Podcast Episodes

157 More Plates You Say? Let's Make Dining More Complicated

After years of no plates, not enough plates and just enough plates - you suddenly have access to many plates and pretty plates.  What's a hostess of …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

156 The History of Plates

Season 4

Every wondered how we got into this fix of needing so many plates - or more specifically why you’re supposed to put a set of plates on a registry for…

8 months ago

155 Whales - They Start to Bring the Kitchen Indoors and Change Dinner Time

As a child reader, I always thought it was so quaint that "dinner" was this old-timey word for lunch.  It was a "Dinner Pail"  - which was a crude In…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

154 Fashionable Vegetables from Europe & Stealth Ones from America

Season 4

Celebrate National Public Lands Day by finding a place to visit and get involved at 
NEEFAUSA.og
or
NPS.gov

And get into what was getting to be popular a…

9 months ago

153 Coffee Finds a New Home

Season 4

Wake up America!  Coffee is on its way to becoming the drink of the people.  Sure Cider and Beer are out there... but coffee is coming up on the outs…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

152 Early 19th Century Tea - Still Extremely Fashionable

Season 4

Last show on the substandard mic - but the paper towel as popfilter helped some.

Let's talk tea - what tea were people drinking in the early 19th cent…

9 months, 4 weeks ago

151 The First Chinese Food in America

Season 4

First of all - sorry about the diferent mic.  But this way we get the episode.  I'll see what I can do to make things better for next ep - and all wi…

10 months, 1 week ago

150 Lobster - From Poor Man's Chicken to Fancy Canned Good

Season 4

Think you're fancy with your lobster roll... or did you get it from a Massachusetts McDonalds?

All are possible... and much more - including death by …

10 months, 3 weeks ago

149 Trains & Buying Stuff in the Early 19th Century - The Birth of American Consumer Culture

Season 4

Have you ever thought how we got here - that farm land is all AWAY and houses are all in close?

That products come to you... and packaging is often mo…

11 months, 1 week ago

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…

11 months, 3 weeks ago