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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/
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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!
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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 (plagueofstrength.com & IG @plagueofstrength)
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Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over)
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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
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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
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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 (plagueofstrength.com & IG @plagueofstrength)
&
Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over)
Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast -
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
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(Want more Shogun? - jump over here to Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters - shortcut: PCG)
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
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Heads up! NSFW, Not E for Everyone. Think - F for Fun
Look you guys... Ep 4 & Ep 5 are already up on the other feed. No need to wait!
I'm super glad you are digging this bonus content.
If you want more just subscribe to the main
Prizefighters Circus Freak & Gangsters Podcast
We are like this ALL the time, and you get to learn ALL the new stuff - ok all the new stuff about the old stuff.
Come enjoy it all.
As always - you can reach us on the internets.
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 -
(Want more Shogun? - jump over here to Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters - shortcut: PCG)
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.
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
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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!
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
Threads: @THoAFood
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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!
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This only get's messier. And after this episode (Ep 3 available now) the sound gets fixed. -
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.
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
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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.
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
Threads: @THoAFood
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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 -
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.
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
Threads: @THoAFood
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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.
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
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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.
Book! The African Roots of Marijuana by Chris S. Duvall
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
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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
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
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Who gets to eat wild meat on campaign?
It depends on the type, how big and how long. The answer of course ranges from everyone to almost noone and always to almost never. Of course.
So here are all the links I promised!
The Old Fort at Fort Wayne, Indiana
A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry:
Foraging
On The Move
Maximum Effort, Minimum Reward
Single Donkey Physics
Undaunted Courage by Stephan Ambrose
The Corps of Discovery Journal - online
That NPS Interactive Map of the Lewis & Clark Trail
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
Threads: @THoAFood
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Come try Prizefighters, Circusfreaks & Gangsters!
But if that's too much adventure, come along and learn about the war that happened around pemmican.
Sure, just drop your colony on top of other people's lives - what's the problem? Sure, sending under prepared colonists with not enough food into a pretty tight food economy is going to be dicey, but how bad could it get? War bad my friends. War bad.
But as far as my little history brain is concerned - this is the first real big energy war of the Americas. Come see what I mean.
in the meantime - links I promised:
Modern beadwork - Modern beading in Vogue Magazine
Modern Beadwork Exhibits
Hudson's Bay Blankets - https://www.hbcheritage.ca/things/fashion-pop/hbc-point-blanket
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
Threads: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood - Mostrar mais