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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, 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?
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Learn more and support our independent show at outlawsdigest.com. Support us for $10/month and get a sneak peek at what’s coming this season. Join us for a chat about the origins of the show, and be the first in line for extended guest interviews and behind-the-scenes chats for every episode. Plus some extra goodies, too. We think you’ll love it!
Outlaw’s Digest is a production of KC Hysmith and Good Egg Audio, an independent worker-cooperative.
Creators and Guests
Host
CN
Producer
Carl Nellis
GC
Producer
Gemma Castelli-Foley
ND
Producer
Nick Dooley
NS
Producer
Nicki Stein
What is Outlaw's Digest?
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.
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.
Support Outlaw’s Digest by subscribing at https://outlawsdigest.com
The history of food is full
of tasty stories, but some
of them… have a dark side.
We usually talk about food made with love.
How about when the recipe includes
desperation, deceit, greed, fraud,
and violence?
I’m food scholar KC Hysmith, and on my
new podcast Outlaw’s Digest, I’m going to
take you on a tour of criminally delicious
stories from the shadows of food history.
What they called a global pastry uprising
Poisoning dozens and dozens,
if not hundreds of people
Each week, we’ll dive deep into the
pantry, to explore a time when someone
was just too hungry to follow the law.
That is not a salad.
That is not a meal.
That is not a way to have a food life.
Smuggling was rampant in this period.
It’s outrageous!
Someone is humiliated and
covered in whipped cream.
He must have thought that this
was going to be a perfect crime.
Outlaw’s Digest samples every
flavor of crime that food
history has to offer: poisonings…
the sweetness on the outside,
the poison on the inside.
Frauds…
These pies aren’t meant to be eaten
Heists…
The theft went on for most of a year
And a whole spread of illicit appetites.
And yeah, that one time someone
stole my family recipe for
broccoli cheese casserole.
That’s the penalty of death!
Along the way, I talk with expert
guests about law, culture, and crime—and
chew on what the past has to tell us
about the appetites we indulge today.
There's disbelief and
then there's paranoia.
The pressures of climate crisis that
we are all feeling every stinking day.
They aren't getting poisoned by maniacs!
Episode 1 drops October 8.
So grab a plate, and follow
Outlaw’s Digest on Apple Podcasts.
Or join us on Patreon at outlawsdigest.com