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054.5 Bonus Scurvy - What it is, How to Cure it & Why Modern Society Keeps Bringing it Back
Season 2
What 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 lik…
3 years, 7 months ago
054 18th Century Oranges - Bitter, not Sweet
Season 2
Orange - 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 mythbusti…
3 years, 8 months ago
053 18th Century Gardens - For Use or Delight
Season 2
Mary 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 spad…
3 years, 8 months ago
052 18th Century Pre-Revolutionary Tea
Season 2
Tea -
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 w…
3 years, 8 months ago
051 Lemons & Pineapples - The Caribbean Invasion
Season 2
Lemons - 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. …
3 years, 8 months ago
050.5 Bonus The Quickening - What 17th & 18th Century Cookbooks have to say about Pregnancy & Women's Bodies
Season 2
I 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 E…
3 years, 9 months ago
050 18th Century British Colonial Mercantilism - Now With More Pirates
Season 2
Come Join the Fun!
Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25th
Come here me reveal scandalous information about Gumbo.
https://www.intelligentspeech…
3 years, 9 months ago
049 Oysters & Lesser Shellfish
Season 2
Come Join the Fun!
Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25th
Come hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo.
https://www.intelli…
3 years, 9 months ago
048 Salt - How to Make it in America
Season 2
Come Join the Fun!
Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25th
Come hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo.
https://www.intelli…
3 years, 9 months ago
047 Fish For Everybody - For Now
Season 2
Do take a peek at Unchefed https://www.unchefed.com/about
https://twitter.com/unchefed
and me when I'm not just in Teacher Mode: The History of Fish Sa…
3 years, 10 months ago