The History of American Food

Margaret Hardin

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.

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Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Internets: @THoAFood

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221 episodes
Updated July 24

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Jul 13, 2022 · 26 min
052 18th Century Pre-Revolutionary Tea
Tea - We did a big tea history last time. This time, it's smaller time. More details, more ceremony, more farce. But if you are curious what tea was drunk when, and how the Dutch lost ground to the English - stop by to find out. And pirate...
Jul 6, 2022 · 34 min
051 Lemons & Pineapples - The Caribbean Invasion
Lemons - they solved scurvy right? Or was it limes. Neither. These little ovoids were way WAY too precious to use on the common sailor like that. But find out where lemons came from and how they were used in food in the 18th century. How long ago...
Jun 29, 2022 · 29 min
050.5 Bonus The Quickening - What 17th & 18th Century Cookbooks have to say about Pregnancy & Women's Bodies
I cannot let the story stand that abortion and management of fertility is only a modern issue in America. It has been part of the landscape before Europeans arrived. But I'm not even close to being qualified to comment on that. Instead this is a...
Jun 22, 2022 · 29 min
050 18th Century British Colonial Mercantilism - Now With More Pirates
Come Join the Fun! Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25th Come here me reveal scandalous information about Gumbo. https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/ Regular Ticket Price: $30 Extra 10% Off? Use the code: FOOD...
Jun 15, 2022 · 31 min
049 Oysters & Lesser Shellfish
Come Join the Fun! Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25th Come hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo. https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/ Regular Ticket Price: $30 Extra 10% Off? Use the code: FOOD...
Jun 8, 2022 · 25 min
048 Salt - How to Make it in America
Come Join the Fun! Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25th Come hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo. https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/ Regular Ticket Price: $30 Extra 10% Off? Use the code: FOOD But...
Jun 1, 2022 · 26 min
047 Fish For Everybody - For Now
Do take a peek at Unchefed https://www.unchefed.com/about https://twitter.com/unchefed and me when I'm not just in Teacher Mode: The History of Fish Sauce https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-fish-sauce/id1578898329?i=1000563764347...
May 25, 2022 · 25 min
046 Corn is American Now
Do take a peek at Unchefed https://www.unchefed.com/about https://twitter.com/unchefed and me when I'm not just in Teacher Mode: The History of Fish Sauce https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-fish-sauce/id1578898329?i=1000563764347...
May 18, 2022 · 30 min
045 Sugar & Molasses - Good Jam and Bad Beer
Don't Forget! Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25th Come hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo. https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/ Regular Ticket Price: $30 Purchase Tickets before June 1: $20 Extra 10%...
May 11, 2022 · 26 min
044 Iron, Bricks & the Invention of Toast
Don't Forget - Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25th Come hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo. https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/ Regular Ticket Price: $30 Purchase Tickets before June 1: $20 Extra...
May 5, 2022 · 28 min
043 Iron - Building the Home Industry
Welcome Back! (Sorry about the late Ep - I thought it would be only 12 hrs late... but wood chippers) Don't Forget - Intelligent Speech Con - 2022, June 25th Come hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo....
Apr 27, 2022 · 17 min
Season 2 Preview
Welcome Back! Season 2 is just around the corner. With more kinds of food, a little less time spent in the prehistory of food and much more access to contemporary cookbooks. Intelligent Speech 2022 Celebrating Independent Educational Podcasts...
Apr 6, 2022 · 39 min
042.5 Bonus - History of Distillation
Intelligent Speech - June 25th - come hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo. https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/ Regular Ticket Price: $30 Purchase Tickets before May 15: $20 Extra 10% Off? Use the code: FOOD I...
Mar 9, 2022 · 31 min
End of Season 1
We've come to the end of Season 1. I'll answer some questions, give a preview and let you know about the future of the show. But mainly I'm just here to let you know there's going to be a break while I sort out exactly how Season 2 is going to go....
Mar 2, 2022 · 16 min
042 The Labor Situation 1661 - 1699
1660 - When England gets serious about money and stuff & makes some big changes to its laws. This is going to make some big changes to North America. But first - sugar is about to get cheap. Learn the one weird trick they used. Ok - it's not...
Mar 2, 2022 · 31 min
041 Housekeeping - Domestic Labor Before 1660
When this whole America project got started as a bunch of random colonies, it wasn't just the Colonists there, they brought their servants as well. While there was slavery right from the jump, nearly all the domestic help in the 17th century were...
Feb 23, 2022 · 24 min
040 17th Century Fast Food
Without cars - there were no drive-thrus, so was every meal a sit down affair? Of course not. Too much to do - and as we'll soon see - nobody's got time for 3 hot meals a day. Besides, that was practically gluttony. Apologies in advance for...
Feb 16, 2022 · 29 min
039 Varmints - Eating the Wild
What critters are you willing to eat? If you were a certain kind of colonist, the answer would have been deer, or bird, possibly some certain fish, or none. And you would also likely be dead. The surviving children of these disasters and later...
Feb 9, 2022 · 28 min
038 Spice - Worth Taking Over the World
So I'm reading along about the Spice Islands and start to wonder - was #Dune just Frank Herbert vibing out in Big University Archives and smoking too many clove ciggies? But seriously, the world really did turn in on itself over the dried plant...
Feb 2, 2022 · 31 min
037 Rum - The Most Profitable Industrial Waste of the 17th Century
The debut of Rum - or Kill-Devil as it was known at first. Regardless, this was a bad liquor, and it was how you let other people know you were bad. Yo-ho-ho and all that. Molasses was the origin, and if anything, molasses was the receptacle of...

The History of American Food

052 18th Century Pre-Revolutionary Tea

051 Lemons & Pineapples - The Caribbean Invasion

050.5 Bonus The Quickening - What 17th & 18th Century Cookbooks have to say about Pregnancy & Women's Bodies

050 18th Century British Colonial Mercantilism - Now With More Pirates

049 Oysters & Lesser Shellfish

048 Salt - How to Make it in America

047 Fish For Everybody - For Now

046 Corn is American Now

045 Sugar & Molasses - Good Jam and Bad Beer

044 Iron, Bricks & the Invention of Toast

043 Iron - Building the Home Industry

Season 2 Preview

042.5 Bonus - History of Distillation

End of Season 1

042 The Labor Situation 1661 - 1699

041 Housekeeping - Domestic Labor Before 1660

040 17th Century Fast Food

039 Varmints - Eating the Wild

038 Spice - Worth Taking Over the World

037 Rum - The Most Profitable Industrial Waste of the 17th Century