Tasting History with Max Miller — Season 2024
About this season
Love Food? Can't get enough of History? Then you've come to the right place. Every Tuesday, Max Miller shows you how to make a different historic dish while exploring the history surrounding it.
Episodes (61)
1. The Fake (and real) History of Potato Chips
Aired 2 January 2024 • 18 min
2. The Legend of the Wiener Schnitzel
Aired 9 January 2024 • 17 min
3. Breakfast in Jane Austen's England
Aired 16 January 2024 • 24 min
4. Lobscouse, Hardtack & Navy Sea Cooks
Aired 23 January 2024 • 19 min
5. Table Manners in the Ottoman Empire - Acem Pilav
Aired 30 January 2024 • 22 min
6. Deviled Bones - The History of Hot Wings
Aired 6 February 2024 • 20 min
7. The Roman Colosseum: What It Was Like to Attend the Games
Aired 13 February 2024 • 21 min
8. Why a Tire Company Gives Out Food’s Most Famous Award
Aired 20 February 2024 • 19 min
9. 18th Century Spiced Hot Chocolate
Aired 23 February 2024 • 19 min
10. Feeding the Shogun: The Feasts of Feudal Japan
Aired 27 February 2024 • 22 min
11. What People Ate on Ellis Island
Aired 5 March 2024 • 26 min
12. 5 Foods that Changed Fast Food Forever
Aired 8 March 2024 • 29 min
13. The Original Chef Boyardee Spaghetti Dinner
Aired 12 March 2024 • 19 min
14. A History of Waffles - Communion Wafers to Eggo
Aired 19 March 2024 • 22 min
15. What it was like to visit a Medieval Tavern
Aired 26 March 2024 • 23 min
16. What Pioneers ate on the Oregon Trail
Aired 2 April 2024 • 24 min
17. Airline Food During the Golden Age of Air Travel
Aired 9 April 2024 • 27 min
18. Dining on The Orient Express
Aired 16 April 2024 • 21 min
19. What the First Astronauts Ate - Food in Space
Aired 23 April 2024 • 24 min
20. Dining on the Luxury Liner Lusitania
Aired 30 April 2024 • 38 min
21. Eating on a German U-Boat in WW1
Aired 7 May 2024 • 21 min
22. Ancient Egyptian Spiral Bread of the Pharaoh
Aired 14 May 2024 • 23 min
23. What Troops Ate On D-Day - World War 2 Meals & Rations
Aired 21 May 2024 • 21 min
24. The History of Barbecue
Aired 28 May 2024 • 22 min
25. Recreating the Last Meal of Ötzi the Iceman
Aired 4 June 2024 • 22 min
26. What Food was Served at Wild West Saloons?
Aired 11 June 2024 • 22 min
27. How Gold Rush Miners Ate in the Wild West
Aired 18 June 2024 • 20 min
28. Reviving an Old West Ghost Town with Brent Underwood
Aired 21 June 2024 • 25 min
29. Making the Black Mead of Medieval France - Bochet
Aired 25 June 2024 • 24 min
30. The True History of Deep Dish Pizza
Aired 2 July 2024 • 22 min
31. Eating in a Civil War Prison - Andersonville to Elmira
Aired 9 July 2024 • 23 min
32. How Strawberries were Accidentally Invented
Aired 16 July 2024 • 18 min
33. The Deadly Job of Royal Food Taster
Aired 23 July 2024 • 20 min
34. Dr. Kellogg & the Disturbing Invention of Corn Flakes
Aired 30 July 2024 • 25 min
35. Cooking on the American Homefront During WWII
Aired 6 August 2024 • 23 min
36. The Murder of Egypt's Forgotten Queen
Aired 13 August 2024 • 18 min
37. What Was A Real Viking Funeral Like?
Aired 20 August 2024 • 23 min
38. How To Make 17th Century Clotted Cream - A History
Aired 27 August 2024 • 21 min
39. The History of Brownies
Aired 3 September 2024 • 17 min
40. Cooking on the Soviet Homefront during WWII
Aired 10 September 2024 • 24 min
41. What Did History’s Pets Eat?
Aired 17 September 2024 • 20 min
42. The Wild Parties of Regency England
Aired 24 September 2024 • 16 min
43. Beef Tea from a Victorian Hospital
Aired 27 September 2024 • 17 min
44. Did Medieval People Eat Breakfast?
Aired 1 October 2024 • 18 min
45. World War 2 rations on the British Home Front
Aired 8 October 2024 • 24 min
46. Surviving the Titanic - Dining on Carpathia
Aired 15 October 2024 • 22 min
47. The Titanic Survivors Arrive in New York - Hamilton Pudding
Aired 18 October 2024 • 21 min
48. Candy War: Babe Ruth Vs Baby Ruth
Aired 22 October 2024 • 18 min
49. The Myth and Truth behind Croissants - A Recipe from 1850
Aired 29 October 2024 • 20 min
50. Election Cake from 1796
Aired 1 November 2024 • 17 min
51. Ancient Roman Cheesecake - Savillum
Aired 5 November 2024 • 21 min
52. Cooking on the German Home Front During World War 2
Aired 12 November 2024 • 24 min
53. Eating in a London Blitz Bomb Shelter
Aired 19 November 2024 • 21 min
54. Cranberry Apple Pie & the Invention of Thanksgiving
Aired 22 November 2024 • 19 min
55. What did Alexander the Great eat?
Aired 26 November 2024 • 23 min
56. Food in the Japanese-American Internment Camps of World War 2
Aired 3 December 2024 • 26 min
57. The Great Eggnog Riot at West Point Military Academy
Aired 6 December 2024 • 17 min
58. What Are Sugar Plums? How to make real Victorian sugar plums
Aired 10 December 2024 • 22 min
59. Christmas During the Great Depression
Aired 17 December 2024 • 16 min
60. Making School Cafeteria Pizza from the 1980s & '90s
Aired 24 December 2024 • 18 min
61. 3,500 Years of Hangover Cures - Kishkiyya from Baghdad
Aired 31 December 2024 • 20 min