This week, hosts Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) and Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) follow the tomato on a journey from Mexico to Italy and beyond, learning about how this weird fruit became a beloved icon of Italian cuisine and how its American cousins became flavourless styrofoam husks of their former selves, and share some of our favorite ways to make them delicious!
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This week, hosts Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) and Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) dig into the history of Savory Pies! What do the Tudors, French-Canadians settlers, and Sweeney Todd have in common? When did pies go from functional to flavourful? Why don’t we eat pigeons anymore?
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This week, hosts Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) bring you an episode that’s been cooking for a long time. That’s right, it’s finally time for rice. What is the Columbian Exchange and how does the transatlantic slave trade connect to the prominence of rice worldwide? Also, some of our favorite rice dishes and a game of “Rice Varietal or Kentucky Derby Horse!”
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CW: Lots of talk about colonialism, genocide, and war. Some mention of disordered eating.
This week, hosts Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) talk about H.E. Jacob’s prolific tome, 6000 Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History. We get into the interplay of religion, industrialization, and the military, and how all three connect deeply to bread. What lessons can we learn from the history of bread? Where do bagels come from? Why would someone wear Jesus’s foreskin as a wedding ring? The answers may (or may not) surprise you…
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This week, hosts Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) and Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) are just two little lads who love berries and cream. We talk all things strawberries, from their strange to connections to historical figures like King Louis XIV and Kelsey Grammer, to the sheer perfection of a good fruity ice cream. Plus, the famous Strawberry Dress makes an appearance! Oh baby, I hear the blues a-callin’…
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This week, hosts Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) talk all about dolma, sarma, and other delicious stuffed & wrapped middle eastern appetizers! We also play a little Gastronomical Geography and talk about the effects of industrialization, globalization & international trade on cuisines, which dolma ingredients are indigenous to the middle east and the mediterranean, and the longterm effects of colonialism.
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It has the juice!
This week, host Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) sits down with longtime friend of the show Julian McKenzie (@jkamckenzie) to talk about everyone’s favorite big lump with knobs, corn! We get into the viral Recess Therapy corn video, the history of corn, and its beautiful versatility as an ingredient! We also talk grits, polenta, nixtamalization, and all the lovely things we can do with cornmeal!
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Happy Labor Day! This week, host Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) calls up longtime friend of the show Matt Cole (@mc_dj_mc) to talk burger history, fast food, and the beauty of a Cowboy Burger! We also get into complicated feelings around nostalgia for capitalist chain restaurants, the value of reading history through a modern lens, and the importance of recognizing the biases that come with that. PLUS, some Hamburger History True or False, and an exciting announcement about the future of No Bad Food!
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Ranking finds a way. Long before humans walked this little blue planet, there were prehistoric reptiles of all shapes and sizes that happily roamed the Earth (well at least until…
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History may have forgotten them, but we haven’t.
Thanks to the internet and some high school classes, there have been historical people and their accomplishments that have stood the test of time. However, most of the time there are amazing individuals who slip through the cracks and are forgotten forever….until now! This week join Tuong La and Wikipedia Wizards Sarah Finn, Catherine Ballachey, and Axandre Lemours who put their Googling skills to the test as they research and rank Top 5 Interesting People You’ve Never Heard About.
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