The History of American Food

Come listen while I answer the important questions:

What is a Carbohydrate? Tune in!

Can you actually eliminate all sugar from your diet?  Yes! But No in 3 ways.

and 

Can you truly live on meat alone

Also - The Dinosaur Neil Episode of The Tick - https://youtu.be/bY5pWlU3Mr8?si=Kx-Yh8DNAxQIxqRK

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Science - it is back!

America has long had a thing about thinking about food as components rather than ingredients. 

So to help you navigate through what some of these parts are - I'll be doing some science at you.  This week - Protein!

Links:

Velella Photo -  https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.817196/full

The Dinosaur Neil Episode of The Tick - https://youtu.be/bY5pWlU3Mr8?si=Kx-Yh8DNAxQIxqRK

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I'll just grab a glass of milk...

When did that become a thing?  Becasue - it is a VERY American thing.  RIght up there with cold cereal for breakfast.

Turns out - it became possible at the end of the 19th century.  But all the moving parts that had to come together to make it happen are kindof increadible.  So come with me on the journey to find out just how a glass of milk at home became possible

Bridgerton Clip with Anachronistic Milk Drinking:
https://youtu.be/AwdTS5uY1KA?si=h4Ywxe8B0thq1Ea-

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This week we bust open the most United States of America food of all.
Cold Cereal
My research has lead me to this - Cold Cereal is the first thing that can be claimed as the first Original Food of the USA.
Pumpkin Pie... maybe?
Bacon Cheese Burger - I'll consider it.
Fried Chicken sandwich - my favorite contender.... but late.

Let's talk about how the conditions of colonial America lead to Tony the Tiger and Frosted Flakes.

But we aren't there yet.  Instead it is bad... but fast cereal.   

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The First Cold Cereal

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An important element essential to modern American food didn't happen until the end of the 19th century.  But as with so many of the other elements that are underpinnings of American food - it is not a food at all. Instead it is paper made of trees rather than paper made of cloth that has reached the end of it's life.

And once wood pulp paper becomes part of the scene - how food is transported, labeled and sold will never be the same.

Think about a world before you put could wrap meat in Butcher's Paper, before crackers came in boxes - it looks almost unrecognizable.  But come along for the debut of cheap-er paper in American food - and how this changes everything.

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