Episodes
Thursday Mar 29, 2018
Wednesday Feb 21, 2018
Wednesday Feb 21, 2018
What did dining out look like to in the time before health inspections, safe food handling techniques, germ theory, and refrigeration? In a word: Bad.
It's late but it's here at last: Restaurants, part I.
Tuesday Dec 05, 2017
Tuesday Dec 05, 2017
What started as a ploy to move dehydrated molasses has become a cultural institution.
Friday Nov 10, 2017
Friday Nov 10, 2017
What could be worse than drinking from a lead cup? Well, try radioactive crockery on for size.
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017
Wednesday Oct 11, 2017
Christmas cake. Some love it, plenty hate it. But in spite of its status as a reviled piece of confectionary, it persists. Where did it come from? And if everyone hates it, why do we still have it?