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144 Early 19th Century Apples - the Fruit of Progress & Propaganda
Season 4
This week - it’s time to look at the connection between westward American Expansion and the apple. How is the apple all tangled up with our creation of the 19th century tall tales we started to tell…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
143 Oats & Hay - Grass Powers the Early 19th Century World
Season 4
As odd as it sounds, there was a time in American Food before oatmeal.
And while that's wild on it's own, even more impossible to imagine is how much of agriculture used to be dedicated simply to grow…
Published on 5 months ago
142 Are Chickens Alternate Reality Pigs?
Season 4
Finally - Recipes for early 19th Century Fried Chicken - sorta.
IT's time to learn some chicken history and face the reality about what chickens were really for in the early 19th century - eggs!
If you…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
141 The Forking of America - When We Start to Stop Eating with our Hands
Season 4
Ever notice that fabulous dinner parties depicted on screen rarely take place earlier than the 1800's - and in America pretty much always after the Civil War?
Well! That's because in just about every…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
140 Tasty Preseerved Pork - Early 19th Century Ham & Sausage plus Scrapple
Season 4
Yes yes... tasty pigs.
But as you might have gathered I'm not entirely OK right now. Will there be a National Park Service -NPS.gov by next episode?
Will I have access to the library of congress or is…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
139 How to Eat Pork in the Early 19th Century
Season 4
Turns out all I was able to squeeze in to this episode was the fresh pork - more or less.
How to keep pork will be around next time.
But the big lesson is - boy do we need our hands held when it comes …
Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago
138 19th Century Pigs - Greasng the Way to the Future
Season 4
To Market to market to buy a fat pig
Home again home again jiggety jig...
But how did those pigs get to market in the first place?
On their own 4 feet! That's right, there's more than one way to concen…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
137 American Crackers – Biscuit by Another Name or Another Thing?
Season 4
This week I've gone crackers. I've wondered for awhile why it's biscuits everywhere else - but sometimes ... it's crackers.
I mean, the most British of British claymation - Wallace and Grommit, whe…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
136 America is Made of Bread & Steel
Season 4
Sure - people say America is built on A LOT of things, but the rise of Industrial America depends on two things - Bread and Steel. Steel to make the Great American Dessert into the Great American Br…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Crossover… PART 16 - Is This too Many Locations? Zorro S1E6 on Amazon Prime
Season 4
For those of you listenting along at home - a little reminder, these are just filler episodes from the other podcast project I was playing around with. If you want that feed and not this one - hop o…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago