Stay ConnectedStarting 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.
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This week it’s glass - a history.
We talk sand (SAND!) fire, volcanos and sharp things. Minerals, amorphous materials and how glass is a solid and not even a little a liquid.
What was glass before it was windows - or even see through? And how badly did the early Americans want glass? Bad enough that they lured European glass makers here - with the promise of plenty of fuel, plenty of sand (SAND!) and an apparently forever growing market. Along with slightly less hard work with the promise of mechanization.
So stand back, but look on at the shiny hot stuff and learn some facts about the history of glass.
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Does war make people innovate? Sure sometimes, but profit and shortages can often do more.
In this case, Mercantilist sentiments crossed with Napoleon losing wars and causing a big ol' blockade by the British didn't hurt.
This week sugar and sweeteners grow! It's not just all sugar anymore. Corn syrup appears. The sugar beet is made real.
For the video where that either nostalgic OR brnad new sugar beet ditty comes from... here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuZNSGdg2ms
I'll be sending out a toffee recipe in the socials as soon as I get myself together. Moving house and all that!
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Heads up! NSFW, Not E for Everyone. Think - F for Fun
OK - Episode 1 of Shogun... A bunch of you tuned in.
I have SACRIFICED my CLEAN rating on Apple Podcasts for this.
So here's Ep 2
Come on over to Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters to hear Episode 3 of Shogun... Today!
Apple Podcasts
Spotify
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This only get's messier. And after this episode (Ep 3 available now) the sound gets fixed.
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It's the 19th Century and the whole show is about to change - and it's Iron that makes it possible. How we cook, how we get around and what is going to be available to even make food out of.
With a mysterious detour through why calculus is important, find out how Iron and American food continue to be absolutely inextricable.
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For those of you looking for the Shōgun review - the unhinged 19th Century - and our take on it at Prizefighters Circus Freaks & Gangsters is what you are looking for… even though not technically the 19th century.
Want to visit the Oregon Trail - here’s the link I promised: https://www.nps.gov/oreg/index.htm
And for Old American Food - you are in the right place. The 19th Century - it’s braggadocio, optimism and hopefulness, plus a certain sprinkling of constructive narcissism... honestly is more representative of the American Spirit as we know it today than almost anything that happened in the 18th century.
As a warning and a warm up, this week’s episode takes you through just how much and how far I have to go to encompass 1800 to 1861 - the start of the American civil war.
Jump in, and buckle up. The loop de loops are coming.
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Heads up! NSFW, Not E for Everyone. Think - F for Fun
It is KILLING me that I get featured while on a research break!
I mean yes - head for the back catalog... but if you are a "what's new" kinda listener I gotta let you have something.
So - for fun, here's a crossover episode from my other podcast -
Prizefighters, Circusfreaks & Gangsters - which is mainly about the mayhem that was the 19th century in America and the hot nonsense that is most of the media that depicts the 19th Century in America. Food, Fashion, Fighting and Fraud - and then as we go on... a whole bunch of other F's
So of course, I'm posting a special episode that covers media that's about the 17th century (wrong time) and Japan (wrong place!)
But if you are interested at all in the show Shogun, or why the 19th century is as riotous as it is - and what it's busting up - come in for a listen.
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Shogun - The Mini Series - The Reboot
How, you ask, can we justify leaping all the way back to the 17th Century in a 19th Century podcast? Tune in and find out.
But also - the perils & hilarity of reading the source material are revealed.Who'd face blind?Why do the Japanese interiors look so cool?Find out who has the best beard!
They're aren't many fights - but there's plenty of all the other F's!Come for the standard stuff, but stay for the detours.
And go enjoy the stylish as hell show.
Jamie Lewis (plagueofstrength.com & IG @plagueofstrength)&Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over)Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast
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The 19th Century - when America starts to really take shape as the America we recognize (more or less) today. It starts to be more diverse - and gets mad about it right away.
The cold chain starts here. Food miles start here. Jars of strawberry jam starts here.
The 19th century up to 1861 holds so much of what made America not the rest of the world - and also started to absorb influences from the rest of the world.
America really gets moving - so don't miss the train.
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End of Season 3
Hot Take - American food is the way it is becasue we became obsessed with enough food - more food just as we were becomeing a country. How do we feed ourselves well, and then how do we make money feeding everybody else.
For much of the rest of the world - food was identity, survival, a way of life and celebration. For America food was how you got things done, got places and got paid.
This leads to very different attitudes and outcomes when it comes to food.
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Well here's a weird little detour for you - not food exactly, but ingested by early Americans all the same. Not so much by soldiers and adventurers on the road - but often when they were let on leave - especially if they were rich.
Lots of people were doing lots more drugs in early America than I thought - but in different ways and by different folks than I expected. Little old rich ladies were the most common opium addicts? Who knew? Me now.
And American and European medicine had little interest in anasthesia apparently. Wild.
Just whatever you do - don't get hurt on the battlefield. Dodge or die seemed to be the preferred modes. Because everything hurt, and unless you were really rich, or really lucky, it stayed that way.
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How hard drinking were the American soldiers and adventurers? Far far less than you might think. Yeah, sure they went nuts on leave, or when they got left alone in a cellar full of brandy - but that's only because it was mostly water most of the time.
How come you ask? Well, this whole episode is here to answer your questions.
Drink Up!
oh - and read up on the Fresnel Lens
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