# 165 Is This Enough Food to Feed an Army?  & What Were They Thinking?

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-history-of-american-food-3626516/165-is-this-enough-food-to-feed-an-army-what-were-they-thinking
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-history-of-american-food-3626516/165-is-this-enough-food-to-feed-an-army-what-were-they-thinking.md
Podcast: [The History of American Food](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-history-of-american-food-3626516)
Published: 2026-04-08T10:00:02+00:00
Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/165-is-this-enough-food-to-feed-an-army-what-were-they-thinking--71174688
Audio file: https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71174688/165_is_this_enough_food_to_feed_an_army_what_were_they_thinking.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-history-of-american-food-3626516/episodes/165-is-this-enough-food-to-feed-an-army-what-were-they-thinking
Duration seconds: 1828

## Resource

I am a producer on an Emmy Nominated Documentary. Check it out here: Women's Work - The Untold Story of America's Female Farmers The Emmy Nomination!!!!! Why are military staffs so bad at predicting war length? And when they do boy-oh-boy does that mean things are going to go poorly for the people in charge of planning food. It goes even worse, when nobody on staff has cooked Gumbo for 80. Come listen to all the pitfalls facing the people planning for war food in the middle of the the 1800's. But also a whole bunch of links. A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry - the source documents for the Donkey Problem The Charge of the Light Brigade - that catchy verse that keeps getting people killed for dumb reasons 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/165-is-this-enough-food-to-feed-an-army-what-were-they-thinking/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-history-of-american-food-3626516/165-is-this-enough-food-to-feed-an-army-what-were-they-thinking.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.