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Outlaw's Digest

Good Egg Audio

5 episodes

Outlaw’s Digest serves up true crimes from food history in sizzling style, a feast of malfeasance and felony from the pages of the past.

More about the show

The food we make and eat forms who we are. But it’s not as simple as “you are what you eat.” Each episode, host and food scholar KC Hysmith tells a thrilling story pulled from the archives of history’s illicit appetites, vicious poisonings, cunning frauds, and daring heists. We explore foodways adapted, adopted, remixed, mocked, suppressed, celebrated, and commodified—and we discuss who benefits. Who cooked? Who ate? And who was left holding the tab?

Created and produced by Good Egg Audio, an independent worker cooperative, and KC Hysmith.

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Episodes

  1. A Spoonful of Sugar - Halloween Candy Poisoning

    · 37 min · Episode 3

    On Halloween night in 1974, an eight-year-old boy in the Houston suburbs got a Pixy Stick laced with cyanide. He wasn’t the only one. So did four other kids who were trick-or-treating that night. It made poisoned candy…

  2. The Robin Hood of France - The Life and Crimes of Legendary Smuggler Louis Mandrin

    · 37 min · Episode 2

    In the years before the French Revolution, the king allowed a massive cartel to put French markets in a chokehold. Foods like coffee and sugar were flooding in from the far reaches of European colonies, but only the…

  3. Pied Piper - When Pie Throwing Became Political Protest

    · 32 min · Episode 1

    In the 1970s, an anarchist pie thrower took justice into his own hands. From the head of the CIA, to anti-feminist campaigner Phyllis Schlafly, to Nixon’s Watergate goons, no national bullies were safe from his pie…

  4. Introducing Outlaw's Digest

    · 2:04 · Trailer

    Introducing Outlaw’s Digest, a criminally delicious tour of true crime from food history. Each episode, host and food scholar KC Hysmith tells a thrilling story pulled from the archives of history’s illicit appetites,…

  5. Coming Soon!

    · 0:34 · Bonus

    Introducing Outlaw’s Digest, a criminally delicious tour of stories from the shadows of food history.

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