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The History of American Food

History

The History of American Food

Margaret Hardin

175 New American Sugar

July 01, 2026 5:00am 29 min

Sugar can reasonably be called "The White Stuff"It makes us happy - and yet people are willing to abuse it, and commit crimes to make it happen.The late 19th century is when America goes from eating a similar amount of s...

174 Foreign Salt, Local Salt, Industrial Salt

June 24, 2026 5:00am 31 min

This week is the start of a few shows on the bad mic.  And it is all my fault.But "A" mic is still better than no show at all.Let’s talk salt in late 19th century America.  It used to be all about food but isn’t any long...

173.5 BONUS Interview - The Pickled City

June 17, 2026 5:20pm 49 min

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 p...

173 Potatoes for Frontier & Factory

June 10, 2026 5:00am 32 min

How did America become the land of Meat & PotatoesI 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 mea...

172 The Potato - A History

June 03, 2026 8:50am 34 min

Po-tay-toesWhere 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 ab...

171 Iron Has New Jobs in Food

May 27, 2026 5:00am 29 min

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 ...

Season 6 Preview - I Wanna Go Fast

May 20, 2026 5:00am 18 min

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....

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

May 13, 2026 5:00am 27 min

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 ...

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

May 06, 2026 5:00am 30 min

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....

168 If Music Be the Food of Love, Are Drugs the Food of War?

April 29, 2026 9:00am 24 min

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 hypoder...

167 The American Civil War, Thanksgiving & Eating Our Feelings

April 23, 2026 10:59pm 38 min

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 Society, Thanksgiving plann...

166 Feeding the Sick and Injured in The Civil War: Apparently You Can't Run a War Without Women

April 15, 2026 5:45pm 35 min

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 Washington hated having these ...

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

April 08, 2026 5:00am 30 min

I am a producer on an Emmy Nominated Documentary.  Check it out here:Women's Work - The Untold Story of America's Female FarmersThe Emmy Nomination!!!!!Why are military staffs so bad at predicting war length?  And when t...

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

April 01, 2026 5:00am 23 min

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 5000 years.Biology - and...

163 The First Canned Food War

March 25, 2026 5:00am 23 min

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 women along side) ar...

162 The Army Says Eat Your Vegetables

March 18, 2026 5:00am 21 min

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 vegetables prepared using...

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

March 11, 2026 5:00am 29 min

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 America starts to becom...

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

March 04, 2026 5:00am 20 min

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

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

February 25, 2026 5:00am 2 min

I'm back and it's been so long.Find out why!Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot comThreads: @THoAFoodInstagra...

159.5 The Turkey History Episode... Just for Fun

November 27, 2025 5:00am 24 min

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 with a huge travel resu...

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