France: The Truffle Underground
Why did France's black truffle — once produced in the thousands of tonnes — collapse to near-extinction in a century, and what does its revival reveal about the country's relationship with luxury, lan...
4 Jun 32min
Mexico: The Aztec Origins of Chocolate
Why did the Aztecs drink their currency — and what does it mean that the most global food in the world began as a bitter, frothy, sacred drink consumed by warriors and kings in the rainforests of anci...
2 Jun 28min
Canada: The Great Maple Syrup Heist
From Indigenous sugar shacks to the Supreme Court of Canada… how did maple syrup become one of the world’s most tightly controlled commodities? Why does Quebec maintain a vast strategic maple syrup re...
2 Jun 31min
USA: The Tobacco Lords and the Founding of America
Why did tobacco, and not gold or glory, save the first permanent English colony in America? How did the Founding Fathers' tobacco debts to British merchants help light the fuse of the American Revolut...
2 Jun 27min
Monsanto: The Peach Farmer's Revenge (Part 6)
Who was Dewayne Lee Johnson, the school groundskeeper soaked in Roundup who took on the most legally powerful agricultural company in the world — and what did his trial finally expose about what Monsa...
26 Mai 48min
Monsanto: Playing God (Part 5)
Who was Bob Shapiro, the guitar-playing Vietnam protester turned Monsanto CEO who genuinely believed genetically modified seeds could save the planet — and how did the same man who preached environmen...
19 Mai 51min
Monsanto: The Pesticide That "Feeds the World" (Part 4)
What was Roundup, the herbicide born from a soap crisis in a radioactive Idaho slag heap, that became the most widely used weed-killer in human history — and how did the shy, introverted chemist who d...
12 Mai 45min
Monsanto: Agent Orange and the Fields of Vietnam (Part 3)
What was Agent Orange, the herbicide that fell like mist on the jungles of Vietnam — and how did a chemical born in a West Virginia factory end up destroying the food systems, forests, and bodies of a...
5 Mai 49min
