Nomcast
Nomcast
The podcast where we take a deep dive into your food and splash around to see what we can find. Visit phenomenom.com.au for more information.Social links:
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Nomcast Episode 14 – Onions special part 3: Umami
The tricky world of tastes explodes with flavour as we unpack the joys of sweet, salty, bitter and sour … and new kid on the block, umami. We look at how cooks around the world carefully layer up flavours to create rich, satisfying and compelling dishes. Pass the pepper.
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Nomcast Episode 13 – Onions special part 2: Gut health
With about 40 trillion bacteria in your gut, it can get crowded at times. This episode of Nomcast squashes and squeezes its way through our digestive tract and plops out some pretty surprising facts about gut health and poo. It’s transformative!
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Nomcast Episode 12 – Onions special part 1: Soil health
It’s right under your feet, and it’s full of life! We take a deep dive into what happens when organic matter gets mixed and blended to make the fabulousness of rich soil that affects the food we eat. On the way we meet some sneak thieves and witness a magic trick.
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The Good Mood Food Special Part 3 - Mindfulness and Rest
A special three-part series on all the weird, wonderful, and warmhearted connections we can find between food and mood. Part three is about the connections between natural foods, natural spaces, meditation and the benefits of rest. This episode is also available in animated form here.
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The Good Mood Food Special Part 2 - Sharing
A special three-part series on all the weird, wonderful, and warmhearted connections we can find between food and mood. Part two is about sharing food. And why it’s been making us all full up in our hearts, minds and stomachs since before the word ‘food’ was even invented. This episode is also ava…
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The Good Mood Food Special Part 1 - Moving
A special three-part series on all the weird, wonderful, and warmhearted connections we can find between food and mood. Part one is about how and why humans get up and move. And what this can mean for how we think and feel. This episode is also available in animated form here.
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Nomcast Episode 8 - Against all odds: where in the universe does your garden grow?
The climate is changing, people are adapting and life is sprouting in corners of the world you probably didn’t even know existed. It’s time to find out how foods survive in some of the harshest conditions of the known universe. For show notes, quiz answers and teacher resources, visit https://pheno…
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Nomcast Episode 7 - Food & Sound: listen to what the taste is saying
Did you know taste has a sound, and sound has a taste? Let’s lean in close and take a big bite into the bittersweet world of the audio-flavour. For show notes, quiz answers and teacher resources, visit https://phenomenom.com.au/nomcast/episode-7/.
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Nomcast Episode 6 - Fake or Fact: eating, drinking and living in the post-truth world
Nutrition is a minefield of half-truths and flat out furphies. Let’s look at some of the biggest lies in the industry and figure out how to live and eat in the real world. For show notes, quiz answers and teacher resources, visit https://phenomenom.com.au/nomcast/episode-6/.
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Nomcast Episode 5 - Funky Foods: flavours and functionality from fabulous fermentation
From the battlefields of ancient Japan to the emergency stink zones of contemporary Melbourne, it turns out fermentation has a pretty wild story to tell. For show notes, quiz answers and teacher resources, visit https://phenomenom.com.au/nomcast/episode-5/.
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