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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.Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.comInternets: @THoAFood

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25:13

158 Are You Rich Enough or Poor Enough to Hunt in the...

The History of American Food ·

2025/11/12

So far America is pretty hostile to everyday hunting - but for some reason we keep adding categories.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 doing it for leisure... or to earn money.Yes - the early 19th

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19:14

157 More Plates You Say? Let's Make Dining More...

The History of American Food ·

2025/10/29

After years of no plates, not enough plates and just enough plates - you suddenly have access to many plates and pretty plates. What's a hostess of fashion to do?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 ideas of how to roll out this new style of multi-course dining.So come

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26:17

156 The History of Plates

The History of American Food ·

2025/10/15

Every wondered how we got into this fix of needing so many plates - or more specifically why you’re supposed to put a set of plates on a registry for a wedding that you are never gonna use? Or at least why did people do that on the regular ,even just 20 years ago? 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 them around now? For what’s at the bottom of these mysteries, and how

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23:07

155 Whales - They Start to Bring the Kitchen Indoors...

The History of American Food ·

2025/10/01

As a child reader, I always thought it was so quaint that "dinner" was this old-timey word for lunch. It was a "Dinner Pail" - which was a crude Indian Tiffin - only 1 chamber - vs. a Lunch Box.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 anyone making all manner of food they can't see!?But - the Whale as

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33:14

154 Fashionable Vegetables from Europe & Stealth Ones...

The History of American Food ·

2025/09/17

Celebrate National Public Lands Day by finding a place to visit and get involved at NEEFAUSA.ogorNPS.govAnd 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 developed by the early 19th century Americans who had lost their food

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34:11

153 Coffee Finds a New Home

The History of American Food ·

2025/09/03

Wake up America! Coffee is on its way to becoming the drink of the people. Sure Cider and Beer are out there... but coffee is coming up on the outside.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 TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot comThreads: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood& some other socials... @THoAFood

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30:45

152 Early 19th Century Tea - Still Extremely Fashionable

The History of American Food ·

2025/08/20

Last show on the substandard mic - but the paper towel as popfilter helped some.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 quality" mostly meant the dregs. Or the dust anyway.Understanding

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38:34

151 The First Chinese Food in America

The History of American Food ·

2025/08/06

First of all - sorry about the diferent mic. But this way we get the episode. I'll see what I can do to make things better for next ep - and all will be back to normal by the one after that.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 just about the food - it also looks a bit into how the US and China

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23:31

150 Lobster - From Poor Man's Chicken to Fancy Canned...

The History of American Food ·

2025/07/23

Think you're fancy with your lobster roll... or did you get it from a Massachusetts McDonalds?All are possible... and much more - including death by lobster poisoning.To get more of the story - tune in to early 19th century lobsterMusic Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot comThreads: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood& some other socials... @THoAFood

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27:00

149 Trains & Buying Stuff in the Early 19th Century -...

The History of American Food ·

2025/07/09

Have you ever thought how we got here - that farm land is all AWAY and houses are all in close?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 have neighborhood farms - as well as why things like setting up local

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32:45

148 Making Beef for Dinner - Increases in Early 19th...

The History of American Food ·

2025/06/25

What happens when you grow more cows to make more milk to make more cheese and butter?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 feed their growing ambitions - whaling, the railroad, new factories,

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33:38

147 How to Survive Drinking Milk in the Early 19th...

The History of American Food ·

2025/06/11

So you are a typical early 19th Century American type... 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 breakfast. We just flavor it with coffee and tea now.For more on

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28:14

146 What Was Early 19th Century America's Problem...

The History of American Food ·

2025/05/28

Check out the NCPTT... while it's still there, and maybe find an unexpectedly cool place to live. Or maybe a cool woodworking job.https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ncptt/index.htmHey - 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 not that hard to make.Recipe for 1 quart/4 cups/1 litre of

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28:55

145 Mushroom History - Food Edition & What Eactly is...

The History of American Food ·

2025/05/14

While last episode was drowning in information - this week when hunting down mushroom info... it's a bit of a desert. But no worries, there's still fun stuff to be learned - mainly just what is a mushroom? And how have humans crossed paths with it - in ways besides tripping out?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 Tchaikovsky's "Chinese Dance" will let you see (among other things) open

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32:59

144 Early 19th Century Apples - the Fruit of Progress...

The History of American Food ·

2025/04/30

This week - it’s time to look at the connection between westward American Expansion and the apple. How is the apple all tangled up with our creation of the 19th century tall tales we started to tell on and about ourselves? 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 Cartoon 1 (1973 – narrated by Roberta Flack)John Henry Cartoon 2 (2000 -

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32:21

143 Oats & Hay - Grass Runs the Early 19th Century World

The History of American Food ·

2025/04/16

As odd as it sounds, there was a time in American Food before oatmeal.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 was grown... on the farm!But it does help put into perspective how

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40:51

142 Are Chickens Alternate Reality Pigs?

The History of American Food ·

2025/04/02

Finally - Recipes for early 19th Century Fried Chicken - sorta.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.And the old Temple in Turkiye / AnatoliaGöbekli TepeScorpion Carving

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35:43

141 The Forking of America - When We Start to Stop...

The History of American Food ·

2025/03/19

Ever notice that fabulous dinner parties depicted on screen rarely take place earlier than the 1800's - and in America pretty much always after the Civil War?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 150 years!The earliest Americans ate with their hands - becasue so did

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33:18

140 Tasty Preseerved Pork - Early 19th Century Ham &...

The History of American Food ·

2025/03/05

Yes yes... tasty pigs.But as you might have gathered I'm not entirely OK right now. Will there be a National Park Service -NPS.gov by next episode?Will I have access to the library of congress or is it going to get "Alexandira'd"?I don't know, but at least I do know that I can hook you up with both old school and modern methods of preserving pork when the power grid goes down.I the mean time take care, love your local food producers and be kind. Even and possibly especially to the people who don't

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30:55

139 - How to Eat Pork in the Early 19th Century

The History of American Food ·

2025/02/19

Turns out all I was able to squeeze in to this episode was the fresh pork - more or less.How to keep pork will be around next time.But the big lesson is - boy do we need our hands held when it comes to recipes.Is 50 words not enough for you to prepare boiled poik and pease porridge? It certainly isn't enough for me. I'd be absolutely sunk.Though it does explain why enslaved cooks could learn the recipes that were read to them out loud. The recipes weren't that long. Just small notes getting

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