Esculent
A food podcast that explores how humans have defined what is, and isn’t, edible.
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Our inaugural episode features a tasting and conversation with Chef Martin Draluck of the Black Pot Supper Club, with a tasting of the inaugural whiskey from Uncle Nearest, the first black-owned whiskey distillery in the U.S.. It honors Nathan 'Nearest' Green, a formative distiller enslaved to Dan Call. Join us as our host Elizabeth McQueen talks with Chef Martin Draluck about the hearth in early American cooking techniques, performing for the camera in Netflix's High on the Hog, and what it means to reconstruct enslaved culinary histories.
Tasting: Uncle Nearest 1856
High on the Hog, Season 1 Episode 3: Our Founding Fathers
Black Pot Supper Club
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Producer: Stace Baran
Theme by Ronan Delisle
Audio Support from Jenevieve Bohmann
This podcast is supported by the UC Davis Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, Thinking Food at the Intersections.
Esculent
Esculent is a thought-provoking podcast that explores the ever-evolving concept of edibility. Through conversations with historians, chefs, artists, food justice activists, and scientists, the podcast delves into how different cultures and societies have defined what is suitable for food. Each season uncovers a new dimension of our relationship with food, blending academic insight with real-world implications. By examining the historical, artistic, narrative, and future-oriented aspects of food, Esculent offers listeners a rich and varied exploration of what we eat and why.
Esculent is sponsored by the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, Thinking Food at the Intersections.
Your Host
Elizabeth McQueen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis. Her writing is found in Gastronomica, Global Performance Studies, Theater Journal, and elsewhere.
She holds a Ph.D. in Theater and Performance Studies and a certificate in Food Studies from UCLA.