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behind the foods we love.
Hosted by independent journalist and food anthropologist, Katherine Spiers (LA Times, LA Weekly, KCET, Eater, How to Eat L.A.). Guests include Anthony Bourdain, Georgia Hardstark, Jacques Pepin, Llewellyn Clarke, Sarah Kuhn, Claudette Zepeda, Jon Garbus, Danny Trejo, Flula Borg and many other compelling people who eat food!
Abby Fisher was born in South Carolina but found her fortune in San Francisco. She wasn't mining for gold herself, but she fed those that did, and her recipes were so good they made her write a book about them.
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What Mrs Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking
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Repast: Quarterly Publication of the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor (PDF)
African American Women of the Old West
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I thought we'd talk about cava, but murder wine is more interesting.
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Lead and Lead Poisoning in Antiquity
Lead and wine: Eberhard Gockel and the colica Pictonum
Lead Poisoning (PDF)
The Myth of Lead Poisoning among the Romans
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Anthony Bourdain, hated (but secretly beloved) candy, and the correct - that's right, CORRECT - date to put up the Christmas tree.
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Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography
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Anthony Bourdain's Favorite Songs
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Persimmons are native to Mexico! (Who knew?) (Not us!)
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Nahuatl Words in American English
Potential of minor tropical fruits to become important fruit crops
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I don't care what you've read. Chocolate chip cookies were not an accident.
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Ruth Wakefield's Tried and True Toll House Recipes
The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book
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I've never had to yell "Yuck! Stop talking!" at a guest before, but Kristen Miglore is a wild one.
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New York City: a Food Biography
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A little grocery store with a big impact, and nothing to do with tiki.
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Chinese baking is both ancient and brand-new. And those pink pastry boxes? They're from the 1970s. Even if you remember it differently.
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Top Chef winner Kelsey Barnard Clark dishes about why she chose the sous chefs she chose in the Top Chef finale. And everyone's favorite lima bean classic!
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Fallacy of the "minced oath" (Twitter thread)
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The creator of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives gives us some hot Food Network goss, and the Internation Bagel Bakers Union is discussed.
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The Bagel: the Surprising History of a Modest Bread
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