# 154 Fashionable Vegetables from Europe & Stealth Ones from America Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-history-of-american-food-3626516/154-fashionable-vegetables-from-europe-stealth-ones-from-america Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-history-of-american-food-3626516/154-fashionable-vegetables-from-europe-stealth-ones-from-america.md Podcast: [The History of American Food](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-history-of-american-food-3626516) Published: 2025-09-17T10:00:09+00:00 Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/154-fashionable-vegetables-from-europe-stealth-ones-from-america--67788254 Audio file: https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/67788254/154_fasion_hunger_vegetables.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-history-of-american-food-3626516/episodes/154-fashionable-vegetables-from-europe-stealth-ones-from-america Duration seconds: 1994 ## Resource Celebrate National Public Lands Day by finding a place to visit and get involved at NEEFAUSA.og or NPS.gov And get into what was getting to be popular as vegetables in the early 19th century. How did Avocado Toast become a thing? Well, it would never have gotten the traction it did with out practice runs by spinach or even more glamourously by celery. And those would have never had a chance if not for the propensity for food fads developed by the early 19th century Americans who had lost their food traditions and were now looking for something new. Join me on the journey to see what was cool in plant foods in the early 19th century. We can't all be spring peas after all. Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/ Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com Threads: @THoAFood Instagram: @THoAFood & some other socials... @THoAFood ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-history-of-american-food-3626516/episodes/154-fashionable-vegetables-from-europe-stealth-ones-from-america/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-history-of-american-food-3626516/154-fashionable-vegetables-from-europe-stealth-ones-from-america.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.