Understandable. A kid is a baby goat. So, we have to be cooking the greatest kid of all time- preferably a female one. Not a problem, I'll just hot the local park & see where it goes.
🎶 *"Why do the men run naked through the city,* *Whipping folks with goatskins, making such a noise?* *Is it for Pan, or even for a she-wolf?* *What's with these unruly boys?* *Tradition, TRADITION!* *Tradition, TRADITION!"* 🎶
Makes me think of how , in the Bible it says, "thou shalt not cook a lamb in it's mother's milk". I'm learning that they actually cooked like that back then.
The fact that even the ancient Romans didn't know what exactly they were celebrating and to what god they were offering sacrifices (and still kept doing it every year anyway) is such a historic flex, if you think about it. It's like Rome saying to the rest of the world: Son, I am so old, I've forgotten more shit than you know or will ever learn. Now get naked and run, boy. lol
It also shows how superstitious the Romans were. You performed this meaningless ritual, though nobody knew what it was for, because it was lucky. You kept on performing it because it might be unlucky to stop.
It was less of a flex and more of a cope. Rome had a MASSIVE inferiority complex about how little history they had relative to much of the ancient Mediterranean. From the Aeneid (forging a connection to the Homeric era) to the foundation date of the Republic (one year before Solon established democracy in Athens), they built up a whole national mythos to make themselves feel better about it.
It's more like an example of why copying someone else's homework will come back to bite you when exams roll around. Sure, you know the answer. Can you explain it, though? Not in the least.
@@bernardfrederic6535 That's true. Everywhere they went, they built temples, not just for their own gods, but for many local gods. Except for the druids. Them they killed on sight, then went looking for more.
Let's just all agree that "puppification" meant cuddling with a box of puppies and ignore the possibility it meant bathing in the blood of puppies, okay?
Several years ago archeologists in Israel found some dates pits from the time of Christ while excavating. They planted them and grew ancient palms. The dates are apparently sweeter then the modern ones. So I imagine this dish would have been sweeter in ancient time.
@@jcortese3300 no they don't sell them rn. There is only a few trees so far and they r trying to bring the tree back It took a long time for the farmer to cultivate the seeds and only very few worked.
I made this for my wife for Valentines' Day. It was a big hit! I substituted lamb for goat (we have had goat numerous times and don't particularly care for it) and roasted carrots and parsnips along with the meat. Though the marinade made the meat quite nice, the date sauce took it to completely another level! I soaked the dates in red wine before mashing them. A fantastic recipe and a wonderful and entertaining video! Thank you, Max!
@@lesterstone8595 He's done some, like Tamales and Xiocolatl, but it's as good a place as any to look at food and its history, so more is welcome. EDIT: For some reason I thought you said South American Native cuisine. North American Native cuisine would be cool too, I know very little about it.
@@lesterstone8595 I am not picky. I’ve eaten my share of squirrel dumplings, rabbit, gator, etc. But, please, for the love of all you hold dear, do NOT eat possum!
Max: "Instead of wooing your Love with chocolates this year, might I suggest bringing back an old tradition -" Me: "... and whipping them with shaggy thongs!" Max: "... and wooing them with roast goat." Me: "Of course. Roast goat. That's what I meant."
My takeaway from this is that if someone says they hate how commercial valentines day is and want to do an old fashioned valentines day we should watch out for roast goat in case whipping with animal skins is also involved
Idk why, but the idea of Romans being weirded out by their own holidays is hilarious to me. I always love reminders that humans are humans no matter where or when haha
When a recipe calls for honey or other sticky liquid, I measure it into a 4 cup container, then add the more liquid items. That way I don't wind up with 5% stuck in the small measuring cup.
Another trick is if there is an oil or fat called for measure that first then use the same measuring vessel to measure the honey/sticky liquid. The remains of the oil/fat will keep the honey from sticking to the measuring cup.
Acetabulum is also the anatomical term for the socket in the pelvis that the femur sits in. I had no idea that the word came from the roman vinegar cup! The hint is there because "acetum" means vinegar, but I never made the connection. I've had so many of those little epiphanies while watching this show and I'm so grateful for it! Edit: I didn't know about "februa" either! This episode is an etymology trivia gold mine!
Congratulations on 1Mil, Max. I don’t know if you realize how much joy and comfort you’ve given is these past two years. Keep being your wonderful self. 💛
8:15 We also get the word "febrifuge" from februa, and febrifuge is medicine meant to heal fevers. Aspirin is from willow bark and is a febrifuge, so it's like people taking aspirin for a fever. It's not necessarily food but it's still pretty cool see the connection.
I wrote a paper last year on Lupa and if the she-wolf was a promiscuous woman, or an actual wolf in the Romulus and Remus tale (and how it was perceived during different points in Roman history). However, I used Lupercalia as another example of a pre-"roman" event, and I was fascinated by the fact that during the Republic, no one knew its origins. Really great show this time, thanks for bringing to light this amazing festival :)
I never even thought of the allegory of a she wolf for a promiscuous woman. Using a she wolf in legend would make sense. Instead of "Our founders' mother was a whore and they lived in a cave."
There was also the "Lupanar", which is "brothel" (from the same root), the most famous being in Pompeii, noted for it's erotic paintings. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupanar
Man all four of you guys brought great information to this.... Some of the things I never thought about myself ( referring to the meaning of she wolf and where it came from) thank you all I felt enlightened a bit by each of you all's comment. Thank you for that
I actually never knew there was a reading of the myth where people saw the she-wolf as a metaphor for a promiscuous woman, do you have any sources for further reading on that?
I feel like watching Max taste the food is like: 1) He's so excited to try it! 2) Food goes in. Thoughtful face. 3) Concerned face??? 4) Strained positivity while chewing 5) Food consumed. Opinion formed. He kind of chuckles and shakes his head, as if confronted by his archenemy..............but he's not mad about it. 6) It definitely can't taste good right? 7) Max says something way nicer than I probably would have said.
Don’t forget that the Roman Republic was after the Greeks and the Greeks were after the Bronze Age and 20 dynasties in Egypt. Rome is about equidistant to us as it was to the first Egyptian dynasties. Rome was late to the ancient calendar. Plenty of time - 2000 years - for things to be ancient before the whipper snapper Rome came along.
Especially if you realize that humans have been walking this earth for about 2 hundred thousand years of which only the last 5 thousand years or so is considered history because of writing and the rise of civilization.
Always awesome to see another Roman episode! I've currently been on a months-long kick of Roman research. It's always so cool to see how they combined flavors that we would never think of today!
It's still kinda weird to me how for most of history you couldn't just set your cooking appliances to a specified temperature, you just had to learn the hard way how to eyeball a wood/coal fire.
Metal workers for MILLENIA have been doing this at the forge, judging the heat in different parts of the fire and watching the metal change color. This is especially true with iron/steel.
@@danielbeck9191 if the cast iron stove is changing colors it's too hot to cook food. Electric stove heating coils are usually a kind of ceramic that glows at much lower temperatures than metal.
For a moment I thought he was going to suggest, "Instead of wooing your love with choclates this year..." , run around nekkid and slap them with flayed goat hides.
As someone from a Hindu family who went to Catholic school (I'm an athiest, lol) ancient traditions never sound too weird to me. It's interesting to see how much faith in such traditions really helped form societies back then. In modern times we have our own traditions, including celebrating our fav CZcamsrs' success with likes and shiny play buttons! Congrats Max and fam, you always do well to present little glimpses into history through food.
I love that about the Romans. They had a few rituals like this that they didn't know the origin of. But they were very "Doesn't matter if we don't know why. Doesn't matter if we don't understand the words in this prayer. We are doing this because we always have and we don't want to jinx ourselves!" And they were right, because what happened when they dumped all those rituals? Mmhmmmm.
"but ancient romans didn't have valentines day, they had lupercalia and celebrated by wiping people with animal skins and feasting on roast goat" -tasting history 2022 they're basically the same thing right
WELP I’m currently pregnant, have serious date cravings, and I have 15 kg of red deer meat in my freezer 🦌 it’s not goat, but I think the wolves would still approve lol 🐺 👍 I’ll be trying this recipe for sure!
I am so happy for you and I am super proud to be a fan. Your fandom is one of the least toxic, most supportive groups around. Your lovely, your fans are lovely, yeah, I am really proud of you. I knew it was just a matter of time. I believe there are many more still to come.
"You all did see that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown which he did thrice refuse, was this ambition?" Ha, I knew I recognized the title of this festival! It's mentioned in my favourite Shakespearean monologue.
@@slwrabbits technically, yes, it was a eulogy. But, really, it was a power move. Without going into all of the background, Cassius and Brutus never expected to succeed in killing Caesar and therefore didn’t plan for anything after that. Antony realized this and decided to join them, though more as blackmail. There was a concept known as a True Roman, a person that f-ked like a rabbit, drank like a fish, loved bloodshed and had zero ambition; to win over the public, they needed a True Roman and Antony just happens to be the only True Roman that all history books can agree on. So, from then on, he called the shots. His first demand was a funeral for Caesar that was grander than Caesar’s own triumph.
When Max started talking about the Luperci, I just flashed back to Assassins Creed Brotherhood where you had to fight men in wolf pelts called The Followers Of Romulus (who are literally what the Luperci are/were) on occasions
As someone who celebrates my birthday on February 15th it was super interesting learning about Lupercalia. I always thought I missed out being born a day late but turns out my birthday holiday is way more interesting! Amazingly interesting video as always, love you Max!
Being out in a rural location, using a satellite ISP, I have to budget my download data. I judge CZcams providers as to what pixel count I can afford to view. You are always 1080p or better.
A recipe involving goat, a Gogoat (My favourite transport pokemon) and my Chinese New Year sign of the Goat being very lucky this year. What more can I ask for, a naked Roman?
Lupercalia seems super weird to us now, but the more I read about ancient religious traditions the more tI think that we're actually the ones in the minority. A lot of ancient religious rituals and festivals were highly stylized re-enactments of mythology or history.
There were probably a lot of benefits to having reenactments of your traditions. They were a source of lessons and morals, even propaganda. Those who couldn't read or write would remember historical events (however inaccurately). That must have been particularly important in war times, in case some invading army destroyed historical documents/records.
@@francesconicoletti2547 This is true, although it's slightly more abstract than the examples I was thinking of. Though it's worth noting that many Protestants do still celebrate the Eucharist, like Anglicans, Lutherans, Calvinist Presbyterians, and so on.
It actually doesn't seem that weird. The middle European Karneval/Fastnacht traditions that are still enacted every year at about the same time still contain many of the same themes. Nowadays it's "running around with demon masks and tapping people with sticks", then it was "running around naked and hitting people with fur strips"...
Congratulations! You certainly have earned it. By the way the brief clip of Tevye in *Fidler on the Roof* made me laugh out loud. Has to be my favorite song in my favorite movie! And it applies to about 90% of cooking:)
Max I haven't seen this in many places so could I kindly request you to do an episode related to native indian cuisine, I'd like to learn a little about that, seems interesting EDIT: I usually say February but February seems fine too, but if you look at the British pronunciation, it sounds like February but American is more like February, so in conclusion, I think pronouncing it as February is most probably the best option...
Thanks! I always wondered why there’s that Commandment not to cook a kid in its mother’s milk in the Bible but now I know, that’s a genuine cooking technique for goat. Neat! This is why I watch your vids, I learn really cool stuff and get to see the cool foods humans used to eat. Also, I find it funny how we casually discuss all the animals humans ate into extinction but rarely any plants, so that’s cool to know. Love your vids, keep up tue good work. Oh I like the ever better title sequences, this is I think the third and is quite nice, :)
I like the mention of acetabulum as in anatomy it has come to mean the "cup" or hollow a thighbone sits in at the hips. So i knew the general meaning, but to hear it was also a measurement is fascinating.
I love how Max is so causal about getting the 1mln badge. Pretty much ‘yeah yeah it’s nice and shiny but let me talk you about this’. Absolute gem within all content creators, you are so passionate about what you do! I’ve been watching your videos for the past few weeks and loving it 🙏 thanks for creating such a comforting yet informative channel.
@@TheKingOfBeans Certainly a possibility. I can understand how English slang can confuse non-English speakers. I have trouble keeping up with the modern slang that my own "kids" speak! :)
@@Ozuhananas this is where the phrase “treat [someone] with kid gloves” is from. Kid (baby goat) leather is especially thin and fine, so you would only do gentle things while wearing them to avoid quickly wearing or damaging them (the leather was also expensive in most applications). Hence the phrase means to treat someone gently.
Congratulations Max!!! You deserve the 1M. Glad you're getting recognized! I've always pronounced it Feb-yew-airy. I think it's one of those words with an old spelling that people don't pronounce anymore. (never thought I'd be able to make a direct comparison between the wholesomeness that is Tasting History with the pure chaos that is Buzzfeed Unsolved, but February has a history of tripping up youtubers, I suppose)
Thanks Max! You're videos always make my breaks at work so much better , gives me something to look forward to when I finally get to chill out for 15 minutes
You know, I thought you covered it before but I thought that the reason why quantities weren't specific was because of two reasons -- both of which I learned by experience being taught cooking by my grandmothers who lived simply a couple of miles (or kms) apart from each other. The first deals with the fact that many recipes were collected by talking to cooks and their wide variance of how much of each ingredient were included in the recipe. Because of this oral histories of the recipes were varied both by distance and time they were collected to be put into a book as best as possible. The second deals with the phrase that we carry today and that is "to taste". One family's love of the recipe might be heavy with a specific spice, another wouldn't even include the spice in the recipe. So generic cookbooks were created for cooks by cooks to help that along and spread the word on regional and even international foods. Because of the experience with cooking, I've also learned that when looking at a recipe from any modern cookbooks -- I can put it together either dish from a recipe for 2 people or 10 people and have it taste either close to what they're recommending based on "a little of this" or "a lot of that" or even change the taste according to the likes and dislikes of myself or the people I'm trying to impress with the dish (and my cooking prowess).
Every time you do a Roman episode, I'm always left thinking, "Man, my ancestors were nuts." Instruments of depravity that make you blush to fulfill are our specialty! 🙂 Lupercalia makes me think of the old British festival Imbolc, which I think means "in-the-belly." I guess if Easter/May Day/Beltaine/etc. was all about rebirth, then it's natural that cultures would have a festival a few months earlier associated with pregnancy and even promiscuity. I also laughed when you were asking why naked young guys would hit people with the strips of goat skin because ... well, what else are a herd of drunk, naked young guys going to do but run around like lunatics and start hitting people with whatever comes to hand? 😀
It does sound a lot like modern Imbolc. Lamb and goats are something modern Pagans and witches still use to represent the rebirth of spring and the comming new year, since early lambs are being birthed then. The whipping with thongs is like some Easter/Ostara traditions from the Czech Republic and surrounding area that are still practiced today.
My dad is a really big fan of this channel and knows I love trying things from ancient history, especially when it has to do with the romans, so I’m trying this this weekend!😂 I have no idea what to expect, but it looks good
Oh man, so this is what they were talking about! So, born and raised Roman Catholic, went to Catholic school, and part of the curriculum was general learning/reading of the bible and the context that surrounded it (georaphic, political, social, how general history impacted it). Being a preteen, always thought that part in Exodus was funny/strange. It stated: "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk." And its annotation stated something like, "a common meal during Roman pagan rituals." I couldn't really comprehend what kind of meal that would be, so it always stuck with me! Thanks Max!
Congrats on 1 mil! I've been here since toward the beginning, maybe a few months in. I remember at first thinking your channel was a super established one because of the production value! I was so disappointed when there were only like a dozen or less videos to watch.
It's so interesting, that until this very day festivals, that involve hitting people have survived, even in western cultures. Just look at the Krampuslaufs ot alpine Euripe: Pretty much the same thing, also it's in winter.
Seeing this channel grow from the beginning with the cheese making to this has been an absolute treat. You deserve all the views, the attention to pronunciation, details and excellent camerawork are all top notch. One of the first times I've been given a new channel with lower views by the algorithm and it was actually good.
Being a child of the month of February and a stickler for grammar--something I immensely appreciate about you-- I say it Feb-brew-ary. This way I can mentally appreciate beer at the same time as saying the word. Feb-BREW-ary!! Thanks for your great program. I began watching about a month ago and became up to date with last Tuesday's episode. Just finished today's episode. Hoping you have many more subscribers, as I have probably recommended you to about a dozen or more people in a short month's time. Best wishes!
love to see the quantities in mL as well, love the history! It's likely going to be a while until I try this dish but it sounds like one of the better roman recipes
The best thing that happened in the last 2 years. Thank you for starting this channel. It's the highlight of my week. Congratulations on 1 million followers. We look forward to more recipes. Any chance for some African recipes?
I hope your husband was wooed by the goat! This was such a great story! thank you for another great episode, and I am so glad you are past 1 mil, looking forward to the musical episode. I hope you take your time and don't stress over it :D
I say "Febry" but to make up for it I pronounce the i in "parliament". Also Goat is amazing! Have it in a Jamaican curry, have it in a tagine! Have it in a stew, roast it with garam masala and garlic! Love it. Also makes a great substitute for mutton which is practically impossible to find in Australia....
I've always wanted to try goat. I went to an Indian restaurant once that had curry goat but I didn't order it, I should have. If I can find goat meat here I'll have to try this. Thanks for the recipe Max.😊
Lupercalia seems very similar to a portuguese traditional party, the Carnaval dos Caretos. It happens during Carnaval (so between february and march) and consists of young men dressing in full body suits of colorful wool fringe with masks and belts with bells, which they use to tap (chocalhar), usually young, women. I never knew there were so many simmilarities! Thank you for your work!
4:04 Wheat starch is easy to make, but time consuming. You get it as a by-product when making wheat gluten/seitan. (Or you get seitan as a by-product, when making wheat starch.) I haven't done this in years, but I think I remember the process. You need wheat flour and water. Preferably flour made from only the endosperm (seem to go by different names, in different English speaking countries, with a lot of false friends, so I don't know what to call it). If the flour contain bran and/or germ, the process gets a lot more involved, since you have to remove those as well, if you want to get pure gluten and starch, it's a lot easier to just buy wheat flour where this have already been done. Make a firm dough of the flour and water. Kneed it until stretchy, and let it rest, so it get even firmer. Wrap it with something, so that it doesn't get dryed out on the surface. Don't flour the dough, the dry flour will contaminate the starch later. In a bowl of water. Clean out the starch from the gluten, by kneading, stretching, squeezing and perforating the dough under water, until the water stop getting whiter. The remaining dough is gluten. If you want gluten with even less traces of starch, you can continue the process under running water. The white liquid, in the bowl, is wheat starch in a water solution. You simply leave the water to stand in a wide bowl, until the water has evaporated. (No boiling! then you end up with wheat paste). If some water separate from the slurry, you simply discard it, to quicken the drying process. The flakes you end up with, when all water has evaporated from the bowl, is pretty much clean starch, that you can pulverise, and use similar to other starches in cooking. The wheat starch is really good as a thickener in cooking. And you don't really need to wait until it's completely dry before you use it. Many recipes call for a slurry of starch and water. But the slurry, unlike the dry stuff, can easily get moldy or go bad, so store it refrigerated in a closed container. Do a Google search for "seitan", if you want to know what to do with the gluten, there are a lot of fake meat recipes, using it, out there. Perhaps the old tradition of making gluten based fake meat, can be a topic for another episode of Tasting History.
@@DH-xw6jp My guess is not. Maize have weaker proteins. I'm guessing the dough won't stick together, but instead the proteins wiil dissolve into the water, together with the starch. Swedish children learn how to extract potato starch from potatoes, by soaking, and weight separation. Maybe something similar can be done with maize. The reason Swedish children learn to make potato starch, is because the process was invented by a Swedish scientists/noble woman in the 18th century, who together with her husband, formedthe then most influental power couple in the Swedish dominions. Their ingenuity and hard work, also made them the second richest family, second to the royal one. (Not that they where poor to begin with.) She invented a lot of farming, food and weaving stuff. Among those a method to make alcohol from starchy vegetables, that is still in use today, and popularised potatoes as a crop in Sweden. She was also the first woman to take a seat in the Swedish Royal Science Academy, today most known for selecting the winners of the science-related Nobel prizes. Eva Ekblad (born De last Gardie), would also make an interesting subject of Tasting History.
Max - ever hear of a stew called Capponadda. It was a sailors recipe from the Ligurian coast specifically Genoa. It is made from hard tack biscuits soaked in water (seawater?) crumbled, originally used salted tuna belly, later tuna in oil, anchovy fillets. capers, chopped olives , Later variation added chopped tomato and hard boiled eggs , It was similar to Salmaguni, salad of greens with cooked chicken or other meat (Salt pork) served over greens with pickles and boiled eggs. The name was corrupted to Solomon Grundy by English sailors he Welsh pirate Black Bart Roberts was supposedly eating his dinner of Salmaguni when his ship was surprised by English warship HMS SWALOW. Roberts crew was beastly drunk, having captures a ship laden with liquor., and slow to react. The swallow raked Tobert's ship with a broadside as Roberts attempted to escape. Roberts, sitting on cannon waving his sword exhorting his crew was killed by grapshot, His crew wrapped body in chains and tossed it overboard before surrendering
Congratulations on your achievement! You have one of the most informative and entertaining shows on the internet. And seriously, hello fresh should offer a Tasting History series( no hard tack please).
Dear Max, I'm watching from Berlin Germany and enjoying your channel immensely while recovering from THREE weeks of Covid. I love the recipes you're trying out, and the interesting historical background. But: Even though I'm definitely not a vegan (and this already disturbed me a bit at John Townsend's channel), I'd appreciate it SO much if you could include more veggies. Not as a main dish, but ... My proposition would be: include SIDE DISHES, YAY! I'm quite sure there must be hundreds of great recipes or at least hints at i.e. roast potatoes, vegetable rice, smoked eggplant, or whatever could accompany the meaty main, and I'm quite sure your audience (and even Hello Fresh for that matter) would love it if you used more veggies when cooking. There's even more skill involved in combining meaty mains and veggie sides thoughtfully, and I'm absolutely sure you could bring those skills to perfection! Kudos to your channel and all the best, Chris
I always spell February, Febrewary in my head. That makes it easier for me to say it correctly. Great episode this week. I might actually try to make this. I love goat.
You videos are grand on all these foods. Even my cat likes to watch them with me. Congrats on the 1 million plaque. Your posts deserve a history award as well. Thank you for all the hard work. Take Care and Stay Safe.
That recipe really sounds good. I think I'll give it a try. Preparing a roast in milk btw is still a thing in Italy. I always thought that the German Karneval had Germanic roots, but it definitely sounds like a reminiscens of Lupercalia. Even the time of year matches.
Max Miller is such a awesome person... thanks for all the videos you do.. and i appreciate your well natured spirit and enthusiasm for history and history of food... you should be very proud of yourself... thanks
Gotta say, I would greatly prefer a lovely goat pot-roast to chocolate as a gift from my significant other. Would definitely raise their significance in my stomach, errr, heart. ❤
Congratulations Max! I so enjoy your weekly recipes on tasting history. You have combined my love of food, cooking and history geekness rolled up in one. 😃
Congrats on your million! You deserve it. Your educational view and humor is very much loved and appreciated. I know you put a lot of wrk into your videos and it shows. Thank you and I hope you get a million more. ❤️ from SC 🇺🇸
Fun detail about Romulus and Remus: "Lupa" also meant "prostitute". Pointing this out to a roman may have been considered the classical equivalent to "fightin' words": Also, do NOT google-search "puppyfication". Unless you're into that :P.
“Kid means baby goat, not children” always fun when you have to specify that you are NOT a cannibal 😂
"New kid on the block" just got a whole different meaning.
Honestly, i dont think hed do the vid if it was referring to human kids. Come on, guys...
meanwhile Guga Foods has the "dry age Angel" joke.
I wish he had told us before I put on all this baby fat from eating all those babies!
Understandable. A kid is a baby goat. So, we have to be cooking the greatest kid of all time- preferably a female one. Not a problem, I'll just hot the local park & see where it goes.
Max: "It came down to one word."
Me: "Tradition?"
Tevye: *"TRADITION!"*
Yeeeesssss!
🎶 *"Why do the men run naked through the city,*
*Whipping folks with goatskins, making such a noise?*
*Is it for Pan, or even for a she-wolf?*
*What's with these unruly boys?*
*Tradition, TRADITION!*
*Tradition, TRADITION!"* 🎶
Makes me think of how , in the Bible it says, "thou shalt not cook a lamb in it's mother's milk". I'm learning that they actually cooked like that back then.
@@Lucius1958 Thanks for making me laugh!
@@Lucius1958 🎶Fiddles intensely🎶
Interestingly, the socket part of the hip joint is called the acetabulum because it is shaped like the little vinegar cups.
Cool!
That is a fun fact, thanks for sharing!
That was the first thing I thought of!
My brain was like I know that word, but it took me very long to place it! Very interesting indeed!
So, I guess if you want to measure that out, just estimate based on the size of your hip joint socket.
The fact that even the ancient Romans didn't know what exactly they were celebrating and to what god they were offering sacrifices (and still kept doing it every year anyway) is such a historic flex, if you think about it. It's like Rome saying to the rest of the world: Son, I am so old, I've forgotten more shit than you know or will ever learn. Now get naked and run, boy. lol
It also shows how superstitious the Romans were. You performed this meaningless ritual, though nobody knew what it was for, because it was lucky. You kept on performing it because it might be unlucky to stop.
It was less of a flex and more of a cope. Rome had a MASSIVE inferiority complex about how little history they had relative to much of the ancient Mediterranean. From the Aeneid (forging a connection to the Homeric era) to the foundation date of the Republic (one year before Solon established democracy in Athens), they built up a whole national mythos to make themselves feel better about it.
It's more like an example of why copying someone else's homework will come back to bite you when exams roll around.
Sure, you know the answer. Can you explain it, though? Not in the least.
The most sympathetic thing about Rome, is for me still, that they had a temple, for gods, they didn't know. Just to be safe.
@@bernardfrederic6535 That's true. Everywhere they went, they built temples, not just for their own gods, but for many local gods. Except for the druids. Them they killed on sight, then went looking for more.
Let's just all agree that "puppification" meant cuddling with a box of puppies and ignore the possibility it meant bathing in the blood of puppies, okay?
Yes, live puppies are infinitely preferable.
AGREED!!!
"Dead puppies aren't much fun", to coin a phrase...
@@Pygar2 Possibly one of the least fun things imaginable.
yes, please, lets do so. Just the thought of harming a puppy or kitten makes my stomach want to do something odd and upsetting.
Amazing! The Lupercalia is fascinating, it’s wild to read ancient sources being just as confused as we are 😂 We love goat, we’ll have to try this one!
Whoa!! Love your channel!
Do some roman recipes!! And what was going on in Dasá in roman times!
Several years ago archeologists in Israel found some dates pits from the time of Christ while excavating. They planted them and grew ancient palms. The dates are apparently sweeter then the modern ones. So I imagine this dish would have been sweeter in ancient time.
That is SO COOL -- do they sell the dates anywere online? That would be an awesome business.
Want sweet dates? Buy dried dates.
@@jcortese3300 no they don't sell them rn. There is only a few trees so far and they r trying to bring the tree back
It took a long time for the farmer to cultivate the seeds and only very few worked.
I've heard of it before and it fascinates me that something this old can grow again. I didn't know about the sweetness though. Thanks!
@@nadineb168 If i remember correctly, the date trees grown from ancient pits were destroyed by isis in like 2015 or somwthing like that.
I made this for my wife for Valentines' Day. It was a big hit! I substituted lamb for goat (we have had goat numerous times and don't particularly care for it) and roasted carrots and parsnips along with the meat. Though the marinade made the meat quite nice, the date sauce took it to completely another level! I soaked the dates in red wine before mashing them. A fantastic recipe and a wonderful and entertaining video! Thank you, Max!
Roman recipes sometimes remind me of Rachel putting beef in the trifle. “Honey? Good! Dates? Good! Garum? Gooooooood!”
Great episode
@@TastingHistory Can you do an episode for Native American Food?
@@lesterstone8595 He's done some, like Tamales and Xiocolatl, but it's as good a place as any to look at food and its history, so more is welcome.
EDIT: For some reason I thought you said South American Native cuisine.
North American Native cuisine would be cool too, I know very little about it.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine I was hoping for something made with buffalo/bison, venison, opossum, or some tasty racoon.
@@lesterstone8595 I am not picky. I’ve eaten my share of squirrel dumplings, rabbit, gator, etc. But, please, for the love of all you hold dear, do NOT eat possum!
Max: "Instead of wooing your Love with chocolates this year, might I suggest bringing back an old tradition -"
Me: "... and whipping them with shaggy thongs!"
Max: "... and wooing them with roast goat."
Me: "Of course. Roast goat. That's what I meant."
Why not both.
this made my evening
i mean, if you and your significant other are kinky enough
🤣🤣 this comment should have many more likes!
I suspect most of us were thinking this
My takeaway from this is that if someone says they hate how commercial valentines day is and want to do an old fashioned valentines day we should watch out for roast goat in case whipping with animal skins is also involved
@@asdolasila4563 they're writing poems in spam comments now?
I mean, getting whipped can still be a fun way to spend Valentine's Day if you're into that sort of thing.
Idk why, but the idea of Romans being weirded out by their own holidays is hilarious to me. I always love reminders that humans are humans no matter where or when haha
Absolutely!
I'll order Hello Fresh if they start offering a Tasting History box. Seriously, that would be amazing!
and I'll order it if they start treating their employees fairly.
@@nunyabisness7055 what have you heard? I didn't know they were bad
I think Max should do his own box as a way to support his channel. That's a lot of work, but I think would be very, very unique.
@@groglorb8980 Harassing union workers.
@@fietehermans9903 let max know and send receipts. Let's see what happens.
When a recipe calls for honey or other sticky liquid, I measure it into a 4 cup container, then add the more liquid items. That way I don't wind up with 5% stuck in the small measuring cup.
Another trick is if there is an oil or fat called for measure that first then use the same measuring vessel to measure the honey/sticky liquid. The remains of the oil/fat will keep the honey from sticking to the measuring cup.
Acetabulum is also the anatomical term for the socket in the pelvis that the femur sits in. I had no idea that the word came from the roman vinegar cup! The hint is there because "acetum" means vinegar, but I never made the connection. I've had so many of those little epiphanies while watching this show and I'm so grateful for it!
Edit: I didn't know about "februa" either! This episode is an etymology trivia gold mine!
Makes you wonder though what those Roman vinegar cups were made from....
Given that the actual acetabulum is comprised of three separate bones, I think it would be way too much trouble to make one out of its namesake ....
Congratulations!!!!
Who would ever have thought that a Disney prince would become a King of CZcams?
Well done!! So well deserved.
PS love to Jose too
Congratulations on 1Mil, Max. I don’t know if you realize how much joy and comfort you’ve given is these past two years. Keep being your wonderful self. 💛
Thank you. Seeing your comments always brightens my day, so you keep being you too.
@@TastingHistory 🤩
8:15 We also get the word "febrifuge" from februa, and febrifuge is medicine meant to heal fevers. Aspirin is from willow bark and is a febrifuge, so it's like people taking aspirin for a fever. It's not necessarily food but it's still pretty cool see the connection.
"febrile" is the word for fever
@@zarasha8220 February is the month of fevers; back then, the food was as bad and as sparse as it was likely to get. Health suffered...
Well it's also kinda cool that they used to chew the bark as they marched places (the army that is)
I wrote a paper last year on Lupa and if the she-wolf was a promiscuous woman, or an actual wolf in the Romulus and Remus tale (and how it was perceived during different points in Roman history). However, I used Lupercalia as another example of a pre-"roman" event, and I was fascinated by the fact that during the Republic, no one knew its origins. Really great show this time, thanks for bringing to light this amazing festival :)
in modern French the she-wolf ("louve") is still a term for a promiscuous, lascivious woman😌
I never even thought of the allegory of a she wolf for a promiscuous woman. Using a she wolf in legend would make sense. Instead of "Our founders' mother was a whore and they lived in a cave."
There was also the "Lupanar", which is "brothel" (from the same root),
the most famous being in Pompeii, noted for it's erotic paintings.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupanar
Man all four of you guys brought great information to this.... Some of the things I never thought about myself ( referring to the meaning of she wolf and where it came from) thank you all I felt enlightened a bit by each of you all's comment. Thank you for that
I actually never knew there was a reading of the myth where people saw the she-wolf as a metaphor for a promiscuous woman, do you have any sources for further reading on that?
I feel like watching Max taste the food is like:
1) He's so excited to try it!
2) Food goes in. Thoughtful face.
3) Concerned face???
4) Strained positivity while chewing
5) Food consumed. Opinion formed. He kind of chuckles and shakes his head, as if confronted by his archenemy..............but he's not mad about it.
6) It definitely can't taste good right?
7) Max says something way nicer than I probably would have said.
Just about every time 😅
It's strangely interesting to me that Ancient Romans refer to this tradition as ancient themselves. Time is weird.
Don’t forget that the Roman Republic was after the Greeks and the Greeks were after the Bronze Age and 20 dynasties in Egypt. Rome is about equidistant to us as it was to the first Egyptian dynasties. Rome was late to the ancient calendar. Plenty of time - 2000 years - for things to be ancient before the whipper snapper Rome came along.
The Romans saw the pyramids the same way we see the colisseum today. The world and civilisation is much, much older than we tend to think.
@@varolussalsanclar1163 And we are as far away in time from the fall of the Western Roman Empire as they themselves were from the Bronze Age Collapse.
Especially if you realize that humans have been walking this earth for about 2 hundred thousand years of which only the last 5 thousand years or so is considered history because of writing and the rise of civilization.
Max should start his own "Tasting History" restaurant. Would be a great place to go taste all these old recipes
I will be first in line when he opens the door!
I'd go.
Always awesome to see another Roman episode! I've currently been on a months-long kick of Roman research. It's always so cool to see how they combined flavors that we would never think of today!
@@asdolasila4563 reported. Virus link. Don't hit.
@@tpl608 Keep reporting these spammers whenever they pop up. Thanks.
It's still kinda weird to me how for most of history you couldn't just set your cooking appliances to a specified temperature, you just had to learn the hard way how to eyeball a wood/coal fire.
Metal workers for MILLENIA have been doing this at the forge, judging the heat in different parts of the fire and watching the metal change color. This is especially true with iron/steel.
@@danielbeck9191 if the cast iron stove is changing colors it's too hot to cook food. Electric stove heating coils are usually a kind of ceramic that glows at much lower temperatures than metal.
Running around naked, hitting each other with wet leather, eating delicious food?
... sounds like some of my better dinner parties.
Sounds like a great way to spend Valentine's Day.
-Count Dracula
Seriously, we still have this, it's just part of Pride 😂
@@erraticonteuse when do you think these dinner parties happen?! 🤣
For a moment I thought he was going to suggest, "Instead of wooing your love with choclates this year..." , run around nekkid and slap them with flayed goat hides.
As someone from a Hindu family who went to Catholic school (I'm an athiest, lol) ancient traditions never sound too weird to me. It's interesting to see how much faith in such traditions really helped form societies back then. In modern times we have our own traditions, including celebrating our fav CZcamsrs' success with likes and shiny play buttons! Congrats Max and fam, you always do well to present little glimpses into history through food.
Makes sense. I mean, how are you going to increase fertility and birth rates without a little nudity?
@Avorne - Or a lot of nudity.
I love that about the Romans. They had a few rituals like this that they didn't know the origin of. But they were very "Doesn't matter if we don't know why. Doesn't matter if we don't understand the words in this prayer. We are doing this because we always have and we don't want to jinx ourselves!" And they were right, because what happened when they dumped all those rituals? Mmhmmmm.
"but ancient romans didn't have valentines day, they had lupercalia and celebrated by wiping people with animal skins and feasting on roast goat"
-tasting history 2022
they're basically the same thing right
I'll be as glad for a nice roast as for a box of chocolates.
Depending on what kinks they have, pretty much, yeah.
Max, I am curious if you've encountered any of these historical dishes that have become part of your regular meal rotation?
It'd be funny if one of them happened to be hardtack. *clack clack*
@@goldenknight578 His poor dentist though - “Max, you have a lot more tooth fractures than 6 months ago. Have you made any dietary changes?” 😂
WELP I’m currently pregnant, have serious date cravings, and I have 15 kg of red deer meat in my freezer 🦌 it’s not goat, but I think the wolves would still approve lol 🐺 👍 I’ll be trying this recipe for sure!
have you considered being slapped with goat skin
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Maybe don't sacrifice a dog, though.
Oooh, red deer is so good. My son got one last year and I was surprised how different it was from venison.
I was just wondering how this would be with deer. Please comment how it turns out if you do try it!
I am so happy for you and I am super proud to be a fan. Your fandom is one of the least toxic, most supportive groups around. Your lovely, your fans are lovely, yeah, I am really proud of you. I knew it was just a matter of time. I believe there are many more still to come.
"You all did see that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown which he did thrice refuse, was this ambition?" Ha, I knew I recognized the title of this festival! It's mentioned in my favourite Shakespearean monologue.
YES! Exactly what I was thinking!
This was the eulogy, yes? I put a teddy bear in a toga to use as prop when reciting it way back in middle school!
@@slwrabbits technically, yes, it was a eulogy. But, really, it was a power move. Without going into all of the background, Cassius and Brutus never expected to succeed in killing Caesar and therefore didn’t plan for anything after that. Antony realized this and decided to join them, though more as blackmail.
There was a concept known as a True Roman, a person that f-ked like a rabbit, drank like a fish, loved bloodshed and had zero ambition; to win over the public, they needed a True Roman and Antony just happens to be the only True Roman that all history books can agree on. So, from then on, he called the shots. His first demand was a funeral for Caesar that was grander than Caesar’s own triumph.
@@iainronald4217 wow, all of that *definitely* went over my head when I was a teenager. Thanks for the edification!
That Le Crueset baking dish is gorgeous 💙 I'm so jealous!
@E E - And prominent product placement!
When Max started talking about the Luperci, I just flashed back to Assassins Creed Brotherhood where you had to fight men in wolf pelts called The Followers Of Romulus (who are literally what the Luperci are/were) on occasions
Tasting History: Come for the wonderful recipes. Stay for that perfectly coifed hair!
Hahaha it's distractingly perfect
This festival sounds eerily familiar to my frat parties back at college
🤣
@FatherPaprika - Were you all history majors?
As someone who celebrates my birthday on February 15th it was super interesting learning about Lupercalia. I always thought I missed out being born a day late but turns out my birthday holiday is way more interesting!
Amazingly interesting video as always, love you Max!
No, thank you Max for the delicious history and recipes you shared to us on these trying times.
You should never stress about how your videos turn out. I have never been disappointed!
Being out in a rural location, using a satellite ISP, I have to budget my download data. I judge CZcams providers as to what pixel count I can afford to view.
You are always 1080p or better.
I've literally lost sleep over "Feb-yoo-ary" vs "Feb-roo-ary"...😀
That Le Crueset roasting dish is absolutely beautiful, btw.
It is from Latin---do NOT skip the "R" : Februarius!
A recipe involving goat, a Gogoat (My favourite transport pokemon) and my Chinese New Year sign of the Goat being very lucky this year. What more can I ask for, a naked Roman?
Maybe you'll get a pet goat for your birthday this year? That would be funny, haha.
I'm always trying to figure out what the Pokemon is thinking as they are watching their "relative" get cooked and eaten....
Lupercalia seems super weird to us now, but the more I read about ancient religious traditions the more tI think that we're actually the ones in the minority. A lot of ancient religious rituals and festivals were highly stylized re-enactments of mythology or history.
There were probably a lot of benefits to having reenactments of your traditions. They were a source of lessons and morals, even propaganda. Those who couldn't read or write would remember historical events (however inaccurately). That must have been particularly important in war times, in case some invading army destroyed historical documents/records.
That’s a Catholic mass. A reenactment of the last supper. Protestants deliberately decided that that it was a bad idea.
@@francesconicoletti2547 This is true, although it's slightly more abstract than the examples I was thinking of.
Though it's worth noting that many Protestants do still celebrate the Eucharist, like Anglicans, Lutherans, Calvinist Presbyterians, and so on.
It actually doesn't seem that weird. The middle European Karneval/Fastnacht traditions that are still enacted every year at about the same time still contain many of the same themes. Nowadays it's "running around with demon masks and tapping people with sticks", then it was "running around naked and hitting people with fur strips"...
"Some dates smash easily, some don't" Taken out of context, that line sounds like it belongs in a True Crime video.
Could also be a comment on dating generally...
Congratulations! You certainly have earned it.
By the way the brief clip of Tevye in *Fidler on the Roof* made me laugh out loud. Has to be my favorite song in my favorite movie! And it applies to about 90% of cooking:)
TRADITION!!!
Also, lol at Caesar getting shanked 4-6 weeks later😆
Just noticed amongst your Patrons you have an Arnold J. Rimmer, BSc, SSc. I almost died laughing! Well done, whomever used that name.
Bronze AND silver swimming certificate? Impressive.
So glad you finally tried kid goat; I predicted many episodes ago that you'd love it. Kid spit-roasted over mesquite is my all-time favorite meat.
Not that kind of spit roasting pornbot.
The clip from the series ROME!! Tingles through my bones! Such an amazing show, seen it like 17 times. So glad you also have. Great episode as always.
What a pity it was cancelled!
Max I haven't seen this in many places so could I kindly request you to do an episode related to native indian cuisine, I'd like to learn a little about that, seems interesting
EDIT: I usually say February but February seems fine too, but if you look at the British pronunciation, it sounds like February but American is more like February, so in conclusion, I think pronouncing it as February is most probably the best option...
He did one on an indian rice dessert
auto correct strikes again! I see what you mean though
Thanks! I always wondered why there’s that Commandment not to cook a kid in its mother’s milk in the Bible but now I know, that’s a genuine cooking technique for goat. Neat! This is why I watch your vids, I learn really cool stuff and get to see the cool foods humans used to eat. Also, I find it funny how we casually discuss all the animals humans ate into extinction but rarely any plants, so that’s cool to know. Love your vids, keep up tue good work.
Oh I like the ever better title sequences, this is I think the third and is quite nice, :)
This recipe looks so good! Let's do away with the overplayed chocolate and roses and go back to this!
Treat your date to some dates. Why isn't that a thing yet???
It is probably healthier
@Marissa Stewart- Do away with (DARK!) chocolate over my dead sacrificial goat!
I like the mention of acetabulum as in anatomy it has come to mean the "cup" or hollow a thighbone sits in at the hips. So i knew the general meaning, but to hear it was also a measurement is fascinating.
I wonder what a modern day Lupercalia card would look like
Bet it would be more interesting than a Valentines Day card
On Friday I will be talking about Vinegar Valentine cards. Now those were interesting.
It would probably be a day where people can go around naked and by the end of the day they hopefully realize that being naked isn’t wrong
Since they would have naked men on the cover they would probably most likely be sold exclusively at Spencer's.😆
@@TastingHistory Have you seen Abby Cox's video rating vinegar valentines?
@ gwenpool where I live going naked in February is if not wrong at least a very bad idea just saying
I love how Max is so causal about getting the 1mln badge. Pretty much ‘yeah yeah it’s nice and shiny but let me talk you about this’. Absolute gem within all content creators, you are so passionate about what you do! I’ve been watching your videos for the past few weeks and loving it 🙏 thanks for creating such a comforting yet informative channel.
I CANNOT believe you had to explain what a "kid" was on a historic cooking channel...
There’s probably a lot of people who watch this channel who don’t speak English as a first language
@@TheKingOfBeans Certainly a possibility. I can understand how English slang can confuse non-English speakers. I have trouble keeping up with the modern slang that my own "kids" speak! :)
@@TheKingOfBeans I'm one of those, I had absolutely no idea that kid also meant this
@@Ozuhananas this is where the phrase “treat [someone] with kid gloves” is from. Kid (baby goat) leather is especially thin and fine, so you would only do gentle things while wearing them to avoid quickly wearing or damaging them (the leather was also expensive in most applications). Hence the phrase means to treat someone gently.
@@angellahanson8343 ,
"Baller" certainly does not mean the same now as it did when I was younger.
Congratulations Max!!! You deserve the 1M. Glad you're getting recognized!
I've always pronounced it Feb-yew-airy. I think it's one of those words with an old spelling that people don't pronounce anymore.
(never thought I'd be able to make a direct comparison between the wholesomeness that is Tasting History with the pure chaos that is Buzzfeed Unsolved, but February has a history of tripping up youtubers, I suppose)
Thanks Max! You're videos always make my breaks at work so much better , gives me something to look forward to when I finally get to chill out for 15 minutes
Glad I can be of service 😁
You know, I thought you covered it before but I thought that the reason why quantities weren't specific was because of two reasons -- both of which I learned by experience being taught cooking by my grandmothers who lived simply a couple of miles (or kms) apart from each other. The first deals with the fact that many recipes were collected by talking to cooks and their wide variance of how much of each ingredient were included in the recipe. Because of this oral histories of the recipes were varied both by distance and time they were collected to be put into a book as best as possible.
The second deals with the phrase that we carry today and that is "to taste". One family's love of the recipe might be heavy with a specific spice, another wouldn't even include the spice in the recipe. So generic cookbooks were created for cooks by cooks to help that along and spread the word on regional and even international foods.
Because of the experience with cooking, I've also learned that when looking at a recipe from any modern cookbooks -- I can put it together either dish from a recipe for 2 people or 10 people and have it taste either close to what they're recommending based on "a little of this" or "a lot of that" or even change the taste according to the likes and dislikes of myself or the people I'm trying to impress with the dish (and my cooking prowess).
Max, you are the highlight of my Tuesdays. Thank you so much. I love your content.
I'll second that, it gives me a reason to look forward to Tuesdays.
Congrats on the million, Max. I love the way you put things together; food and tales and both with humor.
Wait… they did not knew who they were sacrificing to!? That is surprisingly Lovecraftian, in a way.
Every time you do a Roman episode, I'm always left thinking, "Man, my ancestors were nuts." Instruments of depravity that make you blush to fulfill are our specialty! 🙂
Lupercalia makes me think of the old British festival Imbolc, which I think means "in-the-belly." I guess if Easter/May Day/Beltaine/etc. was all about rebirth, then it's natural that cultures would have a festival a few months earlier associated with pregnancy and even promiscuity.
I also laughed when you were asking why naked young guys would hit people with the strips of goat skin because ... well, what else are a herd of drunk, naked young guys going to do but run around like lunatics and start hitting people with whatever comes to hand? 😀
It does sound a lot like modern Imbolc. Lamb and goats are something modern Pagans and witches still use to represent the rebirth of spring and the comming new year, since early lambs are being birthed then. The whipping with thongs is like some Easter/Ostara traditions from the Czech Republic and surrounding area that are still practiced today.
Best food history channel out there by faaaaar, entertaining and educational at the same time, love it. Cheers from Estonia
My dad is a really big fan of this channel and knows I love trying things from ancient history, especially when it has to do with the romans, so I’m trying this this weekend!😂 I have no idea what to expect, but it looks good
One million, I remember when you made the video deciding to quit your job and do this full time 😄
Congratulations, well deserved 👏
Oh man, so this is what they were talking about! So, born and raised Roman Catholic, went to Catholic school, and part of the curriculum was general learning/reading of the bible and the context that surrounded it (georaphic, political, social, how general history impacted it). Being a preteen, always thought that part in Exodus was funny/strange. It stated: "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk." And its annotation stated something like, "a common meal during Roman pagan rituals." I couldn't really comprehend what kind of meal that would be, so it always stuck with me! Thanks Max!
Congrats on gold, you deserve it! I love the vids and the sideshow of your life is also awesome!! I look forward to seeing more ancient food!
Congrats on 1 mil! I've been here since toward the beginning, maybe a few months in. I remember at first thinking your channel was a super established one because of the production value! I was so disappointed when there were only like a dozen or less videos to watch.
I remember when he’d prepare the dish, give all the history and then not taste the dish. Totally leaving us hanging.
It's so interesting, that until this very day festivals, that involve hitting people have survived, even in western cultures. Just look at the Krampuslaufs ot alpine Euripe: Pretty much the same thing, also it's in winter.
also i think some easter traditions in eastern europe involve boys hitting girls with twigs in the street
Seeing this channel grow from the beginning with the cheese making to this has been an absolute treat. You deserve all the views, the attention to pronunciation, details and excellent camerawork are all top notch.
One of the first times I've been given a new channel with lower views by the algorithm and it was actually good.
Somehow I never expected click bait from the witty and sophisticated Max Miller. Then came a CZcams alert: "Rome's Naked Fertility Festival."
It’s not bait when it’s true 🤣
@@TastingHistory 😆 True that.
Being a child of the month of February and a stickler for grammar--something I immensely appreciate about you-- I say it Feb-brew-ary. This way I can mentally appreciate beer at the same time as saying the word. Feb-BREW-ary!! Thanks for your great program. I began watching about a month ago and became up to date with last Tuesday's episode. Just finished today's episode. Hoping you have many more subscribers, as I have probably recommended you to about a dozen or more people in a short month's time. Best wishes!
love to see the quantities in mL as well, love the history! It's likely going to be a while until I try this dish but it sounds like one of the better roman recipes
The best thing that happened in the last 2 years. Thank you for starting this channel. It's the highlight of my week. Congratulations on 1 million followers. We look forward to more recipes. Any chance for some African recipes?
I hope your husband was wooed by the goat! This was such a great story! thank you for another great episode, and I am so glad you are past 1 mil, looking forward to the musical episode. I hope you take your time and don't stress over it :D
I say "Febry" but to make up for it I pronounce the i in "parliament".
Also Goat is amazing! Have it in a Jamaican curry, have it in a tagine! Have it in a stew, roast it with garam masala and garlic! Love it. Also makes a great substitute for mutton which is practically impossible to find in Australia....
I've always wanted to try goat. I went to an Indian restaurant once that had curry goat but I didn't order it, I should have. If I can find goat meat here I'll have to try this. Thanks for the recipe Max.😊
Maybe look for a Caribbean food truck near you? I can usually find goat stew or goat curry at Caribbean restaurants and trucks! 🤗
If you have the chance, try Cabrito al pastor, is a dish of young goat, simply seasoned cooked over hot coals, well cooked is wonderful.
@@madmigraineur3815 Thanks! I'll see if we have one around here.😊
@@pedroarjona6996 Thank you! I'd love to try it simply cooked like that. That sounds delicious.😊
Kid meat is common in Dominican and some Mexican cooking. It's called Chivo and can be found in a lot of Mexican meat markets here in California.
Lupercalia seems very similar to a portuguese traditional party, the Carnaval dos Caretos. It happens during Carnaval (so between february and march) and consists of young men dressing in full body suits of colorful wool fringe with masks and belts with bells, which they use to tap (chocalhar), usually young, women. I never knew there were so many simmilarities! Thank you for your work!
4:04 Wheat starch is easy to make, but time consuming. You get it as a by-product when making wheat gluten/seitan. (Or you get seitan as a by-product, when making wheat starch.)
I haven't done this in years, but I think I remember the process.
You need wheat flour and water. Preferably flour made from only the endosperm (seem to go by different names, in different English speaking countries, with a lot of false friends, so I don't know what to call it). If the flour contain bran and/or germ, the process gets a lot more involved, since you have to remove those as well, if you want to get pure gluten and starch, it's a lot easier to just buy wheat flour where this have already been done.
Make a firm dough of the flour and water. Kneed it until stretchy, and let it rest, so it get even firmer. Wrap it with something, so that it doesn't get dryed out on the surface. Don't flour the dough, the dry flour will contaminate the starch later.
In a bowl of water. Clean out the starch from the gluten, by kneading, stretching, squeezing and perforating the dough under water, until the water stop getting whiter. The remaining dough is gluten. If you want gluten with even less traces of starch, you can continue the process under running water. The white liquid, in the bowl, is wheat starch in a water solution. You simply leave the water to stand in a wide bowl, until the water has evaporated. (No boiling! then you end up with wheat paste). If some water separate from the slurry, you simply discard it, to quicken the drying process. The flakes you end up with, when all water has evaporated from the bowl, is pretty much clean starch, that you can pulverise, and use similar to other starches in cooking.
The wheat starch is really good as a thickener in cooking. And you don't really need to wait until it's completely dry before you use it. Many recipes call for a slurry of starch and water. But the slurry, unlike the dry stuff, can easily get moldy or go bad, so store it refrigerated in a closed container.
Do a Google search for "seitan", if you want to know what to do with the gluten, there are a lot of fake meat recipes, using it, out there.
Perhaps the old tradition of making gluten based fake meat, can be a topic for another episode of Tasting History.
Can corn starch be extracted the same way?
@@DH-xw6jp My guess is not. Maize have weaker proteins. I'm guessing the dough won't stick together, but instead the proteins wiil dissolve into the water, together with the starch.
Swedish children learn how to extract potato starch from potatoes, by soaking, and weight separation. Maybe something similar can be done with maize.
The reason Swedish children learn to make potato starch, is because the process was invented by a Swedish scientists/noble woman in the 18th century, who together with her husband, formedthe then most influental power couple in the Swedish dominions. Their ingenuity and hard work, also made them the second richest family, second to the royal one. (Not that they where poor to begin with.)
She invented a lot of farming, food and weaving stuff. Among those a method to make alcohol from starchy vegetables, that is still in use today, and popularised potatoes as a crop in Sweden. She was also the first woman to take a seat in the Swedish Royal Science Academy, today most known for selecting the winners of the science-related Nobel prizes.
Eva Ekblad (born De last Gardie), would also make an interesting subject of Tasting History.
@@martinjansson1970 cool.
Thanks for the mini history lesson.
Max - ever hear of a stew called Capponadda. It was a sailors recipe from the Ligurian coast specifically
Genoa. It is made from hard tack biscuits soaked in water (seawater?) crumbled, originally used salted tuna belly, later tuna in oil, anchovy fillets. capers, chopped olives , Later variation added chopped tomato and hard boiled eggs , It was similar to Salmaguni, salad of greens with cooked chicken or other meat (Salt pork) served over greens with pickles and boiled eggs. The name was corrupted to Solomon Grundy by English sailors
he Welsh pirate Black Bart Roberts was supposedly eating his dinner of Salmaguni when his ship was surprised by English warship HMS SWALOW. Roberts crew was beastly drunk, having captures a ship laden with liquor., and slow to react. The swallow raked Tobert's ship with a broadside as Roberts attempted to escape. Roberts, sitting on cannon waving his sword exhorting his crew was killed by grapshot, His crew wrapped body in chains and tossed it overboard before surrendering
Waiting for Max + Historia Civilis collab
Shoutout to Gogoat!! Honestly seeing what Pokémon plush you’ll use next is part of the reason why I subbed lol
I’m amazed you had to clear up the kid confusion 😂
Probably due to google translate.
Congratulations on your achievement! You have one of the most informative and entertaining shows on the internet. And seriously, hello fresh should offer a Tasting History series( no hard tack please).
Yooo, congrats on the million!
Food looks delicious as always!
Dear Max, I'm watching from Berlin Germany and enjoying your channel immensely while recovering from THREE weeks of Covid.
I love the recipes you're trying out, and the interesting historical background. But: Even though I'm definitely not a vegan (and this already disturbed me a bit at John Townsend's channel), I'd appreciate it SO much if you could include more veggies. Not as a main dish, but ... My proposition would be: include SIDE DISHES, YAY!
I'm quite sure there must be hundreds of great recipes or at least hints at i.e. roast potatoes, vegetable rice, smoked eggplant, or whatever could accompany the meaty main, and I'm quite sure your audience (and even Hello Fresh for that matter) would love it if you used more veggies when cooking. There's even more skill involved in combining meaty mains and veggie sides thoughtfully, and I'm absolutely sure you could bring those skills to perfection! Kudos to your channel and all the best, Chris
I'm from Brazil and i love your channel. You do a good great job make the history live in ours hearts and stomachs. 👏👏👏
Thank you, Roberto. Hoping to get a Brazilian dish on the show soon.
@@TastingHistory Oh, I hope so too. Brazilian food is amazing.
This channel is amazing and I’m so happy how much the community has grown and hope it just keeps growing!!
I always spell February, Febrewary in my head. That makes it easier for me to say it correctly. Great episode this week. I might actually try to make this. I love goat.
You videos are grand on all these foods. Even my cat likes to watch them with me. Congrats on the 1 million plaque. Your posts deserve a history award as well. Thank you for all the hard work. Take Care and Stay Safe.
That recipe really sounds good. I think I'll give it a try. Preparing a roast in milk btw is still a thing in Italy.
I always thought that the German Karneval had Germanic roots, but it definitely sounds like a reminiscens of Lupercalia. Even the time of year matches.
Max Miller is such a awesome person... thanks for all the videos you do.. and i appreciate your well natured spirit and enthusiasm for history and history of food... you should be very proud of yourself... thanks
Gotta say, I would greatly prefer a lovely goat pot-roast to chocolate as a gift from my significant other. Would definitely raise their significance in my stomach, errr, heart. ❤
Congratulations Max! I so enjoy your weekly recipes on tasting history. You have combined my love of food, cooking and history geekness rolled up in one. 😃
Why do old recipes always have _either_ specific quantities _or_ instructions?
Just to annoy us centuries later. I’m convinced.
Congrats on your million! You deserve it. Your educational view and humor is very much loved and appreciated. I know you put a lot of wrk into your videos and it shows. Thank you and I hope you get a million more. ❤️ from SC 🇺🇸
Fun detail about Romulus and Remus: "Lupa" also meant "prostitute". Pointing this out to a roman may have been considered the classical equivalent to "fightin' words":
Also, do NOT google-search "puppyfication". Unless you're into that :P.
I'm guessing only some of the results are about how domesticated dogs are more puppy-like compared to wolves?
@@ragnkja depends on your safe search settings 😉
When you said the reason was "Tradition!!!!" in my head, I saw the clip, and then it became so!!