Eating the Rainbow: Or, the Mystery of the Orange Oranges, the Red M&Ms, and the Blue Raspberry
Gastropod ›49:22 | Apr 21st, 2020
From stripy fuchsia beets to unicorn doughnuts, the foods available today on grocery store shelves and in cafe displays are more brightly colored than ever. But this hasn't always been the case. This ...Show More
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hsfargis recommended:Apr 23rd, 2020
The history of colors in relation to food. So crazy interesting.
mmApr 23rd, 2020
@epekilis Your type of pod episode!
epekilisMay 4th, 2020
@mm @hsfargis Yup, sounds like my kind of episode. Added to my list. Thanks! Just reading the description without having heard it reminds me of another podcast that twinned taste and another sense, in that case, sound. It was either 99% Invisible or 20,000 Hz. I remember they talked about how t...Show More
hsfargisMay 4th, 2020
@epekilis 99% Ep 148 The Sizzle! Sounds intriguing.
epekilis recommended:May 24th, 2020
Gosh I love this kind of quirky history about things we take for granted. I did know that Florida oranges were dyed orange, but did NOT know that the fruit came first and the colour orange came second. I’ve always been curious about whether there was a relationship between the family name of the h...Show More
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epekilisMay 24th, 2020
Now that I wrote it out I had to look up the derivation of the historic noble house of Orange. It’s a place in Provence, and apparently the name does trace from a corruption of the Arabic word for the fruit “orange”.