As extreme weather events become increasingly common, how will apples fare? Will the taste of cider evolve? We return to the labs at Cornell University to get a crash course from our favorite pomologist in apple genetics, biodiversity, and climate change. Find out how studying (and growing) historic apple varieties...

Hard Core takes a bite out of the native crabapple, visits a vault, explores Midwestern cideries, and embraces eclectic flavors.

Hard Core producer Dylan Heuer interviews Jacques Perritaz of Cidrerie du Vulcain in Gruyère, Switzerland and Benoit Lesuffleur of Domaine Lesuffleur in Normandy, France. They share the stories behind their ciders and dive deep into apple varieties, biodiversity and heritage. Plus they discuss consumer differences in Europe versus the U.S...

Agave Road Trip explores gender, drinking, and distilling. "Women are so much closer to the process."

Do you wash that fruit before you cut it? Add salt after juicing? Freeze it? And before you drink it, maybe give that juice a second sniff...? We're joined in this episode by Dr. Ryan Aycock, Cocktail MD, for the lowdown on bacteria and how it can sneak up on...

Michael Davenport was thrilled whenever he found a roadside stand and if you’re anything like him, and have gone overboard buying too many fruits and vegetables, this episode has some ideas for putting them to use. He talks berries, cherries, bananas and avocados. Plus, The Shameless Chef shares ideas for...

On today's episode of Choosing Issues, Dave quizzes Nastassia and The Rest on everybody's favorite schnitzel, favorite candy, favorite cereal, favorite fruit to binge eat, favorite canned fish, and so on. Plus, it's a listener question blitz: milk- & fat-washing, air-frying, baking with steam, and many more. Plus, a well-researched...

The desire for sweetness is biologically hardwired in humans, according to Dr. Gary Beauchamp, longtime former director and president of the Monell Chemical Senses Center. It is an evolutionary response that developed way back when sweet things were hard to find in the natural environment. Now, we can find sweets...

Entrepreneur, rum pioneer and former coconut smuggler Dani Zig joins Greg and Sother to talk about innovation in spirits, respecting your ingredients and how fortunate it is that the US government considers a certain plant nuts, not fruit. Don’t forget to click SUBSCRIBE and RATE the show if you can...

All of the fruits and spices and flowers and herbs and meats and magic of Mexico show up in the mercados -- the markets. So you should show up there, too! What should you look for? What can you bring back? And what exactly is a clown market? All this...