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EPISODE · Apr 8, 2026 · 30 MIN

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

from The History of American Food · host Margaret Hardin

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 they do boy-oh-boy does that mean things are going to go poorly for the people in charge of planning food.  It goes even worse, when nobody on staff has cooked Gumbo for 80.Come listen to all the pitfalls facing the people planning for war food in the middle of the the 1800's.But also a whole bunch of links.A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry - the source documents for the Donkey ProblemThe Charge of the Light Brigade - that catchy verse that keeps getting people killed for dumb reasonsMusic Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot comThreads: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood& some other socials... @THoAFood

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 they do boy-oh-boy does that mean things are going to go poorly for the people in charge of planning food.  It goes even worse, when nobody on staff has cooked Gumbo for 80.Come listen to all the pitfalls facing the people planning for war food in the middle of the the 1800's.But also a whole bunch of links.A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry - the source documents for the Donkey ProblemThe Charge of the Light Brigade - that catchy verse that keeps getting people killed for dumb reasonsMusic 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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