The Fantastic History Of Food
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The Fantastic History Of Food
Stories of the fun, bizarre and often ridiculous, history of food. Join me as we explore The Fantastic History of Food.Contact me on foodhistorypod@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-fantastic-history-of-food--3591729/support.
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57 Episoden56 - Robert May's "Spectacle Feasts"
The entire experience of eating a fancy meal these days is no longer just about the food itself. For decades, chefs like Heston Blumenthal have been c...
55 - How Sausages Helped Win A Battle
It’s well into the northern european winter season at the end of 1939. Five hundred thousand Russian Soviet Soldiers are making a collective push nort...
54 - When Pineapples Were Status Symbols
For the majority of history they were considered the ultimate delicacy by European nobility who just couldn’t get enough of them. From snack to status...
53 - Fat Men's Clubs
For as long as so-called civilised societies have existed, equally uncivilised clubs and groups have sprung up within them, allowing their members to...
52 - The Kentucky Meat Shower
Turn on the tv or radio, or scroll any news site online and you’ll no doubt be inundated with stories about crazy weather anomalies happening all arou...
51 - The London Beer Flood
In our modern age we have lived through natural disasters and floods in various parts of the world, and no matter what, they are always tragic. But tr...
50 - How Alcohol Prohibition Created NASCAR
This episode is a look at how in the early to mid 1900’s the abolitionist laws banning the production and consumption of alcohol played a majorly sign...
49 - Charles Domery Ate Cats, Grass & A Fellow Soldier's Leg
There are many stories throughout history of individuals with freakish appetites, who seem to be able to consume quantities of food well past what a h...
48 - The Dutch Once Ate Their Prime Minister
For most of history, the Dutch have been an almost all-powerful force to be reckoned with. They were the forerunners for a lot of the world's explorat...
47 - William McKenna the "Human Ostrich"
For today's story we will be diving into the life of a truly extraordinary man named William V McKenna, and while he fits the category of “people who...
46 - Turning Hitler Into A Woman By Poisoning His Food
WW2 was raging onwards, with men fighting and dying each and every day. It was so delicately poised that there seemed to be no end to the fighting in...
45 - A Spice Worth Killing For
There is a spice we use so commonly today that it's hard to believe that at one time, wars were fought, people were killed and entire civilizations al...
44 - Were The Salem Witch Trials Caused By Infected Food?
If ever you’ve doubted food's integral place in history, today’s stories are sure to remind us all, that no matter what life and history in general, w...
43 - Foodie Fortune Tellers
Many old food-based fortunes were light-hearted party games mainly played around Halloween time, but some of there were deadly serious, and their resu...
42 - Delicious Robberies
Today's stories aren’t just about the small-time pilfering of food here and there from your local grocery stores. No, today we’ll be talking about peo...
41 - The World's Worst Sandwich
There are few things more universally loved than a good sandwich.
We as humans love the simplicity and deliciousness of having something...
40 - The Tapeworm Diet
As soon as people became wealthy enough not to have to spend every waking hour of their day, working, cleaning, hunting or cooking, they had enough to...
39 - Julia Child: WW2 Spy Who Created Shark Repellent Cakes
Even the most famous and lauded among us still have a few tasty secrets up their sleeves, and today we’re going to dive into this fascinating side of...
38 - The Great Goldfish Eating Craze of 1939
Not only were western cultures happily eating raw fish for ages, at one point they were uh, in fact eating it so raw as for it still, in fact, to be a...
37 - Michigan Held A Funeral For 30 000 Pizzas
There is nothing quite like pizza. The variety is endless, the experience is magical, the taste is delicious and they can be found in almost every sin...
36 - Black Banquets & Funeral Feasts
There are quite a few stories from historical banquetry that weren’t of the presumed fun and hearty nature. Instead it seems that there was an occasio...
35 - How A Tea Craze Took Over Tunisia
We continue to follow the journey of tea as it makes its way to Europe and the Americas. We’ll see the large role tea tends to play politically amongs...
34 - Healed By Tea After Fighting A Dragon
The history of tea is as long and complex as its variety of flavours. It's a history quite literally infused with tales of spirituality and mysticism....
33 - The Candy Bomber Of Berlin
This is the story of Gail Halvorsen, who was known to the children of Berlin as Der Schokoladen Flieger or The Chocolate Flier, Uncle Wiggly Wings or...
32 - A Banquet On Horseback
In today's society, those who are able to, are always seeking out new and wondrous dining experiences. More than a hundred years ago, men and women wi...
31 - Using Onions To Heal Gunshot Wounds
Onions have been a part of human history since long before records began. It's played a vital part in our diets, but also in our mythology, representi...
30 - Japan's Accidental Killer Rice
In the late 1800s in Japan, there was a disease that seemed to target not just inner-city dwellers in Edo, what we know as modern-day Tokyo, but it af...
29 - Food Obsessed Pirate William Dampier
Pirates weren’t known for their discerning tastes in cuisine. If movies and television are to be believed they seemed to subsist purely on rum alone....
28 - When Parmentier Tricked People Into Eating Potatoes
It’s almost unthinkable that just a few hundred years ago, potatoes were only eaten in a very small corner of the earth. They are now one of the most...
27 - The Nottingham Cheese Riot
The people of Nottingham don't take kindly to people fleecing them for their very own cheese. The time had come to stand up and fight the gouda fight....
26 - The Giant Frog Farming Swindle
Albert Broel was a man of mystery. Claiming to be the son of Polish nobility, he arrived in America during World War 1 and set out to make his fortune...
25 - Pushing A Peanut Up A Mountain With Your Nose
3 men, at different times, have all tried to push a peanut up Pikes Peak with nothing but their noses. This episode tells you all about their grueling...
24 - The Eggnog Riot
What begins as just a little bit of seasonal fun, ends with smashed windows, bannisters ripped from stairways and a military barracks surrounded by ru...
23 - The Nazi's Exploding Chocolate Bar
Food inherently is meant to sustain life, but this has not always been the case, in fact, for as far back as history goes food has also been used as a...
22 - Leonardo da Vinci The Waiter, Chef & Party Planner
For many of history’s most famous characters, we all know, at the very least, the basics of what makes these men and women famous to begin with. And o...
21 - Crazy True Stories About Ice Cream
From it's origins in ancient China, to the accidental discovery of the first ice cream cone, we take a journey to see how ice cream has influenced cul...
20 - Al Capone Once Ran A Soup Kitchen
Al Capone was a model student for most of his childhood, but he didn't take long to go from fresh-faced to scar-faced.
The Great Depression had...
19 - Tomatoes Were Blamed For Witchcraft & Werewolves
The past is a crazy place, and no matter how many times we go back there, there's always something new to surprise us. This episode we learn about a c...
18 - The Worlds Most Dangerous (And Illegal) Cheese
For this episode we're travelling to the small Italian island of Sardinia where we explore the a generations long delicacy known as Casu Marzu. While...
17 - When Drinking Coffee Could Get You Decapitated
This is the 2nd episode in our two part series on coffee. Last time we heard about the origins of coffee discovered by dancing goats in Ethiopia, as w...