The History of American Food

Listen to "012 Herbs, Flowers & Berries - Not Worth a Thing" on Spreaker.  Link to the Episode: Episode 12 Herbs, Flowers and Berries - Not Worth a Thing I'm just going to say - lots from contemporary (16th C/17th C) herbals... which are A MESS - but also completely European facing.  So not particularly helpful as "what people saw"... but were useful in figuring out what people could see . And reading hard to read texts. (Cannot wait for the 18th C and more widespread publishing - Yay Paper Books!)

Listen to "011 Mercantilism - Do You Want Pirates?" on Spreaker.  Link to the Episode: Episode 11 Mercantilism: Do You Want Pirates? Not gonna lie.  Reading about economics - especially the history of economics is kind of a slog.  History books written in 1939 still contain untranslated Latin (thank you Google Translate) - and like to spend quite a bit of time putting the bibliography in the text. On the other hand - getting books from the Library in 1939 was much more of a challenge, so putting more of the books you had read in the book you were writing to make your point made sense. Here's a picture of Sir Walter - Puffy Pants and All: "Raleigh's First Pipe in England", an illustration included in  Frederick William Fairholt 's  Tobacco, its history and associations This image is available from the  New York Public Library 's Digital Library under the digital ID 1107712:  digitalgallery.nypl.org  →  digitalcollections.nypl.org