Season 2, Bonus Episode: Dieting: What’s Old is New Again
An excerpt from my interview with Michael Lansing - a very truncated history of dieting, and the way that industrialization impacted our understanding of how we should eat.
Season 2, Bonus Episode: From Wheat to Wheaties
An excerpt from my interview with Michael Lansing - a look at how industrialization eventually led to product diversification, marketing and advertising, and more sophisticated food distribution.
Season 2, Bonus Episode: “I Don’t Know.”
An excerpt from my interview with Michael Lansing - a somewhat rude awakening about food choices, virtue signaling with food, and why going local may not be all it’s cracked up to be when it comes to changing the food landscape of the U.S.
Season 2, Bonus Episode: To Organic or Not Organic
An excerpt from my interview with Michael Lansing - a look at organics and industrialization.
Season 2, Bonus Episode: No One Would Dig a Canal Sober.
An excerpt from my interview with Derrick Pratt from the Erie Canal Museum on the intersection of whiskey and the building of the canal, how out of control canalers influenced temperance, the infamous Bloody Valley of Watervilet, and some beef between the canalers and… well… everybody else.