Okay, one of the many things us history lovers are fascinated by is how all those people over all those

hundreds, thousands, and millions of years live their lives. Okay, take food. Whose idea was it to eat an

oyster? Or cheese with live insect eggs? Or more recently, a peanut butter stuffed baked onion. Yeah, that's weird,

but some of that stuff we still eat today. I'm Patty Steele. Hey, can I have seconds on that

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In case you don't know it, I love history. Sometimes as I read, I don't just see it in my mind. I can almost taste it, thus, this latest topic. Don't ask me why,

but I decided to start reading a book called The Big Oyster by Michael Kirlanski. You know what?

It's really fascinating. It's all about the history of oyster eating in the region around New York

City, going back hundreds, even thousands of years. And it really got me to thinking about food.

Like, why do we eat what we eat? Who tried it first? Why do some foreign cuisine seem so elegant and others kind of hard to stomach?

Think about it.

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