Plated Earth

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable recounts an ancient Ethiopian legend about a goat herder named Kaldi, who first discovered coffee cherries and their energizing power.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable shares several examples of the mango’s role in folklore and theology in both India and the Philippines, focusing on the legend of Surya Bai, daughter of the sun, which tells how the mango originated as a symbol of undying love.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a legend from the Philippines, and explains how the Durian fruit wasn’t always so smelly – it was a love potion gone wrong!

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of the legend of the pineapple that originated in the Philippines, and explains how pineapples came to be.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of how Dragon Fruit originated thousands of years ago from fire-breathing creatures, and hence got its name.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

The Food Talk is a special edition episode featuring one or more guests who discuss their experience and connection with produce. This Food Talk episode features Produce Buyer, Forager and Ambassador, Nathan Bochler, who talks about his experiences with citrus in the California market, and discusses the process of discovering new produce items for Specialty Produce.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of a family of farmers in Israel who bring the Sharon Fruit to South Africa, boosting the fruit’s presence in the global market, and bringing hope and opportunity to the local community.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of the cabbage’s role throughout several cultures, and relays an old English tale about how babies come from cabbage patches.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable is a retelling of an ancient Hawaiian myth about the creation of breadfruit thanks to Ku, the war god who saved his family in a time of famine.

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of the grapefruit’s mistaken identity as a pomelo, and how the confusion may have started with the man who first brought pomelo seeds to Barbados, Captain Shaddock – or was it Chaddock?

The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.

Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of how lemons helped to defeat Napoleon through the eradication of scurvy in the 18th century.