How to Recreate Ancient Bread | Gastro Obscura
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- What did bread from ancient Pompeii taste like? Farrell Monaco knows. The experimental archaeologist replicates ancient technologies and specific ingredients, even growing her own starters, to bring to life the breads that ancient Pompeiians would have eaten. But recreating the bread goes beyond culinary curiosity-baking it is a way to understand how one simple food item can bring people together, a practice that resonates today, even as it did once in Pompeii.
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I love listening to people talk about their passions.
Isn't it lovely? We do too!
She's inspiring :D
I always enjoy listening to people who love and have passion in what they do.
This is seriously so cool. Such an interesting and integral part of history.
This person is so passionate and I both envy and admire their focus!
Everything about this video is so beautiful
Nice to see you back
Hello!
So happy to see the channel back !
This is incredible! To spend that much effort to recreate a Roman loaf as close as possible right from grinding to flour by hand to recreating the wood oven is so impressive. There have been lots of representations of the panus quadratus online but this looks like the most rigorously exact IMHO. I can’t imagine how much research it took. I would love to taste it!
This is fascinating! Very nicely presented.
*just add a pinch of volcanic ash*
❤🧡💛💚💙💜 I keep 2 starters in my refrigerator and was fascinated by Ms. Monico's collection!
Wow! Love her dedication and her fascinating profession. Thank you, Atlas Obscura!!!!!!!🍞🥐🥯🥖🥪🥘
Cool,enjoy your video that you made online. Thanks, for the share.
So proud of you!! I want to bake Easter Paska and Babka in that oven with you! ❤️
Loved visiting Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Got a great pic of our tour guide talking with me in front of one of the ovens.
I first saw loaves like this on tasting history, he's a good chatter but he also covered the tavernae or taverna seperately(it was a while ago so i cant remember now).
My children and I made some too and as we played with it what made sense was to pull the string to cut it and then add stew or something to the base as a trencher plate and use the segments to scoop as spoons, just felt natural 😊
Quite intriguing ancient bread, very cool!
I loved watching this video and seeing her passion on bread and the history of it. Thank you
Oh yum...love this
Bread was real food now its sugar
Love this video!
I love her passion!!
Great stuff!
The piece of twine on the bread was a mystery for me at first. But, thinking about it now I think it was designed to help keep the bread together when taking it out of the oven because that the scoring could cause it to fall apart. So I think it's a type of tearaway bread, though I'm not 100% sure.
I have also read the theory once that it was used for carrying the bread as there was no paper packaging back then.
"nerd" comment. Ha ha, I am a total nerd for this stuff. I've been eyeballing several vids/recipe to learn how to make this ancient bread. I too love the smell of smoke on my hair, clothes, etc. Going to give this Roman bread thing a try soon.
Beautiful!!!
Really cool, but I have a question. How did you get all the money to do this? Cause you're not paying that mortgage by fucking around with ancient bread.
Using her recipe for Roman bread. Named my starter “Fritz” after my Grandfather. He was a baker from Germany.
This is perfect and exactly what I was looking for!!
I’m curious how Romans kept their starters from not spoiling
Let’s go all out in the cuisine of the ancients and see if that barking dog makes a fine meal, shall we?
Nice and all, but... I have to say, I clicked because it's called "How to recreate ancient bread". There isn't anything at all about how to do it.😒 It's a lovely video, but it should be called something different, and it might even get more likes if it's accurately described. 128K subscribers; 15,700 clicked on it (thinking it was how to make bread), and only 500 liked it. About 15K of us are going elsewhere to learn how to make ancient bread... or going to bed not knowing how, though the video ends with "I just want people to make bread".
I don't usually complain, but that bread looks so good! We want to make it!🥰
How to Recreate Ancient Bread | Gastro Obscura 1839pm 18.4.23 excellent... still cant get my bread to rise to any edible degree. it must be the state of the water..
use river water from whatever fed their aqueducts.
If you're going for authenticity and there are only three ingredients it pains me to see that you're using tap water containing whatever crap they add to it. Fluoride is sometimes used and chlorine is for sure in there. No half measures.
This is a subject that I will dive into as an Older Chef And an avoidable Archeological nut to boot
Farrel’s awesome. I’m a huge history buff & enjoy cooking among many other passions & pursuits. Two of my favorite periods in history are the Roman Empire & WW2 outside of more general eras like the Age of Discovery & the Renaissance. Anyway, you really pick up her passion & she uses every sense to explore them. I love how she is enamored with all the little details & stimulating her senses. She loves the smell of smoke in her hair, the earthy smell of fresh ground flour & the sound of millstones grinding. It really heightens one’s experience to things & connects us to them. It’s inspiring. Too many people are on auto pilot & never stop to smell the proverbial roses. Sounds, smells, the tactile feelings you get from touching, etc is what makes even mundane things stimulating.
Later on, things like smells & sounds help you become nostalgic & sentimental which are wonderful emotions as they remind you of the past & previous experiences. And damn, she has a nice kitchen & outdoor wood oven. Archaeology must have been very, very good to her. I barely have two nickels to rub together.🫤. Anyway, so glad I stumbled upon this.
"you have to think how the manure flavored the bread" I think I've lost interest in this old bread already...
I love wood smoke on me
they were manufacturers!
I’d like to buy your bread
"What did bread from ancient Pompeii taste like?"
You literally didn't answer the question. Or any relevant questions like "what was different about Roman bread?" etc.
Redo Journalism 101. Take notes.
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