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  • The Titanic's Chief Baker Survived By Getting Drunk

    The Titanic's Chief Baker Survived By Getting Drunk
    2026/09/11
    There are probably very few people listening to this podcast who don’t already know at least some of the story of the Titanic.

    But as with all famous stories like this one, there are always miniature sub plots playing out in the background that don’t become quite as famous, but once you hear them add life and color to the story as a whole.

    Today’s story is just one such tale and stars a man name Charles Joughin. He was the ship’s Chief Baker and on the fateful night of April 14, 1912, he found himself less concerned about the quantities of the following mornings sourdough loaves and somewhat more concerned about the water that was rising all around him.

    In today's episode we’ll discover just how Charles saved the lives of many on board the ship that night, chief amongst them, his own.

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    31 分
  • The Sublime Society of Beefsteaks

    The Sublime Society of Beefsteaks
    2026/08/28
    In Georgian Era London, some of Britain’s most powerful men formed an exclusive dining club devoted almost entirely to eating enormous steaks, drinking heavily and celebrating the virtues of beef.

    They took their society so seriously that they even appointed their own bishop and when the Prince of Wales told them that he’d like to join their club, they simply told him they had a strict 24 seat policy, and all 24 seats were already full.

    This is the strange story of The Sublime Society of Beefsteaks.

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    17 分
  • The Great "Electric Sugar" Fraud

    The Great "Electric Sugar" Fraud
    2026/08/14
    In the 1880s, Henry Friend claimed he had invented a secret electrical process that could revolutionise the sugar industry.

    His demonstrations were convincing and at the time, investors were throwing money at him. But almost nobody was allowed to see how it worked.

    So what exactly was going on inside his locked refinery?

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    23 分
  • When A Navy Destroyer Fought A Submarine Using Potatoes

    When A Navy Destroyer Fought A Submarine Using Potatoes
    2026/06/19
    War often calls for quick thinking and unconventional tactics, but few battles have ever been won with… potatoes. But, during World War II, the USS O’Bannon, a U.S. Navy destroyer, found itself in a tense standoff with a Japanese submarine. With the enemy dangerously close, too near in fact for their deck guns to be effective, the crew resorted to a rather unexpected weapon.

    This is the incredible tale of how the USS O’Bannon used quick thinking, and a well-stocked pantry, to help sink a Japanese submarine.


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    17 分
  • Defending A Town With Just Two Loaves Of Bread

    Defending A Town With Just Two Loaves Of Bread
    2026/06/05
    At it’s very core, war is essentially throwing everything you have at your enemy hoping that they break first, and at times that breaking point can be as much a psychological one as a physical one.

    Wars of attrition, as in the case of prolonged siege warfare, is all about seeing who can last the longest.

    And today's story is all about one of those siege warfare breaking points, and how an army was defeated by a woman who had nothing but her cunning, boldness and two loaves of bread.


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    23 分
  • 56 - Robert May's "Spectacle Feasts"

    56 - Robert May's "Spectacle Feasts"
    2024/06/21
    The entire experience of eating a fancy meal these days is no longer just about the food itself. For decades, chefs like Heston Blumenthal have been creating entire culinary experiences to delight all of your senses at once, pairing sounds, smells and textures along with the already delicious flavours of their food.

    But while this trend has taken off again more recently, this is by no means a modern practice. In fact, as far back as the early 1600’s an innovative chef by the name of Robert May was creating similar sensory dining experiences all around Elizabethan England.

    Today, we’ll discover just who this man was, and how he went about revolutionising banquets into what would come to be called his "Spectacle Feasts".

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    Sources for this episode's research:


    • https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-aaron-mahnkes-cabinet-of-c-29519194/episode/chefs-table-172173292/
    • https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-fantastical-feasts-of-englands-first-celebrity-chef
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_May_(cook)


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    15 分
  • 55 - How Sausages Helped Win A Battle

    55 - How Sausages Helped Win A Battle
    2024/06/07
    It’s well into the northern european winter season at the end of 1939. Five hundred thousand Russian Soviet Soldiers are making a collective push northwards, swarming the countryside as they go. They are armed to the hilt with tanks, explosives, machine guns, grenades and a staggeringly overwhelming number of troops.

    But there is one thing that they didn’t count on, one thing that threatened to derail their entire military offensive altogether. And that one thing, was the humble sausage.

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    Sources for this episode's research:

    • https://www.history.com/news/the-bizarre-sausage-war-that-inspired-hitler
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Varolampi_Pond
    • https://www.finlandatwar.com/the-sausage-war-an-army-marches-on-its-stomach/
    • https://sofrep.com/news/sausage-war-when-hunger-got-the-best-of-the-soviets/
    • https://short-history.com/sausage-war-733d71767317
    • https://pennytyrrellmcqueen.wixsite.com/togetherapart/single-post/2016/10/26/sausage-war


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    16 分
  • 54 - When Pineapples Were Status Symbols

    54 - When Pineapples Were Status Symbols
    2024/05/24
    For the majority of history they were considered the ultimate delicacy by European nobility who just couldn’t get enough of them. From snack to status symbol, the pineapple has graced many a King and Queens palace courts, while outside of them they took on a mythical quality akin to some sort of precious jewel.

    Today, we’ll track the pineapples voyage across the seas and into the history books as it became synonymous with the very peak of royal de rigeour.

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    Sources for this episode's research:
    • https://www.thedailymeal.com/1233796/in-the-1700s-pineapples-were-wildly-expensive-symbols-of-prosperity/
    • https://www.britannica.com/plant/pineapple
    • https://www.bimstore.co/resources/10-facts-about-pineapples
    • https://www.tastesofhistory.co.uk/post/a-brief-history-of-foods-pineapple
    • https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/25/the-strange-history-of-the-king-pine/
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3-uKgiyE3Y
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple#:~:text=Precolonial%20cultivation,-The%20wild%20plant&text=By%20the%20late%201400s%2C%20cropped,it%20into%20India%20by%201550.


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    15 分