Navigated to 154 Fashionable Vegetables from Europe & Stealth Ones from America

154 Fashionable Vegetables from Europe & Stealth Ones from America

September 17
33 mins

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Episode Description

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
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