Best John Engelhardt Podcasts (2024)

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John O'Brien, "States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation" (Routledge, 2018) 48:20

36m ago48:20

48:20

Is alcohol a universal feature of human society? Why is problematic in some countries and not others? How was alcohol helped build the modern state? These are just a few of the questions that sociologist John O'Brien addresses in States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation(Routledge, 2018). His book offers a broad and diverse persp…

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Tarana Husain Khan et al., Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia" (Pan Macmillan, 2023) 1:15:34

1d ago1:15:34

1:15:34

Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia (Pan Macmillan India, 2023) is a collection of essays and recipes that highlights the complex and layered food history of Muslim communities across South Asia. The contributors to the volume include historians, literary scholars, plant scientists, writers, chefs, and more. And their range…

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John H. Cable, "Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi" (UP of Kansas, 2023) 1:07:31

1h ago1:07:31

1:07:31

Historians of the American South have come to consider the mechanization and consolidation of cotton farming—the “Southern enclosure movement”—to be a watershed event in the region’s history. In the decades after World War II, this transition pushed innumerable sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and smallholders off the land, redistributing territory a…

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/23-04-24/#2 BOYS' SHORTS (GUEST MIX) 29:59

2d ago29:59

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/23-04-24/#2 BOYS' SHORTS (GUEST MIX)@boysshortshttps://iptamenosdiscos.com/boys-shorts-something-to-forget-idi019/https://kissfm.com.au/show/brainfoodBy Rob Zile

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/23-04-24/#1 ROB ZILE 58:21

6d ago58:21

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/23-04-24/#1 ROB ZILEhttps://kissfm.com.au/show/brainfoodPART 101 - Cabaret Contemporain Club - Bora (Original Mix)02 - Blu.a - Akoustik (Jay Tripwire Beatless Remix)03 - Dubfire - Dark Matter (L.B. Dub Corp Remix)04 - Marco Piedimonte - Skin (Original Mix)05 - Squal G - Waiting 4U (Original Mix)06 - Jacek …

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Ruth Reichl, "The Paris Novel" (Random House, 2024) 42:30

7d ago42:30

42:30

Stella St. Vincent, a thirty-something copy editor in 1980s New York, has survived a relationship with her mother, Celia, so complicated that even the words “my daughter” give Stella pause. Celia lived life to the fullest, reinventing herself and discarding anything that no longer pleased her, including Stella’s father, whom Celia refused even to n…

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Richard Olsen-Harbich, "Sun, Sea, Soil, Wine: Winemaking on the North Fork of Long Island" (SUNY Press, 2024) 58:19

9d ago58:19

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With his new book Sun, Sea, Soil, Wine: Winemaking on the North Fork of Long Island (SUNY Press, 2024), Richard Olsen-Harbich, Long Island's longest-tenured winemaker, weighs in on what makes the North Fork so unique for fine wine production. He shares his journey through the intricate art of winemaking – a tale of dedication, passion, and the rema…

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/16-04-24/#2 ALEC TRONIQ (GUEST MIX) 30:18

9d ago30:18

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/16-04-24/#2 ALEC TRONIQ (GUEST MIX)@alec-troniqhttps://kissfm.com.au/SHOW/brainfoodhttps://fanlink.tv/neophile-neophobehttps://fanlink.tv/early-reflexionhttps://alec-troniq.com/live/By Rob Zile

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/16-04-24/#1 ROB ZILE 58:02

9d ago58:02

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/16-04-24/#1 ROB ZILEhttps://kissfm.com.au/SHOW/brainfoodPART 101 - Frieder Morneweg - Walking Together (Original Mix)02 - Ian Fleming & Phil Nazca - Fuji (Original Mix)03 - Cary Crank - The Next Day (Augusto Dassano Remix)04 - Kadosh - Paradise Lost (Simple Symmetry Remix)05 - The Beloved - Sweet Harmony (…

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Victoria Flexner and Jay Reifel, "A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes" (Rizoli, 2023) 56:09

10d ago56:09

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For every lover of food culture, A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes (Rizzoli, 2023) by Victoria Flexner and Jay Reifel presents scrupulously researched and accessible cookbook presents one-of-a-kind dinner parties inspired by seminal moments in culinary history. In ten chapters—each an important moment in food history, f…

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Grazia Ting Deng, "Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy" (Princeton UP, 2024) 41:23

12d ago41:23

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Why and how local coffee bars in Italy--those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces--have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008? Italians regard espresso as a quintessentially Italian cultural product--so much so that Italy has applied to add Italian espresso to UNESCO's official list of intangib…

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JJ Johnson and Danica Novgorodoff, "The Simple Art of Rice: Recipes from Around the World for the Heart of Your Table" (Flatiron Books, 2023) 32:10

13d ago32:10

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The Simple Art of Rice: Recipes from Around the World for the Heart of Your Table (Flatiron Books, 2023) is a cookbook celebrating the versatility of this grain. Its recipes are rooted in many cultures from around the globe, including Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Award-winning author Chef JJ Johnson, along with Danica Novgorodoff, produc…

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R. J. Boutelle, "The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:07:55

13d ago1:07:55

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As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity? In The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny (UNC Press,…

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/09-04-24/ROB ZILE (full show) 1:28:32

20d ago1:28:32

1:28:32

Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/09-04-24/ROB ZILE (full show)https://kissfm.com.au/SHOW/brainfoodPART 101 - Bolis Pupul - Kowloon (Original Mix)02 - Aili - Oyasumi (Original Mix)03 - B.Visible - Ella (Jakobin & Domino Remix)04 - PolyGlove - CALF (Original Mix)05 - Boys' Shorts - Flying Away (Whitesquare Remix)06 - Reenie - Cosmic Latte (…

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Shardé M. Davis, "Being Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher Education" (UNC Press, 2024) 50:44

18d ago50:44

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When Sharde M. Davis turned to social media during the summer of racial reckoning in 2020, she meant only to share how racism against Black people affects her personally. But her hashtag, BlackintheIvory, went viral, fostering a flood of Black scholars sharing similar stories. Soon the posts were being quoted during summer institutes and workshops …

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Joseph M. Thompson, "Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:06:57

21d ago1:06:57

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Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling the music to service members. Begi…

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Joseph M. Thompson, "Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism" (UNC Press, 2024) 1:06:57

20d ago1:06:57

1:06:57

Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling the music to service members. Begi…

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Tina Sikka, "Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods: When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 18:42

21d ago18:42

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Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods: When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism (Bloomsbury, 2023) critically examines contemporary health and wellness culture through the lens of personalization, genetification and functional foods. These developments have had a significant impact on the intersecting categories of gender, race, and class in light …

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Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023) 55:20

24d ago55:20

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The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities. High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape (UNC Press, …

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Greg Jarrell, "Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods" (Fortress Press, 2024) 49:08

23d ago49:08

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Greg Jarrell's book Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods (Fortress Press, 2024) uncovers how race, geography, policy, and religion have created haunted landscapes in Charlotte, North Carolina, and throughout the United States. How do we value our lands, livelihoods, and communities? How does our theology inform ou…

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Paul Hansen, "Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan" (SUNY Press, 2024) 49:08

23d ago49:08

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As an ethnography of a Japanese dairy farm while having theoretical values going beyond the specific context, Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan (SUNY Press, 2024) offers a historical and ethnographic examination of the rapid industrialization of the dairy industry in Tokachi, Hokkaido. The book b…

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/02-04-24/#2 APAULL (GUEST MIX) 30:13

23d ago30:13

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/02-04-24/#2 APAULL (GUEST MIX)@apaull_musicArtist photo credit IG @daveclarkeofficialhttps://kissfm.com.au/SHOW/brainfood01 - apaull - White LeBaron (Developer Alpha remix, edit)02 - Novem Vivit - Purple Rays (Original Mix)03 - Konfusia - No Reason (Original Mix)04 - Perpetual Universe - Omnipotent (Origin…

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/02-04-24/#1 ROB ZILE 57:03

23d ago57:03

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/02-04-24/#1 ROB ZILEhttps://kissfm.com.au/SHOW/brainfoodPART 101 - Rodion & Mammarella - Un Segnale Di Speranza (Original Mix)02 - David Holmes ft. Raven Violet - Too Muchroom (Smagghe and Cross Remix)03 - Stylic - Like This (Keith Forrester Remix)04 - The Horn - Upholder (Original Mix)05 - Cosmic Energy06…

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Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, "Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:21:27

26d ago1:21:27

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In Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America (UNC Press, 2023), Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing, and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South. From the eighteenth century well into the twentiet…

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Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, "Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:21:27

26d ago1:21:27

1:21:27

In Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America (UNC Press, 2023), Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing, and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South. From the eighteenth century well into the twentiet…

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Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, "Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:21:27

27d ago1:21:27

1:21:27

In Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America (UNC Press, 2023), Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing, and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South. From the eighteenth century well into the twentiet…

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José Tenorio, "School Food Politics in Mexico: The Corporatization of Obesity and Healthy Eating Policies" (Routledge, 2023) 1:00:55

28d ago1:00:55

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For decades now, we’ve all heard the refrain – we are in a war against obesity, with perhaps the most important battle being fought over the health of our children. What better place could there be to defeat the enemy of obesity than our schools, where children are fed and educated and educated about being fed on a daily basis? But how did we come …

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David E. Sutton, "Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples" (Berghahn, 2021) 58:54

29d ago58:54

58:54

What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples (Berghahn, 2021) by Dr. David E. Sutton explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and…

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/26-03-24/#2 RINZEN (GUEST MIX) 29:48

1M ago29:48

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/26-03-24/#2 RINZEN (GUEST MIX)@rinzenhttps://kissfm.com.au/show/brainfood1. Pete Tong, Tale of Us - Time feat. Jules Buckley2. ODESZA - This Version of You (Joseph Ray Remix)3. Rinzen - Endor (Unreleased)4. Ezequial Arias - Magic Fields5. The Cure - Just Like Heaven (Rinzen Remix)6. Lawrence Hart - First L…

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/26-03-24/#1 ROB ZILE 57:54

1M ago57:54

57:54

Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/26-03-24/#1 ROB ZILEhttps://kissfm.com.au/SHOW/brainfoodPART 101 - Frank & Tony - By The End They Will (Original Mix)02 - Pro-K - Listen (Original Mix)03 - Akumen - I Need You (Byron the Aquarius Night Dub)04 - John Creamer & Stephane K - Forget The World (Stephane K Dub)05 - ProOne79 - Disco Cisco (Origin…

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John William Nelson, "Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent" (UNC Press, 2023) 1:22:56

1M ago1:22:56

1:22:56

The birchbark canoe is among the most remarkable Indigenous technologies in North America, facilitating mobility throughout the watery world of the Great Lakes region and its borderlands. In Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent (UNC Press, 2023), Texas Tech University historian John William Nelson a…

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Max Fraser, "Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class" (Princeton UP, 2023) 1:14:14

1M ago1:14:14

1:14:14

Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The “hillbilly highway” was one of the largest internal relocations of poor and working people in American history,…

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/19-03-24/#2 NAZ (GUEST MIX) 29:18

1M ago29:18

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/19-03-24/#2 NAZ (GUEST MIX)@nzasahttps://kissfm.com.au/show/brainfood01 - Naz & 88 Birds - Night Rider02 - Naz ft. Deanna Leigh - Underwater03 - Naz ft. Frynn - Into The Night04 - Naz - Pluto05 - Naz - Me & U06 - Soulsearcher - I Can't Get Enough (Naz Bootleg)07 - Everything But The Girl - Missing (Naz Boo…

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/19-03-24/#1 ROB ZILE 58:44

1M ago58:44

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Brain Food Radio hosted by Rob Zile/KissFM/19-03-24/#1 ROB ZILEhttps://kissfm.com.au/SHOW/brainfoodPART 101 - mckthrn. - Transcendental (Original Mix)02 - Quenum - I Never Give Up (Original Mix)03 - Tim Paris - Version A ft Telemark (Cosmo Vitelli Remix)04 - Buran - Alnilam (Original Mix)05 - Pilo, John Bryars - Devotion (Moby Remix) 06 - Hungry Ma…

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Dinesh Wadiwel, "Animals and Capital" (Edinburgh UP, 2023) 1:33:37

1M ago1:33:37

1:33:37

In the 20th century, capitalist animal agriculture emerged with a twofold mission: to ruthlessly exploit animals for their labour time and enlarge human food supplies. The results of this process are clear. Animal-sourced foods have expanded exponentially. And simultaneously, hundreds of billions of animals confront humans and machines in brutal, a…

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Xaq Frohlich on the History of Food Labeling 1:30:56

1M ago1:30:56

1:30:56

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Xaq Frolich, Associate Professor of History at Auburn University, about his new book, From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age (University of California Press, 2023). From Label to Table tells the fascinating history of the US Food and Drug Administration’s spreading authorit…

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