751: Saving Rare Foods with Dan Saladino and M. Karlos Baca
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
American Public Media
4.3 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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This week, we talk to BBC Food journalist Dan Saladino about how saving endangered foods might save the world and indigenous foods activist Karlos Baca
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| 0:47.1 | Hey, it's Francis. |
| 0:54.3 | You know, last year I got turned on to a fascinating book called Eating to Extinction about rare foods that might be going extinct. |
| 0:57.6 | And so we got to the author, Dan Saladino, and talked about it. |
| 0:58.8 | Here's that episode. |
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| 1:24.1 | Close her eyes and picture a banana. |
| 1:29.3 | You see the color, you see the shape, the size in your head. |
| 1:33.2 | All right. |
| 1:34.1 | So, there are over 1,000 varieties of bananas that exist on this planet, but you almost |
| 1:41.0 | certainly just picture the very same variety of banana as every other person listening to this show. |
| 1:48.5 | Because of those thousand varieties, exactly one of them makes over 99% of the bananas that you find in grocery stores. |
| 1:56.6 | It's called the cabin dish. |
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