If you follow @StoryBehindPod on Instagram, you may have seen that I went to Boston last weekend for the Sound Education conference at Harvard University to be on a panel with other history podcasters that included Liz Covart from Ben Franklin’s World, Patrick Wyman from Tides of History, and David Stenhouse from BackStory. I respect these podcasters greatly and it was such an honor to be in the same room as them. Because my travel schedule is pretty hectic this month, I only stayed in Boston for one day so I didn’t get to experience anything outside of Harvard and the train station, but if you’ve ever been to Boston, you know that it seems there’s history on every street.

I got to hang out with Chris Nesi from The House of #EdTech podcast while I was there and he suggested I do an episode relating to Boston. Since any history regarding Boston would be a huge undertaking, I wanted to pick something a little more obscure, but still very much Boston-related. And food is always one of my favorite topics to research.

I’m your host, Emily Prokop, and this is The Story Behind Boston Baked Beans.

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Media:

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Sources:

• The Great Molasses Flood - Boston Discovery Guide
• Boston Baked Beans: Recipes and Lore - Trip Savvy
• Without Warning, Molasses in January Surged Over Boston - Smithsonian
• What Was the Triangle Trade? - ThoughtCo.com
• History shows Boston curse full of beans - Chicago Tribune
• Was Boston once literally flooded with molasses? - The Straight Dope
• The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 - History.com
• Remembering Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1919 - Mental Floss
• Solving a Mystery Behind the Deadly ‘Tsunami of Molasses’ of 1919 - The New York Times
• Boston Baked Beans - Old Time Candy
• A Selective History of Beans - Republic of Beans
• Boston Baked Beans, and Other Foods Named After Different Foods - Serious Eats
• Bean Town Origin - Celebrate Boston
• Confectioners' and Bakers' Gazette, Volume 21 - Google Books

Other References in the Show

• Sound Education
• Ben Franklin’s World
• Tides of History
• Backstory
• House of #EdTech