Podcast Episodes

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.go…

10 months, 1 week 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 …

10 months, 3 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 …

11 months 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 …

11 months, 2 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 …

1 year 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 C…

1 year 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?
W…

1 year 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…

1 year, 1 month 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! …

1 year, 2 months 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 Britis…

1 year, 2 months ago