Eggnog

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt is joined by author/podcaster Joel Stein (‘Story Of The Week’ podcast) for a look at why eggnog is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

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LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:

• ‘Story Of The Week’ podcast (Pushkin Industries) 
• In Defense Of Elitism: Why I’m Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn’t Buy This Book by Joel Stein
• “How I Built a Celebrity Booze Brand” by Joel Stein (Food & Wine)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• This Is What You Just Put in Your Mouth?: From Eggnog to Beef Jerky, the Surprising Secrets of What’s Inside Everyday Products by Patrick Di Justo
• Eggnog: It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Starts a Holiday Riot (Smithsonian Magazine)
• The Long, Rich, Boozy History of Eggnog (Smithsonian Magazine)
• Oops. Starbucks brings back Eggnog Latte (USA Today)
• Cocktail Recipes: Posset (Liquor.com)
• Possets, drugs, and milky effects: A look at recipes, Shakespeare’s plays, and other historical references (Folger Shakespeare Library)
• The Hale and Hearty History of Eggnog (National Geographic)
• From Drunk Monks to Boozy Brunch: A Brief History of Drinking in the Morning (VinePair) — this is one source for information about “elevenses” breaks.
• Tompkins Square Park Temperance Fountain (NYC Parks Department)
• The Wild and Weird History of Eggnog (Gastro Obscura)
• OpenSourceShakespeare.org upload of ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’, Act V, Scene 5 — the character of Page says “Yet be cheerful, knight: thou shalt eat a posset to-night at my house; where I will desire thee to laugh at my wife, that now laughs at thee: tell her Master Slender hath married her daughter.”
• Rompope: Not even the 17th-century nuns behind this Mexican eggnog could resist drinking it. (Gastro Obscura)
• 10 Versions of Eggnog From Around the World (Mental Floss)
• Meet ‘Moose Milk,’ the Wintry Cocktail of the Canadian Military (Atlas Obscura)
• Stop putting dairy in your horchata (Los Angeles Times)
• Cocktail Recipes: Brandy Alexander (Liquor.com)
• Drink in History—The Brandy Alexander (Chilled Magazine)
• When Eggnog Sparked a Riot at West Point (History.com)
• This Day In History: March 16, 1802: U.S. Military Academy established (History.com)
• Biography: Jefferson Davis (American Battlefield Trust)