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Does war make people innovate? Sure sometimes, but profit and shortages can often do more.
In this case, Mercantilist sentiments crossed with Napoleon losing wars and causing a big ol' blockade by the British didn't hurt.
This week sugar and sweeteners grow! It's not just all sugar anymore. Corn syrup appears. The sugar beet is made real.
For the video where that either nostalgic OR brnad new sugar beet ditty comes from... here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuZNSGdg2ms
I'll be sending out a toffee recipe in the socials as soon as I get myself together. Moving house and all that!
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OK - Episode 1 of Shogun... A bunch of you tuned in.
I have SACRAFICED my CLEAN rating on Apple Podcasts for this.
So here's Ep 2
Come on over to Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters to hear Episode 3 of Shogun... Today!
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It's the 19th Century and the whole show is about to change - and it's Iron that makes it possible. How we cook, how we get around and what is going to be available to even make food out of.
With a mysterious detour through why calculus is important, find out how Iron and American food continue to be absolutely inextricable.
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For those of you looking for the Shōgun review - the unhinged 19th Century - and our take on it at Prizefighters Circus Freaks & Gangsters is what you are looking for… even though not technically the 19th century.
Want to visit the Oregon Trail - here’s the link I promised: https://www.nps.gov/oreg/index.htm
And for Old American Food - you are in the right place. The 19th Century - it’s braggadocio, optimism and hopefulness, plus a certain sprinkling of constructive narcissism... honestly is more representative of the American Spirit as we know it today than almost anything that happened in the 18th century.
As a warning and a warm up, this week’s episode takes you through just how much and how far I have to go to encompass 1800 to 1861 - the start of the American civil war.
Jump in, and buckle up. The loop de loops are coming.
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It is KILLING me that I get featured while on a research break!
I mean yes - head for the back catalog... but if you are a "what's new" kinda listener I gotta let you have something.
So - for fun, here's a crossover episode from my other podcast -
Prizefighters, Circusfreaks & Gangsters - which is mainly about the mayhem that was the 19th century in America and the hot nonsense that is most of the media that depicts the 19th Century in America. Food, Fashion, Fighting and Fraud - and then as we go on... a whole bunch of other F's
So of course, I'm posting a special episode that covers media that's about the 17th century (wrong time) and Japan (wrong place!)
But if you are interested at all in the show Shogun, or why the 19th century is as riotous as it is - and what it's busting up - come in for a listen.
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Shogun - The Mini Series - The Reboot
How, you ask, can we justify leaping all the way back to the 17th Century in a 19th Century podcast? Tune in and find out.
But also - the perils & hilarity of reading the source material are revealed.Who'd face blind?Why do the Japanese interiors look so cool?Find out who has the best beard!
They're aren't many fights - but there's plenty of all the other F's!Come for the standard stuff, but stay for the detours.
And go enjoy the stylish as hell show.
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The 19th Century - when America starts to really take shape as the America we recognize (more or less) today. It starts to be more diverse - and gets mad about it right away.
The cold chain starts here. Food miles start here. Jars of strawberry jam starts here.
The 19th century up to 1861 holds so much of what made America not the rest of the world - and also started to absorb influences from the rest of the world.
America really gets moving - so don't miss the train.
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End of Season 3
Hot Take - American food is the way it is becasue we became obsessed with enough food - more food just as we were becomeing a country. How do we feed ourselves well, and then how do we make money feeding everybody else.
For much of the rest of the world - food was identity, survival, a way of life and celebration. For America food was how you got things done, got places and got paid.
This leads to very different attitudes and outcomes when it comes to food.
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Well here's a weird little detour for you - not food exactly, but ingested by early Americans all the same. Not so much by soldiers and adventurers on the road - but often when they were let on leave - especially if they were rich.
Lots of people were doing lots more drugs in early America than I thought - but in different ways and by different folks than I expected. Little old rich ladies were the most common opium addicts? Who knew? Me now.
And American and European medicine had little interest in anasthesia apparently. Wild.
Just whatever you do - don't get hurt on the battlefield. Dodge or die seemed to be the preferred modes. Because everything hurt, and unless you were really rich, or really lucky, it stayed that way.
Book! The African Roots of Marijuana by Chris S. Duvall
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How hard drinking were the American soldiers and adventurers? Far far less than you might think. Yeah, sure they went nuts on leave, or when they got left alone in a cellar full of brandy - but that's only because it was mostly water most of the time.
How come you ask? Well, this whole episode is here to answer your questions.
Drink Up!
oh - and read up on the Fresnel Lens
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Who gets to eat wild meat on campaign?
It depends on the type, how big and how long. The answer of course ranges from everyone to almost noone and always to almost never. Of course.
So here are all the links I promised!
The Old Fort at Fort Wayne, Indiana
A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry:
Foraging
On The Move
Maximum Effort, Minimum Reward
Single Donkey Physics
Undaunted Courage by Stephan Ambrose
The Corps of Discovery Journal - online
That NPS Interactive Map of the Lewis & Clark Trail
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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Come try Prizefighters, Circusfreaks & Gangsters!
But if that's too much adventure, come along and learn about the war that happened around pemmican.
Sure, just drop your colony on top of other people's lives - what's the problem? Sure, sending under prepared colonists with not enough food into a pretty tight food economy is going to be dicey, but how bad could it get? War bad my friends. War bad.
But as far as my little history brain is concerned - this is the first real big energy war of the Americas. Come see what I mean.
in the meantime - links I promised:
Modern beadwork - Modern beading in Vogue Magazine
Modern Beadwork Exhibits
Hudson's Bay Blankets - https://www.hbcheritage.ca/things/fashion-pop/hbc-point-blanket
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In these years of war and adventure - American Military Rations were invented. And they rested squarely on barrels of salted meat.
Just like today much of the ration went to soldiers hanging out in forts or camps waiting for something to happen.
But unlike today - another big chunk of rations went to just getting soldiers to where they were gonna fight.
Marching soldiers to where they're going to do battle in today's modern army takes up much less of the food pile than it used to. No more 2 - 5 month crossings of the Atlantic. Now we know at least within a day when the troops will get somewhere. And dang if the maps aren't better and the rations lighter and much, much tastier.
To hear all about the challenges of supplying your late 18th century and early 19th century army or adventure squad, come along for this LONG DELAYED episode.
Sorry about that... and glad to be back!
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No wood - no fuel - no food
In war an adventure that was usually the first and last word.
Whether stuck at winter quarters in Valley Forge (and check out these cool Earthen Camp Kitchens - paper is at the link.)
Or on the trail with Lewis and Clark
Wood to cook the food to keep the whole adventure going could be the make or break of the whole affair.
But wood also shaped the international aspects of early food - in the shipping that was built on our shores with the big giant trees that were available. How we got our luxuries, and how we imported labor. The boats - mainly the fast boats built in America were essential for how American food was going to shape itself.
Ah yes - and the containers. Wood was essential for containers - not just barrels but for the fuel to make iron, pottery and glass
OH - and yes - go read _The Black Joke_ by A.E. Rooks
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Sorry 'bout that!
Anyway - we are back... and it's time to thing about the starchy vegetables that star in our holiday recipes. And to make you greatful that mashed potatoes today... are what they are!
But it's also a chance to think about - how much work bread really is, and what we would use to take it's place.
No candied yams here kids, and no pumpkin pie at war. But maybe it's time to reconsider our looking down on the potatoes - both kinds. And find new (old) ways of eating squashes.
Also check out:
Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters! There's Fighting, Food, Fashion & Fraud (we swear... we laugh, we tease, it's fun)
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This might be one of my only, and definitely the most forceful hot take I've had so far:
The variety of food depends almost entirely on the vegetables - well the plant foods. After all, there are only so many ways to cook meat - roast, boil, fry, braise... all the interesting flavors come from the plant additions.
But also - going on the move, and the "hurry up" of American culture made our food bland.
Not everyone in new America had bland food, but note, they stayed in place!
Pawpaw & sweet corn pudding vs. baked beans. I ask you...
Books by William Woys Weaver:
The Christmas Cook: Three Centuries of American Yuletide Sweets
Pennsylvania Dutch Country Cooking
American Eats: Forms of Edible Folk Art
Sauerkraut Yankees
Country Scrapple: An American Tradition
Videos on Typical Early American Diets via Townsends:
The Poor Hunter
The Poor Fronteirsman
The Poor Farmer
The Poor Sailor
The Poor Soldier
Also check out:
Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters! There's Fighting, Food, Fashion & Fraud (we swear... we laugh, we tease, it's fun)
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After rubbing shoulders all the time in prisons, in towns, or on land owned by a Lord or The Church - getting out there in the great wide open skies was startling for people.
But even more startling were just how many birds there were. Sometimes too many birds! How can there be such a thing?
To find out what was up with birds, and what was making it to the early American table - when we mostly weren't keeping chickens for meat - for really good reasons, listen along.
Also check out:
Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters! There's Fighting, Food, Fashion & Fraud (we swear... we laugh, we tease, it's fun)
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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Do Americans eat rabbit? Or did they? And if so, where are all th rabbit recipes?
Well they do and they did, but no - they didn't seem to write it down. What gives?
And why don't retrospective and history looking cookery books tend to mention rabbit?
And just for fun, I go over what's the difference between a rabbit and a hare. And in the process explain how hjackass is a word.
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Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters! There's Fighting, Food, Fashion & Fraud (we swear... we laugh, we tease, it's fun)
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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Intelligent Speech Online 2023 where I talk about the 4 W's of Butter Substitutes - Talk with other people about the Contigency Plans for Women & even more stuff!
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My Discount Code is: Food
What's the difference between a Smuggler, a Pirate & a Privateer? How do Slavers fit into this lot? And what exactly do they have to do with American Food of the past - or advertisements for Truffle Burgers now?
As always I'm here to pose and answer purposterous questions. Grab your hot cocoa and candied orange peel and listen up.
Cool Books -
_The Black Joke_ by A.E. Rooks
_The Nutmeg's Curse_ by Amitav Ghosh
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Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters! There's Fighting, Food, Fashion & Fraud (we swear... we laugh, we tease, it's fun)
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Intelligent Speech Online 2023 where I talk about the 4 W's of Butter Substitutes - Talk with other people about the Contigency Plans for Women & even more stuff!
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My Coupon code is: Food
This week I look into the question of what was Gumbo and what was Jambalaya at the time America bought themselves a new port city... that was actually pretty old.
What did Gumbo look like, and what were it's roots? And was it always served with rice.
And what's the story on Jambalaya? Where did it come from - especially if... wait isn't rice real fancy?
I answer these questions and more.
Also check out:
Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters! There's Fighting, Food, Fashion & Fraud (we swear... we laugh, w tease, it's fun)
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Intelligent Speech Online 2023 where I talk about the 4 W's of Butter Substitutes
My Coupon code is: Food
We apparently love a competition show - so how America got Louisiana is right in there - soap opera slap fights and all.
But really - this is a lead up to what we need to know to learn about the beginnings of gumbo - next week - and why the rest of the country didn't flavor up their stews with gumbo goodness with the absorbtion of La Louisiane.
Frankly - the idea of a spice blend in most American Cookery - way WAY too much flavor.
So to get the dirt on why Napoleon was doomed as head of state - and what that has to do with our food journey jump in!
Prizefighters, Circus Freaks & Gangsters! There's Fighting, Food, Fashion & Fraud (we swear... we laugh, w tease, it's fun)
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