Have you ever wondered if there’s more to history than dates and major events, what some of the stories and daily lives of regular people looked like? Do you need...
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HOF Episode 26: Factory Food (Industrial Revolution)When Britain industrialized in the late 1700s and the rest of the western world soon followed, humans were transformed to a degree not seen for 10,000 years when we first... Read more
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HOF Episode 25: The Soul of American Cooking (Colonial USA)Who founded America? George Washington? Thomas Jefferson? America had founding fathers alright, but they aren’t the ones you’re thinking of. Would you believe that African slaves and Indians were the... Read more
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HOF Episode 24: The Feeling of Fullness (Sub Saharan Africa)Is good cooking defined by ingredients, skill in preparation, style of cuisine, or is it something even more fundamental and deeply human? We left out of Africa all the way... Read more
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HOF Episode 23: The Great Sobering (Coffee and Colonialism)Save this episode to go with your morning coffee. Sip that dark and bitter brew, maybe with cream and/or sugar, maybe not, and listen along as you learn of coffee’s... Read more
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HOF Episode 22: Melting Pots and Fusion Foods (Globalization)The “American Melting Pot” is far older, larger, and even more diverse than most people imagine. After Columbus reconnected Eurasia and Africa with the Americas, the world began to change... Read more
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HOF Episode 21: Umami and Kimchi (Japan and Korea)What does it mean for one culture to “steal” from another? How often does it happen? Is it a bad thing when it does? Listen to explore those questions and... Read more
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HOF Episode 20: The Columbian ExchangeFor millions of years, the two main hemispheres of planet earth were separated by an impassible ocean. North/South America and Eurasia/Africa, two divergent ecosystems, food chains, and human civilizations. .... Read more