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Introducing Outlaw's Digest · Outlaw's Digest

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  The history of food is full of tasty stories, but some
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  of them… have a dark side.
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  We usually talk about food made with love.
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  How about when the recipe includes desperation, deceit, greed, fraud,
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  and violence?
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  I’m food scholar KC Hysmith, and on my new podcast Outlaw’s Digest, I’m going to
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  take you on a tour of criminally delicious stories from the shadows of food history.
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  What they called a global pastry uprising
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  Poisoning dozens and dozens, if not hundreds of people
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  Each week, we’ll dive deep into the pantry, to explore a time when someone
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  was just too hungry to follow the law.
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  That is not a salad.
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  That is not a meal.
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  That is not a way to have a food life.
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  Smuggling was rampant in this period.
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  It’s outrageous!
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  Someone is humiliated and covered in whipped cream.
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  He must have thought that this was going to be a perfect crime.
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  Outlaw’s Digest samples every flavor of crime that food
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  history has to offer: poisonings…
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  the sweetness on the outside, the poison on the inside.
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  Frauds…
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  These pies aren’t meant to be eaten
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  Heists…
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  The theft went on for most of a year
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  And a whole spread of illicit appetites.
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  And yeah, that one time someone stole my family recipe for
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  broccoli cheese casserole.
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  That’s the penalty of death!
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  Along the way, I talk with expert guests about law, culture, and crime—and
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  chew on what the past has to tell us about the appetites we indulge today.
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  There's disbelief and then there's paranoia.
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  The pressures of climate crisis that we are all feeling every stinking day.
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  They aren't getting poisoned by maniacs!
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  Episode 1 drops October 8.
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  So grab a plate, and follow Outlaw’s Digest on Apple Podcasts.
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  Or join us on Patreon at outlawsdigest.com