Episode notes
Alex Schmidt, Katie Goldin, and special guest Seth Lind explore why cinnamon is secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR SETH LIND:
- Seth Lind’s website
- ‘Mission To Zyxx’ podcast (Maximum Fun)
- Announcing: The Young Old Derf Chronicles
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on Bluesky
- @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- 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)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- The History and Natural History of Spices: The 5,000-Year Search for Flavour by Ian Anderson
- The Spice and Herb Bible by Ian Hemphill, with recipes by Kate Hemphill
- An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage
- Compound Summary: Cinnamaldehyde (NIH National Library of Medicine)
- Plant of the Month: Cinnamon (JStor Daily)
- How 90% Of The World’s Pure Cinnamon Is Produced In Sri Lanka (Business Insider / YouTube)
- Cinnamon: Harvesting Cassia in the Jungles of Sumatra (Foodie.com / YouTube)
- How cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger became the scents of winter holidays, far from their tropical origins (The Conversation)
- Here’s why you shouldn’t freak out about lead in your cinnamon (Ars Technica)
- ‘Can I just take a cinnamon roll every morning?’: Health gurus recommend taking cinnamon every morning. It backfires (The Daily Dot)
- When Is Cinnamon Spice Not So Nice? The Great Danish Debate (NPR’s “The Salt” blog)
- We may now know who’s behind the lead-tainted cinnamon in toddler fruit pouches (Ars Technica)
- Big Brother: Housemates set Cinnamon Challenge to win ’90s rave (DigitalSpy.com)
- Lung injury and the cinnamon challenge: college students should beware this Internet dare (Journal of Injury and Violence Research)
- The Desperate Quest for American Cinnamon (JStor Daily)
- Topical Bible: Cinnamon (BibleHub.com)
- Scents from a Mall: The Sticky, Untold Story of Cinnabon (Seattle Met Magazine)
- The Special Cinnamon Used In Cinnabon’s Famous Rolls (Mashed.com)
- 9 Things You Might Not Know About Cinnabon (Mental Floss)
- There’s no whiskey in bottles of Fireball Cinnamon, so customers are suing for fraud (NPR)
- Sazerac Can’t Shake Fireball Cinnamon Shot Deception Lawsuit (Bloomberg Law)
- ‘Cinnamon Softcore Art Deco’? Spotify Wrapped Falls Flat for Some (The New York Times)
- Trilobites: What Should You Do When the Bear Is Cinnamon? (The New York Times)
In this episode...
Guests
- Seth Lind
About the show
A weekly podcast about the history, science, lore and surprises that make everyday things secretly incredibly fascinating. Hosted by comedy writer, emoji creator, and ‘Jeopardy!‘ champion Alex Schmidt. Join Alex & his co-host Katie Goldin for a joyful deep dive into seeing the world a whole new way!
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