Crummy Food
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
We can find the most amazing things in the most unassuming places. And sometimes the people we've pushed into a box make a name for themselves in another space. It's ok, and it's wildly entertaining.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm |
| 0:08.7 | and Mild. |
| 0:13.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:16.3 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:22.2 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
| 0:30.0 | Anyone who has waited tables or cooked in a restaurant has dreamed of it. |
| 0:41.4 | The chance to get back at an unruly customer, the kind who sends their plate back because |
| 0:45.4 | their green beans weren't hot enough, or their burger was a little well done. |
| 0:50.6 | Or if you're Chef George Speck, because the French fries you made were too thick. |
| 0:55.9 | Speck, born in 1824, grew up with his sister Caroline Wicks in upstate New York. |
| 1:01.3 | He'd made a name for himself by working at two restaurants in Saratoga County, Harry |
| 1:05.8 | Moon's Lake House on Saratoga Lake, and the San Suci Hotel in nearby Boston Spa. |
| 1:11.6 | Speck had come to know his regular customers at Moon's, especially one Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| 1:16.3 | III. |
| 1:17.3 | Vanderbilt was a trust fund kid who had been given the finest things in life. |
| 1:21.6 | He'd grown up in New Hampshire where he attended an exclusive boarding school, after which |
| 1:25.5 | he'd gone off to Yale for a Bachelor of Arts degree. |
| 1:29.5 | Vanderbilt was a man who always got what he wanted, even when it wasn't in his best interest. |
| 1:34.3 | After marrying the daughter of a prominent banker from New York against his father's wishes, |
| 1:38.3 | he was cut out of his parents' will. |
| 1:40.7 | When his father, Cornelius Vanderbilt II passed away in 1899, the younger Vanderbilt was |
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