Tag Archives: 20th century

Herring and Kaiser in a Pickle – Feeding the Revolution XXXI

Posted on 20 July 2026 by carlton_bach

It was July 1917, in the middle of the First World War, and SMS Prinzregent Luitpold, the newest of the German navy’s Kaiser-class battleships, lay immobile in the middle of the Kiel canal. Germany’s most strategic waterway was blocked, and … Continue reading →

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Houses by the Harbour – Feeding the Revolution XXX

Posted on 18 July 2026 by carlton_bach

Hamburg has lately become a popular tourism destination, and one of the things many visitors do is take the ferry line 62 down the Elbe for a scenic ride. As it glides past the 1912 tunnel entrance building towards the … Continue reading →

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A Long and Ignoble Tradition of Ad Spamming

Posted on 13 July 2026 by carlton_bach

This morning, I read a comment on a culinary writing group that people preferred printed cookbooks to online recipes because they did not cram ads into their pages and – well – they often used to. Just this weekend, I … Continue reading →

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Flexible Soup – Feeding the Revolution XXVII

Posted on 23 June 2026 by carlton_bach

It was 9 October 1989, and the people on the streets of Leipzig were scared. Armed only with placards and hope, they were facing armed police and party militia, marching, as they had for several weeks now, through the city … Continue reading →

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Solidarity Spaetzle – Feeding the Revolution XXV

Posted on 9 June 2026 by carlton_bach

Stuttgart is not a city people usually associate with protest or political activism. It is a wealthy, conservative, bourgeois kind of place where they make expensive cars. That was probably why then conservative state premier Stefan Mappus did not expect … Continue reading →

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Flaming Drinks

Posted on 25 April 2026 by carlton_bach

For a break in the long-form narratives, I want to return to the collection of military alcoholic drinks I introduced earlier and pick apart one particular recipe. Among many locally and socially specific recipes, the 1910 manual on bowls and … Continue reading →

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Getting Colossally Drunk (Royal Prussian Version)

Posted on 10 April 2026 by carlton_bach

A friend of mine whose skill as a herbalist and craftsperson are deserving of their own channel, sent me a gem they discovered online. It is the 1910 manual on bowls and punches for field and exercise use in the … Continue reading →

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Building Legends: Feeding the Revolution XVII

Posted on 9 April 2026 by carlton_bach

If you believed the official line, East Berlin in 1953 was a relatively happy place. Governed by a benevolent party under a people’s democracy, its inhabitants were building a happier future for everyone from the ruins of war. The city … Continue reading →

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Feeding the Revolution: Civil Disobedience Crumbcake

Posted on 20 February 2026 by carlton_bach

In 1904 in the village of Kaisertreu situated in the Prussian province of Posen, police began observing a daily ritual that would soon attract national and international attention. Every morning, a uniformed officer representing the fulsome authority of the all-highest … Continue reading →

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Feeding the Revolution: Pizza and Public Transit

Posted on 13 February 2026 by carlton_bach

Today, many Europeans look at the late 1960s as the “Good Old days”, but they did not necessarily feel like that to the people alive at the time. It was, after all, a scary age, one of confusing change and … Continue reading →

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