56 - Robert May's "Spectacle Feasts"
The entire experience of eating a fancy meal these days is no longer just about the food itself. For decades, chefs like Heston Blumenthal h...
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20 of 57 episodes55 - How Sausages Helped Win A Battle
It’s well into the northern european winter season at the end of 1939. Five hundred thousand Russian Soviet Soldiers are making a collective...
54 - When Pineapples Were Status Symbols
For the majority of history they were considered the ultimate delicacy by European nobility who just couldn’t get enough of them. From snack...
53 - Fat Men's Clubs
For as long as so-called civilised societies have existed, equally uncivilised clubs and groups have sprung up within them, allowing their m...
52 - The Kentucky Meat Shower
Turn on the tv or radio, or scroll any news site online and you’ll no doubt be inundated with stories about crazy weather anomalies happenin...
51 - The London Beer Flood
In our modern age we have lived through natural disasters and floods in various parts of the world, and no matter what, they are always trag...
50 - How Alcohol Prohibition Created NASCAR
This episode is a look at how in the early to mid 1900’s the abolitionist laws banning the production and consumption of alcohol played a ma...
49 - Charles Domery Ate Cats, Grass & A Fellow Soldier's Leg
There are many stories throughout history of individuals with freakish appetites, who seem to be able to consume quantities of food well pas...
48 - The Dutch Once Ate Their Prime Minister
For most of history, the Dutch have been an almost all-powerful force to be reckoned with. They were the forerunners for a lot of the world'...
47 - William McKenna the "Human Ostrich"
For today's story we will be diving into the life of a truly extraordinary man named William V McKenna, and while he fits the category of “p...
46 - Turning Hitler Into A Woman By Poisoning His Food
WW2 was raging onwards, with men fighting and dying each and every day. It was so delicately poised that there seemed to be no end to the fi...
45 - A Spice Worth Killing For
There is a spice we use so commonly today that it's hard to believe that at one time, wars were fought, people were killed and entire civili...
44 - Were The Salem Witch Trials Caused By Infected Food?
If ever you’ve doubted food's integral place in history, today’s stories are sure to remind us all, that no matter what life and history in...
43 - Foodie Fortune Tellers
Many old food-based fortunes were light-hearted party games mainly played around Halloween time, but some of there were deadly serious, and...
42 - Delicious Robberies
Today's stories aren’t just about the small-time pilfering of food here and there from your local grocery stores. No, today we’ll be talking...
41 - The World's Worst Sandwich
There are few things more universally loved than a good sandwich. We as humans love the simplicity and deliciousness of having something to...
40 - The Tapeworm Diet
As soon as people became wealthy enough not to have to spend every waking hour of their day, working, cleaning, hunting or cooking, they had...
39 - Julia Child: WW2 Spy Who Created Shark Repellent Cakes
Even the most famous and lauded among us still have a few tasty secrets up their sleeves, and today we’re going to dive into this fascinatin...
38 - The Great Goldfish Eating Craze of 1939
Not only were western cultures happily eating raw fish for ages, at one point they were uh, in fact eating it so raw as for it still, in fac...
37 - Michigan Held A Funeral For 30 000 Pizzas
There is nothing quite like pizza. The variety is endless, the experience is magical, the taste is delicious and they can be found in almost...