Podcast Episodes

148 Making Beef for Dinner - Increases in Early 19th Century Cattle

Season 4

What happens when you grow more cows to make more milk to make more cheese and butter?
You end up with more oxen that can't make milk - but are useful as a source of beef.

And this works out well when …

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

147 How to Survive Drinking Milk in the Early 19th Century

Season 4

So you are a typical early 19th Century American type... 

Is there a dairy scene?  Yes.
But are you drinking milk?  Maybe... and probobly only for breakfast.
Ok... but is it Raw Milk?  Most likely not.

I…

Published on 5 months ago

146 What Was Early 19th Century America's Problem with Mushrooms?

Season 4

Check out the NCPTT... while it's still there, and maybe find an unexpectedly cool place to live.  Or maybe a cool woodworking job.
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ncptt/index.htm

Hey - so were early Amer…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

145 Mushroom History - Food Edition & What Eactly is a Mushroom Anyway?

While last episode was drowning in information - this week when hunting down mushroom info... it's a bit of a desert.  But no worries, there's still fun stuff to be learned - mainly just what is a mu…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

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 6 months, 1 week 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 6 months, 3 weeks 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 7 months, 1 week 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 7 months, 3 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 8 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 8 months, 3 weeks ago