The She Eats Rations's Podcast

Bye bye, New Year's Resolutions.

What did dining out look like to in the time before health inspections, safe food handling techniques, germ theory, and refrigeration? In a word: Bad.

It's late but it's here at last: Restaurants, part I. 

What did dining out look like to in the time before health inspections, safe food handling techniques, germ theory, and refrigeration? In a word: Bad.

It's late but it's here at last: Restaurants, part I. 

What started as a ploy to move dehydrated molasses has become a cultural institution.

What could be worse than drinking from a lead cup? Well, try radioactive crockery on for size.

Christmas cake. Some love it, plenty hate it. But in spite of its status as a reviled piece of confectionary, it persists. Where did it come from? And if everyone hates it, why do we still have it?