Before the director of the FDA shows up at my door with a warrant … the title of this episode, that’s sarcasm. But it’s all stuff we’ve heard from mezcal enthusiasts — and, to be fair, sometimes from the folks in Mexico who make these spirits. So is there any truth to these legends?

Today Zarela and Aarón welcome Andy Coe, author and scholar of culinary history, to discuss cacao and chocolate. They start with the history; how it was first consumed as a drink, and then made its way around the world after the Columbian Exchange.

On the latest episode of Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by Jeremy Sewall and Marion Lear Swaybill, co-authors of the book Oysters: A Celebration in the Raw.

Tune in for a fascinating episode about everyone's favorite bivalves!  Talking clams and oysters, Animal Instinct host Celia Kutcher welcomes the Oyster Baron von Clam Man himself, Nolan Meredith to the studio.

This week on The Morning After, tune in to learn everything you ever wanted to know about everyone's favorite bivalve: the oyster!

Curious about vegetable trivia? Tune into this week's edition of We Dig Plants to learn some interesting veggie facts from Rebecca Rupp, author of How Carrots Won the Trojan War.

Jessie Keifer and Jen Tullock are getting pretty meta on today's episode of The Morning After - food radio about food radio! Jessie and Jen invite Joy Wang, producer at WNYC, to the studio to talk about her segment on All Things Considered entitled "Last Chance Foods".

Katie Parla is in love with the contemporary Roman food scene! On this week's episode of A Taste of the Past, Linda Pelaccio invites Katie into the studio to talk about restaurant trends in Rome. Find out why so many Roman chefs look to their city's history for culinary inspiration.

On today's THE FOOD SEEN, we're affected by the always -nspired Emilie Baltz, a multi-disciplinary French-American artist, who's wild and widely ranging body of work examines how we interact with food on a cultural level. Recently her L.O.V.E.

Megan O'Connor and Tricia Keels cook across the Midwest on their blog and podcast entitled No Chefs Allowed!