Tuck your napkin under your chin. We’re about to serve up a tale of love, loss, and lamb chops. For as long as she can remember, Amy Pearl has loved meat in all its glorious cuts and marbled flavors. And then one day, for seemingly no reason, her body wouldn’t tolerate it. No steaks. No brisket. No weenies. It made no sense to her or to her doctor: why couldn’t she eat something that she had routinely enjoyed for decades? Something our evolutionary forebears have eaten since time immemorial? The answer involves mysterious maps, interpretive dance, and a collision of three different species. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.
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37m
Broadcast on
27 Oct 2016
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Tuck your napkin under your chin. We’re about to serve up a tale of love, loss, and lamb chops. For as long as she can remember, Amy Pearl has loved meat in all its glorious cuts and marbled flavors. And then one day, for seemingly no reason, her body wouldn’t tolerate it. No steaks. No brisket. No weenies. It made no sense to her or to her doctor: why couldn’t she eat something that she had routinely enjoyed for decades? Something our evolutionary forebears have eaten since time immemorial? The answer involves mysterious maps, interpretive dance, and a collision of three different species. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.
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Anyway, let's go. Are we rolling? We're going? We're rolling. Okay. I'm Robert Krollich. This is RadioLab. And today we're going to begin with a conversation between Dan Pashman. Okay. Host of a podcast here at WNYC called The Spork Fault. It's about food and Amy Pearl. Amy. Yes. A digital producer here at the station who likes food. And the conversation they had was about something that happened to Amy, which he never expected certainly didn't want. And yet it could happen to any of us at any time. So years ago before any of this happened to you, just tell me what was your relationship with meat? My relationship with meat. Yeah. Well, you know, how when you're little and your mom is like, you can have any special dinner for your birthday. My dinner was meatballs. And she was like, accept meatballs. They're so hard to make, so it was pot roast. And then Peter, you know, Peter Luger. Famous steakhouse in Brooklyn. Yeah. I used to go there quite often and I live there. And I have a Peter Luger credit card. Are those hard to get? You know, I don't know how they give them out, but nobody seems to have one.
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Tuck your napkin under your chin. We’re about to serve up a tale of love, loss, and lamb chops. For as long as she can remember, Amy Pearl has loved meat in all its glorious cuts and marbled flavors. And then one day, for seemingly no reason, her body wouldn’t tolerate it. No steaks. No brisket. No weenies. It made no sense to her or to her doctor: why couldn’t she eat something that she had routinely enjoyed for decades? Something our evolutionary forebears have eaten since time immemorial? The answer involves mysterious maps, interpretive dance, and a collision of three different species. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.
