Episodios

  • Crossover... Part 7: Emo Lyrics & Silly Hats - Shogun Ep 7

    Crossover... Part 7: Emo Lyrics & Silly Hats - Shogun Ep 7
    Jul 12 2024
    This is NSFW or small children. You know the drill.
    If you want to get to the end - and to more fun stuff - go check out the regular feed at Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters.

    Curious George should have taught us - be wary of the man in the unusual hat. But we just won't learn.
    Good stories, expert neeling and why does everyone feel the need to share their relationship woes in the midst of the most tenuous moments?
    Kilingon revelations & more Zombie Buntaro for all of us to enjoy,

    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)
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    1 h y 16 m
  • 123 Oysters on Ice - An Amazingly Important Piece in Building American Food

    123 Oysters on Ice - An Amazingly Important Piece in Building American Food
    Jul 3 2024
    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
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    36 m
  • Crossover... Part 6: If You Stay War, Don't Gotta Get War - Shogun Ep 6

    Crossover... Part 6: If You Stay War, Don't Gotta Get War - Shogun Ep 6
    Jun 28 2024
    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
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    1 h y 14 m
  • 122.5 Bonus - Frostbite with Nicola Twilley - I Break my Own Rules

    122.5 Bonus - Frostbite with Nicola Twilley - I Break my Own Rules
    Jun 26 2024
    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
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    58 m
  • 122 Ice - A Curious Material

    122 Ice - A Curious Material
    Jun 19 2024
    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
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    25 m
  • 121 Salt & Other Chemicals

    121 Salt & Other Chemicals
    Jun 12 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 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
    Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
    Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
    Threads: @THoAFood
    Instagram: @THoAFood
    & some other socials... @THoAFood
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    36 m
  • Crossover... Part 5: 044 Truly Earthshaking - Shogun Ep 5

    Crossover... Part 5: 044 Truly Earthshaking - Shogun Ep 5
    Jun 7 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 over on Prizefighters, Circusfreaks & Gangsters - so you can get to the end of the series!

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    What show can bring you managerial manipulation, whispers of medival animal cruelty, zombie family insights and pheasant fetishization?

    Shogun of course - and as always with phenominal costumes and nice views of some of the behind the scenes that are required to run the world. As in... have you ever tried to get rabbit blood out of a bamboo cutting board without Dawn Dish Soap?

    If any of this sounds like fun to you, jump in the palanquin and come along for the adventure.

    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
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    1 h y 24 m
  • 120 Corn - The National Vegetable

    120 Corn - The National Vegetable
    May 29 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. It's mush, it's booze, it's pork & beef and butter... and fancy pleated collars.

    But wait, there's more! It was important in the Napoleonic Wars, and the power shifts in Ireland. And ithelped drive America's first major economic depression. Pretty powerful for a little grain.

    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
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    30 m