Podcast Episodes

161 Hardtack, Softbread & Meal - Daily Bread in the War of Rebellion

Season 5

I'm Back and it's bread.

The American Civil War (the War of Rebellion is where suddenly we start really naming American Bread.

Sure yeah, hard bread is…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

160 Season 5 Preview: War Changes Everything Except it Never Does

Season 5

Welcome back to American Food!

Sorry about the big break, and even more sorry to be talking about war food ... during war.  Blech

But it is interesting…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Season 5 Promo - War Food... but with Trains

Season 5

I'm back and it's been so long.

Find out why!

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle

Substack: https://thoafood.substack.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAm…

8 months ago

159.5 The Turkey History Episode... Just for Fun

Season 4

It's been a little while since I put up this Tukey History Episode!

Since Thanksgiving Week is also Episode Week - why not throw this one in for fun?

L…

11 months ago

159 The Roots of Grocery Store Culture Lie in a Big Country

Season 4

It's the last Episode of Season 4!

And I think I've finally answered one of my opening questions - why did America make our grocery stores the way we …

11 months ago

158 Are You Rich Enough or Poor Enough to Hunt in the Early 19th Century?

Season 4

So far America is pretty hostile to everyday hunting - but for some reason we keep adding categories.

And lets face it, for a country that keeps talki…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

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 …

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year, 1 month ago