Meet the Man Who Found, Finagled, and Ferried Home the Foods We Eat Today

You’ve probably never heard of David Fairchild. But if you’ve
savored kale, mango, peaches, dates, grapes, a Meyer lemon, or a
glass of craft beer lately, you’ve tasted the fruits of his
globe-trotting travels in search of the world’s best crops—and his
struggles to get them back home to the United States. This episode,
we talk to Daniel Stone, author of The Food Explorer, a new book
all about Fairchild’s adventures. Listen in now for tales of
pirates and biopiracy, eccentric patrons and painful betrayals, as
well as the successes and failures that shaped not only the way we
eat, but America’s place in the world. Learn more about your ad
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