Tasting History with Max Miller

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  • Premiered: Feb 2020
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Season 2024
2024x1
The Fake (and real) History of Potato Chips
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Jan 02, 2024
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The Legend of the Wiener Schnitzel
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Jan 09, 2024
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2024x3
Breakfast in Jane Austen's England
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Jan 16, 2024
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2024x4
Lobscouse, Hardtack & Navy Sea Cooks
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Jan 23, 2024
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2024x5
Table Manners in the Ottoman Empire - Acem Pilav
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Jan 30, 2024
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2024x6
Deviled Bones - The History of Hot Wings
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Feb 06, 2024
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2024x7
The Roman Colosseum: What It Was Like to Attend the Games
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Feb 13, 2024
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2024x8
Why a Tire Company Gives Out Food’s Most Famous Award
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Feb 20, 2024
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2024x9
18th Century Spiced Hot Chocolate
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Feb 23, 2024
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2024x10
Feeding the Shogun: The Feasts of Feudal Japan
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Feb 27, 2024
FX's Shōgun centers around the rise of the Shōgun in the early 17th century. The Shōgun was accustomed to lavish feasts, so I was inspired to make 2 dishes from the period; Namasu No & Nanban ryōri.
2024x11
What People Ate on Ellis Island
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Mar 05, 2024
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2024x12
5 Foods that Changed Fast Food Forever
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Mar 08, 2024
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2024x13
The Original Chef Boyardee Spaghetti Dinner
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Mar 12, 2024
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2024x14
A History of Waffles - Communion Wafers to Eggo
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Mar 19, 2024
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2024x15
What it was like to visit a Medieval Tavern
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Mar 26, 2024
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2024x16
What Pioneers ate on the Oregon Trail
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Apr 02, 2024
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2024x17
Airline Food During the Golden Age of Air Travel
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Apr 09, 2024
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2024x18
Dining on The Orient Express
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Apr 16, 2024
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2024x19
What the First Astronauts Ate - Food in Space
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Apr 23, 2024
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2024x20
Dining on the Luxury Liner Lusitania
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Apr 30, 2024
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2024x21
Eating on a German U-Boat in WW1
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May 07, 2024
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2024x22
Ancient Egyptian Spiral Bread of the Pharaoh
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May 14, 2024
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2024x23
What Troops Ate On D-Day - World War 2 Meals & Rations
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May 21, 2024
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2024x24
The History of Barbecue
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May 28, 2024
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2024x25
Recreating the Last Meal of Ötzi the Iceman
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Jun 04, 2024
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2024x26
What Food was Served at Wild West Saloons?
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Jun 11, 2024
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2024x27
How Gold Rush Miners Ate in the Wild West
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Jun 18, 2024
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2024x28
Reviving an Old West Ghost Town with Brent Underwood
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Jun 21, 2024
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2024x29
Making the Black Mead of Medieval France - Bochet
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Jun 25, 2024
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2024x30
The True History of Deep Dish Pizza
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Jul 02, 2024
The sordid origins of the deep dish pizza, and original recipes from the 1940s.
2024x31
Eating in a Civil War Prison - Andersonville to Elmira
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Jul 09, 2024
The horrific conditions in Civil War prisons, and a mock apple pie recipe from a Confederate cookbook.
2024x32
How Strawberries were Accidentally Invented
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Jul 16, 2024
The accidental origins of the modern strawberry, and a Tudor-era recipe for a strawberry tart.
2024x33
The Deadly Job of Royal Food Taster
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Jul 23, 2024
The history of one of the worst jobs: food taster, and a (non-toxic) recipe for mushrooms that might have poisoned the Roman Emperor Claudius.
2024x34
Dr. Kellogg & the Disturbing Invention of Corn Flakes
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Jul 30, 2024
The dramatic story of the Kellogg brothers and the original recipe for Corn Flakes.
2024x35
Cooking on the American Homefront During WWII
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Aug 06, 2024
Rationing and food on the home front in the US during WWII, and a recipe for a mock steak made out of ground beef and Wheaties.
2024x36
The Murder of Egypt's Forgotten Queen
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Aug 13, 2024
The murder-filled story of Egypt’s only female sultan, and a medieval recipe for Om Ali, a delicious spiced bread pudding with nuts, sultanas, and rose water.
2024x37
What Was A Real Viking Funeral Like?
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Aug 20, 2024
The grisly details of what Viking funerals were like, and a recipe for flatbread recreated from findings at Viking funeral sites.
2024x38
How To Make 17th Century Clotted Cream - A History
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Aug 27, 2024
The history of clotted (or clouted) cream, and a 17th century recipe for it, an 18th century recipe for serving it, and a 20th century recipe for scones.
2024x39
The History of Brownies
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Sep 03, 2024
The history of brownies from elf-like creatures to decadent chocolate baked good and a recipe from 1904.
2024x40
Cooking on the Soviet Homefront during WWII
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Sep 10, 2024
Rationing and starvation in the Soviet Union during WWII, and a recipe from a wartime cookbook for millet and pumpkin porridge.
2024x41
What Did History’s Pets Eat?
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Sep 17, 2024
How people have fed and cared for their pets from ancient Rome to the Victorian Age, and a recreation of the original dog biscuit.
2024x42
The Wild Parties of Regency England
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Sep 24, 2024
The wild, crowded house parties of 18th and 19th century London, and a recipe for the delicious, dense cakes that were popular to serve at them.
2024x43
Beef Tea from a Victorian Hospital
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Sep 27, 2024
The history of beef tea, the sustenance of choice for invalids and convalescents in the 19th century, and a recipe from 1851.
2024x44
Did Medieval People Eat Breakfast?
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Oct 01, 2024
Who (and who didn’t) eat breakfast in the Middle Ages, what they ate, and a 15th century recipe for medieval Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
2024x45
World War 2 rations on the British Home Front
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Oct 08, 2024
Rationing in the UK during World War II, and recipes for mock banana cream and the National Loaf.
2024x46
Surviving the Titanic - Dining on Carpathia
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Oct 15, 2024
The experience of those on board the RMS Carpathia and the Titanic survivors that they rescued, and soup that might have been amongst the first foods served to the survivors.
2024x47
The Titanic Survivors Arrive in New York - Hamilton Pudding
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Oct 18, 2024
What happened when the Carpathia docked in New York with the 705 survivors of the Titanic, and an early 20th century recipe for a dessert served aboard the Carpathia the last day aboard the ship.
2024x48
Candy War: Babe Ruth Vs Baby Ruth
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Oct 22, 2024
The controversial (but brilliant?) naming of Baby Ruth candy bars, and a popular recipe from the 1940s for Baby Ruth cookies that appeared on the wrappers of the time.
2024x49
The Myth and Truth behind Croissants - A Recipe from 1850
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Oct 29, 2024
The origins of the croissant, from Viennese kipferl to the modern flaky pastry, and a mid-19th century recipe for a bread-like version.
2024x50
Election Cake from 1796
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Nov 01, 2024
The history of Election Day as a major holiday in Hartford, Connecticut, and a scaled down 18th century recipe of any Election Day table: election cake.
2024x51
Ancient Roman Cheesecake - Savillum
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Nov 05, 2024
The foods served at lavish ancient Roman feasts and a recipe from the 2nd century BC for an early form of cheesecake.
2024x52
Cooking on the German Home Front During World War 2
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Nov 12, 2024
Food, rationing, and hunger in Germany during WWII, and a recipe for a casserole from a German magazine early on in the war.
2024x53
Eating in a London Blitz Bomb Shelter
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Nov 19, 2024
Bomb shelters and the Tube during the Blitz in WWII, and ration-friendly recipes for soup and honey biscuits from the period.
2024x54
Cranberry Apple Pie & the Invention of Thanksgiving
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Nov 22, 2024
Sarah Josepha Hale’s campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday, and a cranberry tart recipe from her magazine in 1866.
2024x55
What did Alexander the Great eat?
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Nov 26, 2024
Feasting with Alexander the Great and an ancient Roman recipe for a complex sauce for poultry using ingredients that Alexander would have had.
2024x56
Food in the Japanese-American Internment Camps of World War 2
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Dec 03, 2024
Food supplies and cooking in the Japanese incarceration camps during WWII, and a recipe for tuna noodle casserole from one of the camps’ newspapers.
2024x57
The Great Eggnog Riot at West Point Military Academy
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Dec 06, 2024
The Eggnog Riot at West Point and a 19th century recipe from the White House Cook Book.
2024x58
What Are Sugar Plums? How to make real Victorian sugar plums
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Dec 10, 2024
What a real Victorian sugar plum was, and a labor-intensive, days-long process of making some from a 19th century recipe.
2024x59
Christmas During the Great Depression
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Dec 17, 2024
Celebrating Christmas during the Great Depression, and a recipe for a less expensive Christmas pudding made with gelatin and chocolate.
2024x60
Making School Cafeteria Pizza from the 1980s & '90s
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Dec 24, 2024
Food in US schools post-1960s and an extremely nostalgic recipe for cheese pizza from 1988.
2024x61
3,500 Years of Hangover Cures - Kishkiyya from Baghdad
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Dec 31, 2024
Hangover cures from the last 3,500 years, and a 10th century recipe from Baghdad for a curative lamb stew.

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