May 2018

Episode 6 – Charles Perry, “The Bulls Head Breakfast” May 23, 2018

Food historian and retired LA Times food writer Charles Perry explains how the 19th century Los Angeles practice of earth-pit barbecuing whole bulls became a culinary craze for settlers who saw the eating of the bull’s head as a wild west delicacy, and how the rise of Hollywood changed the practice into what we know today as the backyard barbecue.

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