The History of American Food

Margaret Hardin
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The History of American Food

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

  1. 19 FÉVR.

    139 - How to Eat Pork in the Early 19th Century

    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 is - boy do we need our hands held when it comes to recipes. Is 50 words not enough for you to prepare boiled poik and pease porridge?   It certainly isn't enough for me.  I'd be absolutely sunk. Though it does explain why enslaved cooks could learn the recipes that were read to them out loud.  The recipes weren't that long.   Just small notes getting them to combine techniques they were already familliar with. The woman reading the recipe probobly didn't know what it was supposed to be like either.  As long as it tasted good - that was good enough. So come along - and be glad at the variety in your pantry.  Becasue in the 19th century - it was likely all pork a lot of the time. Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/ Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com Threads: @THoAFood Instagram: @THoAFood & some other socials... @THoAFood

    31 min

  2. 5 FÉVR.

    138 19th Century Pigs - Greasng the Way to the Future

    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!  That's right, there's more than one way to concentrate corn down for better transport and not all of it is Bourbon / Corn Whiskey. Also learn about how early mechanical America only kept moving due to the presence of pigs. Big contributions to the script from Mark Essig's _Lesser Beasts_  Be sure to look up the Canadian Super Pigs... and the problem they are. Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/ Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com Threads: @THoAFood Instagram: @THoAFood & some other socials... @THoAFood

    26 min

  3. 22 JANV.

    137 American Crackers – Biscuit by Another Name or Another Thing?

    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 British of British claymation - Wallace and Grommit, when they go to the moon to get cheese, even they bring crackers.... not biscuits. That, and a few other things had me wondering if crackers and biscuts DIDN'T come from the same source?  Rather did the two just meet in America.  Turns out - that's what it was. It was Douglas Mack of The Snack Shack that got me stared with this post on biscuit and cracker mysteries of the past: The Snack That's a Secret Ingredient And here are the llinks to @oliviacooks excellent cracker recipes made with sourdough discard: Love & Olive Oil -  Sourdough Crackers Siicilian Parchment Sourdough Crackers (pane carasau) both include a non-sourdough version. Find out how it was New Sweden all along.  Or maybe not that... but they were involved.  Anyway, be glad your crackers have fat and leavening in them.   Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/ Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com Threads: @THoAFood Instagram: @THoAFood & some other socials... @THoAFood

    30 min

  4. 8 JANV.

    136 America is Made of Bread & Steel

    Sure - people say America is built on A LOT of things, but the rise of Industrial America depends on two things - Bread and Steel.  Steel to make the Great American Dessert into the Great American Bread Basket - and all that wheat would make the steel of the railroad make lots of sense very quickly. If you are curious just what steel is - and how all that early American iron is related, this is your episode.  Sure - I'm a food podcast, but this time it's all about Geology, Steel and some bread. The King Arthur Focaccia Bread Recipe Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/ Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com Threads: @THoAFood Instagram: @THoAFood & some other socials... @THoAFood

    35 min
  5. Crossover… PART 16 - Is This too Many Locations? Zorro S1E6 on Amazon Prime

    27/12/2024 · BONUS

    Crossover… PART 16 - Is This too Many Locations? Zorro S1E6 on Amazon Prime

    For those of you listenting along at home - a little reminder, these are just filler episodes from the other podcast project I was playing around with.  If you want that feed and not this one - hop over there. But for those of you who need something to tide you over - listen along to the Hot Nonsense (and a little Cristo Fernandez appreciation). Again - this is not the safe for everyone part of the feed.  And some of the bonus contect will be just fine.  But this is to simply avoid a blank space if I can help it. So carry on with the Zorro-ing and say in the comments if it's too many locations #locations #toomuch Bust seriously - your 6 eps in to a 10 episode season and you're just going to send this many hares running in the field of story. What Gives? Also - Greta admits she entirely absolutely was guessing and was WRONG. But that's happened before & will most likely happen again. You better start paying some things off in the next few episodes.  That's all I ask.  Oh - and don't stop delivering on the fashion.

    1 h 4 min

  6. 18/12/2024

    135 Some of the Reasons America is so Weird About Liquor - Lack of Cash, Lack of Refrigeration & Lack of Expertise

    Welcome to the messy alcoholic beverage scene in the early 19th century.  Migration, mechanization and new profit centers are all going to shift how alcoholic beverages are made and regarded in early America.   They are less part of community exchange, and instead become part of the flow of economic life.  Any sense of aged or carefully constructed liquors will never develop.  Instead alcohol will have more of an identity as a cog in the economic wheel. And becaseu booze is about to become big business, lots of people are going to have lots to say about it. So to find out how messy and fast moving thing are as the split in what the north drinks and what the south drinks emerges - jump in and hang on.  There is a whole bunch of information in here. Drink Up!  Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/ Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com Threads: @THoAFood Instagram: @THoAFood & some other socials... @THoAFood

    34 min
  7. Crossover... Part 15: SLAP! Achievement Unlocked Zorro S1E5 on Amazon Prime

    13/12/2024 · BONUS

    Crossover... Part 15: SLAP! Achievement Unlocked Zorro S1E5 on Amazon Prime

    *THIS* is the don't listen at work part of the feed.  I'll include this for all the naughty episodes.  And Zorro - he's a Bad Boy?  Bad Girl?  Oh heck... it's just how bad people can be when it all becomes about money, power and entertaining TV. So have you been following along? Now that we have our major players set up - and the relationships are established we can really get the plates spinning: Secret Societies - check Love Triangle - check Twin Brothers - check Mysterious/Nefarious Death - check and a SLAP! - check and check There's some fun close quarters fighting, riding off frantically into the moonlight, and jaw clenching to beat the band.  Capt. Monestario get's to employ his jaw clenching in a range of emotional situations. We get a doctor that washes his hands (what!?) But most of all - Jamie and Greta hint what's next after we come to the end of the 1st season of Zorro. So saddle up - and come along for the ride. As always - you can reach us on the internets. Jamie Lewis (plagueofstrength.com & IG @plagueofstrength) and his NEW YouTube Apprearances on Carved Outta Stone Wednesday AM or Friday PM Schedule Details: instagram.com/carvedouttastone & Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over)

    1 h 14 min

  8. 04/12/2024

    134 Lessons from Early 19th Century American Stew

    This episode wwas one for the books.  So many many books.   And the reading and researching of all those recipes showed me that - once again - some of the assumptions I went in with were way off! Chicken and dumplins... dumplin - are not typical early 19th century fare.  But plenty of other stew type things are.  And there are lessons in the recipes for all us modern cooks - regardless of how we cook our stew. The biggest big deal - brown your meat!  The other thing - freshen up your seasoning right before serving.  Do it! But what if it's a vegetable... a meatless stew?  Well, I fear to tell you, due to the spice fearing vegetarian crusaders of the 19th century (the Grahamites and their ilk) this was a terrible time to go hunting for good American vegetable stew.  It was there, but not in any printed cookbook.  America's date with generally good vegetable cookery got badly shoved into the corner. Sigh. But get on board with why our stew got so bad - and how you can make yours great! Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/ Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com Threads: @THoAFood Instagram: @THoAFood & some other socials... @THoAFood

    39 min
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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

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  • Création
    Margaret Hardin
  • Années d’activité
    2021 - 2025
  • Épisodes
    177
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    © Copyright Margaret Hardin
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