[mainestategop]

I especially Enjoy Kyle's expositions on the history of food. My wife told me she read a book by Joe Bastianich about Pasta cooking that had that myth about Marco Polo bringing pasta to Europe. I used to believe that too. Kyle however told me no. Its been around since Ancient Greece at least.

And I remember the tomato story was taught to us as fact but I don't remember the fellow who ate the bucket of tomatoes as Thomas Jefferson though. I thought it was someone else.

[Tax-chick]

From the battlefields of Lombardy, the court of Charlamange and Henry IV ...

Was the author attempting a French pun, or does he truly believe this is how one spells "Charlemagne"?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Such as how Cheshire cheese the favorite of Henry VIII made at a monastery lead to motivating its destruction and looting by Cromwell to seize the recipe..."

I think the destruction of the monasteries had far less to do with cheese than Henry's messy dispute with Rome. And the resulting enhancement of the Royal treasuries.

[minnesota_bound]

Cheese Shop Sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDdd5KKhts

[nicollo]

je suis fais comme un Camembert