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  • 173.5 BONUS Interview - The Pickled City

    173.5 BONUS Interview - The Pickled City
    2026/06/17
    This week I talk to

    Designers, Authors and Storytellers Paul van Ravestein and Monique Mulder about their book
    The Pickled CIty Availible in Bookstores now!

    We dive into the history, culture and importance of place of pickles. I also learn a few things about why pickles are that way. So listen in to this extra long bonus episode on Pickles, Salt and History

    Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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    49 分
  • 173 Potatoes for Frontier & Factory

    173 Potatoes for Frontier & Factory
    2026/06/10
    How did America become the land of Meat & Potatoes


    I don't have all the answers yet - but I think I've found the well spring of the "& potatoes" portion. I'm about to sneak up on the big answer to the meat.
    But in the meantime, we look at whether you can have factory culture at the same time you pushing out a wild frontier - and what the potato has to do with it.

    Side quests - the origin on the French Fry, the Potato Chip and Breakfast Hash - not to mention why didn't America get the potato blight. (short answer... actually, we did)

    Tune in for lots of Potato News

    Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
    Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
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    32 分
  • 172 The Potato - A History

    172 The Potato - A History
    2026/06/03
    Po-tay-toes

    Where are they from? Why do we call them Irish? Are they poisonous? And what was the blight? I answer all these questions and more - as well as providing you with a link to a really cool paper published about the origins of potatoes 9 Million Year Ago!

    Cell September 2025 Full Text Article on the Origin of Potatoes

    Cell Press Release on Potato Origins (less technical)

    Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
    Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
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    35 分
  • 171 Iron Has New Jobs in Food

    171 Iron Has New Jobs in Food
    2026/05/27
    Iron is back and it has a bunch of new tricks up it sleeves. Sure we still cook on it - but it's doing lots of other new things it has never done before.

    And that is going to change the way we eat - because what food we get, and how much we have to work to prepare it, and how fast we - and the food can travel is going to upset everything.

    So much of how long we think things should take is about to change in a big way.

    Hop on - don't miss the train.

    Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
    Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
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    29 分
  • Season 6 Preview - I Wanna Go Fast

    Season 6 Preview - I Wanna Go Fast
    2026/05/20
    Let's Go Season 6

    (last season was way more dreary than I had thought)

    All I can say is Ice Cream for Everyone - and let's road trip... Rail Trip?

    The end of the 19th Century is exciting, colorful and yeah full of mistakes. But we are Doing Things, Building Things and Going Places.

    Let's Go.

    Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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    18 分
  • 170 Prisoner of War Food for - Wait How Many Guys? The Long Tail of War

    170 Prisoner of War Food for - Wait How Many Guys? The Long Tail of War
    2026/05/13
    The LAST Civil War Episode becasue I'm writing this - and have decided that is ENOUGH Civil War.

    And, yes I'm not happy about writing about war while there is a "we are pretending it's not a war" going on. My poor brain has said enough.

    That said - it's an interesting topic. And despite how dire it is - things are actually better now than they used to be.
    Eat your veggies, brush your teeth, wash your hands.

    The American Battle Field Trust article on Andersonville: Hell Hath a New Name

    Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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    27 分
  • 169 Not Enough Railroads Will Make You Salty in the Bad Way

    169 Not Enough Railroads Will Make You Salty in the Bad Way
    2026/05/06
    Every seasone needs a salt episode! And here it is. It's mainly about why the South was without salt - and how that meant they couldn't keep food around. That is - if they had been making enough. Which they were not.

    This is also the last time I will blather on about the difference in railroad plans and how it helped back the Confeds into a corner they built themselves.


    Don't invest in your people and pay attention to technology and you will be left behind. Especially if you are attempting to run your little corner of the world. It happened before, It's happening now - and it will happen again.

    Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
    Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
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    30 分
  • 168 If Music Be the Food of Love, Are Drugs the Food of War?

    168 If Music Be the Food of Love, Are Drugs the Food of War?
    2026/04/29
    How long has America been dealing with Opiod Epidemics? If you said - since the 1860's you get a piece of Hardtack!

    Yes - just as war came up with more destructive weapons, the medical profession came up with the hypodermic syringe. While the ability to inject and extract things with this tool have been largely amazing, it also brought in the addictive rush of injected drugs. And one of the first injected drugs was opium.
    Even crazier than that was the fact the the US Government contracted with Chinese Immigrant farmers in Mexico to grow a large part of the supply of opium used in the war.

    America has always used drugs to make America go - has depended on the sale of drugs - nicotine and cafffeine for starters - to make American farmig profitable.
    Come find out about America's strange relationship with drugs - and how much we seem to not want to talk about it.


    Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
    Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
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    25 分