EPISODE · Jun 19, 2024 · 25 MIN
122 Ice - A Curious Material
from The History of American Food · host Margaret Hardin
Histroy Cookbook you say?Check out The History of the World in 10 Dinners by Victoria Flexner & Jey Reifelto figure out how to make your dinner table a time machine. Appreciate how we can travel through time and space through the grocery store & our refrigerators. And give thanks for the wire whisk while you're at it.-----------ICE! How did we ever get by without it? Well, turns out some people never really had to do without if they had enough money. But for the little people - especially in the English speaking world, it took until the 19th century for icy treats to move out into the masses. Not a lot - but it was a start.And cool spaces for The People (rather than The Leaders) would only take off from there. Becasue at the same time the Ice King was making deliveries world wide - the power of cold was coming under human control. Come check out the earliest days of refrigerated America.Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com Threads: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood& some other socials... @THoAFoodMusic Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot comThreads: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood& some other socials... @THoAFood
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