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, Episode 7: A Conclusion of SOrts
It's time to admit that I came to the season with some firmly held beliefs that I expected to confirm. But what I learned was far more storied and complicated than I had assumed.
In this episode of Was Is Could Be: An inconclusive conclusion.
Season 2, Episode 4: Carbs, Carbs, & More Carbs
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.