Episode notes
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.
LINKS FOR ELLEN WEATHERFORD:
- ‘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 — become a Maximum Fun member to hear the whole adventure!
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:
- 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
In this episode...
Guests
- Ellen Weatherford
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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