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070 The History of Whaling
Season 2
This week one of my cats makes his debut in sound design. His playing about in the closet makes me it seem as if I have Very Strong Feelings about …
3 years, 10 months ago
069.5 Bonus - Ice Science, Fire Science & Energy
Season 2
OK - No regular episode, just a bonus one. But the season of Misrule is just going to do that to us here in the 18th Century. It's kindof a chemistry…
3 years, 10 months ago
069 18th Century Deer are Somehow Rustic & Fancy & Money
Season 2
Deer are really cute. Well baby deer are cute. We've been making pictures of them for ages. We've been making pants and shoes and stuff of deer gener…
3 years, 10 months ago
068 Wood Part II - Charcoal, BBQ & Mellowed Spirits & a Peek at War
Season 2
Wood continues to do it all!
But this time, mainly as charcoal. It makes iron, it ages booze, it's necessary for barbecue, it makes gunpowder.
Charc…
3 years, 11 months ago
067 Wood Part I - Money in Masts & Barrels
Season 2
Wood! It is back, and now it's worth money.
You get to hear about how the iron industry wrecked English wood stocks, the King's Broad Arrow, crusty N…
3 years, 11 months ago
Reprise! 030 Turkey - No Disasters - Just the Bird
Season 2
I was almost done with this super cool look at wood and charcoal - and then my computer went down. I have to completely rewrite the 6 pages I alread…
3 years, 11 months ago
066 You Call That a Biscuit?
Season 2
Biscuit Biscuit Biscuit
There are few baking words that can elicit so much general consternation.
Cupcake - maybe? But mostly not since most of the wo…
3 years, 11 months ago
065 Cream & Pudding & Cake that is Not a Lie
Season 2
By the end of the 18th century - we are SO CLOSE to ice cream - but we are not there yet. But I want to set the scene that dessert is becoming a thi…
4 years ago
064 Milk & Butter Money
Season 2
Enter the Dairy Maid - or Milk Maid, I'll accept either answer.
They were one of the these groups of women who used to be a skilled worker, but that p…
4 years ago
063 Beef - It's American Food Now
Season 2
This week the ox stops being fancy food for fancy people and becomes workaday food for city people and sailors alike. But it also became manly party…
4 years ago