The History of American Food

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The History of American Food

by 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

103 episodes

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1

164 Feeding an Army: A History with a Lot of Holes - On Purpose

23:40 Apr 1, 2026

2

163 The First Canned Food War

23:32 Mar 25, 2026

3

162 The Army Says Eat Your Vegetables

21:47 Mar 18, 2026

4

161 Hardtack, Softbread & Meal - Daily Bread in the War of Rebellion

29:13 Mar 11, 2026

5

160 Season 5 Preview: War Changes Everything Except it Never Does

20:21 Mar 4, 2026

6

Season 5 Promo - War Food... but with Trains

2:38 Feb 25, 2026

7

159.5 The Turkey History Episode... Just for Fun

24:04 Nov 27, 2025

8

159 The Roots of Grocery Store Culture Lie in a Big Country

24:15 Nov 26, 2025

9

158 Are You Rich Enough or Poor Enough to Hunt in the Early 19th Century?

25:13 Nov 12, 2025

10

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

19:14 Oct 29, 2025

11

156 The History of Plates

26:17 Oct 15, 2025

12

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

23:07 Oct 1, 2025

13

154 Fashionable Vegetables from Europe & Stealth Ones from America

33:14 Sep 17, 2025

14

153 Coffee Finds a New Home

34:11 Sep 3, 2025

15

152 Early 19th Century Tea - Still Extremely Fashionable

30:45 Aug 20, 2025

16

151 The First Chinese Food in America

38:34 Aug 6, 2025

17

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

23:31 Jul 23, 2025

18

149 Trains & Buying Stuff in the Early 19th Century - The Birth of American Consumer Culture

27:00 Jul 9, 2025

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148 Making Beef for Dinner - Increases in Early 19th Century Cattle

32:45 Jun 25, 2025

20

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

33:38 Jun 11, 2025

21

146 What Was Early 19th Century America's Problem with Mushrooms?

28:14 May 28, 2025

22

145 Mushroom History - Food Edition & What Eactly is a Mushroom Anyway?

28:55 May 14, 2025

23

144 Early 19th Century Apples - the Fruit of Progress & Propaganda

32:59 Apr 30, 2025

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

32:21 Apr 16, 2025

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142 Are Chickens Alternate Reality Pigs?

40:51 Apr 2, 2025

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141 The Forking of America - When We Start to Stop Eating with our Hands

35:43 Mar 19, 2025

27

140 Tasty Preseerved Pork - Early 19th Century Ham & Sausage plus Scrapple

33:18 Mar 5, 2025

28

139 How to Eat Pork in the Early 19th Century

30:55 Feb 19, 2025

29

138 19th Century Pigs - Greasng the Way to the Future

26:29 Feb 5, 2025

30

137 American Crackers – Biscuit by Another Name or Another Thing?

29:53 Jan 22, 2025

31

136 America is Made of Bread & Steel

35:00 Jan 8, 2025

32

Crossover… PART 16 - Is This too Many Locations? Zorro S1E6 on Amazon Prime

1:04:02 Dec 27, 2024

33

135 Some of the Reasons America is so Weird About Liquor - Lack of Cash, Lack of Refrigeration & Lack of Expertise

34:28 Dec 18, 2024

34

Crossover... Part 15: SLAP! Achievement Unlocked Zorro S1E5 on Amazon Prime

1:14:01 Dec 13, 2024

35

134 Lessons from Early 19th Century American Stew

39:09 Dec 4, 2024

36

133.5 BONUS - Unnecessary Romanian Adventure

40:08 Nov 29, 2024

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133 Stew – A History Including Etymology, Techniques, & What it Was Called Before

26:51 Nov 20, 2024

38

132.5 Bonus - Danderfunk, Salt Junk, & Scurvy- Cuisine Aboard Ships

58:10 Nov 13, 2024

39

132 Baked Beans - Boston and the Other Kinds

28:56 Nov 6, 2024

40

Crossover… Part 14: It’s Definitely a Telenovela - Now With Twins - Zorro S1E4 on Amazon Prime

1:16:39 Nov 2, 2024

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131 The Fruits and Nuts of America - The Natives, Not the Imports

36:12 Oct 23, 2024

42

Crossover... Part 13: What The Hell Is Going On, 1st Installment - Zorro S1E3 on Amazon Prime

1:09:17 Oct 18, 2024

43

130 America Goes on a Diet - Part 1: Grahamism and the Vegetable Diet

40:23 Oct 9, 2024

44

Crossover... Part 12: No Tapas, But This Has EVERYTHING Else - Zorro S1E2 on Amazon Prime

1:11:00 Oct 4, 2024

45

129 America Goes on a Diet - A History

24:27 Sep 25, 2024

46

BONUS: John S. Pemberton Sells the First Glass of Coca-Cola - History Daily

15:41 Sep 18, 2024

47

128 Blancmange, Jelly and other Jiggly Things

31:58 Sep 11, 2024

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Crossover... Part 11: So What if Zorro - but a Telenovela and So Much Fun? - Zorro S1E1 on Amazon Prime

1:17:28 Sep 6, 2024

49

127 Old World Cake - New World Cake

31:52 Aug 28, 2024

50

Crossover... Part 10: The End, Or Is It? Is there a Shogun Multiverse Now? - Shogun Ep 10

1:00:34 Aug 23, 2024

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