The History of American Food

149 Trains & Buying Stuff in the Early 19th Century - The Birth of American Consumer Culture


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Have you ever thought how we got here - that farm land is all AWAY and houses are all in close?

That products come to you... and packaging is often more important than the thing inside?
That didn't happen over night.  

The fact that farms are there, house are here, and manufacturing stuff is a third place altogether is not an accident.  Instead it's something that has been developing in America for about 200 year.

To see WHY you don't have neighborhood farms - as well as why things like setting up local recycling centers and other things that make stuff is hard - listen in to how the roots of segregated land use ties back to the early railroad.

I mean... maybe a local goat and donkey pasture wouldn't be such a bad thing?
Anyway - more Pea Patches...!
But also understand why modern American Farms Markets will always have food from hundreds of miles away.

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot com
Threads: @THoAFood
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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
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