Episode notes
Alex Schmidt is joined by podcaster and bestselling author Dana Schwartz (‘Noble Blood’ podcast, new book ‘Immortality: A Love Story’) for a look at why truffles are secretly incredibly fascinating.
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LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:
- Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz (#1 New York Times bestseller, available now!)
- publisher info and pre-order links for Immortality: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz (releasing February 2023)
- ‘Noble Blood’ podcast (iHeartRadio / Grim & Mild)
- Dana Schwartz on Twitter
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)
- Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- Truffle: A Global History by Zachary Nowak
- The Risks and Rewards of the Remarkable Desert Truffle (Atlas Obscura)
- How truffles went from pig food to treasure in Yunnan, China (The Guardian)
- Has a Start-Up Found the Secret to Farming the Elusive Truffle? (The New York Times)
- Entire White Truffle ‘Orchards’ Could Be Possible, New Research Finds (Food & Wine) — this is the recent 2021 claim Alex mentions.
- Simply Truffles: Recipes and Stories That Capture the Essence of the Black Diamond by Patricia Wells
- Forget chocolates. Give your sweetheart mushrooms this Valentine’s Day, says Stanford scientist (Stanford University News Service)
- Do aphrodisiacs really work? (BBC Future)
- Lightning Makes Mushrooms Multiply (National Geographic)
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- Dana Schwartz
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