A BUSY WEEK!

1st hooray - Women's Work - The Untold Story of America’s Female Farmers
has its PBS Premier on September 26 on KSPS serving the Spokane, WA area!

But seriously - let's talk about jelly.  Yeah - I definitey learned great disdain for Jell-O as I grew up - cheap and ceerful, and it seemed like tawdry empty calories.  The research for this episode showed me it has a long and proud history as an exclusive food that us moderns poorly understand.

As an American I am incredibly suspicious of savory jellies.  I have been fooled into missing some good stuff.  How did it all go wrong?  This episode holds a few clues.
Also - finally all those references to Blancmange in British English media will make sense to all us American English types.

But in the meantime - check out my appearance on TodayFood.com

And - keep your ears out for the crossover episode about the 1st Glass of Coca-Cola from History Daily and Wondery 

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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In case you are new here - these are the NSFW Eps.  Not serious food content, fit for sharing with everyone.  Instead, we are being silly about media - mostly about the 19th Century.   And there are swears.  Sharing this becasue this Zorro series is very joyously fun.

Catch Season 1 of Zorro on Amazon Prime Video to watch along

After watching the movie Zorro - it became clear, we need more of Zorro.  We also need more of the 19th Century Americas... from something other than the USA America perspective. Because, during the 19th century, the Americnan America was a very different shape than the USA we live in now.  There were lots of other nations in those spaces we conveniently forget about. 

Also - the 21st century adventure and super hero stories have gotten a little... dark.  We need a little light.  Not to mention, some way better clothes.
So get out the cape, saddle up and let's ride for better adventures with Zorro in Alta California.  A different way to pursue fashion, fighting and hey, let's have some fun.

As always - you can reach us on the internets.
Jamie Lewis (plagueofstrength.com & IG @plagueofstrength)
and his NEW YouTube Apprearances on Carved Outta Stone Wednesday AM or Friday PM
Schedule Details: instagram.com/carvedouttastone
&
Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over)

If we are ever going to cryogeneically preserve humans, we have got to learn a lot more about Oyster Liquor.  Sci-Fi aside, come along and discover how much 19th cenurty America - not just American food is built upon the oyster harvest.  Everybody everywhere was eating them - by the barrel and bucket full.  It was common to find recipes that blithely started with a gallon of oysters or a hundred oysters.  Can you imagine?

I can't. 

But follow along with Thomas G Downing as he builds his fortune and America starts to grow up with the sale of oysters for lunch and as an export food.

If you're exporting to New Jersey, you might as well head out into the world.

It's oyster time in 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

Come Join the Fun!

Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25th

Come here me reveal scandalous information about Gumbo.

https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/

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Mercantilism has more money now… so it also has more Pirates!

Is committing Murder and Bribery the worst a pirate can do?
Nope - being unsuccessful and not having the money for the Bribe, that’s what does you in.
That & doing too much to create the foundations of a rebel economy.

But really the bigger questions here are:
Is your town #Team Madagascar or #Team Curaçao?
There was a second Triangle Trade triangle?
Just where was Paul Revere getting his Silver?
And does Great Great Grandma actually have pirate treasure?

Tune in for this and more economic history - including how tobacco farming in the age before chemical fertilizer may have jumpstarted the Revolution.

Special Thanks to Dr. Jamie L. H. Goodall
And her books
Pirates & Privateers - from Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay
Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay - from the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars

https://www.amazon.com/Jamie-L.-H.-Goodall/e/B07ZS2Z4T3%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

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
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Oysters are EVERYTHING.
It's like cronuts meet 1990's fro-yo. Everyone is Obsessed.
Sure there are some other shellfish, but who cares about them? Throw in a crab for variety now and then.
But more importantly I address why prisoners got mad about lobster, why there was oyster ketchup, and the most ridiculous DoorDash order ever.

On a more serious note: The Townsend's YouTube Channel. It's the Bob Ross of 18thC living. A great escape, and really informative as well.
Mushroom Ketchup: https://youtu.be/29u_FejNuks

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

Come Join the Fun!
Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25th
Come hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo.
https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/

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But Salt!

Fish!
Pirates!
Possible Independence!
The Sugar Economy!
The accidental creation of the Cajuns!
18th Century Salt in the New World is responsible for all sorts of things. And Cherokee or as we know them now - Virginia Hams.


Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

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

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
Extra 10% Off? Use the code: FOOD

Everybody was eating fish for about 80 years there. Then too many people moved away from the coast, we did some not smart things to our waterways, and the fish utopia ended.
But during that time - this is how we ate all that fish. One way if you were rich, and another way if you were everybody else. And if we were making so much dried codfish - why don't we have recipes for it?
A little paper history, and a small !Escandalo! regarding just how original Caesar Salad dressing is.


Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

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

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% Off? Use the code: FOOD

For a minute there, for the colonists, Corn was a "foreign food", a poor substitute to real food. But by the 18th century it had become American Food for real. This is a long wander through American pyramids, the precursors to hushpuppies and Jell-o pudding, along with the birth of Moonshine before it was Moonshine.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

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
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Sugar! In the 18th century it entered the kitchen. As mostly syrup it was used in dessert. But it also changed the kitchen wine and the kitchen beer. One was made easier and one was frankly made kinda worse.
A detour about blue paper - because why not!

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

Don't Forget - Intelligent Speech Conference - 2022, June 25th
Come hear me reveal possibly dangerous information about Gumbo.
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I thought I was going to be talking about Labor and Charcoal and Iron... but instead - I am talking to you about the invention of Toast. New research and old things in my brains do interesting things sometimes.

The Toaster Project - Thomas Thwaites: https://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/

Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Mostly_Harmless

Michelle Obama - Becoming: https://becomingmichelleobama.com/

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

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.
https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/

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Iron & Wood & Food are hopelessly entangled in the 18th C colonies
The short version is that there is more iron to cook more things - but the stuff you can import to Britain is limited. Which means the cash workers can earn is limited... so the trouble starts.

But more nails means more rooms in a house. 100% increase from 1 room to 2!

That and so much more, including the burning building for nails fight.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

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

Year 4 - Theme: Crossings
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This time there will be an exploration of the unusual literacy of the population, and pineapples appear. I look forward to sharing with you the upcoming changes - as the population gets more sweets, gets drunker, and the bread oven moves indoors. I think I may have also found the roots of why America never really developed solid bakeries or its own street-food culture.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

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 read a whole bunch of stuff about distilling in the way back of history. It was messy and when it came to immortality potions and alcohol - kinda dangerous. Come hear about it, and all the places distillation happened - and how distillation seems to have met itself again in South America over Pulque.

Source of the, "Don't eat in the Lab or you might turn into a Dinosaur!" References - The Tick v. Dinosaur Neil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8HxakmkWU

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

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 (plagueofstrength.com & IG @plagueofstrength)
&
Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over)

Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast

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.
Don't worry I'll be back - I just need to get organized.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

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 weird, its awful. But they did it - and so as not to do it again - time to learn about the how and the why.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
When I figure it out - Instagram: @THoAFood

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 actually Indentured Servants. I'm not sure the right lessons were learned.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
When I figure it out - Instagram: @THoAFood

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 Nursery Rhymes.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

Find out what fast food was in the Old World - and why it was often a better bet than home cooked if you lived in the city. And what is was in the New World. They really miss that eel pie and an ale pine in New Plimouth.

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 arrivals had different opinions. Some because they were transported peasants and vagrants, other because they had just seen a whole bunch of people who were overly picky eaters die of starvation. But even the new adventurous eaters had standards. No one wanted to eat a skunk if they really didn't have to.
Listen up if you want a run down of the 17th century colonial Varmint scene.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
When I figure it out - Instagram: @THoAFood

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 bits from a couple of islands between India and Australia. (Was it #Aliens? It wasn't Aliens.) But I will explain how the busiest place in the world in the 16th Century was a place that is really hard to get to even now, but has food you really want to try.

The show notes will have spice lists in what looks like made-up languages, and a link to a PDF ( https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8102 ) of the Forme of Cury.
Also - shoutout to @NYPL for having a bound version of this on display at 5th Ave - I got to see it!)

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

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 all of the evils of the sugar trade. You can clearly tell by its color of course. (If you are not a listener, and don't know me - heavens child, this is called sarcasm).
And from this waste stream of white sugar, the Demon rum was born.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

Less Food and more Religious Baggage! I really know how to liven up a conversation. I was so taken aback at the preserved ire at humans just living in so much of the early New England writing, and how vilified the fat, the lazy, the people who even acknowledge pretty things, or like flavors were - that I had to do an episode on it.
I was surprised at how old explicit fat-phobia, both in food and on bodies was in this country. So buckle up for the ride.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

Soap - Just what is soap, and what makes soap... soapy? How do you make it? Is it better or worse than chemical detergents? And how were people getting clean before soap? I look into all that and more, and express my love for the 90's Comic Masterpiece _The Tick_.
But seriously - Chemicals are not The Enemy - profiteering off fear is.

Books and other info I promised:
The Tick v. Dinosaur Neil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8HxakmkWU

Scientific Soap Making: https://www.soapguild.org/cart/books/78/scientific-soapmaking.php
Lab Muffin - Make Your Own Soap!: https://labmuffin.com/make-your-own-soap-part-1-the-chemistry-behind-soap-making/

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

Fat – and not for just this week, but next week too. I foolishly thought I could get through this in one week. Not so. As a result this week is fat overview and fat prestige rankings, and not until next week do I get on to the morality.
But you do get to hear about my up close and personal time with cracklings.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

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

Wild horses, feral horses, eatin' horses - only 2 of those exist in 17th Century America. The eating and not eating of horses has shifted across European and American history - as have the reasons why. I'll explain that - and pronounce "Przewalski" - the P is silent!

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

Caffeine, Nicotine & Theobromine - along with the printing press and sugar all arrived in a big way in Europe in the 17th Century. They each affected the colonization of America - some immediately... and some waited.
Do you think kids these days are bad? Well! Consider how crazy-making those guys (and in those days, it was the Boys) were with their propositions of allowing the Bible to be read in English, and establishing smoking in public. It was wild I tell you.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

Part 2 of the 17th Century Dutch colonial influence on Modern American food. Doing doughnuts before they were cool - or maple bars. Also a quick peek at the why of Santa Claus vs. Father Christmas.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

What portion of what we think of American food has its feet in Dutch clogs? I'm not entirely sure, but the research tells me it is more than I thought. After a helping of Dutch history, I look at sweet bread things - and why it is cookie in America, but biscuits in England.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

Do you want to listen? You want to listen, and learn about why American food is the way it is. Grab a red Solo cup and some Popcorn.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

Finally - the truth comes out. Why is this truly American bird called the name of a country it was never from? And is it true your Thanksgiving turkey came from… 16th century Mexico, and not New England… at all? And we’ll continue to follow the baffling saga of Colonists taking perfectly good domestic animals and letting them get feral.
All this and more on this week's episode of The History of American Food!
(*cue jaunty synth music from ‘80s evening magazine style show*)

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

Back then chicken probably tasted not like our chicken. If you could catch one of the scrawny little birds. But of much more import were the eggs. All four iterations - whole eggs, the rich yolks, the strong whites, and the practical hard cooked egg. The 17th Century colonies was the land before omelettes.


Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

After dealing with the good, solid, respectable apples, this week we deal with liquid apples. There's the fermented juice - cider & the fermented fermented juice - vinegar. I throw in the rest of the fruit juices because it's essentially the same process regardless of whether it's a peach or a pear or a mulberry. So apple juice - briefly sweet, tipsy and then sour.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

This week is History of Apples, and Solid Apples, Liquid Apples is next week. I hold myself open to a possible future Gaseous Apples, but draw the line at Plasma Apples.
The hegemony of the Apple is covered, as is the transformation of the Apple from its role as Biblical Bad Girl to Colonial Goody.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THoAFood
Instagram: @THoAFood

Piggies piggies piggies. It's all bacon, salt and smoked hams in the 17th century. The images of Babe and Wilbur from Charlotte's Web are all off the mark. The early colonial pig was lean, mean, long legged and would bite you if it could. Some apparently even beat up on wolves. Come visit the colonial pig pen.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THOAFood

Histroy Cookbook you say?

Check out The History of the World in 10 Dinners by 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.

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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

Yes I've already mentioned Pickles once, but this time I'll be looking into the whole range of what was pickled (boy oh boy, it was more than cucumbers - it was more than vegetables), the different ways of pickling, how those pickles were stored, and how they were used.


Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THOAFood

Once again - not a food, but wood is absolutely essential in the quest for edibles in the 17th century. Wood was necessary to grow food, harvest food, process food, cook food, store food, and transport it to market. And there were lots of trees used in lots of different ways. A few provided edibles - fruits and nuts, sweet sap and medicinal bark, but for the most part, trees provided the infrastructure required to get food on the board.
I will lists trees like Harlan Pepper lists nuts. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_in_Show_(film) )


Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
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Deer are 17th Century Colonial Food. But because they are seen as free, and not well managed, they quickly fall off the regular American Menu. Learn about the toughest meat everyone ate for a few years, but then only the richest and poorest ended up eating… and still eat today.

Venison will go largely into eclipse, but not the deer antler handle.

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Podcast Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle

17th Century bread had plenty of fiber, and occasionally some very tiny rocks. The hand milled grain - and initially this was mostly corn - that went into to the early breads was more meal than flour, so bread was rather dense. More of an unleavened fireside puck than a familiar loaf.
It would take decades and the settlement of early Pennsylvania before the bread we would recognize became somewhat common. From those earliest colonial campsites… ovens had to be built, the bread tools had to be carved, the wheat successfully grown and to get a regular barm (yeast) supply, they had to get the beer brewing.

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Podcast Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle

No coffee? No orange juice? No sparkling water? What did the 17th C colonists drink to wake up, to refresh themselves? Beer of course.
The problem was… it was bad beer. Join me to find out why, and how long it lasted.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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Corn bread and Pumpkin beer - that was some serious suffering in the 17th century. Finally the competent farmers showed up in Pennsylvania to grow the real grains the English colonists missed in the New World.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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How does milk work so you can take a liquid and make it in to solids?
This episode I talk about how liquid milk, which will just go bad on you in a second was turned into butter and cheese so it could travel around the 17th Century American food world.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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Did you know milk fresh from the cow is 101F/38C ?
That's right, a "cold glass of milk" wasn't really a thing in 17th Century Colonial America. But people still drank or supped on liquid dairy. Find out how - and learn about the most cow to table dessert ever.

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Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
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Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle

I finally did it - I've covered all the thingies in my logo! Beef, Sugar and Iron (though that cowboy coffee pot will remain empty until the 18th Century). 17th Century beef did not come in steaks - rather gobbets and slices, or reconstituted from salting or stringy, stringy jerky.
And what good is a steak knife if you don't yet have a fork?

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Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle

Another reason for America at all... Cows. Arable England was all out of room - and there were lots of casks of salt beef the Navy needed to buy. So, go grow cows in the New World! This episode looks at just what a cow is, and how they got to Colonial America.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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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
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Digging out the rest of the vegetables our 17th Century pre-Americans were eating. But really showing how vegetables are involved in the North-South rift, and just how early that started. While it was partly the weather, it turns out religion, economics, labor policies and farm kids vs. city kids all had a hand in it. I was surprised how what could have been a very small topic went so for afield.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
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How and why the 17th century colonists made a distinction between pumpkin and squash. One was good and the other bad. Spoiler alert - those Puritan Pilgrims had some ideas about bright colors and what made a loose woman.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
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Pease/Peas and Beans and the other ones. Unglamorous, but dependable, legumes have been with humans for a long time. Untangling Old World & New World beans, and why you never eat New World Beans raw.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
Twitter: @THOAFood