148 Making Beef for Dinner - Increases in Early 19th Century Cattle

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The History of American Food

Margaret Hardin

195 episodes

4 days ago

Starting with the first English settlements in the 17th Century, this podcasts traces how we went from barrels of salted meat & peas to Korean bbq tacos and the largest grocery store selections ever seen anywhere in the world. We'll go everywhere - and it is full of surprises.

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148 Making Beef for Dinner - Increases in Early 19th Century Cattle

The History of American Food

32 minutes

4 months ago

148 Making Beef for Dinner - Increases in Early 19th Century Cattle

What happens when you grow more cows to make more milk to make more cheese and butter?
You end up with more oxen that can't make milk - but are useful as a source of beef.

And this works out well when you are living in a society that craves more meat,
and are in a place with apparently wide open spaces that are just fine for feeding said cattle.

A bonus when you have lots of growing industries that are willing to buy beef from you to feed their growing ambitions - whaling, the railroad, new factories, a military pushing out the borders...

And then... you also have new technologies to cook the beef, and have come up with new flavors for seasoning the beef.

The result - American is ready to become a beefy country.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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