The History of American Food
By Margaret Hardin
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Starting with the first English settlements in the 17th Century, this podcasts traces how we went from barrels of salted meat & peas to Korean bbq tacos and the largest grocery store selections ever seen anywhere in the world. We'll go everywhere - and it is full of surprises.
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Internets: @THoAFood
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Internets: @THoAFood
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135 Some of the Reasons America is so Weird About Liquor - Lack of Cash, Lack of Refrigeration & Lack of Expertise
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Crossover... Part 15: SLAP! Achievement Unlocked Zorro S1E5 on Amazon Prime
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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134 Lessons from Early 19th Century American Stew
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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133.5 BONUS - Unnecessary Romanian Adventure
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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133 Stew – A History Including Etymology, Techniques, & What it Was Called Before
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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132.5 Bonus - Danderfunk, Salt Junk, & Scurvy- Cuisine Aboard Ships
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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132 Baked Beans - Boston and the Other Kinds
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Crossover… Part 14: It’s Definitely a Telenovela - Now With Twins - Zorro S1E4 on Amazon Prime
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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131 The Fruits and Nuts of America - The Natives, Not the Imports
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Crossover... Part 13: What The Hell Is Going On, 1st Installment - Zorro S1E3 on Amazon Prime
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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130 America Goes on a Diet - Part 1: Grahamism and the Vegetable Diet
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Crossover... Part 12: No Tapas, But This Has EVERYTHING Else - Zorro S1E2 on Amazon Prime
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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129 America Goes on a Diet - A History
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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BONUS: John S. Pemberton Sells the First Glass of Coca-Cola - History Daily
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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128 Blancmange, Jelly and other Jiggly Things
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Crossover... Part 11: So What if Zorro - but a Telenovela and So Much Fun? - Zorro S1E1 on Amazon Prime
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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127 Old World Cake - New World Cake
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Crossover... Part 10: The End, Or Is It? Is there a Shogun Multiverse Now? - Shogun Ep 10
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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126 You Batter Tell Me Where You Went - Puddin'
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Crossover... Part 9: Death & Other Heartbreaks - Shogun Ep 9
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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125 Slow Bread, Quick Bread, Iron Kettle Bread, Pan Bread
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Crossover... Part 8: Of Course It's A Trap - Shogun Ep 8
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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124 The Beginning of the End of Fish Variety
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Crossover... Part 7: Emo Lyrics & Silly Hats - Shogun Ep 7
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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123 Oysters on Ice - An Amazingly Important Piece in Building American Food
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Crossover... Part 6: If You Stay War, Don't Gotta Get War - Shogun Ep 6
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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122.5 Bonus - Frostbite with Nicola Twilley - I Break my Own Rules
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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122 Ice - A Curious Material
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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121 Salt & Other Chemicals
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Crossover... Part 5: 044 Truly Earthshaking - Shogun Ep 5
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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120 Corn - The National Vegetable
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May 29, 2024 |
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Announcement: Every Other Week
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May 23, 2024 |
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Crossover... Part 4: 043 Housekeeping, Deception & a Training Montage - Shogun Ep 4
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May 17, 2024 |
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119 More Radical Changes to 19th Century Food Storage - Mason Jars & All That
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May 15, 2024 |
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118 Radical Changes to 19th Century Food Storage - Mostly the Metal Can Part
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May 08, 2024 |
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Crossover... Part 3: 042 Is That How You Use the Rules? - Shogun Ep 3
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May 03, 2024 |
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117 The History of Glass - Mostly Translucent
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May 01, 2024 |
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116 Sugar - More Kinds & Less Expensive than Ever
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Crossover... Part 2: 041 Oh Sure Just Die and Leave Us With This (Beautiful) Mess - Shogun Ep 2
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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115 Iron - Lets Get Cooking
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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114 - America at Last - What Does it Look Like Now?
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Special Ep Crossover: 040 This Time in Japan - Shogun Ep 1
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Season 4 Promo - Now we get moving!
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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End of Season 3 - But the Adventure is Only Starting
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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113 Drugs in the Age of War & Adventure - More than You Thought
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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112 Thirsty on the Trail - Who's Drinking What Where
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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111 Wild Game for War & Adventure
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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110 The Pemmican Wars - One Era Ends and Something Else Begins
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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109 Farmyard Meat and Packaged Fish for War & Adventure
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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108 Wood - Essential for Food, War & Adventure
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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107 Squash 'n Taters - Corner Fillers
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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106 The Waning of Vegetables and Variety as America is on the Move
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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105 Birds Are Like Berries - For the Pluckin'
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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104 Are Rabbits American Food?
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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103 Pirates, Privateers, Smugglers & Slavers
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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102 Gumbo & Jambalaya - 3-Flags Day Versions
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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101 How Louisiana Became America & the Food Riches we Snagged in the Purchase
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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100 Oysters for Action & The Code is Food
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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099 Rice Is Too Nice For These Times
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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098 A Thirst For Salt
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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097 I Thought There Were More Fish?
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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096 American Wheat - Better Mills & Military Bread
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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095 War Corn
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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094 Changes to Sugar World
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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093 Iron - Supplying the Battle Front & the Home Front 1776-1815
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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092 Iron - an Explainer of Iron Technology in Baby America
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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091 The War Years 1776 - 1815
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Season 3 Promo
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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End of Season 2
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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090 18th Century Housekeeping - Everbody Outside
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May 31, 2023 |
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089.5 Bonus Protein - Stringy
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May 27, 2023 |
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089 18th Century Housekeeping - Inside Edition
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May 24, 2023 |
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088 Fat & Frying in the 18th Century
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May 17, 2023 |
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087 18th Century Transportation - Part II
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May 10, 2023 |
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086 18th Century Transportation - Part I
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May 03, 2023 |
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085 Foraging is for Losers - Stay in the Farmyard
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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084 Pemmican - Why it’s Called That, What it is, How it’s Made, and How it Changed the World
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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083 Turning Wild Game into Food is A Lot of Work - 18th Century Hunting
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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082 Coffee me in the Caribbean, Sugar - the 18th Century Quest for Liquid Vigor
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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081 Ketchup - the 18th Century Name for Umami
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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080 Tomatoes & Other Foreign Fruits - The Conundrum
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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079 Potatoes & Other Possibly Foreign Vegetables
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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078 I Said Mixed Drinks. These are Definitely Not Cocktails - 18th Century Social Drinking
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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077 Whisk(e)y Pulls Alongside Rum - Adventures and Economies of 18th Century Distilled Liquors
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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076 Colonial Wine – the Tedious and Extensive Reasons Why There Wasn’t Any in the 17th & 18th Centuries
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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075 A Horse's Life - 18th Century Colonial Style
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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074 18th Century Colonial Eggs & Associated Chicken Facts
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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073 18th Century Hogs - The Start of the Pork Industry
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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072 18th Century Pumpkins - Not Exciting
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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071 Thar She Blows – The Rise of the 18th Century Oil Industry
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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070 The History of Whaling
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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069.5 Bonus - Ice Science, Fire Science & Energy
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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069 18th Century Deer are Somehow Rustic & Fancy & Money
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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068 Wood Part II - Charcoal, BBQ & Mellowed Spirits & a Peek at War
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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067 Wood Part I - Money in Masts & Barrels
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Reprise! 030 Turkey - No Disasters - Just the Bird
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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066 You Call That a Biscuit?
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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065 Cream & Pudding & Cake that is Not a Lie
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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064 Milk & Butter Money
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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063 Beef - It's American Food Now
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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062 Rice - In the Carolina Kitchen
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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061 18th Century North American Rice - A History
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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060 Cider - The Drink of Liberty! Only Royalists Drink Beer
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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059 Beer - That Good Civilized Drink, Cider is for Rubes!
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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058 Tarts & Sweet Pies
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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057 Pie - Savory Kinds & the Original Hot Pockets
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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056 Wheat & Barley - The Rise of 18th Century American Tech
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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055 18th Century Legumes - Creating the American Bean
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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054.5 Bonus Scurvy - What it is, How to Cure it & Why Modern Society Keeps Bringing it Back
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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054 18th Century Oranges - Bitter, not Sweet
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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053 18th Century Gardens - For Use or Delight
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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052 18th Century Pre-Revolutionary Tea
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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051 Lemons & Pineapples - The Caribbean Invasion
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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050.5 Bonus The Quickening - What 17th & 18th Century Cookbooks have to say about Pregnancy & Women's Bodies
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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050 18th Century British Colonial Mercantilism - Now With More Pirates
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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049 Oysters & Lesser Shellfish
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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048 Salt - How to Make it in America
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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047 Fish For Everybody - For Now
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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046 Corn is American Now
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May 25, 2022 |
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045 Sugar & Molasses - Good Jam and Bad Beer
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May 18, 2022 |
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044 Iron, Bricks & the Invention of Toast
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May 11, 2022 |
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043 Iron - Building the Home Industry
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May 05, 2022 |
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Season 2 Preview
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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042.5 Bonus - History of Distillation
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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End of Season 1
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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042 The Labor Situation 1661 - 1699
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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041 Housekeeping - Domestic Labor Before 1660
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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040 17th Century Fast Food
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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039 Varmints - Eating the Wild
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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038 Spice - Worth Taking Over the World
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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037 Rum - The Most Profitable Industrial Waste of the 17th Century
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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036 Fat - All that Moral Weight
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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035.5 Bonus - Soap is Made of Fat
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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035 Fat - Liquid Gold
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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034 Horses - Americans Don't Eat Them Except When We Do
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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033 Stimulants - Wired for Discovery
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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032 Double Dutch - Part 2 of New Amsterdam's Influence on American Food
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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031 Donut Disappoint Me - New Amsterdam and the Dutch Part 1
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Series Trailer - The History of American Food
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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030 Turkey - the Bird: A Very Special Thanksgiving Episode
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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029 Eggs and Scrawny Colonial Chickens
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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028 Apple Cider, Other Fruit Wines & Vinegar - Are We Drunk or Just Pickled?
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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027 Apples - How a Global Fruit Made its Mark on the New World
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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026 Pigs - The Terrifying Swine of the 17th Century
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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025 Pickle - We Really Are in One Now
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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024 Wood and Wood Accessories - Can't Have American Food Without Them
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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023 Deer and Venison - What a Difference a Flint Makes
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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022 Bread - From Ashen Corn Cakes to Wheaten Loaves
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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021 Beer - It's Pilgrim Breakfast, We Are Not Drunk Yet
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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020 Wheat & Barley - Missing Real Bread & Beer
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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019 Butter & Cheese - Finally, Some Dairy We Can Sell
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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018 Milk - New, Clabber, Sour & Cream
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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017 Beef - It's Almost Never for Dinner
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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016 The American Cow - Origin Story
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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015 Pickles, Pie, Pottage & Stew - Meet the Rest of the Vegetable Crew
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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014 Pumpkins and Squash - What's the Difference?
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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013 Legumes - Old World & New
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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012 Herbs, Flowers & Berries - Not Worth a Thing
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May 26, 2021 |
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011 Mercantilism - Do You Want Pirates?
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May 19, 2021 |
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010.5 Bonus - Extra Salt
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May 17, 2021 |
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010 Salt - Saving Food for Later
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May 12, 2021 |
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009 Salt - A Solid Foundation
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May 05, 2021 |
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008 Fish - Cod and Some Other Things
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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007 Corn - Is Life
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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006 Corn - The Journey of Maize
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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005 $ugar - Let's Make Some Money. Oh, And a Little Dessert
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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004.5 Bonus - Humorism & Solidism
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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004 Sugar - A History
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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003 Iron - Chains
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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002 Iron - Sharp Things and Blunderbusses
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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001 Iron - Out of the Ground and Onto the Table
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Introduction - Let's Start
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Mar 10, 2021 |