Esculent
by Elizabeth McQueen
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Tasting Mezcales in Translation
Tasting Mezcales in Translation
About this podcast
A food podcast that explores how humans have defined what is, and isn’t, edible.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 42 episodes
- Tasting Mezcales in Translation · 12 min · Season 7 Episode 8Each episode of this season has explored different facets of the mezcal-making industry — from its history, to how it’s tasted, served, and perceived by tourists in Oaxaca. In…
- Tasting Mezcales with Graciela Ángeles Carreño · 44 min · Season 7 Episode 7En la segunda parte de nuestra serie de mezcaleras, Graciela Ángeles Carreño conversa con nosotros sobre la relación del mezcal con la tierra. Con su éxito, su demanda y su fama…
- Tasting 15 Mezcales with Paula Aquino Sánchez · 35 min · Episode 8In our first part of our mezcalera series, we are joined by Paula Aquino Sánchez as she shares her background — how she first stepped into the world of mezcal production, the…
- Consuming Mezcal · 42 min · Episode 7The enduring fascination with the “authentic” drives tourists to seek the artisanally-produced mezcal, especially in Oaxaca, where Daniela and Elizabeth find themselves in…
- Serving Mezcal · 31 min · Season 7 Episode 4At Masala y Maíz in Mexico City, no bottle goes to waste once it’s been opened. Join us for Esculent’s third episode with special guest and Director of Beverage and Culture…
- The Taste of Mezcal · 38 min · Season 7 Episode 3When mezcal evokes memories of mom’s kitchen or relatives spritzing the spirit to the earth, it becomes clear that smoke has never been adequate to describe a taste of mezcal. In…
- A Sticky History of Mezcal · 51 min · Season 7 Episode 2When studying the history of mezcal, why begin with the milky, lightly fermented beverage pulque? In Esculent’s new season, we are joined once again by Professor Daniela…
- Season 7: Mezcal · 5 min · Season 7This season welcomes co-host Daniela Gutiérrez Flores as we prepare to travel with Fabiola Santiago and the organization Mi Oaxaca -- we are honored to be thinking, sensing, and…
- Curating Living Archives with Kyria Boundy-Mills · 44 min · Season 6 Episode 5What does it mean to steward a living archive? Kyria Boundy-Mills, curator of the Phaff Yeast Culture Collection, joins Esculent to discuss the care and preservation of thousands…
- Scaling Taste with Professor David Block · 51 min · Season 6 Episode 4What happens when the science of winemaking meets the emerging world of cultivated meat? Distinguished Professor David Block joins Esculent to discuss how engineering principles…
- Microbial Worlds with Professor Maria Marco · 52 min · Season 6 Episode 3Microorganisms structure not only our foods but our bodies. Professor Maria Marco joins Esculent to discuss her research on bacteria, fermentation, probiotics, and the gustatory…
- Accounting for Taste with Professor Hildegarde Heymann · 43 min · Season 6 Episode 2How do we understand taste as something measurable and communicable? Distinguished Professor Hildegarde Heymann joins Esculent to explore the field of sensory science, a…
- Environments of Taste with Professor Julien Delarue · 50 min · Season 6 Episode 1What does it mean to taste in context? Professor Julien Delarue joins Esculent to discuss his research on immersive sensory environments and how surroundings—visual, auditory…
- Season 6: Food Scientists · 35 min · Season 6What does it mean to study taste, edibility, and food systems through the scientific method? In our season introduction, co-hosts Professor Charlotte Biltekoff (American Studies…
- A podcast on our podcast, or esculent’s esculence · 41 min · Season 5 Episode 4Esculent is an idea - and one that can be applied, theorized, even rehearsed. This week we self-reflect on the aims of the podcast with host Dr. Elizabeth McQueen and editor…
- Multisensory worlds in the work of Candice Lin, with Professors Hsuan Hsu and Sal Nicolazzo · 46 min · Season 5 Episode 3What happens when art invites us to taste through touch, smell, or atmosphere? Professors Hsuan Hsu and Sal Nicolazzo join the podcast to discuss the interdisciplinary work of…
- *Live* Black Food Futurisms with Nia Lee · 40 min · Season 5 Episode 2Our second live episode, culinary artist Nia Lee joins Esculent following the debut of her performance installation, THE ARCHIVE IS THE BIRTHSEED OF OUR DREAMS at the Manetti…
- Sounding Culinary Time with Heidi Ross · 35 min · Season 5 Episode 1If culinary art is already an “art,” then what does it mean to have an art practice that uses food? Culinary artist Heidi Ross joins us to begin our season on Artists to share…
- Season 5: Artists · 2 min · Season 5Season 5, Artists is finally here. We launch into conversations with artists whose medium is food, matter, and other things esculent. Host: Dr. Elizabeth McQueenProducer: Stace…
- Building an Archive: 3500 Episodes with Chef Martin Yan · 38 min · Season 4 Episode 5Thousands of television episodes leave a mark – not only on digital archives of our food media-saturated world – but on the host, the performer, as well. In the final episode of…
