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.

People have been milling flour and baking bread variations for literally millennia. The Erie Canal has been moving wheat since day one. And yet, a few miles from the canal and it was almost impossible to find local wheat on my little food journey.

In this episode of Was Is Could Be: Some history on the industrialization of flour.