Shatter-Proof: How Glass Took Over the Kitchen—and Ended Child Labor

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Arts, Science, History, Food

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Cheers! The lively clink of glass on glass is a must for any festive gathering, whether you’re sipping champagne in a flute or lemonade in a tumbler. We rely on glass in the kitchen—for baking perfectly browned pies, preserving jams and pickles, and so much more. But glass wasn’t always so cheap and ubiquitous: to ancient Egyptians and Romans, this was precious stuff—it was high fashion to own a clear wine goblet in ancient Rome. Later, Venetians so prized their glass know-how that they imprisoned their glassmakers on an island. So how did glass go from fragile and precious tabletop ornament to an oven-ready kitchen workhorse? How did the inventions of a glassmaker in Toledo, Ohio, transform the peanut butter and ketchup industries, as well as put an end to child labor? And are we running out of sand to make glass? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am a cholera turumusula bee, not a medzo.
0:06.0	Well, whatever you are,
0:08.0	unrecasal should never have sent you over yet.
0:10.0	He didn't.
0:11.0	You told me he was your agent.
0:13.0	I lied.
0:14.0	An inspired of what you think was your obese,
0:16.0	there are some professions where practice does make perfect.
0:26.0	What did help us that?
0:27.0	Be flat.
0:29.0	Julie Andrews pretending to be a man, pretending to be a woman,
0:33.0	and still managing to shatter a wine glass with her gorgeous and super powerful voice,
0:38.0	at least in the movie Victor Victoria.
0:40.0	But you know, you can't believe everything you see on the big screen,
0:44.0	like breaking a wine glass with just a perfect bee flat.
0:48.0	Yeah, I've always sort of been a long-held ambition to break wine glasses with sound.
0:54.0	Some of you longtime gastropod listeners might recognize that voice.
0:57.0	Zoe Lothlin is none other than the star of our very first episode,
1:01.0	who said that mango sorbet tastes sublime on gold spoons.
1:05.0	Hers is the voice that has inspired the purchase of a thousand golden spoons.
1:09.0	There are at least a half dozen that we know about.
1:11.0	Zoe is not just a spoon-efficientado.
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