Hello and welcome to this brought to you by bonus episode.

We just finished our latest season with a story about nearest green, the man who taught

Jack Daniel how to make whiskey.

And if you haven't heard it yet, be sure to go check it out.

Well now our team is hard at work reporting new episodes for upcoming season.

But in the meantime, I wanted to share a story with you from another podcast that I think

you might like.

Consider this kind of a book club, but for podcasts.

This week our story comes from Proof, the podcast from America's Test Kitchen.

Proof goes beyond recipes and cooking to investigate the foods we love and to uncover hidden

back stories and big questions that surround them.

This is very up our alley.

Today, the true story of the Miracle Berry, a fruit that causes sour foods to taste sweet

and the company that almost made it mainstream.

I never heard of the Miracle Berry and there's a reason.

As you'll hear, there's a lot of money at stake in the big business of making food taste

sweet.

It's a story full of twists and turns, conspiracy theories, sabotage, even a little good old

fashion espionage.

All that proofs host Bridget Lancaster and producer Sarah Joyner take it from here.

On a late summer evening in August of 1974, Dr. Robert Harvey and his business partner,

Don Emory, were heading to Dr. Harvey's home for dinner.

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