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The History of American Food — 223 episodes
180 America Goes on a Diet - Part 2 : It's Time to Learn About Cold Cereal & How You Don't Chew Your Food Enough
179 Food in Paper, Food in Boxes
Alas... a 3 Week Break
178 The History of Paper
177 Bringing the Sea's Bounty to You - In a Can - But at what Cost?
176 New Technology for American Corn
175 New American Sugar
174 Foreign Salt, Local Salt, Industrial Salt
173.5 BONUS Interview - The Pickled City
173 Potatoes for Frontier & Factory
172 The Potato - A History
171 Iron Has New Jobs in Food
Season 6 Preview - I Wanna Go Fast
170 Prisoner of War Food for - Wait How Many Guys? The Long Tail of War
169 Not Enough Railroads Will Make You Salty in the Bad Way
168 If Music Be the Food of Love, Are Drugs the Food of War?
167 The American Civil War, Thanksgiving & Eating Our Feelings
166 Feeding the Sick and Injured in The Civil War: Apparently You Can't Run a War Without Women
165 Is This Enough Food to Feed an Army? & What Were They Thinking?
164 Feeding an Army: A History with a Lot of Holes - On Purpose
163 The First Canned Food War
162 The Army Says Eat Your Vegetables
161 Hardtack, Softbread & Meal - Daily Bread in the War of Rebellion
160 Season 5 Preview: War Changes Everything Except it Never Does
Season 5 Promo - War Food... but with Trains
159.5 The Turkey History Episode... Just for Fun
159 The Roots of Grocery Store Culture Lie in a Big Country
158 Are You Rich Enough or Poor Enough to Hunt in the Early 19th Century?
157 More Plates You Say? Let's Make Dining More Complicated
156 The History of Plates
155 Whales - They Start to Bring the Kitchen Indoors and Change Dinner Time
154 Fashionable Vegetables from Europe & Stealth Ones from America
153 Coffee Finds a New Home
152 Early 19th Century Tea - Still Extremely Fashionable
151 The First Chinese Food in America
150 Lobster - From Poor Man's Chicken to Fancy Canned Good
149 Trains & Buying Stuff in the Early 19th Century - The Birth of American Consumer Culture
148 Making Beef for Dinner - Increases in Early 19th Century Cattle
147 How to Survive Drinking Milk in the Early 19th Century
146 What Was Early 19th Century America's Problem with Mushrooms?
145 Mushroom History - Food Edition & What Eactly is a Mushroom Anyway?
144 Early 19th Century Apples - the Fruit of Progress & Propaganda
143 Oats & Hay - Grass Powers the Early 19th Century World
142 Are Chickens Alternate Reality Pigs?
141 The Forking of America - When We Start to Stop Eating with our Hands
140 Tasty Preseerved Pork - Early 19th Century Ham & Sausage plus Scrapple
139 How to Eat Pork in the Early 19th Century
138 19th Century Pigs - Greasng the Way to the Future
137 American Crackers – Biscuit by Another Name or Another Thing?
136 America is Made of Bread & Steel
Crossover… PART 16 - Is This too Many Locations? Zorro S1E6 on Amazon Prime
135 Some of the Reasons America is so Weird About Liquor - Lack of Cash, Lack of Refrigeration & Lack of Expertise
Crossover... Part 15: SLAP! Achievement Unlocked Zorro S1E5 on Amazon Prime
134 Lessons from Early 19th Century American Stew
133.5 BONUS - Unnecessary Romanian Adventure
133 Stew – A History Including Etymology, Techniques, & What it Was Called Before
132.5 Bonus - Danderfunk, Salt Junk, & Scurvy- Cuisine Aboard Ships
132 Baked Beans - Boston and the Other Kinds
Crossover… Part 14: It’s Definitely a Telenovela - Now With Twins - Zorro S1E4 on Amazon Prime
131 The Fruits and Nuts of America - The Natives, Not the Imports
Crossover... Part 13: What The Hell Is Going On, 1st Installment - Zorro S1E3 on Amazon Prime
130 America Goes on a Diet - Part 1: Grahamism and the Vegetable Diet
Crossover... Part 12: No Tapas, But This Has EVERYTHING Else - Zorro S1E2 on Amazon Prime
129 America Goes on a Diet - A History
BONUS: John S. Pemberton Sells the First Glass of Coca-Cola - History Daily
128 Blancmange, Jelly and other Jiggly Things
Crossover... Part 11: So What if Zorro - but a Telenovela and So Much Fun? - Zorro S1E1 on Amazon Prime
127 Old World Cake - New World Cake
Crossover... Part 10: The End, Or Is It? Is there a Shogun Multiverse Now? - Shogun Ep 10
126 You Batter Tell Me Where You Went - Puddin'
Crossover... Part 9: Death & Other Heartbreaks - Shogun Ep 9
125 Slow Bread, Quick Bread, Iron Kettle Bread, Pan Bread
Crossover... Part 8: Of Course It's A Trap - Shogun Ep 8
124 The Beginning of the End of Fish Variety
Crossover... Part 7: Emo Lyrics & Silly Hats - Shogun Ep 7
123 Oysters on Ice - An Amazingly Important Piece in Building American Food
Crossover... Part 6: If You Stay War, Don't Gotta Get War - Shogun Ep 6
122.5 Bonus - Frostbite with Nicola Twilley - I Break my Own Rules
122 Ice - A Curious Material
121 Salt & Other Chemicals
Crossover... Part 5: 044 Truly Earthshaking - Shogun Ep 5
120 Corn - The National Vegetable
Announcement: Every Other Week
Crossover... Part 4: 043 Housekeeping, Deception & a Training Montage - Shogun Ep 4
119 More Radical Changes to 19th Century Food Storage - Mason Jars & All That
118 Radical Changes to 19th Century Food Storage - Mostly the Metal Can Part
Crossover... Part 3: 042 Is That How You Use the Rules? - Shogun Ep 3
117 The History of Glass - Mostly Translucent
116 Sugar - More Kinds & Less Expensive than Ever
Crossover... Part 2: 041 Oh Sure Just Die and Leave Us With This (Beautiful) Mess - Shogun Ep 2
115 Iron - Lets Get Cooking
114 - America at Last - What Does it Look Like Now?
Special Ep Crossover: 040 This Time in Japan - Shogun Ep 1
Season 4 Promo - Now we get moving!
End of Season 3 - But the Adventure is Only Starting
113 Drugs in the Age of War & Adventure - More than You Thought
112 Thirsty on the Trail - Who's Drinking What Where
111 Wild Game for War & Adventure
110 The Pemmican Wars - One Era Ends and Something Else Begins
109 Farmyard Meat and Packaged Fish for War & Adventure
108 Wood - Essential for Food, War & Adventure
107 Squash 'n Taters - Corner Fillers
106 The Waning of Vegetables and Variety as America is on the Move
105 Birds Are Like Berries - For the Pluckin'
104 Are Rabbits American Food?
103 Pirates, Privateers, Smugglers & Slavers
102 Gumbo & Jambalaya - 3-Flags Day Versions
101 How Louisiana Became America & the Food Riches we Snagged in the Purchase
100 Oysters for Action & The Code is Food
099 Rice Is Too Nice For These Times
098 A Thirst For Salt
097 I Thought There Were More Fish?
096 American Wheat - Better Mills & Military Bread
095 War Corn
094 Changes to Sugar World
093 Iron - Supplying the Battle Front & the Home Front 1776-1815
092 Iron - an Explainer of Iron Technology in Baby America
091 The War Years 1776 - 1815
Season 3 Promo
End of Season 2
090 18th Century Housekeeping - Everbody Outside
089.5 Bonus Protein - Stringy
089 18th Century Housekeeping - Inside Edition
088 Fat & Frying in the 18th Century
087 18th Century Transportation - Part II
086 18th Century Transportation - Part I
085 Foraging is for Losers - Stay in the Farmyard
084 Pemmican - Why it’s Called That, What it is, How it’s Made, and How it Changed the World
083 Turning Wild Game into Food is A Lot of Work - 18th Century Hunting
082 Coffee me in the Caribbean, Sugar - the 18th Century Quest for Liquid Vigor
081 Ketchup - the 18th Century Name for Umami
080 Tomatoes & Other Foreign Fruits - The Conundrum
079 Potatoes & Other Possibly Foreign Vegetables
078 I Said Mixed Drinks. These are Definitely Not Cocktails - 18th Century Social Drinking
077 Whisk(e)y Pulls Alongside Rum - Adventures and Economies of 18th Century Distilled Liquors
076 Colonial Wine – the Tedious and Extensive Reasons Why There Wasn’t Any in the 17th & 18th Centuries
075 A Horse's Life - 18th Century Colonial Style
074 18th Century Colonial Eggs & Associated Chicken Facts
073 18th Century Hogs - The Start of the Pork Industry
072 18th Century Pumpkins - Not Exciting
071 Thar She Blows – The Rise of the 18th Century Oil Industry
070 The History of Whaling
069.5 Bonus - Ice Science, Fire Science & Energy
069 18th Century Deer are Somehow Rustic & Fancy & Money
068 Wood Part II - Charcoal, BBQ & Mellowed Spirits & a Peek at War
067 Wood Part I - Money in Masts & Barrels
Reprise! 030 Turkey - No Disasters - Just the Bird
066 You Call That a Biscuit?
065 Cream & Pudding & Cake that is Not a Lie
064 Milk & Butter Money
063 Beef - It's American Food Now
062 Rice - In the Carolina Kitchen
061 18th Century North American Rice - A History
060 Cider - The Drink of Liberty! Only Royalists Drink Beer
059 Beer - That Good Civilized Drink, Cider is for Rubes!
058 Tarts & Sweet Pies
057 Pie - Savory Kinds & the Original Hot Pockets
056 Wheat & Barley - The Rise of 18th Century American Tech
055 18th Century Legumes - Creating the American Bean
054.5 Bonus Scurvy - What it is, How to Cure it & Why Modern Society Keeps Bringing it Back
054 18th Century Oranges - Bitter, not Sweet
053 18th Century Gardens - For Use or Delight
052 18th Century Pre-Revolutionary Tea
051 Lemons & Pineapples - The Caribbean Invasion
050.5 Bonus The Quickening - What 17th & 18th Century Cookbooks have to say about Pregnancy & Women's Bodies
050 18th Century British Colonial Mercantilism - Now With More Pirates
049 Oysters & Lesser Shellfish
048 Salt - How to Make it in America
047 Fish For Everybody - For Now
046 Corn is American Now
045 Sugar & Molasses - Good Jam and Bad Beer
044 Iron, Bricks & the Invention of Toast
043 Iron - Building the Home Industry
Season 2 Preview
042.5 Bonus - History of Distillation
End of Season 1
042 The Labor Situation 1661 - 1699
041 Housekeeping - Domestic Labor Before 1660
040 17th Century Fast Food
039 Varmints - Eating the Wild
038 Spice - Worth Taking Over the World
037 Rum - The Most Profitable Industrial Waste of the 17th Century
036 Fat - All that Moral Weight
035.5 Bonus - Soap is Made of Fat
035 Fat - Liquid Gold
034 Horses - Americans Don't Eat Them Except When We Do
033 Stimulants - Wired for Discovery
032 Double Dutch - Part 2 of New Amsterdam's Influence on American Food
031 Donut Disappoint Me - New Amsterdam and the Dutch Part 1
Series Trailer - The History of American Food
030 Turkey - the Bird: A Very Special Thanksgiving Episode
029 Eggs and Scrawny Colonial Chickens
028 Apple Cider, Other Fruit Wines & Vinegar - Are We Drunk or Just Pickled?
027 Apples - How a Global Fruit Made its Mark on the New World
026 Pigs - The Terrifying Swine of the 17th Century
025 Pickle - We Really Are in One Now
024 Wood and Wood Accessories - Can't Have American Food Without Them
023 Deer and Venison - What a Difference a Flint Makes
022 Bread - From Ashen Corn Cakes to Wheaten Loaves
021 Beer - It's Pilgrim Breakfast, We Are Not Drunk Yet
020 Wheat & Barley - Missing Real Bread & Beer
019 Butter & Cheese - Finally, Some Dairy We Can Sell
018 Milk - New, Clabber, Sour & Cream
017 Beef - It's Almost Never for Dinner
016 The American Cow - Origin Story
015 Pickles, Pie, Pottage & Stew - Meet the Rest of the Vegetable Crew
014 Pumpkins and Squash - What's the Difference?
013 Legumes - Old World & New
012 Herbs, Flowers & Berries - Not Worth a Thing
011 Mercantilism - Do You Want Pirates?
010.5 Bonus - Extra Salt
010 Salt - Saving Food for Later
009 Salt - A Solid Foundation
008 Fish - Cod and Some Other Things
007 Corn - Is Life
006 Corn - The Journey of Maize
005 $ugar - Let's Make Some Money. Oh, And a Little Dessert
004.5 Bonus - Humorism & Solidism
004 Sugar - A History
003 Iron - Chains
002 Iron - Sharp Things and Blunderbusses
001 Iron - Out of the Ground and Onto the Table
Introduction - Let's Start