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The History of American Food

@THoAFood

From Salt Beef & Ships Biscuit To Pumpkin Spice & Sriracha. My new Obsession: What tech allows/creates what food. Follow me on 🪡

 Washington, USA
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Joined February 2021
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📣 New Podcast! "173.5 BONUS Interview - The Pickled City" on @Spreaker #american #city #food #history #mulder spreaker.com/episode/173-5-b…
173.5 BONUS Interview - The Pickled City

173.5 BONUS Interview - The Pickled City

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...

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📣 New Podcast! "173 Potatoes for Frontier & Factory" on @Spreaker #american #chip #food #fry #history spreaker.com/episode/173-pot…
173 Potatoes for Frontier & Factory

173 Potatoes for Frontier & Factory

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...

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📣 New Podcast! "172 The Potato - A History" on @Spreaker #19th #american #century #food #history spreaker.com/episode/172-the…
172 The Potato - A History

172 The Potato - A History

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...

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📣 New Podcast! "171 Iron Has New Jobs in Food" on @Spreaker #19th #american #canned #century #food spreaker.com/episode/171-iro…
171 Iron Has New Jobs in Food

171 Iron Has New Jobs in Food

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 -...

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📣 New Podcast! "Season 6 Preview - I Wanna Go Fast" on @Spreaker #age #american #food #gilded #history spreaker.com/episode/season-…
Season 6 Preview - I Wanna Go Fast

Season 6 Preview - I Wanna Go Fast

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...

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📣 New Podcast! "170 Prisoner of War Food for - Wait How Many Guys? The Long Tail of War" on @Spreaker #american #civil #food #history #prisoner spreaker.com/episode/170-pri…
170 Prisoner of War Food for - Wait How Many Guys? The Long Tail of...

170 Prisoner of War Food for - Wait How Many Guys? The Long Tail of...

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"...

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📣 New Podcast! "169 Not Enough Railroads Will Make You Salty in the Bad Way" on @Spreaker #american #civil #food #history #railroad spreaker.com/episode/169-not…
169 Not Enough Railroads Will Make You Salty in the Bad Way

169 Not Enough Railroads Will Make You Salty in the Bad Way

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. ...

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📣 New Podcast! "167 The American Civil War, Thanksgiving & Eating Our Feelings" on @Spreaker spreaker.com/episode/167-the…
167 The American Civil War, Thanksgiving & Eating Our Feelings

167 The American Civil War, Thanksgiving & Eating Our Feelings

Yeah yeah - why a Thanksgiving Episode in April?  Is this worse than Christmas in July?    No, really, it makes sense.  Especially becasue during the Civil War, when everything was an Agrairain...

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📣 New Podcast! "166 Feeding the Sick and Injured in The Civil War: Apparently You Can't Run a War Without Women" on @Spreaker #american #civil #food #history #nurses spreaker.com/episode/166-fee…
166 Feeding the Sick and Injured in The Civil War: Apparently You...

166 Feeding the Sick and Injured in The Civil War: Apparently You...

In the Last Big War we threw in America we still had "Camp Followers" to do the laundry, the nursing and a good amount of the cooking (not to mention helping with loading guns).  And George Washing...

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📣 New Podcast! "165 Is This Enough Food to Feed an Army? & What Were They Thinking?" on @Spreaker #19th #american #century #civil #crimea spreaker.com/episode/165-is-…
165 Is This Enough Food to Feed an Army? & What Were They Thinking?

165 Is This Enough Food to Feed an Army? & What Were They Thinking?

I am a producer on an Emmy Nominated Documentary.   Check it out here: https://www.womensworkdocumentary.org/ https://natasnw.org/emmy-awards/nominees/ Why are military staffs so bad at predicting...

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📣 New Podcast! "164 Feeding an Army: A History with a Lot of Holes - On Purpose" on @Spreaker #19th #american #century #civil #food spreaker.com/episode/164-fee…
164 Feeding an Army: A History with a Lot of Holes - On Purpose

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

This week we get to look back at more of why War is Awful - and it's not JUST becasue of the food.  We also talk about why war food was predictably awful for everyone everywhere for approximately...

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📣 New Podcast! "163 The First Canned Food War" on @Spreaker #19th #american #borden #camp #canned spreaker.com/episode/163-the…
163 The First Canned Food War

163 The First Canned Food War

This week canned food is the main character.  And it has the power to change the world, becaseu just like barrels of salted meat and ships biscuit - it's going to change how the fighting man (and the...

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📣 New Podcast! "162 The Army Says Eat Your Vegetables" on @Spreaker #19th #american #century #civil #desecrated spreaker.com/episode/162-the…
162 The Army Says Eat Your Vegetables

162 The Army Says Eat Your Vegetables

Sure people complain about mashed potatoes made from potato flakes now - but dehydrated vegetables in their first iteration were far, far worse. In fact some of the first mass quantities of dried...

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📣 New Podcast! "161 Hardtack, Softbread & Meal - Daily Bread in the War of Rebellion" on @Spreaker #american #bread #civil #corn #food spreaker.com/episode/161-har…
161 Hardtack, Softbread & Meal - Daily Bread in the War of Rebellion

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

I'm Back and it's bread. The American Civil War (the War of Rebellion is where suddenly we start really naming American Bread. Sure yeah, hard bread is nothing new, but the Fast Bread of fast moving...

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📣 New Podcast! "160 Season 5 Preview: War Changes Everything Except it Never Does" on @Spreaker #19th #american #century #civil #food spreaker.com/episode/160-sea…
160 Season 5 Preview: War Changes Everything Except it Never Does

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

Welcome back to American Food! Sorry about the big break, and even more sorry to be talking about war food ... during war.  Blech But it is interesting, and my ever growing fascination with American...

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📣 New Podcast! "Season 5 Promo - War Food... but with Trains" on @Spreaker #american #civil #food #history #war spreaker.com/episode/season-…
Season 5 Promo - War Food... but with Trains

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

I'm back and it's been so long. Find out why!

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📣 New Podcast! "159.5 The Turkey History Episode... Just for Fun" on @Spreaker #american #food #history #thanksgiving #turkey spreaker.com/episode/159-5-t…
159.5 The Turkey History Episode... Just for Fun

159.5 The Turkey History Episode... Just for Fun

It's been a little while since I put up this Tukey History Episode! Since Thanksgiving Week is also Episode Week - why not throw this one in for fun? Learn about the wild history of an American bird...

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📣 New Podcast! "159 The Roots of Grocery Store Culture Lie in a Big Country" on @Spreaker #19th #american #century #food #grocery spreaker.com/episode/159-the…
159 The Roots of Grocery Store Culture Lie in a Big Country

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

It's the last Episode of Season 4! And I think I've finally answered one of my opening questions - why did America make our grocery stores the way we did?  As soon as Americans could, we ignored the...

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📣 New Podcast! "158 Are You Rich Enough or Poor Enough to Hunt in the Early 19th Century?" on @Spreaker #19th #american #bison #buffalo #century spreaker.com/episode/158-are…
158 Are You Rich Enough or Poor Enough to Hunt in the Early 19th...

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

So far America is pretty hostile to everyday hunting - but for some reason we keep adding categories. And lets face it, for a country that keeps talking about how we don't need roaylty, we do seem to...

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📣 New Podcast! "157 More Plates You Say? Let's Make Dining More Complicated" on @Spreaker #19th #american #century #china #courses spreaker.com/episode/157-mor…
157 More Plates You Say? Let's Make Dining More Complicated

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

After years of no plates, not enough plates and just enough plates - you suddenly have access to many plates and pretty plates.  What's a hostess of fashion to do? Obviously - upend the way food is...

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