Hippo For Thanksgiving w/ Dan Pashman [Thanksgiving Week]

<p><em>This Thanksgiving Week, some episodes favorite about community, what binds us -- and food!</em></p><p>It’s April 2nd. This day in 1910, a Louisiana senator proposes allocating a quarter of a million dollars to import hippos from Africa and grow them in American swamps, then harvest them for food.</p><p>Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Dan Pashman of The Sporkful to talk about how the hippo plan was intended to solve a hunger and ecological crisis — and why Americans never quite found the taste for hippo meat.</p><p>Be sure to check out Dan’s podcast and the <a href="http://www.sporkful.com/tag/mission-impastable/"><strong>new pasta shape he created</strong></a>!</p><p><strong>Sign up for our newsletter!</strong> We’ll be sending out links to all the stuff we recommended later this week.</p><p>Find out more at <a href="http://thisdaypod.com/"><strong>thisdaypod.com</strong></a></p><p>This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.</p><p>Your s...