The History of American Food

  Listen to "004.5 Bonus - Humorism & Solidism" on Spreaker. Link to the Episode: Episode 4.5 - Bonus: Humorism & Solidism   Humorism Diagram -      4 elements, attributes and 4 humors By Tom Lemmens - Creative Commons My First memorable encounter with food advice based on this type of thinking -  Room With a View:  Mr. Emerson (Denholm Elliot) lecturing Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter) and Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith) on the dangers of Lemonade. Room With a View - Merchant-Ivory 1985 Interesting Books and Media: Oliver, Sandra L. Food in Colonial & Federal America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005 Cahill, Thomas. How the Irish Saved Civilization. New York: Anchor Books, 1996 Ferris, Timothy. Coming of Age in the Milky Way. New York: Haper Collins, 1988 "Reflections on Avicenna's impact on medicine" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20009666.2020.1774301

Listen to "004 Sugar - A History" on Spreaker. Link to the Episode Episode 4 - Sugar: A History Red Bean Buns - I love these for breakfast (I cheat and get mine frozen) Dou Sha Bao from  Red House Spice Chicken Cookies - A complex Cantonese sweet treat that I never would have understood in the 1980's Indian Rice Pudding or Kheer - when you arrive with the correct expectations it is tasty.  I had the wrong ones as an elementary school kid. Kheer from Cooking with Manali Xocolatl or Bitter Water - the unsweetened chocolate, chili and spice drink. Public Domain,  Link Sharbat is everywhere - gulub (rose) sharbat seems to be the most popular The Frankish Baldwins -          The Franks are the germanic tribe that became the French... Charlemagne was one.  The Baldwins were the line of kings in The Kingdom of Jerusalem. An escapist movie that covers the broad strokes - with plenty of fiction and Orlando Bloom - and Ridley Scott pretty: ...

Listen to "003 Iron - Chains" on Spreaker. Link to the Episode: Episode 3 - Iron: Chains Prince Henry the Navigator:    By Nuno Gonçalves - From the Polytriptych of St. Vincent in the National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3426090 The ships that the Portuguese used to sail around Africa and to India: By PHGCOM - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3011829 Slave collars, shackles and chains: Sleve Shackles and Collar - Handwrought Iron c. 1700 Registration no: 932.13.53 - Musée d'Histoire de Nantes, Alain Guillard Interesting Books/Media: Lamont, Edward M. The Forty Years that Created America. Lanham, Mass: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014  O'Malley, Gregory E. Final Passages: The Intercontinental Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014 Chris Evans, Göran Rydén, ‘Voyage Iron’: An Atlantic Slave Trade Currency, it...

Listen to "Ep 002 Iron - Sharp Things and Blunderbusses" on Spreaker. Link to the Episode Episode 2 - Iron: Sharp Things and Blunderbusses Link to the Enormous Starling Flock Black Sun: Amorphous Flocks of Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands from Colossal on Vimeo . https://vimeo.com/478504402  More Iron things from the Reverend Mr. Higginson's list 1 Broad Axe    1 Felling Axe   1 Steel handsaw    1 gimblet - item 'K' on pg. 3, and description on pg. 15 1 Whipsaw    1 hatchet 1 hammer 2 frowes (froes) -  By Nienetwiler - Own work, CC BY 2.5 ch, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10523219 1 auger 4 chissels Nayles (nails) of all sorts  --- other 17th Century Blades Shingle/Draw knife -  slaveryandremeberance.org / Colonial Williamsburg Kitchen knife Personal/Table knife  Trade Knife   ---- early 17th Century swords Basket Hilt sword  metmuseum.org - basket hilt Backsword (basically a straig...

Listen to "Ep 001 Iron - Out of the Ground and Onto the Table" on Spreaker. Link to the Episode: Episode 1 - Iron: Out of the Ground and Onto the Table Examples of those things from the Reverend Mr. Higginson's list: 1 Broad howe 1 Narrow howe from    Egloff, Keith.  Colonial Plantation Hoes of Tidewater Virginia 1 Shouel (shovel) By Anthony Appleyard Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18047175 1 Hand bill By Andy Mabbett - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23482302 1 Spade 1 Iron Pot By Hdthomas45 - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13311186 1 Spit 1 Kettle 1 Frying pan 1 Grid iron 2 Skellets (skillets) Interesting Books: Mann, Charles C. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Smith, John. Writings with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown and the First English Settlement of America.  New York: Penguin Putnam Inc. ...