Gut Check: Is the Stomach Your Second Brain?
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.4 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, we uncover everything you never knew about the stomach, including its ability to think. Author Elsa Richardson also reveals ancient medical practices for quieting a gurgling gut, and we find out just how similar human and dog stomachs are. Plus, Florence Fabricant of The New York Times discusses the best and worst in food writing; and Kim Severson untangles the recent rise in egg prices.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Chris Kimball here. You know, summer will be here shortly. |
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| 0:30.8 | This is Milk Street Radio from PRX and I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. |
| 0:36.8 | Today we're touring our stomachs with Elsa Richardson. |
| 0:40.5 | She says a couple of centuries ago, it was common to blame your stomach issues on workplace stress. |
| 0:46.4 | It was written up in a series called Diseases of the Desk. |
| 0:50.1 | Which are all about, you know, the terrible kind of gastric harm that you can do to yourself |
| 0:56.1 | by sitting too late at the desk, not eating anything apart from some dry crackers, |
| 1:02.3 | getting really stressed out about this workload that you've got, |
| 1:05.4 | and that this all becomes something which causes indigestion and various other kind of gastric ills. |
| 1:12.6 | An eternity of wrestling with her guts that's coming up later in the show. |
| 1:17.2 | But first is my conversation with a true legend of food media, Florence Fabrican. |
| 1:22.8 | Florence has been a food writer at the New York Times since 1972. |
| 1:27.1 | Over her career, she's reviewed restaurants, |
| 1:29.4 | critique cookbooks, and expertly honed her opinions on how we cook and eat. Florence, welcome to |
| 1:36.7 | Milk Street. Glad to be here. So you got started before I did. I got started in 1980. You got started |
| 1:42.7 | in 72. Yeah. |
| 1:45.0 | Your first piece at the East Hampton Star was about tomatoes. |
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