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Family Tree Food Stories

Family Tree Food Stories

Di: Nancy May & Sylvia France
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Family Tree, Food & Stories podcast will take you on a mouthwatering journey through generations of flavor! We're digging up and sharing the juiciest family secrets, hilarious dinner table disasters, and the heartwarming moments that make your favorite foods, meals, and relationships unforgettable. From Great-Grandma's legendary cheese crust apple pie to that questionable casserole your Uncle Bob swears by. With Family Tree, Food, and Stories, we're serving a feast of laughter, tears, and everything in between. So, are you ready to uncover and share those unforgettable stories behind every bite and create some new memories along the way? Join our growing family of food enthusiasts and storytellers as we Eat, laugh, relive the past, and learn how to create new memories together because. . . every recipe has a story, and every story is a feast.Copyright 2026 Nancy May & Sylvia France Relazioni Scienze sociali
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  • What did Revolutionary War soldiers eat? Colonals, Loyalists, and Allies on Both Sides?

    What did Revolutionary War soldiers eat? Colonals, Loyalists, and Allies on Both Sides?
    Jul 2 2026
    What did Revolutionary War soldiers eat? Broken supply chains, buggy fire cake, boiled shoe leather, and the allies who ate far better. Episode 93.On paper, Congress promised each man a pound of meat, a pound of bread, peas, beans, milk, and beer or cider every day. In practice, a broken supply chain meant that Continental soldiers often went without, surviving on bug-infested “fire cake,” and at Valley Forge, they were even known to boil shoe leather to make soup! Meanwhile, the French, Spanish, Hessian, and even British forces ate very differently, and quite deliciously too.Join Nancy May and Sylvia France here in the Family Tree Food & Stories podcast, as they kick off a four-part celebration of America's 250th birthday. Just to start, you'll learn what soldiers on every side of the Revolutionary War actually ate, including a real diary entry from a real Continental soldier who called a handful of pumpkin seeds fished out of a horse trough “the most delicious feast” he’d had in months.Congress’s official daily ration sounds generous on paper, but a broken supply chain, impassable roads, corrupt contractors, and the “Forage War,” where armies raided each other for hay, cattle, and grain. The results? What they really ate was bug-infested and disgusting. Some soldiers recorded boiling shoe leather and tree bark just to survive. Can you imagine?The real killer, though, wasn’t the British enemy; it was malnutrition and disease as a result of very few veggies in their diet. There were some pretty heroic Natives who came to the rescue when they could and taught our guys how to make spruce beer, which is very high in vitamin C. Nancy tasted it too. Really.The French might have been our first colonial food critics, too. While in the south, Spain’s Bernardo de Gálvez drove 2,000 Texas longhorn cattle to feed his troops and won the Siege of Pensacola; Nancy and Sylvia call them the first REAL Florida cowboys! They're likely right too.Women played an important food story role too. Want to know more, tune in to hear the story of Nancy Hart who used a turkey to capture a group of enemy soldiers, right in her kitchen!Key Takeaways and Lessons LearnedThe British didn’t starve the Continental Army; a broken supply chain did. Congress promised generous daily rations; soldiers got only a fraction of them due to bad roads, corrupt contractors, and the “Forage War,” in which armies raided each other’s food supplies outright.Hungry soldiers ate the weirdest things to survive. “Fire cake,” which is simply flour and water cooked on a hot rock. The flour was often loaded with bugs, too, and baked right into the bread. A Continental Army staple; at Valley Forge and Morristown, NJ, men were said to have boiled shoe leather and tree bark just to keep from starving.Scurvy, not the enemy, was the deadliest food-related problem of the war. A diet of salt meat and flour with almost no vegetables caused the most common illness of the entire war. Vinegar, sauerkraut, and spruce beer (learned from Native Americans) helped, decades before vitamin C was identified in 1932.America’s allies ate far better than our guys, and it mattered strategically. French bread ovens in Chatham, New Jersey, helped disguise the march to Yorktown; Spain’s Bernardo de Gálvez fed his troops with 2,000 Texas longhorn cattle and won the Siege of Pensacola, tying down British forces on the Gulf Coast.Women fed and sometimes saved the Revolution on regional battlefields. An Oneida woman, Polly Cooper, walked 250 miles to bring corn to the starving army at Valley Forge and refused payment; Georgia’s Nancy Hart was said to have disarmed loyalist soldiers over a turkey dinner, and a Georgia county still bears her name as a result of her heroic efforts, too.What to do Next:Follow Family Tree Food and Stories at podcast.familytreefoodstories.com so you don’t miss the rest of the series, and send this episode to someone who’d love the story of a turkey dinner that disarmed three soldiers. Tell us on Facebook between episodes what your own family ate, on either side of the Atlantic, and leave us a review, we read every one.Additional Links Shared:❤️Book: My Family Tree, Food & Stories Journal Awarded #1 New Release on AmazonInstagram Story updates 📸Facebook Family Tree Food Stories GROUP👍TikTok: Family Tree Food Stories👇Share Your Story With Nancy & Sylvia!: Leave us a voicemailYou can send us a DM on Facebook.About Your Award-Winning Hosts: Nancy May and Sylvia France are the powerhouse team behind Family Tree, Food & Stories, a member of The Food Stories Media Network, which celebrates the rich traditions and connections everyone has around food, friends, and family meals. Nancy, an award-winning business leader, author, and podcaster, and Sylvia, a visionary author, foodie, and business leader, combine their expertise to bring captivating stories rooted in history, heritage, and food. Together, they weave ...
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    37 min
  • A Goat Stomach, a Nobel Prize Winner, and How the Grateful Dead Saved a Yogurt.

    A Goat Stomach, a Nobel Prize Winner, and How the Grateful Dead Saved a Yogurt.
    Jun 25 2026
    Yogurt Secrets: 7,000 Years of Live Cultures, Instant Pot Homemade Yogurt, and the Grateful Dead’s Benefit That Saved Nancy’s YogurtThis episode of Family Tree Food and Stories explores yogurt’s origins, surprising cultural history, and recipes. From its accidental invention 7,000 years ago when Central Asian herders carried milk in animal-stomach pouches while on horseback to global variations like dahi, labneh, skyr, and Bulgaria’s famous yogurt variety.Hosts Nancy May and Sylvia France share how to make yogurt simply in an Instant Pot, explain troubleshooting challenges, and make your own starter “culture.”You'll also learn about a famous Nobel laureate who, in the early 1900s, claimed it as a longevity remedy. Then, did you know the yogurt "bug" was identified and named Lactobacillus bulgaricus, after the country Bulgaria? Well, sort of.And that's what Nancy and Sylvia claim to be a "fork-lore" about how yogurt once cured a French king.If that's not enough, one of the coolest yogurt history stories centers on Oregon’s Springfield Creamery and Nancy’s Yogurt, including how the Grateful Dead helped save the company from closing. Oh, and the Huey Lewis hauling yogurt story too.... It's all true!If you want to know more about the truths and secrets about “Greek-style” and the business of marketing, among other cool yogurt culture (yes, pun intended), then tune into this next episode of Family Tree Food and Stories, now.Key TakeawaysThe "invention" of yogurt was an accident in a goat's stomach. It involved a goat stomach, a hot day on horseback, and a lot of bouncing around. No inventor, no lab, just an accident with lots of bacteria that turned into a delicious treat.A Nobel Prize winner accidentally created the entire probiotics industry. He won medicine's top honor, then got obsessed with why Bulgarian peasants lived long lives eating yogurt. From that question and his slightly oversold theory, the health and wellness aisle was born. The one you walked down to find a gut health probiotic in.The Grateful Dead once helped bail out and save a yogurt company. Saddled with a $14,000 bill for back taxes, the company founder's friends played a benefit show; tickets were literally printed on yogurt labels, and the company survives to this day. #Nancy'sYogurt!"Greek-style" on the label might be a lie that shocks you. Real Greek yogurt is just strained yogurt, nothing more. BUT "Greek-style" often fakes that thickness with cornstarch or gelatin instead. The fix: flip the carton over and read the ingredients before deciding whether to spoon it into your breakfast bowl.You can make better yogurt at home for a quarter of the price, in an Insta Pot! Whole milk, two tablespoons of live-culture yogurt, and eight hours in an Instant Pot. No boiling required if you use ultra-pasteurized milk.What to do next?Subscribe to the show at podcast.familytreefoodstories.com so you never miss an episode update. We release new shows every Thursday morning.Then do one thing for a friend and us too! Send this episode to one person who needs to know yogurt has a Grateful Dead story in it. That's it.One follow, one share. If every listener does that this week, we genuinely grow together , and next week, we do it again.Additional Links Shared:❤️SURVEY: Please Help Us Learn How To Do More For YouBook: My Family Tree, Food & Stories Journal Awarded #1 New Release on AmazonInstagram Story updates 📸Facebook Family Tree Food Stories GROUP👍TikTok: Family Tree Food Stories👇Share Your Story With Nancy & Sylvia!: Leave us a voicemailYou can send us a DM on Facebook.Episode Timestamps[00:00] Opening — goat stomachs, a Nobel laureate, and the Grateful Dead[02:54] Who invented yogurt? Nobody, it was a 7,000-year-old accident[04:44] Sylvia's Instant Pot yogurt experiment: two ingredients, eight hours[07:54] Élie Metchnikoff and the 1908 Nobel Prize in Medicine[08:49] Sour milk, the elixir: how Metchnikoff turned yogurt into a media sensation[11:39] The real story behind Nancy's Yogurt, Springfield Creamery, Oregon[12:26] The day the Grateful Dead saved a yogurt company[15:43] Getting skeptical: what "Greek-style" actually means on the label[17:48] The six rules of real yogurt, explained[19:10] Three takeaways to keep your own kitchen culture aliveAbout Your Award-Winning Hosts: Nancy May and Sylvia France are the powerhouse team behind Family Tree, Food & Stories, a member of The Food Stories Media Network, which celebrates the rich traditions and connections everyone has around food, friends, and family meals. Nancy, an award-winning business leader, author, and podcaster, and Sylvia, a visionary author, foodie, and business leader, combine their expertise to bring captivating stories rooted in history, heritage, and food. Together, they weave stories that blend history, tradition, and the love of food, where generations connect and share intriguing mealtime stories and kitchen foibles.If you missed the first ...
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    22 min
  • Father's Day Gifts for the Dad Who Says He Wants Nothing.

    Father's Day Gifts for the Dad Who Says He Wants Nothing.
    Jun 18 2026
    Father's Day gifts feel impossible because Dad says he wants nothing, and that's the lie your brain falls for every single June.Every Father's Day, the dads in our lives pull the same quiet con: "Don't get me anything." This Father's Day episode is our answer to that lie — because we're convinced Dad wants something, he just can't always say what.In 2026, Father's Day lands on June 21st, sharing the date with the summer solstice and National Peaches 'n Cream Day. Three holidays, one long June evening, zero boring gift ideas. In this episode of Family Tree Food & Stories, Hosts Nancy May and Sylvia France take you to where Father's Day actually came from (hint... it wasn't a greeting card company). Then they dive into the surprisingly seductive history of the peach (because it's also National Peaches and Cram Day), and why the grill is never really just a grill.You'll hear how an oil-drum grill fed more than 100 people, the bullet-shell jewelry engraved with a father's last words, and land on the one Father's Day ritual that ties it all together: the grilled peach.. not the steak!You'll learn about the easiest and most meaningful Father's Day food traditions you can start tonight. So, pull up a chair, the smoke is already rising off the hot grill coals... and by the end of this special Father's Day episode you'll know exactly what to make for the man who swears he wants nothing.A Special Father's Day Gift For You.Download PDF: Grilled Peach recipes and special Father's Day drinks to serve everyone.What You'll Learn About Father's Day and the Grilled Peach.Why "I don't want anything" is a trap: and the one ten-minute, no-cost gift that makes most dads emotional (it isn't the grill).The true and often forgotten origin story behind Father's Day: a grieving daughter, a widowed Civil War veteran, and the 62-year wait for a federal holiday no one talks about.The surprising double life of the peach: from a Chinese symbol of immortality to a French opera star's namesake dessert to a 1970s "miracle cure" scandal the FDA had to shut down.How to grill the perfect peach, step by step: the 4-to-5-minute backyard move (plus a boozy bourbon upgrade) that turns "happy Father's Day" into a memory.How to honor a dad who's gone: a tender, screen-free table question and food rituals that let an empty chair still take up space in the room. We love and miss you Dad. But, you're always in our hearts!Episode Timeline[00:00] Father's Day gift paradox: why Dad says he wants nothing[01:19] Father's Day, summer solstice & National Peaches 'n Cream Day collide on June 21[03:47] Father's Day origin: the daughter who started it in 1910[05:21] Father's Day 2026 spending $24 billion grilling obsession[07:04] Grill stories: the oil-drum grill and unforgettable clams casino[10:08] What dads actually want for Father's Day (simpler than you think)[10:45] Long-distance love: ten Father's Day cards and "don't get me anything"[13:28] Peach symbolism: Persia, romance, and a secretly seductive fruit[17:02] Peach Melba: an opera star, Escoffier, and the Savoy Hotel[17:56] Peach cobbler history: democratized genius since 1839[18:17] Peach pit danger: and the "Vitamin B17" scandal[19:40] Summer solstice 2026, June 21st, Father's Day[21:09] Father's Day grief: honoring Dad after he's gone[22:07] Bullet-shell jewelry[24:30] Grilled peaches recipe: the step-by-step method[25:54] Bourbon-soaked grilled peaches: the boozy Father's Day upgrade[26:16] Father's Day takeaway: what "you didn't have to do all this" really meansListen & SubscribePull up a chair. The table just another place setting. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, or right here at podcast.familytreefoodstories.com.Share Your Family Food Stories!What was your non-recipe meal recreated from memory? We'd love to hear your stories. Maybe you have a Mythbusters one too! Share Your Story With Nancy & Sylvia!Additional Links Shared:❤️SURVEY: Please Help Us Learn How To Do More For YouBook: My Family Tree, Food & Stories Journal Awarded #1 New Release on AmazonInstagram Story updates 📸Facebook Family Tree Food Stories GROUP👍TikTok: Family Tree Food Stories👇Share Your Story With Nancy & Sylvia!: Leave us a voicemailYou can send us a DM on Facebook.About Your Award-Winning Hosts: Nancy May and Sylvia France are the powerhouse team behind Family Tree, Food & Stories, a member of The Food Stories Media Network, which celebrates the rich traditions and connections everyone has around food, friends, and family meals. Nancy, an award-winning business leader, author, and podcaster, and Sylvia, a visionary author, foodie, and business leader, combine their expertise to bring captivating stories rooted in history, heritage, and food. Together, they weave stories that blend history, tradition, and the love of food, where generations connect and share intriguing mealtime stories and kitchen foibles.If you missed the first time around... now's your time to ...
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    30 min
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