Most people have heard of ouzo from Greece, pastis from France or Italian sambuca but few know that they're all derived from the mother spirit, arak - the oldest spirit in the world. Nader Muaddi, a Philadelphia-born Palestinian, is working to change that while restoring arak to it's former glory. Join us as we launch season 3 of Point of Origin, in conversation with journalist Lyric Lewin as she travels to Muaddi's distillery and learn what makes this milky distillate unique.
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Introducing the Whetstone Radio Collective
Food Apartheid: (And Why We Don't Call it a Food Desert)
The Morality of Meat
Black Coffee
Beyond the Wheat
What Do We Mean When We Say Food Anthropology?
Spoiled Milk
Green Gold: Avocado Farming in Mexico
Wine of Volcano and Sea
Fulani Foodways with Chef Binta
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Indigenous Foodways: The Decolonized Diet
A New, New Nordic?
Culinary Commodities
Third Culture
One-on-One with Reem Assil
Natural Wine: Part 2
Natural Wine: It’s Alive!
Korean Food and Modernity
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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