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That's Daniel Stone, and the person he's talking about is David Fairchild,

one of the most interesting and important people behind the food on our plates.

That you've never heard of, but Dan did hear about him, and he wrote a book about him.

It's called The Food Explorer, the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats.

You're listening to Gastropod, the podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history.

I'm Cynthia Graber, and I'm Nicola Twilly, and today we're going to get the heck out of Kansas alongside David Fairchild,

and travel the world exploring how so many of our favorite foods, dates, kale, mangoes, how they got here.

Dan didn't write his book just because he got obsessed with this one guy whose travel diaries and love letters were so beautifully preserved.

Once he started digging, he realized Fairchild's story was much bigger than one man's adventures.

I started to see Fairchild and his the impacts of his travels in everything.

Everything we eat, you know, on billboards, on subway ads, in the market.

And then, yeah, I started to kind of piece together this story that wasn't just about food, it was also about travel and history,

and about America at a very pivotal moment when it's rising into a superpower and largely growing its economy on the industry of food.

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