Episode notes
Alex Schmidt, Katie Goldin, and special guest Ben Partridge explore why cheddar cheese is secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources and for this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR BEN PARTRIDGE:
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on Bluesky
- @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
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)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- Cheese, Wine, and Bread: Discovering the Magic of Fermentation in England, Italy, and France by Katie Quinn
- Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and Its Place in Western Civilization by Paul Kindstedt
- Our Fermented Lives: A History of How Fermented Foods Have Shaped Cultures & Communities by Julia Skinner
- The ‘grate cheese robbery’: $400K of cheddar stolen in London (NBC News)
- A Lot of Cheddar: London Thieves Make Off With $400,000 in Artisanal Cheese (Mental Floss)
- Man arrested after £300k worth of cheese stolen (Sky News UK)
- ‘Organized’ cheese bandits still on the loose (The Appleton WI Post-Crescent)
- A British Woman Carved the World’s Cheesiest Nativity Scene From 88 Pounds of Cheddar (Slate.com)
- Why President Andrew Jackson Once Held A Party With A 1,400-Lb Wheel Of Cheese (TastingTable.com)
- The Big Cheese: Presidential Gifts Of Mammoth Proportions (The Smithsonian)
- How the Goldfish Cracker Swam Its Way Into Space (AdWeek Magazine)
- Cheddar Man: Mesolithic Britain’s blue-eyed boy (Natural History Museum London)
- 10,000-Year-Old Skeleton Found in Britain Has a Modern-Day Descendant Living Close By (MyModernMet.com)
- What Is American Cheese, Anyway? (Serious Eats)
- Stirred Curd Cheddar with Suzanne McMinn (New England Cheesemaking Supply Co)
- Cheddar empire: Rise of a cheese superpower (CNN Travel)
- Cougar Gold Cheese (Gastro Obscura)
- Sting’s New Groove Struggle (ABC News)
- YouTube upload of “Snuff Out The Light (Yzma’s Song)” sung by Eartha Kitt
- TripAdvisor page for Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, London
- ‘Chlorinated’ U.S. Chickens Convince British Consumers the Sky Is Falling (The New York Times)
- Why The U.S. Chills Its Eggs And Most Of The World Doesn’t (NPR “The Salt” blog)
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: American Cheese
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Guests
- Ben Partridge
About the show
A weekly podcast about the history, science, lore and surprises that make everyday things secretly incredibly fascinating. Hosted by comedy writer, emoji creator, and ‘Jeopardy!‘ champion Alex Schmidt. Join Alex & his co-host Katie Goldin for a joyful deep dive into seeing the world a whole new way!
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