154 Fashionable Vegetables from Europe & Stealth Ones from America

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The History of American Food

Margaret Hardin

195 episodes

1 week 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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154 Fashionable Vegetables from Europe & Stealth Ones from America

The History of American Food

33 minutes

1 month ago

154 Fashionable Vegetables from Europe & Stealth Ones from America

Celebrate National Public Lands Day by finding a place to visit and get involved at
NEEFAUSA.og
or
NPS.gov

And get into what was getting to be popular as vegetables in the early 19th century.

How did Avocado Toast become a thing?
Well, it would never have gotten the traction it did with out practice runs by spinach or even more glamourously by celery.

And those would have never had a chance if not for the propensity for food fads developed by the early 19th century Americans who had lost their food traditions and were now looking for something new.

Join me on the journey to see what was cool in plant foods in the early 19th century. We can't all be spring peas after all.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
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