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Show Notes
Las Vegas locals love to hate on the palm trees, but they come with a surprise benefit: they can produce edible fruit. In this big-hit rerun, co-hosts Dayvid Figler and Sarah Lohman — our resident award-winning food historian — talk about the date palm’s winding road from the Middle East to the Mojave, how an Indigenous couple in Nevada saved the Medjool date from extinction, and why the palm-hate isn’t entirely warranted.
Also, Sarah shares two date recipes from her awesome book, Endangered Eating:
Date recipes from Sarah’s book
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