Podcast Episodes

Season 6 Preview - I Wanna Go Fast

Let's Go Season 6

(last season was way more dreary than I had thought)

All I can say is Ice Cream for Everyone - and let's road trip... Rail Trip?

The e…

5 months, 1 week ago

170 Prisoner of War Food for - Wait How Many Guys? The Long Tail of War

Season 3

The LAST Civil War Episode becasue I'm writing this - and have decided that is ENOUGH Civil War.

And, yes I'm not happy about writing about war while …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

169 Not Enough Railroads Will Make You Salty in the Bad Way

Season 5

Every seasone needs a salt episode!  And here it is.  It's mainly about why the South was without salt - and how that meant they couldn't keep food a…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

168 If Music Be the Food of Love, Are Drugs the Food of War?

Season 5

How long has America been dealing with Opiod Epidemics?  If you said - since the 1860's you get a piece of Hardtack!

Yes - just as war came up with mo…

6 months ago

167 The American Civil War, Thanksgiving & Eating Our Feelings

Season 5

Yeah yeah - why a Thanksgiving Episode in April?  Is this worse than Christmas in July?   
No, really, it makes sense.  Especially becasue during the …

6 months ago

166 Feeding the Sick and Injured in The Civil War: Apparently You Can't Run a War Without Women

Season 5

In the Last Big War we threw in America we still had "Camp Followers" to do the laundry, the nursing and a good amount of the cooking (not to mention…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

165 Is This Enough Food to Feed an Army? & What Were They Thinking?

Season 5

I am a producer on an Emmy Nominated Documentary.  
Check it out here:
Women's Work - The Untold Story of America's Female Farmers
The Emmy Nomination!!…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

164 Feeding an Army: A History with a Lot of Holes - On Purpose

Season 5

This week we get to look back at more of why War is Awful - and it's not JUST becasue of the food.  We also talk about why war food was predictably a…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

163 The First Canned Food War

Season 5

This week canned food is the main character.  And it has the power to change the world, becaseu just like barrels of salted meat and ships biscuit - …

7 months ago

162 The Army Says Eat Your Vegetables

Season 5

Sure people complain about mashed potatoes made from potato flakes now - but dehydrated vegetables in their first iteration were far, far worse.

In fa…

7 months, 1 week ago