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 settled into farming life.
But it wasn’t some simple flick of the switch, where some entrepreneurs decided to build some factories and invent the modern world. Massive changes to food and agriculture had to happen first. As we’ve come to expect by now, history follows food, in one last grand finale to this season of the podcast. Come listen how!
(Also stick around at the end of the episode for a note about the show and next season)
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Music from this Episode: The Best of Beethoven
BIBLIOGRAPHYKen Albala – A Cultural and Culinary History of Food
Oxford Academic, Emma Griffin – Diets, Hunger, and Living Standards during the British Industrial Revolution
Spartcus Educational – Factory Food
Wisconsin Public Radio – How the Industrial Revolution Gave us Lunch as We Know it
Special thanks to the show’s patrons:
JAKE PENZELL
BENAY O’CONNELL
LILI
RASMUS
DUNCAN MCHALE
REBEKA DAVIDSON
HALEY LEWIS
DECEMBRIANA
ANNE URBANCIC
KAYKE J
RYAN GERRY
RYAN DE BOER
HOF Episode 28: The Ancient History of Chefs
HOF Episode 27: A Day in the Life (of a Peasant Farmer)
HOF Episode 25: The Soul of American Cooking (Colonial USA)
HOF Episode 24: The Feeling of Fullness (Sub Saharan Africa)
HOF Episode 23: The Great Sobering (Coffee and Colonialism)
HOF Episode 22: Melting Pots and Fusion Foods (Globalization)
HOF Episode 21: Umami and Kimchi (Japan and Korea)
HOF Episode 20: The Columbian Exchange
HOF Episode 19: Europe Wakes Up (The Renaissance)
HOF Episode 18: Crusades and Plagues (later Middle Ages)
HOF Episode 17: The Power of Tradition (China revisited)
HOF Episode 16: The Dark Bread Ages (Medieval Europe)
HOF Episode 15: Princes of Flavor (India)
HOF Episode 14: People of the Book
HOF Episode 13: Empire of Shepherds (Iran)
HOF Episode 12: Herders of the Old World
HOF Episode 11: Bread and Circuses, but Mostly Bread (Rome)
HOF Episode 10: Hombres de Maíz (Mesoamerica)
HOF Episode 9: Raw and Cooked (China)
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