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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We apparently love a competition show - so how America got Louisiana is right in there - soap opera slap fights and all.
But really - this is a lead up to what we need to know to learn about the beginnings of gumbo - next week - and why the rest of the country didn't flavor up their stews with gumbo goodness with the absorbtion of La Louisiane.
Frankly - the idea of a spice blend in most American Cookery - way WAY too much flavor.
So to get the dirt on why Napoleon was doomed as head of state - and what that has to do with our food journey jump in!
Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters! There's Fighting, Food, Fashion & Fraud (we swear... we laugh, w tease, it's fun)
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Holy Moly! Episode 100! I'm here!
What does that mean? Not sure except I'm not so bad at this and will keep going. So keep up.
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This week - Oysters! And some how, why spoons will out your social class. Or at least once they did.
Anyway - can you be an late18th century or early 19th century soldier on the move and still get an oyster stew? Often yes. Especially when the march is The Worst through the swamps.
But if you're inland - no oysters with your adventure.
Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters! There's Fighting, Food, Fashion & Fraud (we swear... we laugh, w tease, it's fun)
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Rice is a Fine & Fancy Food at this time.
So rice as food of War & Adventure... not so much.
But the limiting of the usual overseas markets due to overseas chaos meant that rice was entering the American pantry all the same. It's just that... well, how do you use rice?
To find out how they did it, come along.
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Salt.
I don't feel like I'm talking too far out of turn to say I'm feeling salty about the way modern treatment of the natural world is going.
Butt if you are curious about how salt lived in the18th century - and on the road for war and adventure -
Well - Listen UP!
I will talk to you about that.
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Come along as I talk about what we did in early America as we were doing war and conquest that set us up for far fewer fish.
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Wheat goes on the road
More Americans than ever can get wheat in this period. It's also an old school demonstration of the supply and demand ideas when stuff was made for people actually consume.
The most fun - learn why wheat beer and wheat whiskey was a New Idea to Americans in the 20th century.
The least fun - learn why sailors ate their hard bread in the dark.
Have some apple brandy, and hear about all the ways you could consume wheat flour that wasn't bread in this period - especially if you were on the road.
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As Europeans and their decendents the Earliest Americans desired, loved and craved bread. But with wheat being a tough go generally at these early stages, the whole in their grain loving hearts was filled by corn.
So when it was time to leave home and go to war, or just on adventure, corn came with them as well. As cornbread - sure - but that was actually pretty uncommon. Instead puddings, porridges and as parched corn was much more likely.
Find out why cornmeal now needs wheat flour to hold together (bad) but doesn't go rancid in three month or less (good).
And Corn Whiskey is back - feeding the troops and calming them down when food is short.
Corn for all seasons - even when not at home.
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Sugar is sugar... right?
Not so much. I mean, the sugar everyone cares about it cane sugar, but honey and maple syrup & sugar are also playing a role at this point.
And then war. War gets in the way of everything, especially when you end up in a war with the country supplying you most of your sugar.
Twice!
And then there's a whole seperate revolutioin on the other place you are getting your sugar from.
1776 - 1815 were certainly fraught years for sugar in the brand new United States.
Come find out how.
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Three iron innovations that made a difference during this age - two on the battle front, and one in people's homes.
With furnaces and forges both up and running - and expanding to meet the insatiable appitite for iron, iron workers had to eat as well.
Food, wood and water - all plentiful in this new country - they made American iron cheaper than it had ever been.
Also for fun - some facts about Valley Forge. Mainly why it was called that, and why it was a good place for winter quarters for the Continental Army.
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Why so much Iron America?
Well, it has to do with the stars, and I'll explaon why. But I'll also spend time going over how American Iron - and most Iron from the Age of Sail until the 20th Century was made - Charcoal Fired Blast Furnaces!
Read enough on iron - and one gets very frustrated with not understanding the common terminology used around it. I've broken it down to the important basics so you can understand it to. Becasue iron will not stop being important to American food - coming 1st - so we can fight wars. Coming 2nd and soon - railroads!
And then refrigeration and then gasoline engines and trucks and metal framed buildings that hold our grocery stores. It's inescapable, so let's take a look at the tech.
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