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Strange but true stories from history that in some way involve food. . Jam-packed with stories like "The Swedish King Who Tried To Kill A Prisoner With Coffee" and "When Tomatoes Were Blamed...
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...
It’s well into the northern european winter season at the end of 1939. Five hundred thousand Russian Soviet Soldiers are making a collective...
For the majority of history they were considered the ultimate delicacy by European nobility who just couldn’t get enough of them. From snack...
For as long as so-called civilised societies have existed, equally uncivilised clubs and groups have sprung up within them, allowing their m...
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...
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...
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...
There are many stories throughout history of individuals with freakish appetites, who seem to be able to consume quantities of food well pas...
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'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Many old food-based fortunes were light-hearted party games mainly played around Halloween time, but some of there were deadly serious, and...
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...
There are few things more universally loved than a good sandwich. We as humans love the simplicity and deliciousness of having something to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
There are quite a few stories from historical banquetry that weren’t of the presumed fun and hearty nature. Instead it seems that there was...
We continue to follow the journey of tea as it makes its way to Europe and the Americas. We’ll see the large role tea tends to play politica...
The history of tea is as long and complex as its variety of flavours. It's a history quite literally infused with tales of spirituality and...
This is the story of Gail Halvorsen, who was known to the children of Berlin as Der Schokoladen Flieger or The Chocolate Flier, Uncle Wiggly...
In today's society, those who are able to, are always seeking out new and wondrous dining experiences. More than a hundred years ago, men an...
Onions have been a part of human history since long before records began. It's played a vital part in our diets, but also in our mythology,...
In the late 1800s in Japan, there was a disease that seemed to target not just inner-city dwellers in Edo, what we know as modern-day Tokyo,...
Pirates weren’t known for their discerning tastes in cuisine. If movies and television are to be believed they seemed to subsist purely on r...
It’s almost unthinkable that just a few hundred years ago, potatoes were only eaten in a very small corner of the earth. They are now one of...
The people of Nottingham don't take kindly to people fleecing them for their very own cheese. The time had come to stand up and fight the go...
Albert Broel was a man of mystery. Claiming to be the son of Polish nobility, he arrived in America during World War 1 and set out to make h...
3 men, at different times, have all tried to push a peanut up Pikes Peak with nothing but their noses. This episode tells you all about thei...
What begins as just a little bit of seasonal fun, ends with smashed windows, bannisters ripped from stairways and a military barracks surrou...
Food inherently is meant to sustain life, but this has not always been the case, in fact, for as far back as history goes food has also been...
For many of history’s most famous characters, we all know, at the very least, the basics of what makes these men and women famous to begin w...
From it's origins in ancient China, to the accidental discovery of the first ice cream cone, we take a journey to see how ice cream has infl...
Al Capone was a model student for most of his childhood, but he didn't take long to go from fresh-faced to scar-faced. The Great Depression...
The past is a crazy place, and no matter how many times we go back there, there's always something new to surprise us. This episode we learn...
For this episode we're travelling to the small Italian island of Sardinia where we explore the a generations long delicacy known as Casu Mar...
This is the 2nd episode in our two part series on coffee. Last time we heard about the origins of coffee discovered by dancing goats in Ethi...
Coffee was discovered in the 9th century in Ethiopia. From there it spread across the globe, making its way through Europe and at some point...
In this episode we explore one of the worlds favourite foods, CHEESE! We hear a bit about it's origin story and then dive into 3 different s...
Hot chocolate has been a favourite drink of so many households throughout the ages. Not many people know the rich and varied history that th...
Charles Darwin is one of the most famous men in history. Not as many people know about his penchant for eating almost every animal he studie...
William Buckland and his son Francis were two men whose goal in life seemed to be to consume every single animal on earth. From bluebottle f...
Throughout medieval times all the way until the 19th century, there are tales of people using food in all manner of creative ways. We know t...
Hitler had a plan to make Germany self-sufficient during World War 2. The German people had a craving for margarine, unlike any other nation...
The bizarre story of a man named August Engelhardt who started a cult on a tropical island in the early 1900's. He forced his followers to o...
It's August 1972 and the Swiss freighter Cassarate is bound for Europe with 1.5 Million kg's of Tapioca on board. Somewhere along the way a...
Just 2 months after WW1 one of the most bizarre tragedies in history would strike a crowded neighbourhood in Boston. Thanks to some unseason...