The Fantastic History Of Food

Jun 21 2024 57 ep. 16 mins 948

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Stories of the fun, bizarre and often ridiculous, history of food.

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56 - Robert May's "Spectacle Feasts"

Jun 21 2024 15 mins

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 creating entire culinary experiences to delight all of your senses at once, pairing sounds, smells and textures along with the already delicious flavours of their food.But while this trend has taken off again more recently, this is by

55 - How Sausages Helped Win A Battle

Jun 07 2024 15 mins

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 northwards, swarming the countryside as they go. They are armed to the hilt with tanks, explosives, machine guns, grenades and a staggeringly overwhelming number of troops. But there is one thing that they didn’t count on, one thing t

54 - When Pineapples Were Status Symbols

May 23 2024 15 mins

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 symbol, the pineapple has graced many a King and Queens palace courts, while outside of them they took on a mythical quality akin to some sort of precious jewel.Today, we’ll track the pineapples voyage across the seas and into th

53 - Fat Men's Clubs

May 10 2024 14 mins

For as long as so-called civilised societies have existed, equally uncivilised clubs and groups have sprung up within them, allowing their members to revel in all sorts of weird and wonderful excesses. In previous episodes we have heard about secret food clubs with a goal of eating every type of animal on earth. Todays story may not be so different, although this clubs members were

52 - The Kentucky Meat Shower

Apr 25 2024 15 mins

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 around the globe. Volcanic eruptions, tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes and so much more. But none of us, thankfully, have ever lived through one of the strangest events in history when something a lot more dense than rain began falli

51 - The London Beer Flood

Apr 15 2024 13 mins

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 tragic floods are not always a cause of nature.In episode 7, we discussed the great molasses flood that occurred in Boston and the ensuing devastation of that event. Well today, we’ll be taking a look at a similar, albeit less gloopy

50 - How Alcohol Prohibition Created NASCAR

Nov 08 2023 21 mins

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 significant role in the creation of what, today, is a veritable institution of the American South, NASCAR.-------------------Please support me on Patreon for just $2 a month: patreon.com/foodhistorypod-------------------Sources for this

49 - Charles Domery Ate Cats, Grass & A Fellow Soldier's Leg

Oct 06 2023 12 mins

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 human stomach should be capable of handling.Today, we’ll be diving into the story of Charles Domery, a Polish-born soldier who tried to eat the whole world.-------------------Please support me on Patreon for just $2 a month: patreon.

48 - The Dutch Once Ate Their Prime Minister

Sep 15 2023 15 mins

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 exploration, and for a long time dominated the seas and trade routes through the stranglehold of the Dutch East India Company.In the preceding century, they were still under Spanish rule, with 2 of their kings, Charles the Fifth and his Son P

47 - William McKenna the "Human Ostrich"

Aug 31 2023 14 mins

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 eat random things”, those things that he ate can’t really be classified as food.So let's see just how this man, William McKenna first discovered his talented digestive system.-------------------Please support me on Patreon for j