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Last Seen

Berried treasure

Last Seen

WBUR

True Crime, Missing, Mystery, Boston, Society & Culture

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

WBUR senior arts reporter Amelia Mason is on the hunt to solve a mystery that has been haunting her for years: why are black raspberries so hard to find? The answer takes us through grocery stores, farms, foraging expeditions, and Amelia's own childhood backyard.

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And here's the show.

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WBUR podcasts, Boston.

0:29.9

A little while back, WBUR reporter Amelia Mason took me on a treasure hunt.

0:35.9

The treasure, in this case, berries.

0:41.2

But not any old berries.

0:43.4

Not the common blueberry or the regular old red raspberry, but the black raspberry, a

0:49.9

berry more rare and wild than anything found on supermarket shelves.

0:55.0

Although we are checking the supermarket shelves just to be sure.

0:58.4

So we're in Cambridge, Massachusetts, outside Sabinor's butcher shop.

1:04.2

Amelia has selected Sabinor's because word on the street is that it carries specialty

1:08.4

produce and might have an unusual fruit like black raspberries.

1:12.4

But it's pretty clear when we walk in, this is first and foremost a butcher shop.

1:17.9

There's meat everywhere.

1:21.5

The shop isn't very big and it's easy to catch the eye of a clerk, moving through

1:25.5

the aisles of fancy salts and gourmet salamis.

1:28.7

And we were just wondering, I was just wondering if I could ask you if you have something in

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