The History of American Food
Starting 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. Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/ Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Internets: @THoAFood
Episodes
Since Thanksgiving Week is also Episode Week - why not throw this one in for fun?
Learn about the wild history of an American bird with a huge travel resume and names that all think it came from somewhere else.
Enjoy the name Chaos!
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at g...
And I think I've finally answered one of my opening questions - why did America make our grocery stores the way we did?
As soon as Americans could, we ignored the food on the ground (unless it was familiar like deer or duck or pigeon) and instead brought our own provisions.
But when you do that, and don't develop local talent - the selection end up terribly limited.
So now in modern America - we se...
And lets face it, for a country that keeps talking about how we don't need roaylty, we do seem to keep mimicking aritocrats.
the early 19th century loves some fox hunting - so much so that we imported foxes (even though there are plenty already here). Hunting keeps happening everyday - but we like to say it's not cool.
Unless you are...
Obviously - upend the way food is served. Obviously if you have access to more artificial light - you can make meals longer. Especially on dark, chilly, wet nights when no one wants to be outside anyway.
Luckily - cookbooks are up to the challenge. With all sorts of ide...
And now it means you have relatives that are trying to push off plates on to you that you never got to eat off as a kid - and now why in the world would you want to lug ...
But I had never spent any tme thinking about why and how Dinner was the big meal of the day, and supper was toast dipped in cooling stew.
Until I thought about it in terms of cooking in the dark. When the sun goes down at 4:25 pm, why was ...
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And get into what was getting to be popular as vegetables in the early 19th century.
How did Avocado Toast become a thing?
Well, it would never have gotten the traction it did with out practice runs by spinach or even more glamourously by celery.
And those would have never had a chance if not for the propensity for food fads devel...
But how did one brew coffee in the 19th century?
And just how weak was it?
To find out, tune in.
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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Let's talk tea - what tea were people drinking in the early 19th century? The answer was almost uniformly, "bad tea".
Ignorance lead to people needing sugar in their tea b/c they were drinking the bad stuff. In fact a whole grade of "export quality" tea was invented to fulfill the growing global/European/American demand. Just in this case - "expot q...
Anyway - 19th Century Chinese Food?
What can I tell you? It would have looked much the same as lots of the food you will find right now around the Pearl RIver Delta, the old district of Canton - now known as Guangzhou.
But this episode is not j...
All are possible... and much more - including death by lobster poisoning.
To get more of the story - tune in to early 19th century lobster
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
Threads: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood
& some other...
That products come to you... and packaging is often more important than the thing inside?
That didn't happen over night.
The fact that farms are there, house are here, and manufacturing stuff is a third place altogether is not an accident. Instead it's something that has been developing in America for about 200 year.
To see WHY you don't ...
You end up with more oxen that can't make milk - but are useful as a source of beef.
And this works out well when you are living in a society that craves more meat,
and are in a place with apparently wide open spaces that are just fine for feeding said cattle.
A bonus when you have lots of growing industries that are willing to buy beef from you to ...
Is there a dairy scene? Yes.
But are you drinking milk? Maybe... and probobly only for breakfast.
Ok... but is it Raw Milk? Most likely not.
In the early 19th century, most milk products were at least heated (cheese) or outright cooked - almost everything else - or downright boiled - your breakfast milk.
Funny thing is, Americans have retained their passion for boiled milk at ...
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Hey - so were early Americans eating mushrooms?
Yeah. But not all that much. Just enough for a mushroom industry to spring up in the end of the century - but only in one place, and only for one kind.
But in the meantime - mushroom powder is DELICIOUS... and no...
Also - how is the lack of information and the limited presence of mushrooms in AMerican food related?
Some answers are here.
Also - The Fantasia clip of Tch...
So get ready for a visit from some of the features/specters of that myth making that inhabited a huge part of the 20th century.
Links:
Johnny Appleseed Cartoon (1948)
Paul Bunyan Cartoon (1958)
John Henry Cartoo...
And while that's wild on it's own, even more impossible to imagine is how much of agriculture used to be dedicated simply to growing food to feed the animals that allowed you to run the farm. Having solar panels and biodigesters to create power on the farm now is pretty wild... but it wasn't that long ago, all things considered when all the energy used on a farm...
IT's time to learn some chicken history and face the reality about what chickens were really for in the early 19th century - eggs!
If you wanted bird meat there were lots of better birds out there to eat above and beyond the scrawny backyard chcicken.
But that was about to change as the worlds chickens began to come to America.
To learn about all that and more - listen in...
Well! That's because in just about every one of those situations the eating etiquette would look so different it would be unrecognizable - in fact it's likely people would be eating with their fingers!
Americans have only been eating with forks - on a regualr basis for about 1...
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