We covered miracle fruit here 14 months before the Times did, and were excited to find out that next week, ethnobotanist Nat Bletter will be talking about (and providing samples of) miracle fruit at the monthly meeting of the Experimental Cuisine Collective. The group fashions science as a focal point for their ongoing conversations about food and cooking. Past topics at the free monthly workshops have included ice cream that stretches like rubber and the sense umami. Along with miracle fruit next week, Bletter will also demonstrate the effects of two other taste-altering plants—the enigmatically named sugar destroyer and toothache plant. Perhaps the next annus mirabilis belongs to one of these little guys. more ›