Exploring the world of science podcasting

Cynthia Graber is co-host/co-founder of the internationally popular and acclaimed podcast Gastropod about the science and history of food. She’s also an award-winning print reporter and radio producer whose work has been featured in magazines and radio shows including Wired, Fast Company, the New Yorker, Studio 360, The World, and many others. She launched Gastropod with Nicola Twilley in 2014; the show covers everything from calories to CRISPR and pawpaws to pudding. They’re regularly featured in “best of” lists and critic’s picks, as well as recognized with awards. The Los Angeles Review of Books called Gastropod “one of the most intelligent food podcasts around,” and WNYC compared the show to “a great cocktail—substantial, nuanced, and not over too fast.” Cynthia spent 2012-2013 as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and is an instructor in the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing, and she was recently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Javeriana University in…