Collected Item: “Starting a Podcast on the Eve of the Pandemic”
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Starting a Podcast on the Eve of the Pandemic
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text story, podcast episode
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I finally got my act together on a project I'd been planning since 2019: starting a podcast talking about various topics surrounding American food rationing during WWII. My first episode posted February 5, 2020. A month later the pandemic was in full swing and filing the headlines. As a historian, the parallels between wartime restrictions, shortages and economics vs. the pandemic shortages & news were pretty glaring. This prompted me to create an episode dedicated to the topic which I posted March 19, 2020. At the same time, I noticed an explosion of growth in my Facebook group "Wartime Rationing, Recipes, & Cookbooks". People from around the world were turning to wartime sources to find solutions to the shortages. A big motivation was that they knew their grandparents or parents had lived through hard times and they wanted to know how they had made do and gotten by. Their shared desire was an even bigger motivating factor in continuing my podcasting and research work on food rationing. I posted regularly on my Instagram feed as well, sharing with my followers wartime recipes. I wanted to share my podcast episode in contributing to this project as a perspective from a content creator and historian. People turning to history for solutions to a modern problem left a powerful impact on me.
Corresponding Substack Post: https://victorykitchenpodcast.substack.com/p/special-episode-lessons-from-wwiihtml
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victorykitchenpodcast/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/367388477017074
Included is a photo of myself before recording an episode in April 2020.
Corresponding Substack Post: https://victorykitchenpodcast.substack.com/p/special-episode-lessons-from-wwiihtml
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victorykitchenpodcast/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/367388477017074
Included is a photo of myself before recording an episode in April 2020.
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#history, #podcaster, #family, #research, #wisdom, #parallels, #generations, #maryland, #food
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/4mBo14u1cRv5rxyBJiOec2?si=2LKyX8iORpmFC4e4HgwbuQ
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2020-03-19