Gastropod Live
Majestic Theatre 115 King St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
press release: Science Festival Alliance Presents
GASTROPOD LIVE!
How do microbes create the flavor of your favorite cheese? Are you sure that your hamburger is really made of beef? And how does music affect the taste of chocolate? In this special live performance of the podcast Gastropod, co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley will serve up a three-course feast for your eyes and ears. Special guests will include cheese geek Jeanne Carpenter, founder and executive director of Wisconsin Cheese Originals, and Barry Levenson, a professor of food law at the University of Wisconsin as well as the founder of the Mustard Museum. The evening will combine live experiments and interactive tastings to reveal the history and science behind the food we eat every day.
Gastropod is the award-winning podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history. Every other week, Cynthia and Nicola release a new episode that explores the hidden history and surprising science behind a particular food- or farming-related topic, from aquaculture to ancient feasts, from cutlery to chile peppers, and from music to Malbec. Join us and savor this very special live podcast event!
The Gastropod Live! performance is being staged in conjunction with the International Public Science Events Conference, which will be in town June 5 - 6. That meeting is drawing public science event organizers from around the US, Canada, and UK, including a wild range of different event formats. Some of the event organizers run small but rowdy science meet ups, some run massive science festivals that draw tens of thousands, and some just defy categorization.
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