Introducing: Homegoings

SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human by Chip Colwell

Oct 3, 202435:41Science & Medicine

Host Myra Flynn unpacks one soul food recipe: collard greens, with local and world-renowned chefs, and even her own mother. Together they explore how the history of a once undesirable food mimics the resilience, innovati...

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