All this week, the City Cast team is treating you to some of our favorite food and drink episodes from 2022. We're starting off with — what else? — Heinz ketchup.
Can you imagine sitting down with a crispy plate of fries, reaching for your trusty bottle of ketchup, and watching it explode? It was a real problem in the late 19th century! But our very own H.J. Heinz figured it out — or rather, he had one very special fan who did it for him. We're revisiting our conversation with Gastro Obscura's Sam Lin-Sommer about how it all went down.
Check out Sam's story, "When Every Ketchup But One Went Extinct," which draws a ton from a book by Andrew F. Smith called "Pure Ketchup: A History of America's National Condiment."
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