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Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares a legend from Malaysia that tells how red bananas came to be, and why some cultures choose not to eat these sacred fruits. Craving more? Go back to Episode 76 for the Food Fable on yellow bananas!
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares an original fiction story, creating an origin for folklore that claims eating a passion fruit will cause one to fall in love with the next person they lay eyes on.
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares an original fiction story, creating an origin for folklore that claims eating a passion fruit will cause one to fall in love with the next person they lay eyes on.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares a legend of how peppermint candy canes were invented by a German choirmaster who needed to keep his choir kids quiet during a Christmas ceremony.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares an African folktale that is based off of Aesop’s Fable, The Tortoise and the Hare.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares the history of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), as well as a story inspired by the yearly celebration.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells a story from ancient Greek and Roman mythology about how cabbage (and subsequently kale) came to be, and why kale is traditionally eaten before and after a night of carousing.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable ties together the meaning behind Snake Fruit’s nickname, Fruit of Memory, and its proper name, Salak, which it shares with a legendary haunted mountain in West Java: Mount Salak.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells a legend of Queen Victoria and the fabled extent of her desire for fresh mangosteen.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable explores the apricot’s cultural importance around the world, and also tells a story from Greek mythology about the hero, Hercules, and his mission to steal the golden fruit of Hesperides.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells a legend from Aztec mythology about how the agave plant came to be.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of the kiwi bird from Maori tradition, and shows how the bird came to share its name with the kiwi fruit.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of an ancient Persian creation myth about how humans were born from a rhubarb plant.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells a tale from Filipino folklore of how the papaya tree came to be.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells a legend from Greek mythology about how mint got its name and signature smell.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells a legend from Norse mythology about how the beetroot got its blood-red color.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares several examples of the date’s significance in Middle Eastern culture, and tells a legend from North Africa about one of the most popular date varieties, the Deglet Noor, which translates from Arabic as the “Date of Light”.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of cauliflower’s transformation over history as it evolved from the wild cabbage plant.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the legendary love story of Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei from the Tang Dynasty of ancient China, and shows how Yang’s love for lychee fruit may have led to the Emperor’s own downfall.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of Saint Nicholas, before he became known as Santa Claus, and how his generosity sparked the tradition of leaving oranges in stockings on Christmas Eve.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells of many myths of basil from around the world, notably the legend in Christian tradition of Saint Helena, who was led to an epic discovery on her pilgrimage in Jerusalem thanks to basil plants.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a legend from Bolivia about how potatoes came to be.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a myth from the Philippines that explains how the banana tree came to be. It also highlights several other folk tales and superstitions associated with the fruit from around the world.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells of a few legends surrounding mushrooms and their sometimes curious, circular growth pattern, known in many myths as a fairy ring.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is about a young boy, teasingly nicknamed “Willy Rotten” by his peers, whose father comforts him by telling the story of how giants once roamed the earth, thanks to the medlar fruit. The giants’ origin story is inspired by the works of 16th century author, François Rabelais, which chronicle the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a tale from China about a greedy pear farmer who encounters a monk with a magical pear tree.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is an adaptation from an 1845 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, “The Little Elder Tree Mother”, and it tells the tale of a little boy who discovers the magical powers of the elderberry tree.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a legend from the Philippines that explains how the guava got its name and its crown from a selfish, cruel King who was cursed for his wrongdoings.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a tragic love story about two young Babylonian lovers who are forbidden to marry, so they arrange to meet below a mulberry tree, and their tale tells tells how the mulberry fruit came to be red-purple in color. The original story was related by Roman poet, Ovid, in his work, Metamorphoses, and was famously parodied in an act of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a story from ancient China about a warlord named Cao Cao, whose clever strategy to motivate his army led to the Chinese idiom, "quenching the thirst by thinking of plums”.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a Vietnamese folk tale that takes place in ancient Vietnam during the time of the Hung Kings, and explains how watermelons came to be a common crop in the country thanks to a young Prince who was exiled to a desolate island by the King.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable recounts an ancient Ethiopian legend about a goat herder named Kaldi, who first discovered coffee cherries and their energizing power.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares several examples of the mango’s role in folklore and theology in both India and the Philippines, focusing on the legend of Surya Bai, daughter of the sun, which tells how the mango originated as a symbol of undying love.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a legend from the Philippines, and explains how the Durian fruit wasn’t always so smelly – it was a love potion gone wrong!
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of the legend of the pineapple that originated in the Philippines, and explains how pineapples came to be.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of how Dragon Fruit originated thousands of years ago from fire-breathing creatures, and hence got its name.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
The Food Talk is a special edition episode featuring one or more guests who discuss their experience and connection with produce. This Food Talk episode features Produce Buyer, Forager and Ambassador, Nathan Bochler, who talks about his experiences with citrus in the California market, and discusses the process of discovering new produce items for Specialty Produce.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of a family of farmers in Israel who bring the Sharon Fruit to South Africa, boosting the fruit’s presence in the global market, and bringing hope and opportunity to the local community.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of the cabbage’s role throughout several cultures, and relays an old English tale about how babies come from cabbage patches.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of an ancient Hawaiian myth about the creation of breadfruit thanks to Ku, the war god who saved his family in a time of famine.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of the grapefruit’s mistaken identity as a pomelo, and how the confusion may have started with the man who first brought pomelo seeds to Barbados, Captain Shaddock – or was it Chaddock?
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of how lemons helped to defeat Napoleon through the eradication of scurvy in the 18th century.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of a little girl from Madrid, and her New Year’s Eve adventure with her grandmother to find 12 grapes for the midnight tradition. The grandmother’s retelling of Aesop’s Fable, The Fox and The Grapes, within this Food Fable was adapted from: http://read.gov/aesop/005.html.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
The Food Talk is a special edition episode featuring one or more guests who discuss their experience and connection with produce. This Food Talk episode features Kelly Haag and Cassandra Poindexter of Specialty Produce, who talk about their recent trip to England in search of both new and old apple varieties, and discuss the nuances that go into researching produce items for the Specialty Produce App.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of an ancient Greek myth that explains why the pomegranate is harvested in winter, and how the fruit is responsible for the earth’s four seasons. The pomegranate features prominently in this story of Persephone, daughter of the goddess of harvest, and her marriage to Hades, the god of the underworld.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of a young boy working on a cranberry farm with his grandfather. Each night leading up to Thanksgiving, after harvesting and selling the cranberries at the local farmers markets, the boy listens his grandfather’s retelling of an ancient Native American legend on how cranberries came to be on earth.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of Stingy Jack, the man from Irish folklore who started the tradition of carving Jack-O-Lanterns. Featuring special guest reader, Rick North.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Halloween Special Part 2: Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the conclusion of Episode 27 – Food Fable: Coconuts.
Halloween Special Part 1: Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of three young boys who, after hearing a local legend about the coconut grove in their hometown in Hawaii, venture out into the dark of Halloween night, tracking down the haunted coconut palms. They soon find themselves above their heads in danger, and will have to rely on the legend in order to dig their way out before it’s too late!
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the fictional tale of Jenny Appleseed, a young girl who learns how to deal with life’s lessons and keep herself connected to those who mean the most to her through the familiarity of her favorite fruit – apples.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of a young gangster working for Ciro “Artichoke King” Terranova, a mobster in the Morello crime family who was known for his monopoly of the artichoke market in New York in the 1920s and early 1930s.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of a young boy who is raised on Campbell’s tomato soup and his mother’s tales of the tomato’s role in witchcraft and revolutions. This young boy grows up to be a Pop Art icon, and one of his most-recognized works reflects his tomato-filled upbringing.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of a detective and his bumbling associate, who are called to investigate suspicious poisonings at an upper-class home in the English countryside in the early 17th century. Through his intuitive investigatory skills, the detective comes to find that the poisonings do not lead him to interrogate someone, but rather some thing – the tomato.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of a French spy who traveled to Chile in the 1700s on an expedition entrusted to him by Louis XIV. By his own account, we hear how and why this French spy came across the Chilean strawberry, which he brought home to France, opening the door for the cross between Chilean and Virginia cultivars – the ancestors of our modern-day beloved strawberry.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of a mystical fig tree that is not bound by time or space. The tree itself recounts its memories of visitors who came and went beneath its branches throughout time and across cultures, from Adam and Eve, to Buddha, to Romulus and Remus, and more.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of an old Samurai who suffers tragic loss, but finds solace in his ancestors’ cherry tree, which is growing in his yard. It is a re-telling of a well known Japanese ghost story, Cherry Tree of the Sixteenth Day.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells of Thomas Jefferson’s passion for the gardens of Monticello through his own written word. This letter, addressed to Monticello itself, recounts Jefferson’s memories of the garden’s history, evolution, and future aspirations, and confesses some of Jefferson’s favorite produce items amongst the vast varieties.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration. This week’s Food Buzz is in honor of the upcoming 4th of July holiday!
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of a chef who meets an intriguing, story-telling stewardess named Misty on his long flight from London to Los Angeles. Misty divulges the history of her former babysitter and first woman stewardess in history – Ellen Church – and how she’s been able to maintain a connection with Ellen through their hometown favorite vegetable: asparagus.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable follows an aspiring young journalist in Los Angeles on her quest to uncover the roots of the popular café trend, avocado toast. Her investigation takes her deeper into the history, cultural relevance, and politics of the avocado than she could have imagined, challenging her own relationship with the delicious, fashionable fruit.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
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Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells of the pomelo’s value in Chinese culture as a symbol of good luck, prosperity, and family unity. It follows a Young Man’s journey around the world, from Malaysia to China, Israel, Greece and more, as he seeks to find his love, Clementine. With a little bit of luck – and a pair of pomelos – he just might find her.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is set in 1849, during the gold rush in California. We meet Little Brother, who is on a mission to save his gold-mining Big Brother from Death. Big Brother is suffering from scurvy, and rumors lead Little Brother to believe that a cure can be found in a different kind of gold – citrus. Through the brothers' journey to William Wolfskill’s orange orchard in Los Angeles, California, Little Brother discovers more powers of citrus than he imagined as he uses it carry on his brother’s legacy.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
Meet the Plated Earth hosts, story-tellers, teachers and producers: JJ, Chris, and Kelly. Christ and JJ, the brains behind Plated Earth, interview their producer, Kelly, about why the Specialty Produce App is such an essential piece of history and modern day produce knowledge. Kelly flips the interview to give you a better look into who Chris and JJ are, and their produce mission!