The History of American Food

Listen to "007 - Corn - Is Life" on Spreaker.  Link to the Episode: Episode 7 - Corn is Life Recipe for Corn & Rye Bread (a nutty sweet taste taste actually!) (fyi - rye is a gluten grain).   A quick bread recipe - no yeast: Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book Corn Rye Quick Bread A yeast bread recipe: Portuguese Broha di Milho . (milho is corn) My old school freezer case succotash - no longer exists!  I'm okay with that.  But the corn cube lives on in mixed vegetables. Some tasty Awesome succotashes: Southern Succotash with Bacon Chef Elizabeth Reese A quick Cajun Version: From a home cook on  Just a Pinch - with Crawfish Corn Pone: A pretty reasonable version for the 17th Century Ancestors in Aprons Sweet Potato Pone (Taty pone): Here's a modern Trinidadian version - so sugar and spices! From Delicious Magazine - via A Spoonful of Sugar blog A fancy tasty modern cornmeal pudding pone! (It hits all the 17th Century notes... raisins, nutmeg, allspice, rich sa...

Listen to "006 Corn - The Journey of Maize" on Spreaker. Link to the Episode: Episode 6 - Corn: The Journey of Maize   The map of Corn's Travels: Old School - drawings of the plants and seeds:   From the PNAS article on genetic architecture and domestication https://www.pnas.org/content/116/12/5643 Teosinte, Teosinte x Corn, Corn: By John Doebley - http://teosinte.wisc.edu/images.html, CC BY 3.0,  Interesting Media: Briggs, Rachel V. "Everything You Ever Needed to Know About Nixtamalization but Didn't Know to Ask" All Things Hominy  10/8/2015  Résendez, Andrés. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza da Vaca.  NY: Basic Books, 2007

Listen to "005 $ugar - Let's Make Some Money. Oh, And a Little Dessert" on Spreaker.  Link to the Episode Episode 5 - $ugar: Let's Make Some Money, Oh and a Little Dessert Spanish Galleon: Stats: 92' Long.   Could carry up to 2 Million Silver pesos along with porcelain, spice and silk from China.  More information available at San Diego Maritime Museum. For fun:  The boat that starred as the HMS Surprise is at the San Diego Maritime Museum Designing Women: Adorable mini marzipan fruits: By Dani Lurie - originally posted to Flickr as marzipan fruits and vegetables at Harrods 02, CC BY 2.0 The Whole Windward / Leeward thing: 1st - Yes the pronunciation is funny.   If you are in the lee - it rhymes with knee.   E.g. from Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH    "Tell them," added the owl, "that I suggest moving the house into the lee of the stone." But if you are on the leeward side - it rhymes with steward. 2nd - What does it mean? ...