083 Turning Wild Game into Food is A Lot of Work - 18th Century Hunting

The History of American Food · Apr 5, 2023 · 28m

This week I deal pretty frankly with the facts of turning animals into food. There is a little discussion of blood and guts - and how removing them from an animal transformed it from a dead animal into meat - that is, food.

These are essential transformations we don’t think about much - but they are unavoidable steps if you are going to eat meat. ANd it is a lot of work we almost never see anymore.

Beyond that - it’s a look at what animals most people were eating most of the time. And what circumstances helped arrange things that way.

In other words, yes, another episode of lists of animals…