Whether garlic is a sensory delight or a social horror is the big question in this week’s Improbable Research podcast.
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This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Yale/MIT/Harvard biomedical researcher Chris Cotsapas — tells about:
- Garlic —A Sensory Pleasure or a Social Nuisance?— “Garlic: A Sensory Pleasure or a Social Nuisance?” Susanna Rosin, Hely Tuorila, and Antti Uutela, Appetite, vol. 19, no. 2, October 1992, pp. 133-43.
- Garlic, garlic, garlic.
- One woman’s personal video testimony about why she eats raw garlic:
The mysterious John Schedler or the shadowy Bruce Petschek perhaps did the sound engineering this week.
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