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The History of American Food Food and History - altogether here. Cooking Your Local Produce - the book, was a start. Now its off to our food past!

19/06/2024

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. Ap

12/06/2024

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 i

07/06/2024

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 o

31/05/2024

Are Jamie & Greta fighting? Is Mariko sad about her son no longer being hers - or did she just eat some bad fish, and never really cared? But at leas

29/05/2024

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.

23/05/2024

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 qu

15/05/2024

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 invent

26/04/2024

Does war make people innovate? Sure sometimes, but profit and shortages can often do more. In this case, Mercantilist sentiments crossed with Napoleon losing

17/04/2024

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...

27/03/2024

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 hold...

28/02/2024

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,...

21/02/2024

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 th...

14/02/2024

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 he...

07/02/2024

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! https://oldfortwayne.org/ at Fort Wayne, Indiana A Collection of Unmitigated Ped...

23/01/2024

In these years of war and adventure - American Military Rations were invented. And they rested squarely on barrels of salted meat. Just like today much of the ration went to soldiers hanging out in forts or camps waiting for something to happen. But unlike today - another big chunk of rations went t...

When you make your about The Americas… bring a little Matanza in & Hernando de Soto shows up!
16/01/2024

When you make your about The Americas… bring a little Matanza in & Hernando de Soto shows up!

Completed Paella… and stew … and Pachamanca and all manner of food of The Americas.When Matanza and Boucherie come toget...
14/01/2024

Completed Paella… and stew … and Pachamanca and all manner of food of The Americas.

When Matanza and Boucherie come together.

Making Paella…and smoking chorizo by firelight
14/01/2024

Making Paella…and smoking chorizo by firelight

Taking a quick break with King Cake
14/01/2024

Taking a quick break with King Cake

When the weather makes it look like you lnow how to do pictures. Friday after the rain
12/01/2024

When the weather makes it look like you lnow how to do pictures.
Friday after the rain

If you were curious…THIS is how the sausage gets made.
12/01/2024

If you were curious…
THIS is how the sausage gets made.

If it doesn’t 🌧️ rain ☔️ - it’s not a And these collards are headed for my belly later.
12/01/2024

If it doesn’t 🌧️ rain ☔️ - it’s not a
And these collards are headed for my belly later.

This is how those tasty pork ribs get made.Good knife and knife skills required. (Butchering Photos)
12/01/2024

This is how those tasty pork ribs get made.
Good knife and knife skills required.
(Butchering Photos)

It’s Time!Back at for 2024Friday appears to be ☔️ rain day… but we’re ready Buckle up because this year its not about...
12/01/2024

It’s Time!
Back at for 2024

Friday appears to be ☔️ rain day… but we’re ready
Buckle up because this year its not about America… but The Americas!
We are dabbling in El Matanza this year!

20/12/2023

No wood - no fuel - no food In war an adventure that was usually the first and last word. Whether stuck at winter quarters in Valley Forge (and check out these cool https://revwar75.com/library/rees/kitchen.htm - paper is at the link.) Or on the trail with Lewis and Clark Wood to cook the food to ke...

17/12/2023

Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters - The 19th Century - the American Spirit really comes from here. Fighting, Food, Fashion & Fraud Plus mayhem, bombast, fornication, mendacity, debauchery, slander, sensationalism and vapid triviality... and swearing. Yet it's the least understood American...

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