What even IS a breadfruit? How do you cook it? Why have Pacific Islanders grown it for so long? Can it solve world hunger? And what does it have to do with an infamous 18th century mutiny on the high seas? Pack your bags and hop aboard for not one but two island excursions to learn all about this rev-u’lu-tionary tropical staple. We start on a breezy Catalina Island dock to hear about the ethnobotany and ecobiology of breadfruit from Dr. Noa Kekuewa Lincoln before making our way to a farm tucked away on Hawaii’s Big Island for a tour from research assistant and PhD candidate Dolly Autufuga. On the itinerary: learning where it grows to planting one in your backyard to what’s that white sticky stuff and how do you make sure it doesn’t drop on your noggin? Let’s go Field Tripping.
Learn more about the Rev-u’lu-tion at EatBreadfruit.com
Follow Dr. Noa Kekuewa Lincoln at the Hawai‘i ‘Ulu Cooperative
A donation went to the Chef Hui Fund, via EatBreadfruit.com
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Smologies (short, classroom-safe) episodes
Other episodes you may enjoy:
Indigenous Cusinology (NATIVE COOKING), Ethnoecology (ETHNOBOTANY/NATIVE PLANTS), Indigenous Fashionology (NATIVE CLOTHING), Pomology (APPLES), Indigenous Pedology (SOIL SCIENCE), Island Ecology (ISLANDS), Foraging Ecology (EATING WILD PLANTS), Coffeeology (YEP, COFFEE), Black American Magriology (FOOD, RACE, & CULTURE), Diabetology (BLOOD SUGAR), Dendrology Encore, Oceanology Encore, Volcanology,
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Birds of Prey and Raptor Facts, I Chased the 2024 Eclipse with Umbraphiles, I Take You to the Making of a Mural, I Go France and Learn Weird France Stuff
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