28 JUN 2024 · As long as you know... ehhhhh not so safe for work.  But this means something even when there's no ep this week! TIme to do the WAR! And come join us over on Prizefighters, Circusfreaks & Gangsters - so you can get to the end of the series! Join us to find out WHO IS CORRECT! Jamie says there's no fighting this episode. Greta says there's lots of fighting - you just have to listen for it. And then there's the whole thing where we discuss just how bad the YA Movies of the 1980's & 1990's screwed up the sexes abilities to ya' know... talk to one another. Join us for this, and some music memories. As always - you can reach us on the internets. Jamie Lewis (https://plagueofstrength.com/& IG @plagueofstrength) & Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over) Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast

26 JUN 2024 · Is it just too hot?  Then come along for this talk about Frostbite by Nicola Twilley on the history & future of refrigeration.   You can read up on some outtakes and extra stuff at the blog: https://www.ediblegeography.com/ And order your own copy of the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/551601/frostbite-by-nicola-twilley/ Of course, if you have your favorite local bookshop - buy one there.  If you’d like more Nicola Twilley, you can see her on her book tour - details here: https://www.nicolatwilley.com/events/ or catch more interviews with her here: https://www.nicolatwilley.com/frostbite/ Some come along, and listen to thoughts on ThermoKing, and learn about my emerging Grand Unified Theory of American Food. 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

19 JUN 2024 · Histroy Cookbook you say? Check out https://a.co/d/aNRl4bjby Victoria Flexner & Jey Reifel to figure out how to make your dinner table a time machine.  Appreciate how we can travel through time and space through the grocery store & our refrigerators.  And give thanks for the wire whisk while you're at it. ----------- ICE!  How did we ever get by without it?  Well, turns out some people never really had to do without if they had enough money.  But for the little people - especially in the English speaking world, it took until the 19th century for icy treats to  move out into the masses.  Not a lot - but it was a start. And cool spaces for The People (rather than The Leaders) would only take off from there.  Becasue at the same time the Ice King was making deliveries world wide - the power of cold was coming under human control.   Come check out the earliest days of refrigerated America. 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

12 JUN 2024 · Now that America is on the road to getting involved with the world and becoming a mechanical, industrial company, it's time to ramp up salt production and get in on the chemical revolution.   It's not just salt that matters but all the associated sodium compounds or sodas. So it's a turn about the kitchen chemistry kit, an explanation of where they all work - and the arrival of actual modern baking soda - and how it, and the new modern food systems made the modern coffee cake happen. So get salty - if you don't stay salty. Salt Potatoes Recipe: 1 gallon/4L Water 1 Cup/ 150g salt 3 lbs little potatoes - SKIN ON & unpunctured Butter or Sour cream etc. & herbs Dissolve salt, pop in the potatoes, bring to a boil - simmer about 30 min.  Until potatoes are good to eat.  Drain in a colander.  Eat with metled butter or sour cream and herbs.  No extra salt needed. 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

7 JUN 2024 · As long as you know... ehhhhh not so safe for work.  But this means something even when there's no ep this week! But Let's go earthquakes. And come join us over on Prizefighters, Circusfreaks & Gangsters - so you can get to the end of the series! --- What show can bring you managerial manipulation, whispers of medival animal cruelty, zombie family insights and pheasant fetishization? Shogun of course - and as always with phenominal costumes and nice views of some of the behind the scenes that are required to run the world.  As in... have you ever tried to get rabbit blood out of a bamboo cutting board without Dawn Dish Soap? If any of this sounds like fun to you, jump in the palanquin and come along for the adventure. As always - you can reach us on the internets. Jamie Lewis (https://plagueofstrength.com/& IG @plagueofstrength) & Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over) Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast

29 MAY 2024 · Corn is so hot right now. No other crop even comes close in the 19th century.  This week corn grows up and shows up everywhere but on the fanciest of tables.  It's mush, it's booze, it's pork & beef and butter... and fancy pleated collars.   But wait, there's more! It was important in the Napoleonic Wars, and the power shifts in Ireland.  And ithelped drive America's first major economic depression. Pretty powerful for a little grain.  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

23 MAY 2024 · I have an ENOURMOUS back catalog. Get in there.   But for the future, I have plans for about 10 seasons. To make sure I don't absolutely turn myself into a quivering lump of jelly, structures of reasonable dimensions have been put in place to keep this baby rolling along.  Every other week baby! 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

17 MAY 2024 · Heads up!  NSFW, Not E for Everyone.  Think - F for Fun Want to get more of the Shogun? Head over to Prizefighters, Circusfreaks & Gangsters - we're up to Ep 7!  BUt in the meantime... you can just sit back and listen to us take apart and give context to 17th Century Japan. As always - you can reach us on the internets. Jamie Lewis (https://plagueofstrength.com/& IG @plagueofstrength) & Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over) Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast

15 MAY 2024 · It's officially the appearance of the Mason. Jar in American Food. You get to learn about how lack. of child labor protections made it possible, and how inventing stuff in the food preservation doesn't seem to make you rich. Learnn about how water power made inventing metal stuff possible, and how important the screw is to the development of American food. And learn how they way humans fight wars and travel the earth has never been the same since the introduction of canned and jarred food 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

8 MAY 2024 · (Want more Shogun? - jump over here to Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters - shortcut: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/is-that-how-you-use-the-rules-to-win-shogun-ep-3--59537101 Silly me, I thought I could encompass the whole can and glass jar thing in one episode.  I was wrong. Instead this episode talks about early bottling, the introduction of canning and how it was used in the early 19th century.  And there's lots of talk about botulinum toxin and botulism... a fear of my childhood, but a cosmetic procedure today.  Who knew? So to learn about the steps that lead to canned food coming in glass jars - tune in! Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/ Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com Threads: @THoAFood Instagram: @THoAFood