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First Aired - 01/07/2010 12:00PM
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On this week's A Taste of the Past, Linda Pelaccio hosts famed food writer Andrew Smith to talk about the history of the hamburger and the emergence of McDonald's, one of Smith's thirty most important food moments in American history.
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Food Writer Andrew Smith Introduces His Work (10:40)
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Andrew, Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food, professor of Food Writing at The New School, Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the History of American Cuisine, The Hamburger, Andrew is General Editor for the Edible Series, where did the hamburger originate, evidence of first hamburger in 1893, hamburger is originally a street food, the hamburger is the #1 American sandwich, when McDonald's first hit Southern California in the 1960's there was nothing like it, The McDonald brothers started McDonalds not Ray Crock, without Ray Crock the McDonald's empire would never have been created, does the hamburg have any connection to Hamburg Germany?,The Birth of the Burger and McDonald's (9:11)
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the emergence of McDonald's is one of the thirty turning points of American culinary history, in its nascent stages quality control allowed for every McDonald's to provide the same exact food, now small variations exist especially internationaly, White Castle pre-dates McDonald's, McDonald's modeled their restaurants after Henry Ford's assembly line model and White Castle's model as well, KFC also existed before McDonald's, the Henry Ford model is the basis for the fast food industry, almost 25 million people eat fast food daily, the speed at which Americans eat is uncommon throughout the world and speaks to how little we care about food, foie gras stuffed hamburger, Andrew found 1,500 different types of hamburgers while researching for his book, McDonald's is doing very well in the recession, the $5000 hamburger in Vegas, everything old becomes new again,More Modern Food Trends (7:50)
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Food Historian Andrew Smith, hamburger and meatballs are always in because they are so low cost, Salisbury Steak named after General Salisbury, invented to be easily digestible by soldiers, meatpackers ran a dirty business once burger became industrialized, lots of people got sick when burgers first became industrialized, Food Writers Conference, the Gourmet closing, www.foodwritersconference.com, diversity within the meatball/hamburger food group,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/22/2009 01:15PM
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Food historian and friend of the show Andy Smith stops by to give us some context for the food we eat on Thanksgiving. Also on the show, Curtis B. Wayne.
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The Main Course Part Q: Introduction (10:00)
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Roberta's, The Main Course Part Q, Andy Smith, food historian, Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down The House, Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, Thanksgiving food, venison, turkey, foul, pigeon, pheasant, quail, swan, Native Americans, Edward Winslow, New England, a small footnote on a letter noted that it was the first Thanksgiving, there was no description of dinners until the 1780's, political climate, Sarah Josepha Hale, Northwood, pot pies, fall vegetables, America needed a fall holliday, The Civil War, the conformity of the foods we eat, wild rice, heritage breeds, Minesotta wild rice, green beans and gravy, cream of mushroom soup, marshmallows, egg whites and sugar, 1920's, corn syrup, holiday tradition,Wild Turkey! (10:00)
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food factoids, The New School, Drinking History, historical recipes, modern recipes, Esquire, whiskey and sugar, whiskey, turkey is the centerpiece for every description of a meal in America, pigs, the goal of Thanksgiving is to bring family together, the turkey feeds a lot of people, turkeys are smaller and faster now, big turkeys couldn't fly, wild turkeys used to be larger than domestic turkeys, enormous wild turkeys in Staten Island, rapid transit train, Patrick Martins, Naraganset breed, broad breasted white, Moses crossing the Red Sea was an original symbol idea for America, The Bald Eagle was chosen, the turkey would have been better, the turkey was an asain bird, guinne hens come from Africa, American Indians think Thanksgiving should be celebrated as a day of mourning, fish on Thanksgiving, oyster stuffing, New York Harbor was the largest oyster bed in the world in colonial and american times, Perry Rosso, wild turkeys were feared for extintion, first animal that was reintroduced to the wild sucessfully, more wild turkeys in America today than when Europeans first arrived, lyme disease, Eerie Canal, American's loved inexpensive foods, sweet potatos, Central South America, kasava, peanuts changed the economy, Washington Carver did not populize peanuts!,Peanuts, Potatos & Tomatos (13:20)
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Roberta's, peanut butter, Geroge Washington Carver, sweet potatos, peanuts as a sharecropper crop, one of the first African Americans to address Congress, peanut companies latch on to him, lard, Crisco, the Yam is an African plant that comes into America through slave trade, the sweet potato inside can be any color, Yams was slang for sweet potatos, Thanksgiving was a northern holiday, celebrated in some parts of the south, it wasn't a state holiday until the late 1900's, celebrated in the South before The Civil War, potatos started in South America then went to Europe then the United States, starch crops, food history, tomato blight, blight, rooftop garden, tomatos didn't become popular until the 1820's, The Spanish don't run into the tomato until 1518, first recipe was published in Italy in 1543, ketchup, catsup, corn, cornbread, beans, turducken, renaissance recipe,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
