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The Feast presents stories from the dining tables of history with host Laura Carlson. Every two weeks, The Feast brings listeners the sights, sounds, & tastes of a meal from the past.
Make bread with medieval monks; share a martini with Churchill. Find out what wars were won & which kingdoms were lost, all for the sake of a good meal.
Season 4 of the show launched January 7th. Highlights include:
An interview with the co-founder of Chicago’s first museum dedicated exclusively to the rich history of beer, Liz Garibay
- The story behind Wisconsin’s most enduring dining tradition, the supper club, featuring an interview with Holly de Ruyter, the director of the documentary Old Fashioned: The Story of the Wisconsin Supper Club
- Before Instagram, were food pics a thing? Why Renaissance Europe was obsessed with food art, including a giant two-story pineapple, featuring an interview with the curators behind the new exhibition at Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum, Feast & Fast
- A trip to Carillon Brewing in Dayton, Ohio, where they still brew beer like they did it back in 1850: using a wood fire and traditional ingredients.
- The unexpected history of the little English town that gave birth to the world’s most recognizable cheese, cheddar. And why the town is utterly cheeseless.
Explore “Town Under Black”, a unique Arizonan distillery using thousand-year old techniques to make a blue corn whiskey that’s unlike anything you’ve ever tasted.
This show is part of The Podglomerate network, a podcast company that produces and distributes exciting new shows. Select clients include NBCUniversal, CoinDesk, Castbox, Pocket Casts, the Daily Dot, and Serial Box, among others.