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Dan Snow's History Hit

Food, Class and Baking

Dan Snow's History Hit

History Hit

History

4.713.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Pen Vogler joined me on the pod to discuss the origins of our eating habits and reveals how they are loaded with centuries of class prejudice.


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0:00.0

Hi everybody, welcome, welcome to Dan's nose history. I'm thrilled to say we got Penn

0:03.8

Vogler back on you may remember last year at Christmas we had Penn Vogler talking about

0:07.4

Charles Dickens' Christmas. I went to her house, we cooked, we stood more than two meters

0:12.7

together, we drank alcohol, we laughed in each other's face, it was wonderful, it was

0:17.7

so Covid non-compliant and it was heavenly. This year we've met over the internet,

0:24.2

distanced in our houses, isolated, talk about food, grub, scran, nosebag. Yep, we're

0:31.1

talking about the history of scoth, she's just for a fantastic new book and this is all

0:35.5

about the words, the practices, the class connotations, everything to do with what we put in

0:40.0

our bodies, fascinating stuff. If you want to go back and watch our cooking demo, how

0:44.8

Charles Dickens did celebrate Christmas, a childhood peniori meant that his obsession with

0:50.9

hospitality became something that marked his middle and late years as he became a success,

0:55.8

he spent huge amounts of money entertaining, throwing parties with his friends having a

0:59.4

lovely time, what a nice man. And so you can go and see how he did that on history

1:03.3

hit TV along with many other hundreds of other history documentaries, the world's best

1:07.4

history channel, it's like Netflix for history, you can love it, and over there and do that

1:11.2

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1:15.2

euro or dollar, go and check it out. And then when you're done with that go to history.com

1:19.4

slash shop where the knitted nights helmet or the crocheted night hats for the bait rages

1:26.3

are currently selling quicker than we can get them in. So go and get one of those. And

1:31.2

it means I'm everyone, enjoy Penn Vodler.

1:34.0

Penn, good to see you, thanks coming on the pod. Thank you very much for having me, nice

1:44.5

to see you. This is ambitious. A thousand years, a thousand years

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