{"podcast":{"title":"The History of American Food","slug":"the-history-of-american-food-3626516","podcast_index_feed_id":3626516,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4817628/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/74a90afba383d7627223ab6dc9a2a1e2.jpg","author":"Margaret Hardin","episode_count":217,"summary":"Starting with the first English settlements in the 17th Century, this podcasts traces how we went from barrels of salted meat & peas to Korean bbq tacos and the largest grocery store selections ever seen anywhere in the world. We'll go everywhere - and it is full of surprises. Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/ Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com Internets: @THoAFood","last_synced_at":"2026-07-01T22:19:06.946560+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-history-of-american-food-3626516"},"episode":{"title":"173 Potatoes for Frontier & Factory","slug":"173-potatoes-for-frontier-factory","published_at":"2026-06-10T10:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-history-of-american-food-3626516/173-potatoes-for-frontier-factory","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-history-of-american-food-3626516","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/173-potatoes-for-frontier-factory--72448193","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72448193/173_potatoes_for_frontier_factory.mp3","summary":"How did America become the land of Meat & Potatoes I don't have all the answers yet - but I think I've found the well spring of the \"& potatoes\" portion. I'm about to sneak up on the big answer to the meat. But in the meantime, we look at whether you can have factory culture at the same time you pushing out a wild frontier - and what the potato has to do with it. Side quests - the origin on the French Fry, the Potato Chip and Breakfast Hash - not to mention why didn't America get the potato blight. (short answer... actually, we did) Tune in for lots of Potato News 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","meta_description":"How did America become the land of Meat & Potatoes I don't have all the answers yet - but I think I've found the well spring of the \"& potatoes\" p…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1925,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-history-of-american-food-3626516/episodes/173-potatoes-for-frontier-factory/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-history-of-american-food-3626516/173-potatoes-for-frontier-factory.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}