by Jim Auchmutey From the publisher: Barbecue: It’s America in a mouthful. The story of barbecue touches almost every aspect of our history. It involves indigenous culture, the colonial era, […]
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Meat Question: Animals, Humans, and the Deep History of Food
by Josh Berson From the publisher: Humans are eating more meat than ever. Despite ubiquitous Sweetgreen franchises and the example set by celebrity vegans, demand for meat is projected to […]
Virgina Barbecue: A History
by Joseph R. Haynes With more than four hundred years of history, Virginians lay claim to the invention of southern barbecue. Native Virginian Powhatan tribes slow roasted meat on wooden […]
Ancient humans stored leftovers at least 200,000 years ago
Neanderthals or early Homo sapiens humans were storing bone marrow in a cave in modern-day Israel 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. Researchers have discovered deer bones with cut marks where […]
Podcast: American Beef Economy of late 19th century
A 49 minute podcast interview with Joshua Specht, author of Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beed Changed America. Specht describes the entire “beef economy” of the nineteenth […]
Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America
by Joshua Specht From the publisher: By the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the […]
Hamburger: A Global History
by Andrew F. Smith From the publisher: McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc once said, ‘It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun’. The hamburger has […]
All About the Burger: a history of hamburgers in America
by Sef Gonzalez From the publisher: A World History of Burgers: Do you know what the first burger chain was? That Taco Bell was originally known as Bell Burger–and was […]
The Troubled History of Horse Meat in America
Horse meat has a long history of causing problems for American politicians. The Trump administration wants to cut the budget used by the Bureau of Land Management to care for […]
How U.S. meat industry has protected itself by cost-cutting
During the 1880s and 1890s, four firms headquartered in Chicago would come to directly and indirectly control most of the United States’ beef. They did so by pushing the social […]