Episode 63 Beef - It's American Food Now

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Listen to "063 Beef - It's American Food Now" on Spreaker.

Link to the Episode:

Beef - it's tossing off its "food only for royalty and knights".  Sure it's still a food for the rich man, but more men, especially in the colonies are rich enough.

But first, don't we all deserve an escape into childhood, with a few Bugs Bunny Highjinx?
Slim-hipped and long horn bulls - here we go: Bully for Bugs

Take a left turn at Albuquerque
(Incidentally - another connection to de Oñate)


Coronado - on the search for the 7 cities of gold.  Well, it was a grand if failed adventure, and seeded the area with Spanish Oxen (and horses and pigs and goats)

de Oñate - largely a pretty brutal dude.  But he also brought a bunch of cattle that changed the fate of Texas to be.

Oh - and since somehow it's all New Mexico humor all the time, can't leave out the Simpsons:

Whoa, Whoa! Slow down there maestro.
There's a New Mexico?

The shipping of goods is mind boggling now.  That one boat blocking one canal for a few weeks could cause container ships to be stacked up around Whidbey Islands for months?  Yes!  And some how its start is linked to the Spice Trade (way back in Season 1) and barrels of salted beef?  Also yes.

Anyway - keep your eyes peeled in March 2023, and see if the Tides of March curse continues.

Forgotten?  Then here's a recap of March 2022 & March 2021:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/ever-forward-chesapeake-bay-boat-shipping-supply-chain.html

Useful and Interesting Resources:

Fussell, Betty. Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef. NY: Harcourt, Inc., 2008.

Lipkowitz, Ina. Words to Eat By: Five Words and the Culinary History of the English Language. NY: St. Martin's Press, 2011

Miller, Adrian, Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021

Sprecht, Joshua. Red Meat Republic: Hood to Table History of How Beef Changed America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.

 

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