“A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world.“

This week's guest:

Heather Arndt Anderson is an award-winning author, food writer, and botanist. Heather is the author of four books on culinary history and wrote the Pacific Northwest chapter in the 4-volume Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2011). Her work has been quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic. Her recipes have been published in the cookbooks One Big Table: 600 Recipes from the Nation’s Best Home Cooks, Farmers, Fishermen, Pit-Masters, and Chefs, and Boozy Brunch: The Quintessential Guide to Daytime Drinking. Heather is a contributing writer to the magazines Roads & Kingdoms,Taste, Portland Monthly, Render Feminist Food & Culture Quarterly, Narratively,Remedy Quarterly,and Fish & Game Quarterly. She has appeared on “The Splendid Table” and is a regular panelist on the James Beard- and IACP award-winning podcast, “The Four Top.”Heather runs a test kitchen from her home in Portland, Oregon, where she develops recipes and content for food brands, teaches cooking and pickling classes, and tests recipes for cookbooks by other authors.