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The History of American FoodCrossover... Part 15: SLAP! Achievement Unlocked Zorro S1E5 on Amazon Prime*THIS* is the don't listen at work part of the feed. I'll include this for all the naughty episodes. And Zorro - he's a Bad Boy? Bad Girl? Oh heck... it's just how bad people can be when it all becomes about money, power and entertaining TV.So have you been following along?Now that we have our major players set up - and the relationships are established we can really get the plates spinning:Secret Societies - checkLove Triangle - checkTwin Brothers - checkMysterious/Nefarious Death - chec...2024-12-131h 14The History of American FoodCrossover… Part 14: It’s Definitely a Telenovela - Now With Twins - Zorro S1E4 on Amazon PrimeLook - I should really plan better when I take an unexpected trip to Romania. But I did not. Enjoy all the same. #NSFWThings just get more. More more. Oh you were confused last week? Well it doesn't get any better this week. If anything it gets worse... more soupy, more sloppy, more salacious.Greta badly speaks more Spanish - but mainly in the service of the 2! DOS! Zorros issue.Jamie is baffled by the twins issue - not twin Zorros, just regular Telenovella twins.Excitement as we are in N...2024-11-021h 16The History of American FoodCrossover... Part 13: What The Hell Is Going On, 1st Installment - Zorro S1E3 on Amazon PrimeAs long as you remember... this is the NSFW Bonus part, come on along.We are back in Alta California when the wine was Spanish, and the churches were all adobe. Americans were eyeing the other side of the continent... but only in a desultory manner. Snd the richest people of the land - were giant jerks with no thought of the little people actaully doing all the labor, or the local tribes who had been there for a minute. Like a real long time.Anyway - if you'd like to Telanovela up your history, let's Zo...2024-10-181h 09The History of American FoodCrossover... Part 12: No Tapas, But This Has EVERYTHING Else - Zorro S1E2 on Amazon PrimeIn case you are new here - these are the NSFW Eps. Not serious food content, fit for sharing with everyone. Instead, we are being silly about media - mostly about the 19th Century. And there are swears. Sharing this becasue this Zorro series wonderful escapist nonsense.Catch Season 1 of Zorro on Amazon Prime Video to watch alongThis episode is where this show goes mask off and shows it’s Telenovela True Colors.Go watch this episode first on Amazon Prime. Twists, Turns, Escándalo! & we just sorted out that Dani Rojas from Ted Lasso...2024-10-041h 11The History of American FoodCrossover... Part 11: So What if Zorro - but a Telenovela and So Much Fun? - Zorro S1E1 on Amazon PrimeIn case you are new here - these are the NSFW Eps. Not serious food content, fit for sharing with everyone. Instead, we are being silly about media - mostly about the 19th Century. And there are swears. Sharing this becasue this Zorro series is very joyously fun.Catch Season 1 of Zorro on Amazon Prime Video to watch alongAfter watching the movie Zorro - it became clear, we need more of Zorro. We also need more of the 19th Century Americas... from something other than the USA America perspective. Because, during the 19th century, the Americ...2024-09-061h 17
The History of American FoodCrossover... Part 10: The End, Or Is It? Is there a Shogun Multiverse Now? - Shogun Ep 10In case you are new here - these are the NSFW Eps. Not serious food content, fit for sharing. Instead, we are being silly about media - mostly about the 19th Century. Though here, about the new SHOGUN becasue - so VERY COOL!So we've come to the end of Shogun - a story that both haunted and informed us in our younger years. Racist, Orientalist - as a book, YES! But this version. as far as I'm concerned redeems the Entire Venture. And as a 1970's work written by a former prisoner of war during the Jap...2024-08-231h 00The History of American FoodCrossover... Part 9: Death & Other Heartbreaks - Shogun Ep 9In case you are new here - these are the NSFW Eps. Not serious food content, fit for sharing. Instead, we are being silly about media - mostly about the 19th Century. Though here, about the new SHOGUN becasue - so VERY COOL!With that out of the way - Are Jamie & Greta fighting? Is Mariko sad about her son no longer being hers - or did she just eat some bad fish, and never really cared? But at least everyone can agree that Yabushige is the master of the expressive grunt, even if Fuji is the qu...2024-08-091h 07The History of American FoodCrossover... Part 8: Of Course It's A Trap - Shogun Ep 8This is NSFW or small children. You know the drill.If you want to get to the end - and to more fun stuff - go check out the regular feed at Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters.I dunno what is up with this episode, but the comparrisons are flying fast and thick. But what really matters is Greta's synopsis of Romeo & Juliet along with the implication that Toronaga is actually a bit of a Drama Queen and the analysis of Japanese house construction technology.There's the problem with what happens when you do try to go...2024-07-271h 15The History of American FoodCrossover... Part 7: Emo Lyrics & Silly Hats - Shogun Ep 7This is NSFW or small children. You know the drill.If you want to get to the end - and to more fun stuff - go check out the regular feed at Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters.Curious George should have taught us - be wary of the man in the unusual hat. But we just won't learn.Good stories, expert kneeling and why does everyone feel the need to share their relationship woes in the midst of the most tenuous moments?Kilingon revelations & more Zombie Buntaro for all of us to enjoy,As alw...2024-07-121h 16The History of American FoodCrossover... Part 6: If You Stay War, Don't Gotta Get War - Shogun Ep 6As long as you know... ehhhhh not so safe for work. But this means something even when there's no ep this week!TIme to do the WAR!And come join us over on Prizefighters, Circusfreaks & Gangsters - so you can get to the end of the series!Join us to find out WHO IS CORRECT!Jamie says there's no fighting this episode.Greta says there's lots of fighting - you just have to listen for it.And then there's the whole thing where we discuss just how bad the Y...2024-06-281h 14The History of American FoodCrossover... Part 5: 044 Truly Earthshaking - Shogun Ep 5As long as you know... ehhhhh not so safe for work. But this means something even when there's no ep this week!But Let's go earthquakes.And come join us over on Prizefighters, Circusfreaks & Gangsters - so you can get to the end of the series!---What show can bring you managerial manipulation, whispers of medival animal cruelty, zombie family insights and pheasant fetishization?Shogun of course - and as always with phenominal costumes and nice views of some of the behind the scenes that are required to run the w...2024-06-071h 24The History of American FoodCrossover... Part 4: 043 Housekeeping, Deception & a Training Montage - Shogun Ep 4Heads up! NSFW, Not E for Everyone. Think - F for FunWant to get more of the Shogun?Head over to Prizefighters, Circusfreaks & Gangsters - we're up to Ep 7! BUt in the meantime... you can just sit back and listen to us take apart and give context to 17th Century Japan.As always - you can reach us on the internets.Jamie Lewis (plagueofstrength.com & IG @plagueofstrength)&Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over)Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast2024-05-171h 26The History of American FoodCrossover... Part 3: 042 Is That How You Use the Rules? - Shogun Ep 3Heads up! NSFW, Not E for Everyone. Think - F for FunLook you guys... Ep 4 & Ep 5 are already up on the other feed. No need to wait!I'm super glad you are digging this bonus content.If you want more just subscribe to the main Prizefighters Circus Freak & Gangsters PodcastWe are like this ALL the time, and you get to learn ALL the new stuff - ok all the new stuff about the old stuff.Come enjoy it all.As always - you can reach us on t...2024-05-031h 00
The History of American FoodSpecial Ep Crossover: 040 This Time in Japan - Shogun Ep 1Heads up! NSFW, Not E for Everyone. Think - F for FunIt is KILLING me that I get featured while on a research break!I mean yes - head for the back catalog... but if you are a "what's new" kinda listener I gotta let you have something.So - for fun, here's a crossover episode from my other podcast - Prizefighters, Circusfreaks & Gangsters - which is mainly about the mayhem that was the 19th century in America and the hot nonsense that is most of the media that depicts the 19th Ce...2024-04-031h 23
The History of American Food073 18th Century Hogs - The Start of the Pork IndustryHey!Hey, Guess what?Did you know that pigs have many names... and many fats. No, please. Wait. Don't run away from me. I'm really here to talk about dental health and delcious sausages. Does this sound like a strange pairing. You migh be correct. Anyway. I just got back from a Boucherie. For the 5th time, so maybe that's a lame excuse. Really, what I'm trying to say is there is no modern American breakfast without piggies. Ask me how. I dare you? No I mean that nicely. I have sausages I desperately want you to...2023-01-2528 minThe History of American Food072 18th Century Pumpkins - Not ExcitingThis week we are about to lose an original member off the leader board.But before the pumpkin slips away for a few seasons, I'll share with you why American food pumpkin dishes are so boring, despite this country being the home of the pumpkin, plus another slightly terrifying but very surprising fact.So enjoy!Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFoodPost: @THoAFood2023-01-1819 minThe History of American Food071 Thar She Blows – The Rise of the 18th Century Oil IndustryWell, well, well. Still not eating whale are we? Why in the heck are you talking about whale in a food podcast then? Turns out the global trade that lead to the pelagic (open ocean) whaling trade is a follow on of the "food for sea" in development.The same thinking about food in action (travel food) will become essential to soon-future-America's expansionist and war dreams (not always different).Anyway - reading at night used to smell like whale oil... if you were lucky.Look at that glow of your phone a bit differently my friend.2023-01-1135 minThe History of American Food070 The History of WhalingThis week one of my cats makes his debut in sound design. His playing about in the closet makes me it seem as if I have Very Strong Feelings about trends in rich people food. But mostly this is a look into the past of large-whale eating on a global scale up until about the 18th century. There are also surprises around how long it took Europeans to agree that whales are not fish. The pre-modern relationship to fat comes in to play - when you are most of your own heating source for most of the day...2023-01-0435 minThe History of American Food069.5 Bonus - Ice Science, Fire Science & EnergyOK - No regular episode, just a bonus one. But the season of Misrule is just going to do that to us here in the 18th Century. It's kindof a chemistry class - but worry not - no tests and no homework.This feels like a timely episode for those of us in the snow belt, since it helps you understand why salting the sidewalk prevents ice. But mainly I take the long way - through fire and dynamite - to explain why you make ice from water by causing already frozen ice to melt using salt.2022-12-2129 minThe History of American Food069 18th Century Deer are Somehow Rustic & Fancy & MoneyDeer are really cute. Well baby deer are cute. We've been making pictures of them for ages. We've been making pants and shoes and stuff of deer generally for even longer though. And while people generally agree that deer are darn tasty, Americans continue to regard them as either exotic meat or food for the fancy rich or the rustic poor - but never everyday food for normal people. Not for regular Americans on a regular basis anyway. Some of the the why may lie in the 18th century colonial adventures with deer.Music Credit: Fingerlympics...2022-12-1432 minThe History of American Food068 Wood Part II - Charcoal, BBQ & Mellowed Spirits & a Peek at WarWood continues to do it all!But this time, mainly as charcoal. It makes iron, it ages booze, it's necessary for barbecue, it makes gunpowder. Charcoal - where did it come from, how does it happen, and a whole list of things it can do. Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood2022-12-0726 minThe History of American Food067 Wood Part I - Money in Masts & BarrelsWood! It is back, and now it's worth money.You get to hear about how the iron industry wrecked English wood stocks, the King's Broad Arrow, crusty New Hampshire-ians & the Pine Tree Riot, fancy woodworking and just how there were so many MANY barrels rolling around the New World. Oh and how you can date pictures approximately by looking at the hoops on barrels. This week the blog will also have really pretty pictures of marquetry - that is - fancy wood inlay. Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood...2022-11-3023 minThe History of American FoodReprise! 030 Turkey - No Disasters - Just the BirdI was almost done with this super cool look at wood and charcoal - and then my computer went down. I have to completely rewrite the 6 pages I already had - AHHHHH! Even the outline I wrote for myself went POOF!But enough doom and gloom. Instead of killing myself, I'm hitting the kitchen to make béchamel and lots of delicious other stuff. And you can revisit my Tour de Turkey.Plus a blast from the past of 1901.See you next week - back in my usual form.------F...2022-11-2324 minThe History of American Food066 You Call That a Biscuit?Biscuit Biscuit BiscuitThere are few baking words that can elicit so much general consternation.Cupcake - maybe? But mostly not since most of the world can agree on cupcake, but biscuit is a word that means so many and yet also some deadly specific things to some people.How did this mess get stared? I don't claim to have all the answers - but I do have some.Rock hard - to middle stage to fluffy - I can explain!So come along, and find out what the heck!2022-11-1626 minThe History of American Food065 Cream & Pudding & Cake that is Not a LieBy the end of the 18th century - we are SO CLOSE to ice cream - but we are not there yet. But I want to set the scene that dessert is becoming a thing, and that all the pieces are there. Sitting there, just waiting to be ice cream.I mean Jefferson has a recipe in his own hand - likely told to him by his enslaved, Paris trained, French speaking, Black cook, James Hemmings. And George Washington had an ice cream freezer among his presidential party throwing accoutrements - likely used by his masterful enslaved cook...2022-11-0925 minThe History of American Food064 Milk & Butter MoneyEnter the Dairy Maid - or Milk Maid, I'll accept either answer.They were one of the these groups of women who used to be a skilled worker, but that pesky no being able to sign contracts or own stuff really stifled the ability to do any business beyond work for wages. Funny that. But in the 18th century and the rise of Dairies as stand alone businesses because there was A) land to have themand B) large bustling cities that worked as a customer baseyou could start to get...2022-11-0221 minThe History of American Food063 Beef - It's American Food NowThis week the ox stops being fancy food for fancy people and becomes workaday food for city people and sailors alike. But it also became manly party food all at the same time.I explain why its ox, not cow - but will be cow again.Here's Bugs Bunny in the Bull Fighting Ring - nostalgia or new? Just watch it. It's all fun.https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yzp40Not up on yourColonial History of New Spain? Here's a cheat sheet on Coronado - https://www.desertusa.com/desert-trails/coronado-expedition-cibola.html2022-10-2624 minThe History of American Food062 Rice - In the Carolina KitchenSo many Links this week!But great places to visit - a blog, a rice foundation, a shop for all things (many things?) Carib - I admit I'm excited about that one. There's not much Caribbean representation on my Global Shopping Street.But most exciting of all - the exposure of fakes and the possibility of breaking news!Rice pretends like its a background player - but it's a drama grain.A savory calas (rice croquette) recipe: https://www.poppytooker.com/calasOh - just look up Poppy Tooker, this a New...2022-10-1929 minThe History of American Food061 18th Century North American Rice - A HistoryAmerican Rice - Voyage the FirstSome of the rice might have started from Asia, but all of it came directly from Africa.But which side - the West, or from Madagascar? How from Madagascar - isn't that all the way over on the east side?Yes to all of this. The who and the when - kindof - are all covered. And learn what a monocot is. You'll have to look up the spelling of cotyledon on your own. Oh wait. You can see how it's spelled there.But a video...2022-10-1224 minThe History of American Food060 Cider - The Drink of Liberty! Only Royalists Drink BeerFor more of Me & Jess talking about SpiceVisit: https://theflakyfoodie.com/Watch: https://youtu.be/K_2pZ3VhbwQListen: https://theflakyfoodie.com/2022/09/447/For Juneteenth - https://theflakyfoodie.com/2022/08/19-juneteenth-365-with-nicole-a-taylor-watermelon-redbirds/Grilled Cheese: https://theflakyfoodie.com/2022/09/21-grilled-cheese-restaurant-impossible-with-tim-of-the-melting-truck/And Finnish Sandwich Cake: https://theflakyfoodie.com/2022/05/16-finnish-food-sauna-culture-and-more-with-rachael-jukarainen/This week - cider takes center stage, hip checking beer out of the spotlight. And it comes with opinions on liberty and labor. Carrie Nation will come for cider later, but in the 18th century was the virtuous drink, over wine, brandy, rum and even beer.2022-10-0527 minThe History of American Food059 Beer - That Good Civilized Drink, Cider is for Rubes!Beer! It's as American as apple pie. Or maybe its English? Or German? OK - Colonial Beer has a bit of an identity crisis. Can you call it beer if it doesn't even contain malted grain?Anyway spruce is the trendy thing - or hop tea? Anyway, there's not much dry hopping because the little buggers are expensive, the best way to get the most power out of them is to boil the dickens out of them... right?Look - lots was going on in 18th century beer. Come along and find out. And discover if...2022-09-2824 minThe History of American Food058 Tarts & Sweet PiesWe have the bored rich to blame for tiny little bite size tarts. As busy colonials with outdoor ovens and too many things to do, we made our tarts big - and to go at meal times.We will, alas have to wait for the coffee cake.The liver pudding could go in the second course, but honestly, everyone would prefer the marrow pudding. Even more than that - lets go with the fruit tarts - because that's what the busy cook and the sugar happy colonials want. Like so much spice - complex sweet...2022-09-2128 minThe History of American Food057 Pie - Savory Kinds & the Original Hot PocketsSpelling Guide:PIE & PYESea Pie - the English version with no fish. Fancy or only 2 meats as you will.Cipaille, Cipâtes (spelling like the filling is up for debate, if not inviting argument) - Quebecois. 3 meats is most common. Regional variations with vegetables and spices or not. Onions almost always.Six-Pâtes as you will - higher and with more meats is best for that true Louis XIV Sun King feel. An historical curiosity.Head on over to the blog for nursery rhymes, coffin lids, and spanakopita hand pie re...2022-09-1435 minThe History of American Food056 Wheat & Barley - The Rise of 18th Century American TechAmerica has long been known as a Destination for Innovation. But what if I told you the innovation was ...a) just editing on the hard work of many individual from many civilizations? &b) lots of the hard scut work was done in colonies before there were even was an America?OK... ok ok there's more to it than that. But it is high time we recognize that sweeping innovations are ALWAYS the result of immersion in the contemporary environment. Sure, some jumps are bigger than others, but no innovation can exist without the thing it...2022-09-0740 minThe History of American Food055 18th Century Legumes - Creating the American BeanWhat a disappointment, beans. The green bean - the French bean - how this quintessential American food got that name, I'll explain - is the only fancy tasty bean. The rest, and sad stand-ins for when there's no meat.And since the British diner - at home or in the colonies - doesn't use garlic, except as a cough remedy, it's unlikely they could even enjoy beans. Except down south, where spiced and smoked pork, the cayan pepper, and rice are all conspiring to bring the black-eyed pea to a good place.But...2022-08-3124 minThe History of American Food054.5 Bonus Scurvy - What it is, How to Cure it & Why Modern Society Keeps Bringing it BackWhat better time to explain scurvy (a very gross disease) - than right after my paean to the 18th century orange?Learn it's causes, what it looks like, how to prevent and how to cure it - including, eat your cabbage!This is the first in what will be an ongoing series in the diseases of deprivation that haunt us humans. Stay tuned for the greatest hits that includes things like pellagra, rickets and goiter! And become much more grateful for some of the food additives and cooking rules that are part of our daily lives...2022-08-1729 minThe History of American Food054 18th Century Oranges - Bitter, not SweetOrange - a strange word, and important fruit - not just in the kitchen, but as a political symbol as well. Come hear about it all, and some mythbusting about the origins of marmalade - and the defense of onion marmalade as well.Link to Townsends recipe for Orange Fool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2AG545WIsgLink to Orange Syllabub with the Kitchn (I would suggest orange flower water instead of the rose water): https://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-orange-syllabub-166177Feel free to do an orange liqueur tasting! Choose from...2022-08-0333 minThe History of American Food053 18th Century Gardens - For Use or DelightMary Mary, Quite Contrary , How does your Garden Grow?Or more importantly what grows in it, is it geometric or naturalistic, and who's doing the spade work?Gardens in 18th century America run the gamut from pure survival to combining pleasure and purpose, to being show pieces entirely - Just like the Dowager Lady Grantham'sMost Important (and very readable) Book for this Episode: Leighton, Anne. _American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: For Use or Delight_Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976 Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https...2022-07-2027 minThe History of American Food052 18th Century Pre-Revolutionary TeaTea - We did a big tea history last time. This time, it's smaller time. More details, more ceremony, more farce. But if you are curious what tea was drunk when, and how the Dutch lost ground to the English - stop by to find out.And pirate plunder shows up on the tea table - both as tea and tea pot.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood2022-07-1326 minThe History of American Food051 Lemons & Pineapples - The Caribbean InvasionLemons - they solved scurvy right? Or was it limes. Neither. These little ovoids were way WAY too precious to use on the common sailor like that. But find out where lemons came from and how they were used in food in the 18th century. How long ago was oyster with a squeeze of lemon a thing people were into?And pineapples - where are they from, and how did they get to Europe and North America?Is there a reason that there are a million pineapple household decor things, but barely any pineapple recipes? Yes! Yes...2022-07-0634 minThe History of American Food050.5 Bonus The Quickening - What 17th & 18th Century Cookbooks have to say about Pregnancy & Women's BodiesI cannot let the story stand that abortion and management of fertility is only a modern issue in America. It has been part of the landscape before Europeans arrived. But I'm not even close to being qualified to comment on that.Instead this is a deep dive into the back of cookbooks of the popular and widely available 17th and 18th century cookbooks that were to be found in British Colonial and American Kitchens - and the fact that they contained recipes and instructions for both ending early pregnancies and helping along childbirth.Fertility and reproductive...2022-06-2929 min
The History of American Food050 18th Century British Colonial Mercantilism - Now With More PiratesCome Join the Fun!Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25thCome here me reveal scandalous information about Gumbo.https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/Regular Ticket Price: $30Extra 10% Off? Use the code: FOODMercantilism has more money now… so it also has more Pirates!Is committing Murder and Bribery the worst a pirate can do?Nope - being unsuccessful and not having the money for the Bribe, that’s what does you in. That & doing too much to create the foundations of a rebel economy.But...2022-06-2229 minThe History of American Food049 Oysters & Lesser ShellfishCome Join the Fun!Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25thCome hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo. https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/Regular Ticket Price: $30Extra 10% Off? Use the code: FOODOysters are EVERYTHING. It's like cronuts meet 1990's fro-yo. Everyone is Obsessed.Sure there are some other shellfish, but who cares about them? Throw in a crab for variety now and then.But more importantly I address why prisoners got mad about lobster, why there was oyster ketchup, and the most ridiculous DoorDash order ever....2022-06-1531 minThe History of American Food048 Salt - How to Make it in AmericaCome Join the Fun!Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25thCome hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo. https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/Regular Ticket Price: $30Extra 10% Off? Use the code: FOODBut Salt!Fish!Pirates!Possible Independence!The Sugar Economy!The accidental creation of the Cajuns!18th Century Salt in the New World is responsible for all sorts of things. And Cherokee or as we know them now - Virginia Hams.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https...2022-06-0825 minThe History of American Food047 Fish For Everybody - For NowDo take a peek at Unchefed https://www.unchefed.com/abouthttps://twitter.com/unchefedand me when I'm not just in Teacher Mode: The History of Fish Saucehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-fish-sauce/id1578898329?i=1000563764347Don't Forget! Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25thCome hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo. https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/Regular Ticket Price: $30Extra 10% Off? Use the code: FOODEverybody was eating fish for about 80 years there. Then too many people moved away from the coast, we did some...2022-06-0126 minThe History of American Food046 Corn is American NowDo take a peek at Unchefed https://www.unchefed.com/abouthttps://twitter.com/unchefedand me when I'm not just in Teacher Mode: The History of Fish Saucehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-fish-sauce/id1578898329?i=1000563764347Don't Forget! Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25thCome hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo. https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/Regular Ticket Price: $30Purchase Tickets before June 1: $20Extra 10% Off? Use the code: FOODFor a minute there, for the colonists, Corn was a "foreign food", a poor substitute...2022-05-2525 minThe History of American Food045 Sugar & Molasses - Good Jam and Bad BeerDon't Forget! Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25thCome hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo. https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/Regular Ticket Price: $30Purchase Tickets before June 1: $20Extra 10% Off? Use the code: FOODSugar! In the 18th century it entered the kitchen. As mostly syrup it was used in dessert. But it also changed the kitchen wine and the kitchen beer. One was made easier and one was frankly made kinda worse. A detour about blue paper - because why not!Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle...2022-05-1830 minThe History of American Food044 Iron, Bricks & the Invention of ToastDon't Forget - Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25thCome hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo. https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/Regular Ticket Price: $30Purchase Tickets before June 1: $20Extra 10% Off? Use the code: FOODI thought I was going to be talking about Labor and Charcoal and Iron... but instead - I am talking to you about the invention of Toast. New research and old things in my brains do interesting things sometimes.The Toaster Project - Thomas Thwaites: https://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/Douglas Adams...2022-05-1126 minThe History of American Food043 Iron - Building the Home IndustryWelcome Back!(Sorry about the late Ep - I thought it would be only 12 hrs late... but wood chippers)Don't Forget - Intelligent Speech Con - 2022, June 25thCome hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo. https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/Regular Ticket Price: $30Purchase Tickets before June 1: $20Extra 10% Off? Use the code: FOODIron & Wood & Food are hopelessly entangled in the 18th C coloniesThe short version is that there is more iron to cook more things - but the stuff you can import to Britain is...2022-05-0528 minThe History of American FoodIntelligent Speech 2022 - AnnouncementIntelligent Speech 2022Celebrating Independent Educational PodcastsYear 4 - Theme: Crossingshttps://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/Tickets - $30, but Early Bird Tickets are $20 - Before June 1For an extra 10% DiscountUse the Promo Code: FOODComing Soon - a Shiny New Website2022-04-2902 minThe History of American FoodSeason 2 PreviewWelcome Back! Season 2 is just around the corner. With more kinds of food, a little less time spent in the prehistory of food and much more access to contemporary cookbooks.Intelligent Speech 2022Celebrating Independent Educational PodcastsYear 4 - Theme: Crossingshttps://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/Tickets - $30, but Early Bird Tickets are $20 - Before June 1For an extra 10% DiscountUse the Promo Code: FOODThis time there will be an exploration of the unusual literacy of the population, and pineapples appear. I look forward to sharing with you...2022-04-2717 minThe History of American Food042.5 Bonus - History of DistillationIntelligent Speech - June 25th - come hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo. https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/Regular Ticket Price: $30Purchase Tickets before May 15: $20Extra 10% Off? Use the code: FOODI read a whole bunch of stuff about distilling in the way back of history. It was messy and when it came to immortality potions and alcohol - kinda dangerous. Come hear about it, and all the places distillation happened - and how distillation seems to have met itself again in South America over Pulque.Source of the, "Don't...2022-04-0639 minThe History of American FoodEnd of Season 1We've come to the end of Season 1. I'll answer some questions, give a preview and let you know about the future of the show. But mainly I'm just here to let you know there's going to be a break while I sort out exactly how Season 2 is going to go.Don't worry I'll be back - I just need to get organized.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood2022-03-0931 minThe History of American Food042 The Labor Situation 1661 - 16991660 - When England gets serious about money and stuff & makes some big changes to its laws. This is going to make some big changes to North America. But first - sugar is about to get cheap. Learn the one weird trick they used. Ok - it's not weird, its awful. But they did it - and so as not to do it again - time to learn about the how and the why.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodWhen I figure...2022-03-0216 minThe History of American Food041 Housekeeping - Domestic Labor Before 1660When this whole America project got started as a bunch of random colonies, it wasn't just the Colonists there, they brought their servants as well. While there was slavery right from the jump, nearly all the domestic help in the 17th century were actually Indentured Servants. I'm not sure the right lessons were learned.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodWhen I figure it out - Instagram: @THoAFood2022-03-0231 minThe History of American Food040 17th Century Fast FoodWithout cars - there were no drive-thrus, so was every meal a sit down affair? Of course not. Too much to do - and as we'll soon see - nobody's got time for 3 hot meals a day. Besides, that was practically gluttony.Apologies in advance for Nursery Rhymes.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFoodFind out what fast food was in the Old World - and why it was often a better bet than home cooked...2022-02-2324 minThe History of American Food039 Varmints - Eating the WildWhat critters are you willing to eat? If you were a certain kind of colonist, the answer would have been deer, or bird, possibly some certain fish, or none. And you would also likely be dead. The surviving children of these disasters and later arrivals had different opinions. Some because they were transported peasants and vagrants, other because they had just seen a whole bunch of people who were overly picky eaters die of starvation. But even the new adventurous eaters had standards. No one wanted to eat a skunk if they really didn't have to. Listen up if...2022-02-1629 minThe History of American Food038 Spice - Worth Taking Over the WorldSo I'm reading along about the Spice Islands and start to wonder - was #Dune just Frank Herbert vibing out in Big University Archives and smoking too many clove ciggies? But seriously, the world really did turn in on itself over the dried plant bits from a couple of islands between India and Australia. (Was it #Aliens? It wasn't Aliens.) But I will explain how the busiest place in the world in the 16th Century was a place that is really hard to get to even now, but has food you really want to try.The show...2022-02-0928 minThe History of American Food037 Rum - The Most Profitable Industrial Waste of the 17th CenturyThe debut of Rum - or Kill-Devil as it was known at first. Regardless, this was a bad liquor, and it was how you let other people know you were bad. Yo-ho-ho and all that. Molasses was the origin, and if anything, molasses was the receptacle of all of the evils of the sugar trade. You can clearly tell by its color of course. (If you are not a listener, and don't know me - heavens child, this is called sarcasm). And from this waste stream of white sugar, the Demon rum was born.Music Credit...2022-02-0231 minThe History of American Food036 Fat - All that Moral WeightLess Food and more Religious Baggage! I really know how to liven up a conversation. I was so taken aback at the preserved ire at humans just living in so much of the early New England writing, and how vilified the fat, the lazy, the people who even acknowledge pretty things, or like flavors were - that I had to do an episode on it.I was surprised at how old explicit fat-phobia, both in food and on bodies was in this country. So buckle up for the ride.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow...2022-01-2625 minThe History of American Food035.5 Bonus - Soap is Made of FatSoap - Just what is soap, and what makes soap... soapy? How do you make it? Is it better or worse than chemical detergents? And how were people getting clean before soap? I look into all that and more, and express my love for the 90's Comic Masterpiece _The Tick_.But seriously - Chemicals are not The Enemy - profiteering off fear is.Books and other info I promised:The Tick v. Dinosaur Neil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8HxakmkWUScientific Soap Making: https://www.soapguild.org/cart/books/78/scientific-soapmaking.php...2022-01-2028 minThe History of American Food035 Fat - Liquid GoldFat – and not for just this week, but next week too. I foolishly thought I could get through this in one week. Not so. As a result this week is fat overview and fat prestige rankings, and not until next week do I get on to the morality. But you do get to hear about my up close and personal time with cracklings.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood2022-01-1925 minThe History of American Food034 Horses - Americans Don't Eat Them Except When We DoWild horses, feral horses, eatin' horses - only 2 of those exist in 17th Century America. The eating and not eating of horses has shifted across European and American history - as have the reasons why. I'll explain that - and pronounce "Przewalski" - the P is silent!Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood2022-01-1223 minThe History of American Food033 Stimulants - Wired for DiscoveryCaffeine, Nicotine & Theobromine - along with the printing press and sugar all arrived in a big way in Europe in the 17th Century. They each affected the colonization of America - some immediately... and some waited. Do you think kids these days are bad? Well! Consider how crazy-making those guys (and in those days, it was the Boys) were with their propositions of allowing the Bible to be read in English, and establishing smoking in public. It was wild I tell you.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email...2022-01-0531 minThe History of American Food032 Double Dutch - Part 2 of New Amsterdam's Influence on American FoodPart 2 of the 17th Century Dutch colonial influence on Modern American food. Doing doughnuts before they were cool - or maple bars. Also a quick peek at the why of Santa Claus vs. Father Christmas.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood2021-12-2332 minThe History of American Food031 Donut Disappoint Me - New Amsterdam and the Dutch Part 1What portion of what we think of American food has its feet in Dutch clogs? I'm not entirely sure, but the research tells me it is more than I thought. After a helping of Dutch history, I look at sweet bread things - and why it is cookie in America, but biscuits in England.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood2021-12-0829 minThe History of American FoodSeries Trailer - The History of American FoodDo you want to listen? You want to listen, and learn about why American food is the way it is. Grab a red Solo cup and some Popcorn.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood2021-12-0300 min
The History of American Food030 Turkey - the Bird: A Very Special Thanksgiving EpisodeFinally - the truth comes out. Why is this truly American bird called the name of a country it was never from? And is it true your Thanksgiving turkey came from… 16th century Mexico, and not New England… at all? And we’ll continue to follow the baffling saga of Colonists taking perfectly good domestic animals and letting them get feral.All this and more on this week's episode of The History of American Food!(*cue jaunty synth music from ‘80s evening magazine style show*)Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot...2021-11-2423 minThe History of American Food029 Eggs and Scrawny Colonial ChickensBack then chicken probably tasted not like our chicken. If you could catch one of the scrawny little birds. But of much more import were the eggs. All four iterations - whole eggs, the rich yolks, the strong whites, and the practical hard cooked egg. The 17th Century colonies was the land before omelettes.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood2021-11-1022 minThe History of American Food028 Apple Cider, Other Fruit Wines & Vinegar - Are We Drunk or Just Pickled?After dealing with the good, solid, respectable apples, this week we deal with liquid apples. There's the fermented juice - cider & the fermented fermented juice - vinegar. I throw in the rest of the fruit juices because it's essentially the same process regardless of whether it's a peach or a pear or a mulberry. So apple juice - briefly sweet, tipsy and then sour.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood2021-11-0327 minThe History of American Food027 Apples - How a Global Fruit Made its Mark on the New WorldThis week is History of Apples, and Solid Apples, Liquid Apples is next week. I hold myself open to a possible future Gaseous Apples, but draw the line at Plasma Apples.The hegemony of the Apple is covered, as is the transformation of the Apple from its role as Biblical Bad Girl to Colonial Goody.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood2021-10-2726 minThe History of American Food026 Pigs - The Terrifying Swine of the 17th CenturyPiggies piggies piggies. It's all bacon, salt and smoked hams in the 17th century. The images of Babe and Wilbur from Charlotte's Web are all off the mark. The early colonial pig was lean, mean, long legged and would bite you if it could. Some apparently even beat up on wolves. Come visit the colonial pig pen.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-10-2031 minThe History of American Food025 Pickle - We Really Are in One NowYes I've already mentioned Pickles once, but this time I'll be looking into the whole range of what was pickled (boy oh boy, it was more than cucumbers - it was more than vegetables), the different ways of pickling, how those pickles were stored, and how they were used.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-10-1327 minThe History of American Food024 Wood and Wood Accessories - Can't Have American Food Without ThemOnce again - not a food, but wood is absolutely essential in the quest for edibles in the 17th century. Wood was necessary to grow food, harvest food, process food, cook food, store food, and transport it to market. And there were lots of trees used in lots of different ways. A few provided edibles - fruits and nuts, sweet sap and medicinal bark, but for the most part, trees provided the infrastructure required to get food on the board. I will lists trees like Harlan Pepper lists nuts. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_in_Show_(film) ) 2021-10-0629 minThe History of American Food023 Deer and Venison - What a Difference a Flint MakesDeer are 17th Century Colonial Food. But because they are seen as free, and not well managed, they quickly fall off the regular American Menu. Learn about the toughest meat everyone ate for a few years, but then only the richest and poorest ended up eating… and still eat today.Venison will go largely into eclipse, but not the deer antler handle.Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.comTwitter: @THOAFoodPodcast Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle2021-09-2930 minThe History of American Food022 Bread - From Ashen Corn Cakes to Wheaten Loaves17th Century bread had plenty of fiber, and occasionally some very tiny rocks. The hand milled grain - and initially this was mostly corn - that went into to the early breads was more meal than flour, so bread was rather dense. More of an unleavened fireside puck than a familiar loaf. It would take decades and the settlement of early Pennsylvania before the bread we would recognize became somewhat common. From those earliest colonial campsites… ovens had to be built, the bread tools had to be carved, the wheat successfully grown and to get a regular barm (yeast) su...2021-09-2225 min
The History of American Food021 Beer - It's Pilgrim Breakfast, We Are Not Drunk YetNo coffee? No orange juice? No sparkling water? What did the 17th C colonists drink to wake up, to refresh themselves? Beer of course. The problem was… it was bad beer. Join me to find out why, and how long it lasted.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-09-1535 minThe History of American Food020 Wheat & Barley - Missing Real Bread & BeerCorn bread and Pumpkin beer - that was some serious suffering in the 17th century. Finally the competent farmers showed up in Pennsylvania to grow the real grains the English colonists missed in the New World.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-09-0830 minThe History of American Food019 Butter & Cheese - Finally, Some Dairy We Can SellHow does milk work so you can take a liquid and make it in to solids?This episode I talk about how liquid milk, which will just go bad on you in a second was turned into butter and cheese so it could travel around the 17th Century American food world.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-09-0124 minThe History of American Food018 Milk - New, Clabber, Sour & CreamDid you know milk fresh from the cow is 101F/38C ?That's right, a "cold glass of milk" wasn't really a thing in 17th Century Colonial America. But people still drank or supped on liquid dairy. Find out how - and learn about the most cow to table dessert ever.Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFoodMusic Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle2021-08-1719 minThe History of American Food017 Beef - It's Almost Never for DinnerI finally did it - I've covered all the thingies in my logo! Beef, Sugar and Iron (though that cowboy coffee pot will remain empty until the 18th Century). 17th Century beef did not come in steaks - rather gobbets and slices, or reconstituted from salting or stringy, stringy jerky.And what good is a steak knife if you don't yet have a fork?Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFoodMusic Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle2021-08-0329 minThe History of American Food016 The American Cow - Origin StoryAnother reason for America at all... Cows. Arable England was all out of room - and there were lots of casks of salt beef the Navy needed to buy. So, go grow cows in the New World! This episode looks at just what a cow is, and how they got to Colonial America.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-07-2126 minThe History of American Food015 Pickles, Pie, Pottage & Stew - Meet the Rest of the Vegetable CrewDigging out the rest of the vegetables our 17th Century pre-Americans were eating. But really showing how vegetables are involved in the North-South rift, and just how early that started. While it was partly the weather, it turns out religion, economics, labor policies and farm kids vs. city kids all had a hand in it. I was surprised how what could have been a very small topic went so for afield.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-07-0723 minThe History of American Food014 Pumpkins and Squash - What's the Difference?How and why the 17th century colonists made a distinction between pumpkin and squash. One was good and the other bad. Spoiler alert - those Puritan Pilgrims had some ideas about bright colors and what made a loose woman.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-06-2321 minThe History of American Food013 Legumes - Old World & NewPease/Peas and Beans and the other ones. Unglamorous, but dependable, legumes have been with humans for a long time. Untangling Old World & New World beans, and why you never eat New World Beans raw.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-06-0923 minThe History of American Food012 Herbs, Flowers & Berries - Not Worth a ThingWe love our perishables now, but they were both welcome and considered worthless in the 17th Century. Is that dandelion food or medicine? What about that mulberry?Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-05-2625 minThe History of American Food011 Mercantilism - Do You Want Pirates?There are other things that cause pirates, but restrictive shipping rules, navigation acts and tariffs - enforced from over 8 weeks away definitely causes pirates.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-05-1928 minThe History of American Food010.5 Bonus - Extra SaltA chemistry tangent on salt - 17th Century StyleMusic Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-05-1826 minThe History of American Food010 Salt - Saving Food for LaterHow salty was 17th Century American food? Very, very salty. The fridge of the age. I'll talk about how the salt was made and used and why salt went industrial in the 17th century.Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.comTwitter: @THOAFoodPodcast Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle2021-05-1223 minThe History of American Food009 Salt - A Solid FoundationCan't live without it... wouldn't want to live without it. So the development of industry, tax, and cuisine are all tied up here with salt. Listen up for history, more trivia, and one way global silver and salt are BFF's.Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.comTwitter: @THOAFoodPodcast Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle2021-05-0523 minThe History of American Food008 Fish - Cod and Some Other ThingsHow important was 17th Century fish? And how did people keep and prepare fish when there was no refrigeration?Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.comTwitter: @THOAFoodPodcast Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle2021-04-2825 minThe History of American Food007 Corn - Is LifeCorn really is how 17th Century colonists either just didn't die - or made fortunes. There are 3 different versions depending on if you were in New England, the Mid-Atlantic or the South. For all three groups Corn was Life.Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.comTwitter: @THOAFoodPodcast Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle2021-04-2125 minThe History of American Food006 Corn - The Journey of MaizeCorn has come a long way from that little grass, teosinte, near Oaxaca State, Mexico. Where did it go on its travels, and how the heck did it get, not just to the east coast, but all over the world?Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.comTwitter: @THOAFoodPodcast Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle2021-04-1424 minThe History of American Food005 $ugar - Let's Make Some Money. Oh, And a Little DessertSugar changed the world in the 17th Century. It became a way to make lots of money - and changed the map of North America. The changes to food will take a little while, but the seeds are planted in kitchen and in trade.Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.comTwitter: @THOAFoodPodcast Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle2021-04-0725 minThe History of American Food004.5 Bonus - Humorism & SolidismHere's where I didn't go in the Sugar History episode. This shows the bones of how medical thinking worked until germ theory got off the ground in the 19th Century. These ideas will return in each century. I don't go deep down the hole, just show you were it is.Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.comTwitter: @THOAFoodPodcast Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle2021-04-0211 minThe History of American Food004 Sugar - A HistoryWhere is sugar even from? When did it make it to Europe? How did it get to the West Indies? I have questions.Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.comTwitter: @THOAFoodPodcast Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle2021-03-3120 minThe History of American Food003 Iron - ChainsWhen everything – including making food – is done by muscle power – how did Colonial America decide to get more for less? In many cases – by using iron to make chains to enslave Native Americans and Africans. How did the colonists talk themselves into this? How far back did it start?Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.comTwitter: @THOAFoodPodcast Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle2021-03-2424 minThe History of American Food002 Iron - Sharp Things and BlunderbussesTools and Weapons – this is what lots of the iron was used for. How were they connected to colonial food?Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-03-1723 minThe History of American Food001 Iron - Out of the Ground and Onto the TableSure, Iron's not a food - but it is an essential part of how America does food. We'll go back to the beginning and look at how the very 1st settlements' dependance on iron shaped how they saw food.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-03-1022 minThe History of American FoodIntroduction - Let's StartWhat is this podcast? How in the world am I going to do the History of American Food without getting lost? For a quick preview try this introduction.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Twitter: @THOAFood2021-03-1007 min