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The History of American Food

The History of American Food

De: Margaret Hardin
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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.com
Internets: @THoAFoodCopyright Margaret Hardin Arte Ciencias Sociales Comida y Vino Mundial
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  • 156 The History of Plates

    156 The History of Plates
    Oct 15 2025
    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 we got into this fix - I look at the history of plates from my particular American Food History vantage point.

    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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    26 m
  • 155 Whales - They Start to Bring the Kitchen Indoors and Change Dinner Time

    155 Whales - They Start to Bring the Kitchen Indoors and Change Dinner Time
    Oct 1 2025
    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 Light in the early 1800's started to make it's mark. Sure factories were changing the rhythm of life, but without artificial light to support the change, it never would have taken.

    The age of sail was also the Age of the Pursuit of the Whale.

    So come join the chase.

    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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    23 m
  • 154 Fashionable Vegetables from Europe & Stealth Ones from America

    154 Fashionable Vegetables from Europe & Stealth Ones from America
    Sep 17 2025
    Celebrate National Public Lands Day by finding a place to visit and get involved at
    NEEFAUSA.og
    or
    NPS.gov

    And 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 traditions and were now looking for something new.

    Join me on the journey to see what was cool in plant foods in the early 19th century. We can't all be spring peas after all.

    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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    33 m
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The information is interesting - I’ll hang around. Delivery... it’s early days. But I want to hear the whole story.

Getting Started

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Rabbit holes I never knew existed have been opened up for me. Greedily consuming this starting at the beginning. 💖

Love the attention to detail

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As a chef and history buff, I love this podcast. It is informative and very enjoyable to listen to.

Entertaining and well researched

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bringing history to life with wit and sometimes science! best listened to from the begining.

fun and quirky

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