create powerful multisensory taste experiences. Plus, Nicola Twilley investigates the rise of alternative sugars; Alex Aïnouz goes on a hunt for the ultimate knife; and we offer a recipe inspired by Tel Aviv's Shlomo & Doron, where hummus gets a Mexican twist.Get the recipe for Hummus with Chipotle Black Beans and Tomato Salsa here.We want to hear your culinary tips! Share your cooking hacks, secret ingredients or unexpected techniques with us for a chance to hear yourself on Milk Street Radio! Here's how: https://www.177milkstreet.com/radiotipsListen to Milk Street Radio on: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Emerging Form is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new episodes and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Imagine researching a theoretical global disaster that, while you are writing your book, comes to pass. In this episode, Emerging Form welcomes Nicola Twilley and Geoff Manaugh, who were writing their non-fiction book Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine before the COVID-19 pandemic. We talk about writing as metabolic process–how it helps to coalesce life into meaning and purpose. We talk about writing with a partner, Scrivener vs. Word, how to shape a book, how to research, and how to turn reporting into a cohesive narrative. Nicola Twilley is cohost of the award-winning podcast Gastropod, which looks at food through the lens of science and history, and is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. Geoff Manaugh is the author of the New York Times-bestseller, A Burglar's Guide to the City, as well as the architecture and technology website BLDGBLOG. He regularly writes for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Wired, and many other publications.Nicky and Geoff live in Los Angeles.Until Proven Safe Website  A Burglar's Guide to the CityNicky at The New YorkerInstagram: @untilprovensafe@nicolatwilley@geoffmanaugh This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe

In this special episode of The World Next Week, Heather A. Conley, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, joins James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon to discuss the books they recommend reading, the books they're looking forward to reading, and the podcasts they're listening to for fun this summer. (This is a rebroadcast.)   Read more about Jim, Bob, and Heather's picks on Jim's blog, The Water's Edge.   Jim's Picks Michael Mandelbaum, The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy (2022) Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past (2021) Laszlo Montgomery, The China History Podcast, Teacup Media   Bob's Picks Catherine Belton, Putin's People (2020) Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois (2021) Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley, Gastropod, Vox Media Podcast Network   Heather's Picks Greg Behrman, The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and How America Helped Rebuild Europe (2007) Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2018) Todd Schulkin, Inside Julia's Kitchen, Heritage Radio Network   Additional Books, Podcasts, and Shows Mentioned on the Podcast Karen Dewisha, Putin's Kleptocracy (2014) Aaron L. Friedberg, Getting China Wrong (2022) Joseph Marion Jones, The Fifteen Weeks (1965) Michael Kimmage, The Abandonment of the West (2020) Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law (2022) George Mitchell, Making Peace (1999) Yascha Mounk, The Great Experiment (2022) Benn Steil, The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (2019) Ali Wyne, America's Great-Power Opportunity (2022) Heather A. Conley, “How Will Biden Handle Russia?” The President's Inbox, December 1, 2020 David Crowther, The History of England Mike Duncan, The History of Rome Jamie Jeffers, The British History Podcast Michael Mandelbaum, “America's Rise to Power,” The President's Inbox, May 7, 2022 Robin Pierson, The History of Byzantium Julia, HBO Max (2022)

Heather and Joanne are off this week, so we're showcasing an episode from another Vox Media Podcast Network show: “The Milk of Life,” from Gastropod. On Gastropod, hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley explore the history and science behind everyday foods. Past episodes have examined everything from the evolution of the cookie to the surprising impact the coffee bean has had on world history. In this installment, originally aired on June 21st, Cynthia and Nicola use the ongoing baby formula shortage as inspiration for a wide-ranging investigation of the origins and development of formula.  Heather and Joanne will be back next Tuesday with a brand new episode of Now & Then, which will focus on how the missing Secret Service records from the days before January 6 evoke other political mysteries from American history.  In the meantime, enjoy this episode of the Gastropod podcast. And if you like it, you can find more episodes of Gastropod at link.chtbl.com/Gastropod. New episodes drop every other Tuesday. For a transcript and show notes for “The Milk of Life,” head to gastropod.com/the-milk-of-life Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You probably think TGI Friday's was founded in Tampa by some guy who didn't know dick about the restaurant industry, right? You wrong idiot! It was founded in Manhattan by some guy who didn't know dick about the restaurant industry! Join Rax and Amber on a deep dive into America's first ever singles bar (?!).   Thanks to Nicola Twilley at Edible Geography for her interview with Alan Stillman, from which we got most of our quotes!

In this special episode of The World Next Week, Heather A. Conley, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, joins James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon to discuss the books they recommend reading, the books they're looking forward to reading, and the podcasts they're listening to for fun this summer.   Read more about Jim, Bob, and Heather's picks on Jim's blog, The Water's Edge.   Jim's Picks Michael Mandelbaum, The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy (2022) Richard Cohen, Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past (2021) Laszlo Montgomery, The China History Podcast, Teacup Media   Bob's Picks Catherine Belton, Putin's People (2020) Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois (2021) Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley, Gastropod, Vox Media Podcast Network   Heather's Picks Greg Behrman, The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and How America Helped Rebuild Europe (2007) Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2018) Todd Schulkin, Inside Julia's Kitchen, Heritage Radio Network   Additional Books, Podcasts, and Shows Mentioned on the Podcast Karen Dewisha, Putin's Kleptocracy (2014) Aaron L. Friedberg, Getting China Wrong (2022) Joseph Marion Jones, The Fifteen Weeks (1965) Michael Kimmage, The Abandonment of the West (2020) Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law (2022) George Mitchell, Making Peace (1999) Yascha Mounk, The Great Experiment (2022) Benn Steil, The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (2019) Ali Wyne, America's Great-Power Opportunity (2022) Heather A. Conley, “How Will Biden Handle Russia?” The President's Inbox, December 1, 2020 David Crowther, The History of England Mike Duncan, The History of Rome Jamie Jeffers, The British History Podcast Michael Mandelbaum, “America's Rise to Power,” The President's Inbox, May 7, 2022 Robin Pierson, The History of Byzantium Julia, HBO Max (2022)

So what did you have for breakfast? Did any of it come from your refrigerator? On this episode of The Futures Archive Lee Moreau and Sara Hendren discuss designing for health and safety within the everyday context of refrigeration and the mysterious coldscape. With additional insights from Jonathan Rees, Nicola Twilley, Vipul Saran, and Robyn Metcalfe. 

Atlas Obscura presents Gastropod's episode “Buried Treasure: Weeds, Seeds, and Zombies.” Gastropod Hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley examine a scientific quest – and one of the world's longest running experiments - to see how long weeds can survive.  They find zombie seeds, a treasure hunt, and more. Gastropod: https://gastropod.com/buried-treasure-weeds-seeds-and-zombies/READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dr-beals-seed-viability-experiment

While the intentions of architects and burglars are diametrically opposite in nature – with the former designing for safety, and the later breaching it through the very design aimed to protect, the single common thread between the two is how they foreground architecture in their operations. All of a sudden, storm water drains, vaults, staircases, parking lots, terraces and retaining walls become conduits for escorting large amounts of cash and gold bars out of the buildings. Geoff Manaugh is a Los Angeles-based writer and the author of the New York Times-bestselling book, “A Burglar's Guide to the City.” His most recent book, “Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine,” co-written with Nicola Twilley, was picked as one of the Best Books of 2021 by Time Magazine, the Financial Times, and the Guardian. His short story “Ernest” has been adapted for film by Netflix, under the title “We Have a Ghost,” and will premiere globally in 2022. For an overview of Geoff's work: http://burglarsguide.com/, http://untilprovensafe.com/, http://bldgblog.com/

Move over, beef: there's a new burger in town. Plant-based meats are sizzling hot right now; in 2020 alone, the alternative meat industry saw a record $3.1 billion in investment, with 112 new plant-based brands launching in supermarkets. These juicy, savory, chewy fake burgers are a far cry from the dry, weird-tasting veggie patties of the past. In this episode, Gastropod co-hosts Nicole Twilley and Cynthia Graber visit the Impossible Foods labs to swig some of the animal-free molecule that makes their meatless meat bleed, try fungal food start-up Meati's prototype "chicken" cutlet, and speak to the scientists and historians who compare these new fake meats to their predecessors—and to real meat! Can a plant-based sausage roll be considered kosher or halal? Are plant-based meats actually better for you and for the environment? And how might a mysterious protein-powerhouse fungus named Rosita help feed the world?This episode was reported and produced by our friends at Gastropod.Featuring Aymann Ismail, Celeste Holz-Schietinger, Malte Rödl, Tyer Huggins, and Raychel Santo.SUPPORTOutside/In is made possible with listener support. Click here to become a sustaining member of Outside/In. Subscribe to our free newsletter.Follow Outside/In on Instagram and TwitterJoin our private podcast discussion group on Facebook LINKSRead Aymann Ismail's piece on the debates surrounding plant-based pig substitutes in Muslim communities here. Celeste Holz-Schietinger, the VP of Product Innovation at Impossible Foods, featured in Fast Company as one of the most creative people in business in 2020. Malte Rödl is a researcher in environmental communications at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. His PhD thesis is titled “Categorising Meat Alternatives: how dominant meat culture is reproduced and challenged through the making and eating of meat alternatives.”Tyler Huggin's company, Meati, which he started after “auditioning” thousands of fungus species and finally a protein powerhouse he and his team nicknamed “Rosita.”Raychel Santo studies how plant-based meats measure up against animal meats in terms of both nutritional and environmental impacts. Read the full paper she and her colleagues wrote here.CREDITSGastropod co-hosts: Nicola Twilley and Cynthia Graber Produced by Sonja Cho SwansonOutside/In team: Justine Paradis, Taylor Quimby, Felix Poon, and Jessica HuntExecutive producer: Rebecca LavoieTheme: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional music by Ludwigs Steirische Gaudi and Jackson F. Smith 

Nicola Twilley takes us to suburban London, where a 1000 square meter greenhouse is all that stands between us and the chocapocalypse. Listen to the Malta Lazaretto episode: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-quarantine-at-malta-lazarettoListen to Gastropod: https://gastropod.com/Read Until Proven Safe: https://untilprovensafe.com/

Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley track the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space—from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in London, and from the hallways of the CDC to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for the outbreak of a novel coronavirus. But the story of quarantine ranges far beyond the history of medical isolation. In their new book, Until Proven Safe, the authors tour a nuclear-waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert, see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world's wheat supply, and meet NASA's Planetary Protection Officer, tasked with saving Earth from extraterrestrial infections. They also introduce us to the corporate tech giants hoping to revolutionize quarantine through surveillance and algorithmic prediction. We live in a disorienting historical moment that can feel both unprecedented and inevitable; Manaugh and Twilley help us make sense of our new reality through a thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom, governance, and mutual responsibility.

On the heels of an unprecedented, unforgettable year of quarantine, Geoff Manaugh (A Burglar's Guide to the City) and science journalist Nicola Twilley launched their new book, Until Proven Safe. Tracing the history and future of quarantine  around the globe, Manaugh and Twilley unfold the connections between emergency isolation and freedom, governance, and mutual responsibility. Mary Roach (Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law) joined for a conversation that roamed through space pathogens, the problem of nuclear waste, and the difference between isolation and quarantine. (Recorded July 20, 2021)

Quarantining during COVID certainly wasn't the first time we've had to restrict our movements to prevent the spread of disease. Far from it. Take, for instance, that time in the 14th century when the Black Death decimated populations (killing off, some suggest, 60% of the entire European population). And take some other alarming maladies like yellow fever, tuberculosis, Ebola, and cholera. With Until Proven Safe, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley offered a survey of the uses and abuses of quarantines, from the days of the Black Death to the lockdowns of Covid-19. With a quarantine there is an interplay of forces – biological, political, and technological – that is powerful and effective but also dangerous. When quarantined, it means we are waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It also operates under an assumption of guilt. In quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. Whatever challenges being in quarantine has, such as the tedium of isolation and the physical spaces built to contain, Manaugh and Twilley provided suggestions to surmount those challenges. They also highlighted those on the frontlines of quarantine today, all eager for a better tomorrow. Because maybe it won't be tomorrow, but one day soon, another hazard will befall us. Geoff Manaugh is the author of A Burglar's Guide to the City, as well as the architecture and technology website BLDGBLOG. Nicola Twilley is co-host of the award-winning podcast Gastropod, which looks at food through the lens of history and science. Buy the Book: Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine (Hardcover) from Third Place Books Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation online click here.

As the pace and ambition of space exploration accelerates, preventing Earth-born organisms from hitching a ride has become more urgent than ever. By Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

(7/29/21) Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty—it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. In quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley's new book Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe. Join us for a bit of context for what most of us have been dealing with for the past 18 months in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.

Kathryn interviews Psychologist and Author Leo Flanagan PhD.The mental health crisis is getting younger. The number of children needing urgent mental health care has been on the rise for years, and has devastatingly spiked over the pandemic. We have never before in our history seen this type of anguish in children and teenagers so young. Although this crisis will require resources and time to resolve, Leo Flanagan PhD, Psychologist, trauma and resiliency expert, is sharing some resilience tools to connect with your child to support their emotional health and alert you to warning signs that they are struggling. With over 30 years of experience in studying and developing resilience, Flanagan has responded to numerous disasters including 9/11, the Sandy Hook Newtown Shooting, Hurricane Sandy, and the Moore, OK EF-5 tornado.Kathryn also interviews Author and Science Journalist Nicola Twilley.Tracking the history and future of quarantine, Science Journalist Nicola Twilley and Co-Author Geoff Manaugh begin their investigation in the Mediterranean, visiting some of the oldest quarantine structures, originally built to protect against the spread of the Black Death. They follow the path of John Howard, an 18th-century prison reformer who became interested in the conditions of people kept in quarantine. As well as showing how quarantine powers have been abused throughout history, Manaugh and Twilley write about more recent events, from Ebola to Covid. They help us make sense of our new reality through a thrillingly reported, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom, governance, and mutual responsibility. Twilley is a science journalist who contributes regularly to The New Yorker.

Kathryn interviews Psychologist and Author Leo Flanagan PhD.The mental health crisis is getting younger. The number of children needing urgent mental health care has been on the rise for years, and has devastatingly spiked over the pandemic. We have never before in our history seen this type of anguish in children and teenagers so young. Although this crisis will require resources and time to resolve, Leo Flanagan PhD, Psychologist, trauma and resiliency expert, is sharing some resilience tools to connect with your child to support their emotional health and alert you to warning signs that they are struggling. With over 30 years of experience in studying and developing resilience, Flanagan has responded to numerous disasters including 9/11, the Sandy Hook Newtown Shooting, Hurricane Sandy, and the Moore, OK EF-5 tornado.Kathryn also interviews Author and Science Journalist Nicola Twilley.Tracking the history and future of quarantine, Science Journalist Nicola Twilley and Co-Author Geoff Manaugh begin their investigation in the Mediterranean, visiting some of the oldest quarantine structures, originally built to protect against the spread of the Black Death. They follow the path of John Howard, an 18th-century prison reformer who became interested in the conditions of people kept in quarantine. As well as showing how quarantine powers have been abused throughout history, Manaugh and Twilley write about more recent events, from Ebola to Covid. They help us make sense of our new reality through a thrillingly reported, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom, governance, and mutual responsibility. Twilley is a science journalist who contributes regularly to The New Yorker.

https://www.alainguillot.com/nicola-twilley/ Nicola Twilley is a writer and journalist. She is a co-host of the podcast Gastropod and a contributor to The New Yorker. She is the co-author of Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine. Get the book here https://amzn.to/3l2Z3bj

Kathryn interviews Psychologist and Author Leo Flanagan PhD.The mental health crisis is getting younger. The number of children needing urgent mental health care has been on the rise for years, and has devastatingly spiked over the pandemic. We have never before in our history seen this type of anguish in children and teenagers so young. Although this crisis will require resources and time to resolve, Leo Flanagan PhD, Psychologist, trauma and resiliency expert, is sharing some resilience tools to connect with your child to support their emotional health and alert you to warning signs that they are struggling. With over 30 years of experience in studying and developing resilience, Flanagan has responded to numerous disasters including 9/11, the Sandy Hook Newtown Shooting, Hurricane Sandy, and the Moore, OK EF-5 tornado.Kathryn also interviews Author and Science Journalist Nicola Twilley.Tracking the history and future of quarantine, Science Journalist Nicola Twilley and Co-Author Geoff Manaugh begin their investigation in the Mediterranean, visiting some of the oldest quarantine structures, originally built to protect against the spread of the Black Death. They follow the path of John Howard, an 18th-century prison reformer who became interested in the conditions of people kept in quarantine. As well as showing how quarantine powers have been abused throughout history, Manaugh and Twilley write about more recent events, from Ebola to Covid. They help us make sense of our new reality through a thrillingly reported, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom, governance, and mutual responsibility. Twilley is a science journalist who contributes regularly to The New Yorker.

Kathryn interviews Psychologist and Author Leo Flanagan PhD.The mental health crisis is getting younger. The number of children needing urgent mental health care has been on the rise for years, and has devastatingly spiked over the pandemic. We have never before in our history seen this type of anguish in children and teenagers so young. Although this crisis will require resources and time to resolve, Leo Flanagan PhD, Psychologist, trauma and resiliency expert, is sharing some resilience tools to connect with your child to support their emotional health and alert you to warning signs that they are struggling. With over 30 years of experience in studying and developing resilience, Flanagan has responded to numerous disasters including 9/11, the Sandy Hook Newtown Shooting, Hurricane Sandy, and the Moore, OK EF-5 tornado.Kathryn also interviews Author and Science Journalist Nicola Twilley.Tracking the history and future of quarantine, Science Journalist Nicola Twilley and Co-Author Geoff Manaugh begin their investigation in the Mediterranean, visiting some of the oldest quarantine structures, originally built to protect against the spread of the Black Death. They follow the path of John Howard, an 18th-century prison reformer who became interested in the conditions of people kept in quarantine. As well as showing how quarantine powers have been abused throughout history, Manaugh and Twilley write about more recent events, from Ebola to Covid. They help us make sense of our new reality through a thrillingly reported, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom, governance, and mutual responsibility. Twilley is a science journalist who contributes regularly to The New Yorker.

In the summer of 2019 - long before the world heard of COVID - author, researcher extraordinaire, and ‘Gastropod' co-host, Nicola Tilley and her husband and co-author, Geoff Manaugh, told a rapt audience, “You and everyone around you is going to be quarantined, is going to experience quarantine in your lifetimes.” They had just presented their extensive research into quarantine that would ultimately become their new book, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine – a book which provides remarkably valuable information and insights into this now all too familiar component of life and its relationship with freedom, governance, and mutual responsibility throughout the world today. Nicola shares details of her prescient work in today's fascinating conversation, in which it should be noted for reasons that will become clear, absolutely no children were consumed. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds See https://omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Inquiring Minds Podcast Homepage Until Proven Safe Gastropod Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Writer and podcaster Nicola Twilley's latest book, co-authored with husband Geoff Manaugh, is Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine. She joins the show to discuss the importance of planetary quarantine.

Writer and podcaster Nicola Twilley's latest book, co-authored with husband Geoff Manaugh, is Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine. She joins the show to discuss the importance of planetary quarantine.

This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss For Your Own Good, Intimacies, The River Has Teeth, and more great books. Pick up an All the Books! shirt, sticker, and more right here. Follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing  The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon K. Garrity and Christopher Baldwin Jillian vs. Parasite Planet by Nicole Kornher-Stace, Scott Brown In the Same Boat by Holly Green Intimacies by Katie Kitamura The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig  You & Me at the End of the World by Brianna Bourne WHAT WE'RE READING: Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry Noor by Nnedi Okorafor Carrie by Stephen King MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Colorful by Eto Mori  Fish Heads and Duck Skin by Lindsey Salatka Stolen: A Memoir by Elizabeth Gilpin The Woman from Uruguay by Pedro Mairal, Jennifer Croft (Translator) The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion by Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne  Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Nicola Twilley, Geoff Manaugh Paradise, WV by Rob Rufus The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell I Will: How Four American Indians Put Their Lives on the Line and Changed History by Sheron Wyant-Leonard Come With Me by Ronald Malfi Isn't It Bromantic? by Lyssa Kay Adams Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan The Bachelor by Andrew Palmer  El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord by Noah Hurowitz Hot Under His Collar by Andie J. Christopher New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story by Winifred Gallagher The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman Better With Butter by Victoria Piontek Curses by Lish McBride Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North More Anon: Selected Poems by Maureen N. McLane When We Were Young by Richard Roper The Sinful Lives of Trophy Wives by Kristin Miller By Water Beneath the Walls: The Rise of the Navy SEALs by Benjamin H. Milligan Linked by Gordon Korman  False Witness by Karin Slaughter  Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away by Ann Hagedorn The Tiny Bee That Hovers at the Center of the World by David Searcy The Council of Animals by Nick McDonell, Steven Tabbutt (Illustrator) These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan  The Retreat by Elisabeth de Mariaffi The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women Behind Britain's Wars for America by Julie Flavell After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson Virtue by Hermione Hoby  Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder A Woman of Intelligence by Karin Tanabe  Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World by Lisa Wells She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan  Red Traitor by Owen Matthews A Radical Act of Free Magic (The Shadow Histories) by H. G. Parry Closing Costs by Bracken MacLeod What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente  The Lights of Sugarberry Cove by Heather Webber Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite by John Glatt Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash Kapur See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We've dropped hints and left clues—and now, at long last, Gastropod's very own Nicola Twilley has published her first book! Co-written with her husband Geoff Manaugh, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine is a captivating chronicle of quarantine across time, space, and species (and yes, they started writing the book long before 2020). Just for you, dear Gastropod listeners, we have a special episode in which, for the first time ever, your intrepid hosts sit on opposite sides of the (virtual) table, as Cynthia interviews Nicky and Geoff about the quarantines that protect our food. Why do 75 billion bees get stopped in the dusty California desert every spring, and why does every single cacao plant that gets shipped around the world have to pass through one town in England? What are sentinel plots, and how are they protecting our wheat supply? And why on earth did Nicky and Geoff get naked, put on Crocs and Tyvek suits, and burn their notes on a reporting trip? All this, plus a video game for quarantine inspectors, in your feeds now! Quarantine: boring to live through, fascinating to listen to—and read about! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lifted restrictions! Discarded masks! Vaxxing & relaxing! Parties. Variant confusion. FOMO while also dreading events. Worry about strangers. Grief for a cancelled year. WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE? We've got you covered. As infection rates go down and restrictions lift in the U.S., you may feel: relieved, overjoyed, nude without a mask, guilty about surviving, conflicted about gatherings, or mourning a loss. We gathered a small army of experts to chat about historical quarantines and recovery periods, vaccine rates, economic projections, the mental state of healthcare workers and the grief that can follow an historical event. Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley (of Gastropod) join to chat about researching their stellar new book “Until Proven Safe,” Jessica Malaty-Rivera updates us on vaccine rates and variants, Dr. Mike Natter checks in from New York and thanatologist Cole Imperi gives step-by-step instructions for taking care of your brain during transitions and “shadowlosses.” I hope this episode serves you well; I just really needed to make it.  Pre-order Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley's book Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine. More info https://untilprovensafe.com/   Follow Nicola https://twitter.com/nicolatwilley and Geoff https://twitter.com/geoffmanaugh   Follow Cole Imperi at instagram.com/imperi and instagram.com/americanthanatologist Thanatology episode with Cole Imperi: alieward.com/ologies/thanatology   Follow Jessica Malaty-Rivera on instagram.com/jessicamalatyrivera and https://twitter.com/jessicamalaty    Vaccine Infodemiology episode with Jessica Malaty-Rivera: alieward.com/ologies/vaccineinfodemiology   Follow Dr. Mike Natter on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike.natter   Diabetology episode with Dr. Mike Natter: alieward.com/ologies/diabetology   Donations were made to: https://covid.giveindia.org, 500WomensScientists.org, and The School of American Thanatology at https://www.americanthanatology.com/ Sponsors of Ologies: alieward.com/ologies-sponsors Transcripts & bleeped episodes at: alieward.com/ologies-extras More links at alieward.com/ologies/quarantinology Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes and now… MASKS. Hi. Yes.  Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Transcripts by Emily White of https://www.thewordary.com/ Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Over the past century, we've transformed the arid lands of the American west into year-round, well-irrigated agricultural powerhouses. Today, fruits, nuts, and nearly all of our leafy greens are grown in the desert, using water diverted, stored, and supplied at taxpayer expense. This intense irrigation is having an impact: Reservoir levels are dropping, rivers are drying up, and the state of Arizona is literally sinking. All of which raises some big questions, like should we be farming in the desert? And what would a water-saving system even look like? Today's episode comes from our friends at the show Gastropod, which is hosted by Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley. They explain how the United States became so dependent on food grown in the driest part of the country and then share stories of people who have found alternative ways of growing delicious food with less water.  If you like what you hear, follow Gastropod on Spotify and check out their other episodes. You can also see photos from this episode and find more details here. Guests: Brad Lancaster, Ramona Button, Terry Button, Gary Nabhan, Sterling Johnson, Nina Sajovec, Eric Meza, Abe Sanchez and Sonja Swanson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Over the past year of on and off shelter in place restrictions, so many of us discovered--and in some cases, rediscovered--places that helped us get through those times. A park we had never known about. A room in our home that was rarely used. A path we had walked passed many times before but never traveled upon. What was your pandemic place? We talk with journalists Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, co-authors of the forthcoming book, Until Proven Safe which examines quarantines from medieval Venice to outer space to reveal new ideas about quarantine.

Food, glorious food! Join Louise and DMR as they stuff their ears with food-related podcasts and recommend the shows you should be listening to... whilst munching on a delicious snack. We also meet and chat with the hosts of https://gastropod.com/ (Gastropod), Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley. And we finish off the episode with extra podcast recommendations we found during our search plus we share recommendations from some of our listeners. Follow us on Twitter and Insta (@podpodworld) or check out https://www.podworld.fm/ (our website) and send us feedback or any suggestions on what genres we should be covering next! Also, record your recommendations and send them to us as voice notes and we might include them in a future episode! --- episode notes --- Here's a list of all the podcasts that we recommend and talk about in this episode (in order of when we mention them): Part 1 (Podworld's top 4 food podcasts):  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/future-food/id1400395761 (Future Food) (Louisa Burwood-Taylor); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/table-manners-with-jessie-ware/id1305228910 (Table Manners with Jessie Ware) (Jessie Ware); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/desert-island-dishes/id1249306478 (Desert Island Dishes) (Margie Nomura); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/off-menu-with-ed-gamble-and-james-acaster/id1442950743 (Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster) (Plosive Productions) Part 2 (guest interview): For this episode, our guests are Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley, the hosts of https://gastropod.com/ (Gastropod). During the interview, Cynthia and Nicky recommend the following podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/radiolab/id152249110 (RadioLab) (WNYC Studios); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/planet-money/id290783428 (Planet Money) (NPR) and they also recommended a book called https://www.amazon.co.uk/Consider-Fork-History-How-Cook/dp/0141049081/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=consider+the+fork&qid=1620051369&sr=8-1 (Consider the Fork) by Bee Wilson. You can follow Gastropod on Twitter and Insta (@gastropodcast) or keep up to date via their website (www.gastropod.com). Part 3 (extras): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/out-to-lunch-with-jay-rayner/id1455111316 (Out to Lunch with Jay Rayner) (Somethin' Else); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/home-cooking/id1503149669 (Home Cooking) (Samin Nosrat & Hrishikesh Hirway); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-food-programme/id342927791 (The Food Programme) (BBC Radio 4); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/christopher-kimballs-milk-street-radio/id1158889592 (Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio) (Milk Street Radio); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-msg-pod/id1539910980 (The MSG Pod) (MiMi Aye and Huong Black); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/eat-sleep-wine-repeat/id1397026111 (Eat Sleep Wine Repeat) (Janina Doyle); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/food-behind-bars/id1555038579 (Food Behind Bars) (Second Window). Listener recommendations:  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-empty-bowl/id1436070940 (The Empty Bowl) (Justin McElroy); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/delicious-ways-to-feel-better/id1428704212 (Deliciously Ella)https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id1434243584 ( )(Deliciously Ella); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/off-menu-with-ed-gamble-and-james-acaster/id1442950743 (Off Menu) (Plosive Productions). Credits: This episode of Podworld was produced and edited by Louise Blain (https://twitter.com/Shiny_Demon (@shiny_demon)) and David Maher Roberts (https://twitter.com/dmrpod (@dmrpod)). Graphics by Dylan Channon. Research by Ella Maher Roberts. Theme music by Dan Phillipson (via Premiumbeat) additional music via Artlist.io. Podworld is supported...

Over the past year of on-and-off shelter in place restrictions, so many of us discovered--and in some cases, rediscovered--places that helped us get through those times. A park we had never known about. A room in our home that was rarely used. A path we had walked passed many times before but never traveled upon. What was your pandemic place? Alexis Madrigal talks with journalists Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, co-authors of the forthcoming book, “Until Proven Safe” which examines quarantines from medieval Venice to outer space to reveal new ideas about quarantine.

History is one of the richest categories in terms of podcasts. Louise and DMR go digging for the History shows you should be listening to and they are joined by Ellie Cawthorne, the host of The History Extra podcast, from the makers of BBC History Magazine. --- episode notes --- Here's a list of all the podcasts that we recommend and talk about in this episode (in order of when we mention them): Part 1 (Podworld's top 4): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/youre-dead-to-me/id1479973402 (You're Dead to Me) (BBC Radio 4, presented by Greg Jenner); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-memory-palace/id299436963 (The Memory Palace) (Nate DiMeo); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/making-gay-history-lgbtq-oral-histories-from-the-archive/id1162447122 (Making Gay History) (Eric Marcus); https://open.spotify.com/show/2ahH6qhTXFoaXZVvSTf5pm?si=h0PcHcD5RSm2BycSYos5Kg (Flex's Semi Factual History Lessons) (Spotify Studios, presented by Flex Mami) Part 2 (guest interview): Our special guest for the History episode is Ellie Cawthorne from the https://www.historyextra.com/article-type/podcast/ (History Extra Podcast) (from the makers of BBC History Magazine). Ellie recommends the following podcasts: the https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep1-tunnel-29-the-escape/id1205462850?i=1000453738437 (Tunnel 29 mini series) from the Intrigue podcast (BBC Radio 4, presented by Helena Merriman), https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/13-minutes-to-the-moon/id1459657136 (13 Minutes to the Moon) (BBC World Service), https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/stuff-you-should-know/id278981407 (Stuff You Should Know) (iHeartRadio) and https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/youre-wrong-about/id1380008439 (You're Wrong About) (Michael Hobbes & Sarah Marshall). Part 3 (extras): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/aaron-mahnkes-cabinet-of-curiosities/id1396546917 (Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities) (iHeartRadio and Grim & Mild); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/our-fake-history/id1021703062 (Our Fake History) (PodcasOne); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gastropod/id918896288 (Gastropod) (Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dan-carlins-hardcore-history/id173001861 (Dan Carlin's Hardcore History) (Dan Carlin); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/someone-knows-something/id1089216339 (Someone Know Something) (CBC Podcasts); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/criminal/id809264944 (Criminal) (Criminal & Radiotopia, presented by Phoebe Judge); You Must Remember This (Karina Longworth); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/you-must-remember-manson/id1315652782 (You Must Remember Manson) (Karina Longworth); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lore/id978052928 (Lore) (Aaron Mahnke and Grim & Wild) Listener recommendations: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sidedoor/id1168154281 (Sidedoor) (Smithsonian Institute); https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-history-of-the-world-in-100-objects/id351096296 (A History of the World in 100 Objects) (BBC Radio 4) Credits: This episode of Podworld was produced and edited by Louise Blain (https://twitter.com/Shiny_Demon (@shiny_demon)) and David Maher Roberts (https://twitter.com/dmrpod (@dmrpod)). Graphics by Dylan Channon. Research by Ella Maher Roberts. Theme music by Dan Phillipson (via Premiumbeat). And a big thank you to the team at https://twitter.com/dialect_inc (Dialect) for their never-ending support!

Experimental psychologist Charles Spence introduces us to gastrophysics, the science of how the brain melds color, smell and sound to create powerful multisensory taste experiences. Plus, Nicola Twilley investigates the rise of alternative sugars; Alex Aïnouz goes on a hunt for the ultimate knife; and we offer a recipe inspired by Tel Aviv's Shlomo & Doron, where hummus gets a Mexican twist.Get the recipe for Hummus with Chipotle Black Beans and Tomato Salsa: https://www.177milkstreet.com/recipes/tomato-salsa-chipotle-black-beans-hummusThis week's sponsor:Make quality sleep your New Year's resolution. Save up to $1000 on the new Sleep Number 360® smart bed. For a limited time, only at Sleep Number stores orsleepnumber.com/MILK See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Looking to find a gift for your favorite architect? Look no further. Here are Archispeak’s top architectural gift picks for the 2020 holiday giving season. This year, there’s also a video version of this episode. Why? Because we wanted to show you what we were talking about. Click here to watch it on YouTube.Check out all the links below! LinksNote: We may make a small commission when you use these links that do not affect the pricing of the selections in any way. And by doing so you're helping support the show. Thanks!Evan’s picks:Andrew Heumann's generative design printsRuncible Studios online shopLEGO Star Wars Stormtrooper HelmetLEGO Star Wars Boba Fett HelmetLEGO Star Wars Tie Fighter PilotKeychron K2 Wireless Bluetooth/USB Wired Gaming Mechanical KeyboardElgato Cam Link 4KEvan's book recommendations:The Little Architect's Alphabet: Learning your letters through design by Lora Teagarden AIAARE Hacks: Learn How to Pass the Architect Registration Exam by Evan Troxel AIAUntil Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley (preorder)Adapt As An Architect: A career companion by Randy Deutsche (preorder)Lamy Safari Fountain Pen Medium Nib - Mango - Candy Special Edition 2020 - Model 021Vanmoof Electric bicyclesSuper73-Z1 electric motorbikeCraftsman oscillating multi-toolCormac’s picks:XP-PEN Artist13.3 Pro - Drawing MonitorThe Little Architect's Alphabet: Learning your letters through designNespresso ENV135B Coffee and Espresso Machine by De'Longhi, BlackMilk Frother, Miroco Stainless Steel Milk SteamerKoncept - LED Desk LampGood & Well Supply Co. National Park Candle - ZIONThe National Park Candles (entire collection)Cormac’s Book Recommendations:See the suggestions Evan STOLE…STOLE, I sayArchitecture of the ShotArchitecture of the Cocktail Sketch tools and books Cormac flashed during the episodeField Notes Leuchtturm 1917 (Sketchbook)And if you’re looking for something to send Cormac (in Olive Green)

This week, we’re sharing an episode from an excellent food podcast, Gastropod. This show is right up our alley—co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley serve up episodes that “look at food through the lens of science and history.” What’s not to love? This episode looks at something we’re all missing a lot these days: communal eating.  We love eating dinner together with friends and extended family, and we miss it! But why does sharing a meal mean so much—and can we ever recreate that on Zoom? As we wait for the dinner parties, cookouts, and potlucks of our post-pandemic future, join us as we explore the science and history of communal dining. Scientist Ayelet Fishbach shares how and why eating together makes us better able to work together, and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar and archaeologist Brian Hayden demonstrate how it actually made us human—and led to everything from the common cow to the pyramids. Plus, we join food writers Nichola Fletcher and Samin Nosrat for the largest in-person banquet of all time, with Parisian waiters on bicycles, as well as the world’s biggest online lasagna party. Guests:  Samin Nosrat is a chef, teacher and author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. Ayelet Fishbach is professor of behavioral science and marketing at the University of Chicago. Robin Dunbar is a professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Oxford. Brian Hayden is an archaeologist and emeritus professor at Simon Fraser University. Nichola Fletcher is a food writer in Scotland and author of the book Charlemagne’s Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting. Alice Julier is a sociologist who writes about inequality, food, and everyday life.  Footnotes & Further Reading:  Listen to more Gastropod here. Credits:  This episode of Gastropod was produced by Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley. 

Karrie Jacobs interviews the writers about their forthcoming book on the history of quarantine facilities, which they were finishing in March while on lockdown in Los Angeles at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, the husband-and-wife author duo of the forthcoming book “The Coming Quarantine,” talk about quarantine’s historical origins, political abuses of power during shelter-in-place orders, and designing “pandemic-friendly” cities.

Ever wonder what it takes to produce an award-winning food podcast? At a live event with us, Gastropod co-hosts Cynthia Graber & Nicola Twilley share about their fascinating journey using science and history to tell stories about food. In the conversation, the two cover everything from the twists and turns of some of their episodes, … Continue reading Cynthia Graber & Nicola Twilley: Food for the Ears →

Host Daniel Raimi talks with Sharon Shewmake, a professor of environmental economics at Western Washington University. Shewmake also represents Washington's 42nd legislative district in the state's House of Representatives. Shewmake discusses Washington's plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the power sector to zero by 2045, other state policies that affect energy and the environment, and how researchers can more effectively engage with policymakers. References and recommendations: "A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires” by Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker; https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/26/a-trailblazing-plan-to-fight-california-wildfires "So, Should We Recycle?" by Planet Money; https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=741283641

The invisible backbone of our food system is a man-made, distributed, and perpetual winter of refrigeration we've built for our food to live in. It has remade our entire relationship with food, for better and in some ways for worse. The time has come for us all to explore the mysteries of the artificial cryosphere. We need to understand refrigeration's scope and impact in order to take stock of what’s at stake and make sure that the many benefits of our network of thermal control outweigh the enormous costs. Nicola Twilley is writing the first comprehensive look at the global cold chain, due out in 02019. Nicola Twilley is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-host of the podcast "Gastropod." She is at work on two books: one about refrigeration and the other on quarantine. She blogs at EdibleGeography.com.

Podcasting has given rise to new voices and new, highly personal ways to tell stories. But as the medium expands, it struggles to create gold standards for building shows that will be popular and financially sustainable. Cynthia Graber, co-host and co-creator of Gastropod, about the science and history of food, joins Al Letson, host of the investigative reporting show Reveal and creator of Errthang, his own personal “mixtape of delight,” to dive into the secrets of successful podcasting and what the future might hold for this intimate form of media. Speakers: Cynthia Graber is an award-winning radio producer and print reporter who’s covered science, technology, food, agriculture, and any other stories that catch her fancy for more than 15 years. Her work has been featured in magazines and radio shows including Fast Company, BBC Future, Slate, the Boston Globe, Studio 360, PRI’s The World, Living on Earth, and many others. She’s a regular contributor to the podcast Scientific American’s 60-Second Science and in 2014, she co-founded the Gastropod food science podcast alongside author Nicola Twilley. Cynthia’s radio and print awards include those from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society of Environmental Journalists, and the international Institute of Physics. Al Letson has received national recognition and built a devoted fan base with soul-stirring, interdisciplinary work. He established himself early in his career as a heavyweight in the Poetry Slam Movement, which garnered artistic credibility and renown. Performing on a number of national, regional and local stages including HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, CBS’s Final Four PreGame Show and commercial projects for Sony, the Florida Times Union, Adobe Software, and the Doorpost Film Project, Al has honed his professional voice and artistic sensibilities into a unique brand that is all his own. After winning the Public Radio Talent Quest, Al received a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to create three episodes of his public radio show concept State of the Re:Union. His company finished their first grant in August of 2009 and has just been awarded one of the largest public radio grants every given to a single project to produce a full season of shows.

Calories consumed minus calories burned: it’s the simple formula for weight loss or gain. But dieters often find that it doesn’t work. Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley of Gastropod investigate. Written by Cynthia Graber, read by Charlotte Hussey, produced by Graihagh Jackson. For more stories and to read the original text, visit mosaicscience.com If you liked this story, we recommend The fat city that declared war on obesity, by Ian Birrell, also available as a podcast. 

Calories consumed minus calories burned: it’s the simple formula for weight loss or gain. But dieters often find that it doesn’t work. Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley of Gastropod investigate. Written by Cynthia Graber, read by Charlotte Hussey, produced by Graihagh Jackson For more stories and to read the original text, visit mosaicscience.com Subscribe to our podcast: iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/mosaic-science-podcast/id964928211?mt=2itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/mosai…id964928211?mt=2 RSS mosaicscience.libsyn.com/rss

Some people love going to the gym. Some people hate it. But what if there was a pill that could replace exercise? Today’s future might actually be closer than you think. Today’s guests: Nicola Twilley, co-host of Gastropod and New Yorker writer David Eveleth, my dad and biotech expert Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, historian and co-host of Past Present Sigmund Loland, philosopher of sports at Norwegian School of Sport Sciences Casey Johnston, editor at The Outline, author of Ask a Swole Woman Robert, my boyfriend Further reading can be found here, including background documents, research papers, suggested books and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Calories are sneaky. For those who have tried counting them to lose weight, you know quite well that they slip through your fingers during that latte and biscotti snack break. But it turns out that regulating our diets strictly through calories, technically just a unit of energy, has recently proved less reliable than we thought. Take nuts, for example. Nuts are generally regarded as a calorie-dense, energy-dense food group. But David Baer, a researcher at the United States Department of Agriculture, found that our bodies only absorb about 70 percent of the calories in almonds. Same with walnuts and pistachios. A meal for research subjects at the USDA lab. (Nicola Twilley) And then there’s the question of what happens when food is changed from its natural state. Richard Wrangam, a Harvard anthropologist, was studying chimpanzees and decided to try and mimic their diet of raw, unprocessed foods. He quickly found this had a much different impact on his body: “I discovered that it left me incredibly hungry.” His research found that our bodies absorb up to 40 percent more calories from meat, starches and fat when they are cooked. I mean, have you ever seen a chubby chimpanzee? So if the way we prepare and digest food so strongly affects how many calories we consume, what’s the best way to keep track of what we eat? Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley, the co-hosts of Gastropod, a podcast about food science and history, took a detailed look into the latest research on calories.  And they found it’s hard to make a conclusion when there are so many variables – from the bacteria living in your stomach to how accurate our food labels are. Cynthia Graber, from Gastropod, speaks to the USDA's Bill Rumpler inside the human calorimeter. (Nicola Twilley) But wait, wait, don’t put away that fitness tracker yet. We might not know everything about calories, but they are still the closest thing we have for measuring how and what we eat. And Graber says burning more than you take in will always be the way to lose weight. “It's true – it’s still true,” she said." Correction: This article initially included a quote by Cynthia Graber that said you should take in more than you burn to lose weight. This was a misspeak, and Graber meant the opposite.

For this special New Year episode, Gastropod transports you to Oaxaca, Mexico, for the legendary Night of the Radishes, celebrated the night before Christmas eve, where locals present their most elaborate and inventive radish carvings. You'll also get a taste of entomophagy, otherwise known as the practice of eating bugs, when Cynthia and her partner Tim try chapulines, or grasshoppers, for the first time. The Night of the Radishes has taken place in the central square, or zocalo, of Oaxaca on December 23, every year for the past 117 years, since 1897. Originally intended as a way to decorate produce stands and attract Christmas shoppers, the festival now attracts more than 100 participants, and thousands of tourists and locals alike wait for more than 4 hours for a glimpse at the carved scenes. Here are some of the photos Cynthia took as she wandered around the zocalo. All radish photographs by Cynthia Graber. The image above is Mezcal Man. Fruit and vegetable carving as a way to attract custom is a time-honored tradition that is still alive and well in Mexico's markets. As Nicky mentioned, vendors at Mexico City's La Central de Abasto, the largest wholesale market in the world, spend hours carving watermelon and mamey into pyramids, rosettes, and even monstrous mouths. Carved watermelon on display at La Central de Abasto's in-house art gallery. Photographed by Nicola Twilley during her two-week residency at the market with the Laboratorio Para La Ciudad. While the radishes are inedible, insects are very definitely on the menu in Oaxaca. In the episode, we discuss some of the benefits of entomophagy: in a 2013 paper, the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations argued that the “mini-livestock” contain high-quality protein, amino acids, and omega-3 fatty acids, and require about a quarter of the feed to yield the same amount of “meat” as beef, as well as much less water. Insects also create significantly less pollution than cattle, sheep, or chickens, and need a smaller amount of land for cultivation. The problem, of course, is that to many Western eyes, insects are disgusting. For Cynthia and Tim's first insect-eating experience, they made sure to try a dish that paired the bugs with two of Cynthia's favorite Oaxacan products: hierba santa, a slightly anise-flavored leaf, and a thick layer of a melted Oaxacan cheese called quesillo. As Tim said, it looks exactly as if the grasshoppers climbed onto the leaves, got stuck in the cheese, and died there. Mmm…Episode Notes  Night of the Radishes, or Noche de Rábanos Thanks to Rubén Vasconcelos Beltrán, the chronicler of the city of Oaxaca, for sparing a few minutes the same day his children returned from Mexico City for the Christmas holiday. He also copied a chapter of a book called Noche de Rábanos: tradiciones navideñas de Oaxaca (Night of the Radishes, Oaxacan Christmas Traditions), by Alejandro Méndez Aquino, which was hard to find in the U.S. And, if you want to learn more about how farmers produce such over-sized radishes, read Nicky's piece on breeding and growing giant vegetables.Entomophagy For more information on eating insects, Nicky wrote this article on the first farm in the U.S. growing crickets solely for human consumption. Mosaic also recently published an in-depth article on entomophagy by Emily Anthes, called “Lovely Grub: Are insects the future of food?” If you have questions about this episode—or want some food recommendations in Oaxaca! —ask us either by leaving a comment here or via email. Cynthia has plenty of restaurant recommendations for what she considers one of the most delicious cities she's ever visited, even if you're planning on steering clear of grasshoppers yourself! The post Night of the Living Radishes appeared first on Gastropod. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Randall’s Island is a small piece of land just east of 125th Street in New York’s East River. It is also around 2 degrees further south than the northern limit of rice growing on Hokkaido in Japan. What could be more natural, then, than for a community farm on Randall’s Island to have a go at growing rice, a staple that the kids who come to the farm enjoy, but one that they’ve never seen growing? The assistant horticulture manager scored some rice seeds and with advice from her grandmother in Korea set to. They built a miniature paddy, like a flooded raised bed, and managed to harvest about six kilograms of rice. And that’s when their trouble began. Rice is darn difficult to hull and clean. A piece by Rachel Laudan tipped me off to the Randall’s Island rice, and I was excited to discover that the person who origially wrote the story for The New Yorker was Nicola Twilley, a writer whose Edible Geography (and other projects) I have long admired. Luckily for me, she was happy to talk. What intrigued me about the story of hulling rice in the northeastern US, was how it resonated with the plight of subsistence farmers in India, Bolivia and elsewhere. The women in many communities spend hours a day of hard and often dangerous work to prepare the seeds they have grown and harvested. I can’t blame them if they would just as soon sell their back-breaking crop and buy prepared convenience foods, and hang the nutritional consequences. I’ve seen for myself how electrical mini-mills remove this drudgery for women in the Kolli Hills of India, and in so doing boost the consumption of nutritious millets. The same sort of approach, an inexpensive, locally-built machine, has made processing quinoa much easier for farmers on the Altiplano of Bolivia. There’s something fitting about New York rice being treated in a similar way. Notes Edible Geography, Nicola Twilley’s website, is endlessly interesting and entertaining. If you’re into podcasts, don’t miss the great show Roman Mars and 99pi did based on her research into cow tunnels. Rachel Laudan has made something of a specialty of pointing out that growing cereals is the easy part; preparing them for food is what takes hard work and ingenuity. Ecological Rice Farming in the Northeastern USA is not nearly as silly as it may first seem. And for all the details of Don Brill’s rice hullers, you need to head over to Brill Engineering, which sounds a lot grander than an inveterate tinkerer with a basement full of bits and pieces. Daniel Felder, head of research at Momofuku, takes research into fermentation and terroir very seriously. Nicola has written about that too. Photo of Don Brill and a volunteer rice peddler by Nicola Twilley, as are all the others. Thanks.

A bombie cluster munition on a farm in Khammouane Province, Laos.©2010/Jerry Redfern Karen Coates is a freelance American journalist who writes about food – among other things. She emailed to ask if I would be interested in talking to her about a book that she and her husband, photographer Jerry Redfern, have produced. It’s called Eternal Harvest, but it isn’t about food, at least not directly. Its subtitle is the legacy of American bombs in Laos. Some of those bombs are 500-pounders. Lots of them are little tennis-ball sized bomblets, which are as attractive to farm kids as a tennis ball might be, with horrific consequences. The story of unexploded ordnance in Laos was an eye opener, for me. But I also wanted to know about food in Laos, and so that’s where we began our conversation. Over the course of nine years and a bombing mission every eight minutes, round the clock, more than 270 million cluster bombs – or bombies – were dropped on Laos. The cluster bombs were a small part of the 2 million tonnes dropped on Laos, almost half a tonne of ordnance for every man, woman and child in the country. Some was aimed at breaking the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The rest was jettisoned by pilots who had been told not to return to base with any bombs left in their planes. The failure rate, as Karen said, was around 30 percent. Unexploded ordnance remains an ever-present threat, and not only during the business of farming. About half the people killed, according a a 2009 report, were going after scrap metal. A scrap metal collector can make $5 a day, compared to the average wage of about $1 a day. And that’s not the only way the bombs are “beneficial”. Many farming families use craters – created by bombs that did explode – as fish ponds, improving both their income and their nutritional status. Casualties have dropped, from about 1450 a year in 1975 to about 350 a year in 2009, but less than one per cent of the land has been cleared. A technician with a UXO Lao bomb disposal team scans for bombs in a woman’s yard as she continues weeding. They work along a new road built atop the old Ho Chi Minh Trail.©2006/Jerry Redfern Notes Eternal Harvest: the legacy of American bombs in Laos has a website and is available from Amazon. I started reading up about bomb crater fish ponds at Nicola Twilley’s Edible Geography. Fascinating accounts of individual farmers bring an otherwise dry FAO field manual on common aquaculture practices in Lao PDR to life. The maps in this online post by Xiaoxuan Lu about her thesis give some idea of the scale of the problem. Karen writes online at The Rambling Spoon and elsewhere. There’s plenty there about restaurants, Lao cookbooks and that nine-day field trip we talked about. The music is a Lao folk tune called Dokmai (Flower) by a group called “Thiphakon (roughly, resonance of angels)”. I found it online. Engage