Good morning, and welcome to the year of the woman, which you could argue every year should be. This year is incredibly special for all in america and at the smithsonian. We are banded together in celebrating the american womens History Initiative throughout the smithsonian museums, online, and through all of our activities. We are particularly grateful to have three exhibitions opening, spurring really from this one. This is democracy in america, the great leap of faith that opened a few years ago. I am in the gallery that takes us through the long and arduous and continuing effort to expand democracy to enfranchised more and more americans. As you might know, early on, only landed, white men with property were able to vote. In the 19th century, the long battle expanding that suffrage to slaves, previously enslaved, and women, culminating finally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th amendment, not guaranteeing women the right to vote but barring the federal government and states
Host your book is a major accomplishment. Its a significant scholarly work. I think its fair to say you move the field. Guest that is tremendous to hear coming from you. Think you. Its been ten years in the work so it feels like a relief and it is a pleasure to be able to talk about it with you and other interesting people. Host writers spend their careers studying, writing about tobacco and cigarettes. Richard kruger won the pulitzer prize. The great medical scientific historian and robert proctor. Any trepidation when it started . You took a risk. Guest i feel with those books, the biggest is gold in holocaust i feel as though i was standing on shoulders of. My work is indebted to them. When i was thinking about writing about tobacco i wasnt approaching it in the same way. They were coming out of the aftf tobacco from the angle of the street. When i began the project in a much more humble state as a graduate student, i began thinking about agriculture and farmers which is probably no
Story. I was on a vacation at disney world with my friend and she got sick. And so we spent the entire vacation in our hotel room watching the Great British bake off. And i became enamored with it. And i had never cooked or baked anything before, but i loved that show so much that i decided to teach myself how to bake everything that they were baking. And so over the next couple of years, i did just that. And thats how i got into baking and thats how i got into the history of food, because they used to talk about the history of food on the show. What made you put this up on youtube . Your experimentation, a friend at work. So i would bring in my my creations to my coworkers and let them try them. But they had to listen to a lecture on history at the same time. And one of my coworkers said, hey, you should put this up on youtube. And so i did. And it worked out. How many subscribers do you have now . I think i just passed 1. 7 million. When and how did history become a part of your cook
Max miller. He is the author of this new book, tasting history. Mr. Miller, first of all, how did you get into cooking in the first place . Yeah, its actually a funny story. I was on a vacation at disney world with my friend and she got sick. And so we spent the entire vacation in our hotel room watching the Great British bake off. And i became enamored with it. And i had never cooked or baked anything before, but i loved that show so much that i decided to teach myself how to bake everything that they were baking. And so over the next couple of years, i did just that. And thats how i got into baking and thats how i got into the history of food, because they used to talk about the history of food on the show. What made you put this up on youtube . Your experimentation, a friend at work. So i would bring in my my creations to my coworkers and let them try them. But they had to listen to a lecture on history at the same time. And one of my coworkers said, hey, you should put this up on y
World with my friend and she got sick. And so we spent the entire vacation in our hotel room watching the Great British bake off. And i became enamored with it. And i had never cooked or baked anything before, but i loved that show so much that i decided to teach myself how to bake everything that they were baking. And so over the next couple of years, i did just that. And thats how i got into baking and thats how i got into the history of food, because they used to talk about the history of food on the show. What made you put this up on youtube . Your experimentation, a friend at work. So i would bring in my my creations to my coworkers and let them try them. But they had to listen to a lecture on history at the same time. And one of my coworkers said, hey, you should put this up on youtube. And so i did. And it worked out. How many subscribers do you have now . I think i just passed 1. 7 million. When and how did history become a part of your cooking show history . It was really actu