004 Sugar - A History

03/31/21 • 20 min

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Where is sugar even from? When did it make it to Europe? How did it get to the West Indies? I have questions.
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
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Podcast Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle

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003 Iron - Chains

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When everything – including making food – is done by muscle power – how did Colonial America decide to get more for less? In many cases – by using iron to make chains to enslave Native Americans and Africans. How did the colonists talk themselves into this? How far back did it start?
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
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Twitter: @THOAFood
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004.5 Bonus - Humorism & Solidism

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Here's where I didn't go in the Sugar History episode. This shows the bones of how medical thinking worked until germ theory got off the ground in the 19th Century. These ideas will return in each century. I don't go deep down the hole, just show you were it is.
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @THOAFood
Podcast Music: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle