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Outlaw's Digest
Outlaw’s Digest serves up true crimes from food history in sizzling style, a feast of malfeasance and felony from the pages of the past. The food we make and eat forms who we are. But it’s not as simple as “you are what you eat.” Each episode, host and food scholar KC Hysmith tells a thrilling story pulled from the archives of history’s illicit appetites, vicious poisonings, cunning frauds, and daring heists. We explore foodways adapted, adopted, remixed, mocked, suppressed, celebrated, and…
Episodes
Outlaw's DigestBehind the Scenes of “Spoonful of Sugar” (Preview)
A Halloween treat from the Outlaw’s Digest Patreon, for all of our listeners! For every episode of Outlaw’s Digest, host KC rounds up with the producers to…
Outlaw's DigestA Spoonful of Sugar - Halloween Candy Poisoning
On Halloween night in 1974, an eight-year-old boy in the Houston suburbs got a Pixy Stick laced with cyanide. He wasn’t the only one. So did four other kids…
Outlaw's DigestThe Robin Hood of France - The Life and Crimes of Legendary Smuggler Louis Mandrin
In the years before the French Revolution, the king allowed a massive cartel to put French markets in a chokehold. Foods like coffee and sugar were flooding in…
Outlaw's DigestPied Piper - When Pie Throwing Became Political Protest
In the 1970s, an anarchist pie thrower took justice into his own hands. From the head of the CIA, to anti-feminist campaigner Phyllis Schlafly, to Nixon’s…
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Introducing Outlaw's Digest
Introducing Outlaw’s Digest, a criminally delicious tour of true crime from food history. Each episode, host and food scholar KC Hysmith tells a thrilling…
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Introducing Outlaw’s Digest, a criminally delicious tour of stories from the shadows of food history.