Hello, I'm Annie Reese.

And I'm Lauren Vocalbaum.

And this is Food Stuff. of sort of this is our promo episode to tell you what

food stuff is about it is about food

food science yeah weird, food science, food culture, food history, and drinks, and drinks as well.

In fact, our first episode is about Champagne slash sparkling wine.

Yeah, it's important to talk about both.

Yeah.

Square rhombus kind of situation there.

As it turns out, very ambitious for a first topic,

but we got to learn so many fascinating things that we were really excited to share with you about Champagne.

Yeah, like it was a total accident and a terrifying one.

Scary enough that people had to wear armor if they were going to be around it.

Yeah, that's because the pressure inside of a champagne bottle or a bottle of sparkling wine

in general is like five to six atmospheres. That's a lot.

That's a bunch.

We also talk about cauliflower in one of the first episodes, which might surprise you, lots of

math and science evolved.

Yes, cauliflower grows in fractal shapes that mathematicians have like painstakingly mapped.

Yeah. For science.

One of our other upcoming episodes is about sugar, or two of our episodes rather, because we had a lot to say about how horrifying it is.

I think my favorite takeaway from that was exactly how thoroughly the sugar industry has

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