Podcast Episodes

188 Food Safety v. Dangerous Food - The Fight for Food Labeling in the 19th Century

Season 6

Do your own research is quite the thing to say - but imagine if there were no laws... iand more importantly no regulations around what you could say …

1 day, 9 hours ago

187 New Pig Butchery in the Train Age - You SHOULD Know How the Sausage Gets Made

Season 6

Thi week I argue that you should pay attention to how the sausage gets made.  And not doing so resulted in the bland, mostly the same American sausag…

1 week, 1 day ago

186 Business Beer at the End of the 19th Century

Normally my episodes are not timely - but it is fun to be releasing an episode on the start of the Modern American Beer Style when two of the great b…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

185 New Ice in a New Age

Season 6

There are lots of moments that have changed American Food - sugar imports, the discovery of sweet oranges, but nothing - to me is as defining as the …

3 weeks, 1 day ago

184 Fats - Slippery

Season 6

Last Science Episode for awhile.  This one is all about fats.

What they are, what they do in our bodies, and some wild speculation about what effects …

4 weeks, 1 day ago

183 Carbohydrates - Sticky

Come listen while I answer the important questions:

What is a Carbohydrate? Tune in!

Can you actually eliminate all sugar from your diet?  Yes! But No …

1 month, 1 week ago

182 Proteins: Stringy - Updated

Season 6

Science - it is back!

America has long had a thing about thinking about food as components rather than ingredients. 

So to help you navigate through wh…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

181 Milk Pail, Milk Bottle, Milk at Home

Season 6

I'll just grab a glass of milk...

When did that become a thing?  Becasue - it is a VERY American thing.  RIght up there with cold cereal for breakfast…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

180 America Goes on a Diet - Part 2 : It's Time to Learn About Cold Cereal & How You Don't Chew Your Food Enough

Season 2

This week we bust open the most United States of America food of all.
Cold Cereal
My research has lead me to this - Cold Cereal is the first thing that…

2 months ago

179 Food in Paper, Food in Boxes

Season 6

An important element essential to modern American food didn't happen until the end of the 19th century.  But as with so many of the other elements th…

2 months, 1 week ago