A Taste of the Past
Culinary historian Linda Pelaccio takes a journey through the history of food. Take a dive into food cultures through history, from ancient Mesopotamia and imperial China to the grazing tables and deli counters of today. Tune in as Linda, along with a guest list of culinary chroniclers and enthusiasts, explores the lively links between food cultures of the present and past.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 409
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2025
Episode 250:Ten Restaurants that Changed America
Restaurants in America are as diverse as our population, and they speak volumes about our society according to Professor Paul Freedman, Author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America. From Delmonico'…
00:48:59 |
Thu 06 Oct 2016
Episode 249: Food and Memories
Elissa Altman, James Beard Award-winning writer of the blog and book, Poor Man’s Feast sits down with Linda to talk about food and memories and writing her latest memoir, Treyf: My Life as an Unortho…
00:36:22 |
Thu 29 Sep 2016
Episode 248: Stroopwafels – How the Dutch Gave Us Our Cookies
The Dutch were some of the earliest settlers in America, yet many of their culinary contributions remain little known. Food historian Peter Rose, who is from the Netherlands, has devoted her career t…
00:38:52 |
Thu 22 Sep 2016
Episode 247: Food Origins
Food history explores the origins of edible items, and Saveur magazine has joined the pursuit of interesting and perhaps unusual food origins. Editor-in-chief Adam Sachs shares the topics of the maga…
00:35:54 |
Thu 15 Sep 2016
Episode 246: Meat Loaf & Casseroles: Food of the Great Depression
After WWI, America went from sending food to war-starved Europe to suddenly no longer being the land of plenty. Authors Jane Ziegelman and Andy Coe discuss the culinary impact of that period which th…
00:38:33 |
Thu 08 Sep 2016
Episode 245: Funeral Food
On the season finale of A Taste of the Past, host Linda Pelaccio is joined in the studio by Sarah Lohman, to look at the culinary traditions surrounding funerals throughout American history.
Dubbed …
00:36:58 |
Thu 18 Aug 2016
Episode 244: Tastes Like Chicken
This week on A Taste of the Past – author and culinary historian Emelyn Rude traces the history of eating chicken, from the first domestication of the chicken nearly 10,000 years ago to its current s…
00:40:47 |
Thu 04 Aug 2016
Episode 243: Consider the Oyster
New York was once known as the oyster capital of the world, and was famous for the Blue Point Oyster that originated in the Great South Bay on Long Island. In 1938, that suddenly changed due to the N…
00:37:48 |
Thu 28 Jul 2016
Episode 242: How Artisans Reclaimed America's Lost Flavors
This week on A Taste of the Past, host Linda Pelaccio is joined via phone by Patric Kuh, the multiple-James Beard Award–winning restaurant critic for Los Angeles Magazine and author of Finding the Fl…
00:45:36 |
Thu 30 Jun 2016
Episode 241: Food in the Gilded Age: What Ordinary Americans Ate
America's Gilded Age, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, is renowned for the excesses of robber barons and tycoons and their culture of conspicuous consumption. The lavishness of their table…
00:37:11 |
Thu 16 Jun 2016
Episode 240: Paletas and the History of Mexican Sweets
This week on A Taste of the Past, host Linda Pelaccio is joined in the studio by Fany Gerson. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Fany has worked in many kitchens, from the three-Micheli…
00:45:36 |
Thu 09 Jun 2016
Episode 239: Cooking of Spain's Basque Region
This week on A Taste of the Past, host Linda Pelaccio is joined in the studio by Chef Alex Raij.
Alex Raij and her husband Eder Montero are chefs and owners of Txikito, a love letter to the Basque c…
00:45:45 |
Thu 02 Jun 2016
Episode 238: Fast Food: The Big, The Bad and The Hungry
This week on A Taste of the Past, host Linda Pelaccio is joined in the studio by Andrew F. Smith, author of the book Fast Food: The Good, The Bad and The Hungry. He is also the editor of the Edible S…
00:44:29 |
Thu 26 May 2016
Episode 237: How Coke Became Kosher, and other tales
This week on A Taste of the Past, host Linda Pelaccio is joined by Roger Horowitz, an historian of American business, technology, and labor, and an expert on the nation’s food. He is the author of th…
00:45:07 |
Thu 19 May 2016
Episode 236: Foods of Alsace with Gabriel Kreuther
Chef Gabriel Kreuther joins us in the studio to talk about the cuisine of his native Alsace-Lorraine.
A Michelin-starred chef, Kreuther was born on a family farm in Alsace and raised on his mother's…
00:38:47 |
Thu 05 May 2016
Episode 235: Foodways and Cooking of Appalachia
Appalachian food has been sustainable and organic for generations. They have been offering “farm to table” fare forever, without needing to call it that. And the iconic dish of soup beans and cornbre…
00:43:21 |
Thu 28 Apr 2016
Episode 234: Cuban Cocktail History
On this week's A Taste of the Past, the tropical elegance and vibrant energy of Cuba's rich history and culture are recaptured in the stories of cocktails by two owners of the well known NYC rum bar,…
00:45:55 |
Thu 14 Apr 2016
Episode 233: Ethnic Restaurateurs
On this week's episode of A Taste of the Past, host Linda Pelaccio is joined in the studio by Krishnendu Ray, Department Chair of the Food Studies program at NYU. A food studies scholar, he is the au…
00:45:32 |
Thu 07 Apr 2016
Episode 232: Modernizing Old World Mediterranean Jewish Recipes
On this week's episode of A Taste of the Past, host Linda Pelaccio speaks with chef and cookbook author Joyce Goldstein. For twelve years she was Chef and Owner of the ground-breaking Mediterranean R…
00:34:11 |
Thu 31 Mar 2016
Episode 231: From Harissa to Berbere and Beyond: History of Hot Sauce
On this week's episode of A Taste of the Past, host Linda Pelaccio speaks with "Pope of Peppers" Dave DeWitt, a food historian, award-winning author, and founder of the National Fiery Foods & Barbecu…
00:42:37 |
Thu 24 Mar 2016
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