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    "medicine",
    "Italy",
    "garlic",
    "Ellen Weatherford",
    "food",
    "Alex Schmidt",
    "India",
    "mythology",
    "Chemistry",
    "ancient Egypt",
    "herbs",
    "ancient Greece",
    "china",
    "botany",
    "Korea",
    "**'Just The Zoo Of Us' podcast (Maximum Fun)**",
    "Ellen Weatherford on TikTok",
    "'Spellbound and Gagged' podcast",
    "preview of the special \"Cheddar Heist\" podcast by Ellen Weatherford, Ella Hubber, Tom Lum, and Caroline Roper",
    "native-land.ca",
    "U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture",
    "The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)",
    "\"Finding Lenapehoking\" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)",
    "Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)",
    "Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)",
    "**_Garlic: An Edible Biography_ by Robin Cherry**",
    "**The origins and distribution of garlic: How many garlics are there? (USDA Agricultural Research Service)**",
    "Garlic, Allium sativum (University of Wisconsin-Madison Horticultural Extension)",
    "Garlic -- Allium sativum (Oregon State University College Of Agricultural Sciences)",
    "Garlic vs. Purple Garlic: What's the Difference? (AllRecipes.com)",
    "Lifestyle: Food: Am I Blue? (The Washington Post)",
    "Allium canadense -- Meadow Garlic, Wild Garlic, Wild Onion (Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at UT Austin)",
    "Allium tricoccum -- Wild Leek, Ramp (Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at UT Austin)",
    "Plant of the Month: Garlic Mustard (JStor Daily)",
    "Hot New Medicine: This 1,000-Year-Old Mixture of Garlic, Onion, Wine, and Cow Bile (Popular Mechanics)",
    "Staph Infection (Cleveland Clinic)",
    "The Scientific Secret of Garlic (Carnegie Museums)",
    "Why Does My Garlic Turn Green? | Ask The Food Lab (Serious Eats)",
    "You can taste garlic with your feet (Popular Science)",
    "The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes honor garlicky babies, drunk bats, and more (Popular Science)",
    "The Ig Nobels are science's most lighthearted event. This year is 'not typical' (Science)",
    "How ‘Ennobling’ Helped Italian Aristocrats Solve the Problem of Garlic (Gastro Obscura)",
    "Garlic and Social Class: Immigrants from southern Italy were stereotyped for their use of the aromatic vegetable. (JStor Daily)",
    "Italian Garlic Debate Raises a Culinary Stink (NPR)",
    "It's A Wonderful (Italian-American) Life (NPR)",
    "Sweets: Garlic Ice Cream (Gastro Obscura)",
    "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Apples",
    "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Neapolitan Ice Cream",
    "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Diabetes"
  ],
  "textContent": "Alex Schmidt and special guest Ellen Weatherford explore why garlic is secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.\n\n**LINKS FOR ELLEN WEATHERFORD:**\n\n  * **'Just The Zoo Of Us' podcast (Maximum Fun)**\n  * Ellen Weatherford on TikTok\n  * 'Spellbound and Gagged' podcast\n  * preview of the special \"Cheddar Heist\" podcast by Ellen Weatherford, Ella Hubber, Tom Lum, and Caroline Roper -- become a Maximum Fun member to hear the whole adventure!\n\n**RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:**\n\n  * native-land.ca\n  * U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture\n  * The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)\n  * \"Finding Lenapehoking\" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)\n  * Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)\n  * Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)\n\n**RESEARCH SOURCES:**\n\n  * **_Garlic: An Edible Biography_ by Robin Cherry**\n  * **The origins and distribution of garlic: How many garlics are there? (USDA Agricultural Research Service)**\n  * Garlic, Allium sativum (University of Wisconsin-Madison Horticultural Extension)\n  * Garlic -- Allium sativum (Oregon State University College Of Agricultural Sciences)\n  * Garlic vs. Purple Garlic: What's the Difference? (AllRecipes.com)\n  * Lifestyle: Food: Am I Blue? (The Washington Post)\n  * Allium canadense -- Meadow Garlic, Wild Garlic, Wild Onion (Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at UT Austin)\n  * Allium tricoccum -- Wild Leek, Ramp (Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at UT Austin)\n  * Plant of the Month: Garlic Mustard (JStor Daily)\n  * Hot New Medicine: This 1,000-Year-Old Mixture of Garlic, Onion, Wine, and Cow Bile (Popular Mechanics)\n  * Staph Infection (Cleveland Clinic)\n  * The Scientific Secret of Garlic (Carnegie Museums)\n  * Why Does My Garlic Turn Green? | Ask The Food Lab (Serious Eats)\n  * You can taste garlic with your feet (Popular Science)\n  * The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes honor garlicky babies, drunk bats, and more (Popular Science)\n  * The Ig Nobels are science's most lighthearted event. This year is 'not typical' (Science)\n  * How ‘Ennobling’ Helped Italian Aristocrats Solve the Problem of Garlic (Gastro Obscura)\n  * Garlic and Social Class: Immigrants from southern Italy were stereotyped for their use of the aromatic vegetable. (JStor Daily)\n  * Italian Garlic Debate Raises a Culinary Stink (NPR)\n  * It's A Wonderful (Italian-American) Life (NPR)\n  * Sweets: Garlic Ice Cream (Gastro Obscura)\n  * Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Apples\n  * Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Neapolitan Ice Cream\n  * Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Diabetes\n\n",
  "title": "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Garlic"
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