Welcome to the early theology podcast, I'm Daniel Farind of the coming in horns of Odin and today I am joined by food historian Beth Rogers so

welcome Beth. Hi hi so glad to be here. Yeah before we, I do have a brand new microphone which was paid for by our lovely patrons.

It took me some setting up, which is why I was late.

So I guess if I do sound different to everybody because I assume I will do a little bit, somebody said I didn't sound as deep. So yeah, that's why that's why I may sound a little bit odd and hopefully I'm going to sound like this going forward I guess.

That's the plan.

You're sexy man.

Yeah, oh, thank you very much.

This is the test. You're the test, you're the test subject for the new micro.

I'm so lucky. I know. It was all, you know, I tested the microphone this morning, I tested the

the little preempt thing that I bought and it was all working fine.

And then I plugged my old work come in and it decided it didn't want to work. Of course. So then I had to restart my laptop and mess about so I do

apologize for being late but we're here.

Yeah, we made it.

And when I had a little look at who we had on this week

and I looked to your social mediaias from some from some of your posts I was like we're going to have fun

you're going to be a fun guest I could I could just tell and by some of the lovely names you would give your papers.

Oh yes, utter calamity. Yeah. So you are very creative with the creative with the names of those. So can you just tell everybody a little bit who you are, what you do background, your education?

Okay, well, we do all sorts because I'm one of those who rolled up late to

academia. I was first a journalist and no one told me that print was dying.

So I arrived with my degree just in time for the wake.

And then, you know, journalism very changed, very different, especially where I come from in America, very difficult field.

So then I feft around a bit and I took an internet quiz that told me I should be a teacher and I said

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