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title: "Food History"
url: https://stargirlpodcast.com/topic-food-history
description: "How words, measurements and habits around food arrived where they are. These entries look backwards rather than forwards, and they describe what people wrote and did."
---

# Food History

How words, measurements and habits around food arrived where they are. These entries look backwards rather than forwards, and they describe what people wrote and did rather than what anyone ought to do now.

Nov 18, 2014

[How the Calorie Entered the Kitchen](https://stargirlpodcast.com/how-the-calorie-entered-the-kitchen)

Apr 22, 2014

[Bran, Bulk and the Fibre Enthusiasts](https://stargirlpodcast.com/bran-bulk-and-the-fibre-enthusiasts)

Mar 11, 2014

[Why Cookbooks Began Counting](https://stargirlpodcast.com/why-cookbooks-began-counting)

Jan 28, 2014

[The Vocabulary of Dieting](https://stargirlpodcast.com/the-vocabulary-of-dieting)

Sep 24, 2013

[The Low-Fat Aisle](https://stargirlpodcast.com/the-low-fat-aisle)

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