Rachel S. Gross
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255 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 18 Aug
Rachel S. Gross’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is you on Carolina Reaper Pepper, huh?
I know.
It just keeps It keeps giving and
Do not.
Do not even open the jar.
jar.
I promise I was not trying to unleash a chemical bomb on Nikki and her husband Jeff.
The lid to the jar of Carolina Reaper chili powder apparently came off in the mail.
She was copying throughout our entire next recording session.
I do still feel bad about it.
I mean the guy who sold me all the chilies we bought for this episode, including the Carolina Reaper, he told me we have to be so very careful with it.
He was in pain for twenty minutes just from pouring it into jars for sale, from inhaling the dust.
I do literally know how he feels, sadly.
Yes, this episode we are deliberately subjecting ourselves to the chili pepper burn.
That's what we do for you, dear listeners.
We, of course, are Gastropod, the podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history.
I'm Cynthia Graber.
surprisingly, I have pretty much the same setup in my kitchen as Nikki does.
I have hot sauce on the table for nearly every meal, including breakfast.
But I started to get a little nervous hearing her cough, which made me wonder, why do we humans love something that sometimes feels like it's trying to
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