Podcast Episodes

173.5 BONUS Interview - The Pickled City

Season 6

This week I talk to 

Designers, Authors and Storytellers Paul van Ravestein and Monique Mulder about their book 
The Pickled CIty   Availible in Bookst…

2 days, 3 hours ago

173 Potatoes for Frontier & Factory

Season 6

How did America become the land of Meat & Potatoes


I don't have all the answers yet - but I think I've found the well spring of the "& potatoes" porti…

1 week, 2 days ago

172 The Potato - A History

Season 6

Po-tay-toes

Where are they from?  Why do we call them Irish?  Are they poisonous?  And what was the blight?  I answer all these questions and more - a…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

171 Iron Has New Jobs in Food

Season 6

Iron is back and it has a bunch of new tricks up it sleeves.  Sure we still cook on it - but it's doing lots of other new things it has never done be…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

Season 6 Preview - I Wanna Go Fast

Let's Go Season 6

(last season was way more dreary than I had thought)

All I can say is Ice Cream for Everyone - and let's road trip... Rail Trip?

The e…

4 weeks, 2 days ago

170 Prisoner of War Food for - Wait How Many Guys? The Long Tail of War

Season 3

The LAST Civil War Episode becasue I'm writing this - and have decided that is ENOUGH Civil War.

And, yes I'm not happy about writing about war while …

1 month ago

169 Not Enough Railroads Will Make You Salty in the Bad Way

Season 5

Every seasone needs a salt episode!  And here it is.  It's mainly about why the South was without salt - and how that meant they couldn't keep food a…

1 month, 1 week ago

168 If Music Be the Food of Love, Are Drugs the Food of War?

Season 5

How long has America been dealing with Opiod Epidemics?  If you said - since the 1860's you get a piece of Hardtack!

Yes - just as war came up with mo…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

167 The American Civil War, Thanksgiving & Eating Our Feelings

Season 5

Yeah yeah - why a Thanksgiving Episode in April?  Is this worse than Christmas in July?   
No, really, it makes sense.  Especially becasue during the …

1 month, 3 weeks ago

166 Feeding the Sick and Injured in The Civil War: Apparently You Can't Run a War Without Women

Season 5

In the Last Big War we threw in America we still had "Camp Followers" to do the laundry, the nursing and a good amount of the cooking (not to mention…

2 months ago