Breakfast of Champions

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2015

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Breakfast: the most important meal of the day. Or is it? In this episode of Gastropod, we explore the science and history behind the most intentionally designed, the most industrialized, and the most argued about meal of all. Armed with a healthy dose of caffeine chronopharmacology, we embark on a global breakfast tour that exposes the worldwide dominance of Nutella, as well as the toddler kimchi acclimatization process. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., we trace the American breakfast’s evolution from a humble mash-up of leftover dinner foods to its eighteenth-century explosion into a feast of meats, griddle cakes, eel, and pie—followed swiftly by a national case of indigestion and a granola-fueled backlash. Breakfast has been a battleground ever since: in this episode, we not only explain why, but also serve up the best breakfast contemporary science can provide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now that is a classic morning sound.
0:06.4	Do the DS actually come first before any other activity for me?
0:13.4	And now, welcome to Gastropod.
0:15.8	I'm Nikola Twilly and I'm Cynthia Graber and this is the first episode of season two
0:20.9	in which we explore the science and history of breakfast, the most important meal of the
0:26.0	day.
0:27.0	Or is it?
0:28.0	All will be revealed.
0:30.0	But first, we Eve's dropped on each other making breakfast.
0:33.3	Now, this is not the best time of day for me to be honest, but for you, dear listeners,
0:38.2	I will do anything.
0:40.4	Good morning.
0:41.4	Good morning.
0:42.4	You chopping something?
0:44.0	I am chopping the leaves off of the collared stems at the moment.
0:48.6	It'll take me about another 30 seconds to chop them into tiny pieces and then I will
0:52.0	throw them in the pan.
0:54.0	I have some white beans I made and I just kind of keep in the fridge.
0:57.8	And I had thought about, you know, since we're making breakfast on air and I'd be a little
1:02.0	bit more elaborate and maybe I'd make an egg to go on top of them.
1:04.9	But the truth is, my usual breakfast is just kind of greens and whatever else I throw
1:08.3	in it.
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