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European duo Food has released a new album called ‘Quiet Inlet’. It’s an appropriate title. This is music that flows – away from the mainstream. Food consists of Norwegian Thomas Stronen on drums and electronics and English saxophonist Iain Ballamy. On the new record they’re joined by Austrian guitarist Christian Fennesz and Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer. The World’s Ken Bader has today’s Global Hit. (Photo: Knut Bry/ECM Records) Download MP3Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
In this episode of our regular travel podcast, we start with the question: what’s the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten while traveling? Robert Reid and Tom Hall from Lonely Planet weigh in with “duck embryo” and “guinea pig” respectively. Yes, leaving your culinary comfort zone can expand your mind and your stomach, and potentially challenge both your digestion and your ethics. Take a listen to our podcast, and then share your own foodie adventure below in the comments!
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You never know where your next great meal might come from. This might look like an unassuming dry cleaners in Barcelona. But it hides a delicious secret: a restaurant in the back that is quickly becoming the talk of the town. In this episode of our Talking Travel podcast with Lonely Planet, we chat about “underground dining.” That, plus a discussion on whether a virtual Trans-Siberian Railway can live up to the real thing.
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Last week India rejected what would have been the country’s first genetically modified food crop, a transgenic eggplant. What does this mean for the future of genetically modified crops in India and other parts of the world? And can such crops help feed the world’s hungry? Talk with biologist Lisa Weazel of Portland State University. She’s the author of Food Fray: Inside the Controversy of Genetically Modified Food, and our guest on the latest The World Science Forum. The discussion is live through February, 19th. Download MP3
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The police in Barcelona recently raided a suspicious looking dry cleaners. It was late at night and something fishy was going on. People were going in. But they weren’t coming out. It had all the makings of a front for some illegal business. Turns out it was a front. But the cops didn’t find anything nefarious. Just people eating dinner. The World’s Gerry Hadden explains. Download MP3
No joke… a giant white radish figures in today’s Geo Quiz. This Asian root vegetable goes by a couple of names: Daikon or the winter radish.
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Mr. Bigg’s is the largest fast food chain in Africa’s most populous country. This Nigerian chain, loosely modeled on McDonald’s, offers hamburgers and French fries as well as local fare. But running a fast food operation is no easy feat in a country beset by mismanagement, corruption, and a lack of infrastructure. David Hecht reports. (Photo: David Hecht) Download MP3
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A new study done by researchers in Sweden and China suggests that wolves were first domesticated some 16,000 years ago in Asia. The scientists also say there is evidence that the motive may not have been companionship or protection, but hunger. We speak with Peter Savolainen, a lead scientist on the study and geneticist at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. (Photo by Ya-Ping Zheng) Download MP3 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
A year ago, there were protests in the streets – throughout many places in the developing world – people clamoring over the high cost of food. A year later, prices in commodity markets are down by nearly a third. But is the worldwide food crisis over?
Reporter Nancy Greenleese goes in search of a dish favored by the locals in the southeast Asian nation of Brunei. It’s called “ambuyat,” a gelatinous concoction made from the insides of a jungle palm. Click on the Continue Reading button to see more pictures and a video.
The French government has slashed its high tax on restaurant meals in an effort to help out ailing cafes and restaurants. Reporter Genevieve Oger has the story.
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A Harvard anthropologist says soft food is sabotaging the battle against obesity. He argues that the modern diet is too over-processed and spongy. Anchor Marco Werman gets the story from The World’s science correspondent David Kohn. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3
Harvard anthropologist Richard Wrangham argues that cooking is the key technology that allowed us to become human. He’s spent decades doing research on primates in Africa, and he says cooking gave us access to a wider range of foods, helped our brains grow, and – because we no longer had to eat berries and leaves for six hours a day — gave us leisure time to develop tools and technologies.
