Four Pounds Flour on the Alphabet Soup Podcast:
Sarah shares her definition of “historic gastronomy” and talks about what she does on her blog, Four Pounds Flour. It’s more than just old recipes, kids. Find Sarah on Facebook andtwitter too! She has a couple of great events coming up this month, so do check out her events page.
Sarah shares a couple of her favorite resources: the book A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances and the site Feeding America, which is an online collection of American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. And if you’re squealing with delight over that last one, I’m right there with you.
She recently drank like a colonial american for a day. She shares why she wanted to undertake such an experience (she has done other similar projects) and how it turned out. Hint: not well.
I stumble through some awesome realizations about how unique recipes are as artifacts. Bear with me. I’ve never been awesome at history.
I was totally intrigued by the five days Sarah spent eating as a historic vegan. Veganism has an interesting (and longer than you probably think) history in America. We talk about restricted diets, elected or not.
Part 2 of my interview with Sarah will be up next week. We talk bitters, moose nose, and more.
