The History of American Food

  Listen to "054.5 Bonus Scurvy - What it is, How to Cure it & Why Modern Society Keeps Bringing it Back" on Spreaker. Link to the Episode: Episode 54.5 Bonus! Scurvy - What it is, How to Cure it & Why Modern Society Keeps Bringing it Back These pictures are what would happen if  Bart Simpson – or Elementary School age children with a certain fascination with the grotesque and extreme were allowed to be in charge of 3 rd grade Biology lessons. Ewww!  Gross. Eat your fruits, vegetables and definitely your cabbage! The problem – then as now – being so sure of your conclusion that the new information is invisible to you, even as you write it down. You can read this too! Despite Lind talking himself out of lemons & oranges curing scurvy the Admiralty has decided to put up heroic paintings of him 18th century satirical cartoon showing the impressment of sailors *the hard way* on the streets of London (notice the Tower of London and a ship masts in the background)...

Listen to "054 18th Century Oranges - Bitter, not Sweet" on Spreaker. Link to the Episode: Episode 54 18th Century Oranges - Bitter, Not Sweet The reach of the bitter orange? As far and wide as sugar.   Can you imagine a world without either?  And yet, and orangeless world – both for food and the color are not that far in our past.   Well, this is an odd place for my high school French to intrude, but it makes a certain amount of sense.  If you think about it – or maybe if I think about it. Vercingetorix a real guy who fought Julius Ceasar (but all pictures are pretend) Astérix & Obélix cartoon guys w/ a cartoon Merlin in the background Charles Martel - the Hammer of the 8th Century Franks He may have stopped the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate at Tours but the orange - and the tradition of quince and orange patés or cheeses definitely infiltrated from that same direction a few centuries later The French city of Orange - in the Vaucluse the south e...