HeyJaredTrue Crime Culinary
A podcast for people who love true crime and the strange details that make each story unforgettable. From beer steins tucked into a Hitler assassination attempt to poutine wrapped up in a drug bust, each episode blends history, humor, and crime through the lens of food,…
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Episode 50: Cinnamon Origins and the Disappearing Cinnamon Buns (opens the original)
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New bite-sized episodes of True Crime Culinary drop every Thursday. Follow TCC on IG and YT: https://www.youtube.com/@TrueCrimeCulinary https://www.instagram.com/truecrimeculinary Where did cinnamon rolls come from? What is cinnamon actually made from? And how did Cinnabon become a shopping mall icon? Cinnamon is made from the inner bark of trees in the Cinnamomum genus, and cinnamon buns developed from European traditions of sweet, spiced breads rather than from one known inventor. In this epis
Episode 49: The History of Cheetos and the Criminal Caught with Cheese Dust (opens the original)
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New bite-sized episodes of True Crime Culinary drop every Thursday. Follow TCC on IG and YT: https://www.youtube.com/@TrueCrimeCulinary https://www.instagram.com/truecrimeculinary What is the history of Cheetos—and were Cheetos actually the first cheese curls? The story starts in 1930s Wisconsin, where a machine designed to process corn for animal feed accidentally produced strange, airy corn puffs. Those puffs eventually became Korn Kurls, one of America’s earliest cheese curls, years before Ch
Bonus Episode 4: An Interview with Cheese Fortune Teller Jennifer Billock (opens the original)
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Can you really tell someone's future with cheese? This week, True Crime Culinary welcomes writer and professional tyromancer Jennifer Billock for a special episode about cheese, fortune telling, and why humans have spent centuries searching for answers in their food. We dig into the big questions behind tyromancy: What does Jennifer actually see when she reads a piece of cheese? How does she know when a reading works? Does she follow up afterward to find out whether her predictions came true? An
Episode 48: The History of Tofu and Why Everyone Was Tofu Fighting (opens the original)
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New bite-sized episodes of True Crime Culinary drop every Thursday. Follow TCC on IG and YT: https://www.youtube.com/@TrueCrimeCulinary https://www.instagram.com/truecrimeculinary What does a block of tofu have to do with Buddhist monks, Korean prison traditions, and a police raid in West Germany? This week, we’re tracing tofu’s roughly 2,000-year history—from its mysterious origins in ancient China and its spread through Buddhist communities to Japan’s 18th-century tofu obsession and Korea’s tr
Episode 47: The History of Sprinkles and the Secret Connection to Marathon (opens the original)
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New bite-sized episodes of True Crime Culinary drop every Thursday. Follow TCC on IG and YT: https://www.youtube.com/@TrueCrimeCulinary https://www.instagram.com/truecrimeculinary What’s the history of sprinkles—and what could they possibly have to do with marathon running? This week on True Crime Culinary, we’re tracing sprinkles back through Dutch hagelslag, anise-flavored candy, and the surprisingly complicated family of plants that includes anise, fennel, star anise, and licorice. Along the
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