Podcast Episodes

158 Are You Rich Enough or Poor Enough to Hunt in the Early 19th Century?

Season 4

So far America is pretty hostile to everyday hunting - but for some reason we keep adding categories.

And lets face it, for a country that keeps talking about how we don't need roaylty, we do seem to …

Published on 9 hours ago

157 More Plates You Say? Let's Make Dining More Complicated

After years of no plates, not enough plates and just enough plates - you suddenly have access to many plates and pretty plates.  What's a hostess of fashion to do?

Obviously - upend the way food is se…

Published on 2 weeks ago

156 The History of Plates

Season 4

Every wondered how we got into this fix of needing so many plates - or more specifically why you’re supposed to put a set of plates on a registry for a wedding that you are never gonna use?  Or at le…

Published on 4 weeks ago

155 Whales - They Start to Bring the Kitchen Indoors and Change Dinner Time

As a child reader, I always thought it was so quaint that "dinner" was this old-timey word for lunch.  It was a "Dinner Pail"  - which was a crude Indian Tiffin - only 1 chamber - vs. a Lunch Box.

But…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

154 Fashionable Vegetables from Europe & Stealth Ones from America

Season 4

Celebrate National Public Lands Day by finding a place to visit and get involved at 
NEEFAUSA.og
or
NPS.gov

And get into what was getting to be popular as vegetables in the early 19th century.

How did Avo…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

153 Coffee Finds a New Home

Season 4

Wake up America!  Coffee is on its way to becoming the drink of the people.  Sure Cider and Beer are out there... but coffee is coming up on the outside.

But how did one brew coffee in the 19th centur…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

152 Early 19th Century Tea - Still Extremely Fashionable

Season 4

Last show on the substandard mic - but the paper towel as popfilter helped some.

Let's talk tea - what tea were people drinking in the early 19th century?  The answer was almost uniformly, "bad tea". …

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

151 The First Chinese Food in America

Season 4

First of all - sorry about the diferent mic.  But this way we get the episode.  I'll see what I can do to make things better for next ep - and all will be back to normal by the one after that.

Anyway …

Published on 3 months ago

150 Lobster - From Poor Man's Chicken to Fancy Canned Good

Season 4

Think you're fancy with your lobster roll... or did you get it from a Massachusetts McDonalds?

All are possible... and much more - including death by lobster poisoning.

To get more of the story - tune …

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

149 Trains & Buying Stuff in the Early 19th Century - The Birth of American Consumer Culture

Season 4

Have you ever thought how we got here - that farm land is all AWAY and houses are all in close?

That products come to you... and packaging is often more important than the thing inside?
That didn't hap…

Published on 4 months ago