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083 Turning Wild Game into Food is A Lot of Work - 18th Century Hunting
Season 2
This week I deal pretty frankly with the facts of turning animals into food. There is a little discussion of blood and guts - and how removing them f…
3 years, 2 months ago
082 Coffee me in the Caribbean, Sugar - the 18th Century Quest for Liquid Vigor
Season 2
I love coffee and I love sugar (and tea and chocolate for the record). This is clearly a typical human response. I am also unhappy about their hist…
3 years, 2 months ago
081 Ketchup - the 18th Century Name for Umami
Season 2
If for no other reason, listen this week to hear me say "Worcestershire" while looking at the word.
This week it's ketchup - and what it was before to…
3 years, 2 months ago
080 Tomatoes & Other Foreign Fruits - The Conundrum
Season 2
This week it's fruit's turn, and time to learn which fruits are locals, which are imports and how they got to North America, and into the colonial pa…
3 years, 3 months ago
079 Potatoes & Other Possibly Foreign Vegetables
Season 2
All the "normal" colonial vegetables were foreign. Or they were imports anyway. Except for the famous ones - pumpkins (which are a fruit) and corn (w…
3 years, 3 months ago
078 I Said Mixed Drinks. These are Definitely Not Cocktails - 18th Century Social Drinking
Season 2
Turns out colonists were making mixed drinks in America... before there was America, or cocktails (officially). Some were elborate and required prep-…
3 years, 3 months ago
077 Whisk(e)y Pulls Alongside Rum - Adventures and Economies of 18th Century Distilled Liquors
Season 2
THe 17th century was the age of Rum. The 18th century has a new fighter, Whisky or Whiskey - choose your spelling.
How is happened, and where it was m…
3 years, 3 months ago
076 Colonial Wine – the Tedious and Extensive Reasons Why There Wasn’t Any in the 17th & 18th Centuries
Season 2
Was there wine in the North American British Colonies?
No, but yes. There was pricey imported wine, and there were also other fruit wines - including …
3 years, 4 months ago
075 A Horse's Life - 18th Century Colonial Style
Season 2
Horses - it's an issue we've basically used the whole country and most of history to run away from. Find out how the American horse problem started …
3 years, 4 months ago
074 18th Century Colonial Eggs & Associated Chicken Facts
Season 2
Eggs & Chickens
In the 18th century eggs made practical and fancy food (cake!). Chickens made fancy food. Or at least special occasion food. If you…
3 years, 4 months ago