Chocpocalypse Now! Quarantine and the Future of Food

We’ve dropped hints and left clues—and now, at long last,
Gastropod’s very own Nicola Twilley has published her first book!
Co-written with her husband Geoff Manaugh, Until Proven Safe: The
History and Future of Quarantine is a captivating chronicle of
quarantine across time, space, and species (and yes, they started
writing the book long before 2020). Just for you, dear Gastropod
listeners, we have a special episode in which, for the first time
ever, your intrepid hosts sit on opposite sides of the (virtual)
table, as Cynthia interviews Nicky and Geoff about the quarantines
that protect our food. Why do 75 billion bees get stopped in the
dusty California desert every spring, and why does every single
cacao plant that gets shipped around the world have to pass through
one town in England? What are sentinel plots, and how are they
protecting our wheat supply? And why on earth did Nicky and Geoff
get naked, put on Crocs and Tyvek suits, and burn their notes on a
reporting trip? All this, plus a video game for quarantine
inspectors, in your feeds now! Quarantine: boring to live through,
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