As an archaeologist I can think of few things better than participating in experimental archaeology (making Roman bread!) and exploring a fascinating site like Ostia Antica, where I've excavated many years. Loved filming this episode and meeting up with a phenomenal bread expert Laura Lazzaroni! And great conversation with colleague Dr. Benedetta Bessi. Amazing times in Ancient Rome to explore daily life!
hello Darius, I'm a big fan of your videos and I am coming to visit Rome for the first time in about 2 weeks. Could you tell me the address to that bakery you visited, so I can go there and taste that roman bread? thanks in advance.
@@fhmen If it can be of help, I searched for "Laura Lazzaroni baker" and a lot of stuff came up, incl. Facebook and Instagram accounts. I looked a bit around and didn't find the bakery, but maybe you're more lucky?
@fhmen Now I tried to search for "Laura Lazzaroni bakery", and the site "Gambero Rosso International" (2019 article) mentions a bakery connected to her to open (in 2019) in Milan. The site "The Taste Edit" mentions that she lives in Milan. So the bakery Dario visited might be in Milan and not in Rome or Ostia. So for Rome the best alternative might be to ask local bakers (if they speak English) about ancient Roman bread and if they sell anything resembling it? Or, if you find a homepage to Laura's bakery, write a short email and ask for recommendations? I hope it was somehow helpful. Cheers.
I visited Ostia Antica in April 2024 and I love walking the same cobble stone roads and touching the stones, almost felt like I was walking the same time as Romans in ancient times🥰🥰
I'm always curious what life is like when PBSKids ends and PBS starts airing. I'm also curious how it does on the weekends. As an adult now, man oh man I love history
Outstanding and famishing work PBS!!! I had to indulge in some lightly toasted Italian bread and olive oil just to ease my envy for that ancient Roman loaf.
At that time, they used to say Algiers, the attic of Rome. Algiers, todays Algeria's was the first and biggest supplier of food to the Roman Empire. Algeria has the most roman ruins today after Italy.
I have read (can’t recall exactly where, sorry!) but the volcanic composition of the bread ovens contributed to the grit and coarse texture of the flour. This would have in turn impacted the bread and teeth of the Romans themselves. (If I am off here, please correct me.) All in all, fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing!!! 👍👍👍👍
They local forrest had to have been stipped bare for the wood needed for cooking and heating the homes and public baths for a city of a million. I'm guessing it was was brought in from many miles away and imported by ships which would made it expensive.
Importing things by ship was only more expensive than VERY local goods - I read somewhere that it cost the Romans about as much money to import grain from Egypt as it would cost them to move it from 100km away in Italy...anything further than 100km was more expensive than by boat.
@@Marcg-b4n 2 nd century. Take a look at them , they were wild . They built then on a hill. It was sort of a Roman Industrial Revolution. Cheers from the south of France
@andrewpalim1978: Deforestation and climate change gradually ended the north African breadbasket. And ancient populations of those areas were much smaller than they are now except for the outsized the city of Rome itself.
Nobody actually eats the bread during the entire video, lol. They just make it and throw it away I guess, because nobody is wondering what it tastes like right? cool guys, lol.
8:47 he says "...now a hub for buses and tramps". This is a major speech fail. You have to call the homeless "unhoused" in this age. Not that the government will actually do anything to get them into houses, you see. It's just essential to be kind and not cause offence. And how do we do that? By making sure we're using the appropriate, politically correct terminology. Now, instead of saying "the government lets the tramps rot on the street", we can be progressive and say "the government lets the unhoused rot on the street".
@@marting2003 You may want to Google a little history on that, the earliest quoted evidence of sourdough breads apparently date to 3700BC or before... your grape scrapings may well produce a sourdough bread since they would yield a variety of microbes & not pure yeast.
we have no way of knowing whether the slaves were truly miserable - or rather - were more miserable than the every day office dweller to be something worth mentioning
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As an archaeologist I can think of few things better than participating in experimental archaeology (making Roman bread!) and exploring a fascinating site like Ostia Antica, where I've excavated many years. Loved filming this episode and meeting up with a phenomenal bread expert Laura Lazzaroni! And great conversation with colleague Dr. Benedetta Bessi. Amazing times in Ancient Rome to explore daily life!
So glad to see your academic cred is being used by PBS to educate. I have subbed your channel Darius Arya Digs for a few years♥
hello Darius, I'm a big fan of your videos and I am coming to visit Rome for the first time in about 2 weeks. Could you tell me the address to that bakery you visited, so I can go there and taste that roman bread? thanks in advance.
@@fhmen If it can be of help, I searched for "Laura Lazzaroni baker" and a lot of stuff came up, incl. Facebook and Instagram accounts. I looked a bit around and didn't find the bakery, but maybe you're more lucky?
@fhmen Now I tried to search for "Laura Lazzaroni bakery", and the site "Gambero Rosso International" (2019 article) mentions a bakery connected to her to open (in 2019) in Milan. The site "The Taste Edit" mentions that she lives in Milan. So the bakery Dario visited might be in Milan and not in Rome or Ostia.
So for Rome the best alternative might be to ask local bakers (if they speak English) about ancient Roman bread and if they sell anything resembling it?
Or, if you find a homepage to Laura's bakery, write a short email and ask for recommendations?
I hope it was somehow helpful. Cheers.
@@larsrons7937 thanks bro for your research:)
The Guild of Millers uses only the finest grains, true Roman bread for true Romans!
Was scrolling til I found this! 🫡
Cool to see you on PBS, Darius.
I love PBS - such a pleasure to work with them!
I can’t believe they didn’t show the inside of the loaf or the people eating it in the traditional way.
Bro didn't even eat the bread. That's what I was waiting for.
What a wonderful social history of everyday life in Ancient Rome. Thank you for posting this video.
I visited Ostia Antica in April 2024 and I love walking the same cobble stone roads and touching the stones, almost felt like I was walking the same time as Romans in ancient times🥰🥰
I'm always curious what life is like when PBSKids ends and PBS starts airing.
I'm also curious how it does on the weekends.
As an adult now, man oh man I love history
Outstanding and famishing work PBS!!!
I had to indulge in some lightly toasted Italian bread and olive oil just to ease my envy for that ancient Roman loaf.
At that time, they used to say
Algiers, the attic of Rome.
Algiers, todays Algeria's was the first and biggest supplier of food to the Roman Empire.
Algeria has the most roman ruins today after Italy.
Can't wait to go back!
@MichaelTheophilus906 80% sahara, but the remaining 20% are bigger than france and germany combined lol. Go educate yourself.
I have read (can’t recall exactly where, sorry!) but the volcanic composition of the bread ovens contributed to the grit and coarse texture of the flour. This would have in turn impacted the bread and teeth of the Romans themselves. (If I am off here, please correct me.) All in all, fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing!!! 👍👍👍👍
woah!! Great seeing you Darius!
All that history and he didn't try the bread and tell us what it tastes like? It's the whole reason I clicked on the thumbnail. 🙄
It was delicious!
They local forrest had to have been stipped bare for the wood needed for cooking and heating the homes and public baths for a city of a million. I'm guessing it was was brought in from many miles away and imported by ships which would made it expensive.
Importing things by ship was only more expensive than VERY local goods - I read somewhere that it cost the Romans about as much money to import grain from Egypt as it would cost them to move it from 100km away in Italy...anything further than 100km was more expensive than by boat.
Very, very cool video! Is there a recipe for the ancient Roman bread that was baked in the video! Would be fun, I think, to try to make it at home!
Would have like to see the flour derived from the Roman grinding method baked, complete with pieces of grit from the mill stone.
Darius is the Man👍
Bakery looks amazing! What's the name please? Thank you!
Forno Conti
@@lauralazzaroni9890 Thank you so much will be sure to visit the next time I'm in Roma. Looking amazing!
Forno Conti- Esquiline hill
Great video!
Oooh yum! 🍞
This looks great, but have you guys ever tried Wonderbread?
Brilliant work
Lol okay but this show is not on the app so how can I watch the whole show 😂
2 episodes out so far - on RUclips- did you see Entertainment? More on the way.
Ahh I didn't realize it wasn't just a clip from a full length episode I was sad 😂 I was hoping you had like an hour long show sir!
What did they use instead of yeast?
Thank you to the ancients for bread. I ❤ bread!
Was the stick needed to whack the Donkey,,if it stopped going in a small circle crushing grain all day?
No use of watermills?
Yes ! The Barbegal watermills in south of France were industrial scale
@@stankythecat6735 when were they built?
Cheers 🍻 from Milwaukee
@@Marcg-b4n 2 nd century. Take a look at them , they were wild . They built then on a hill. It was sort of a Roman Industrial Revolution. Cheers from the south of France
Yes, they had them as well... but we didn't cover them in this episode.
@@DariusArya thank you for the reply. Cheers from Milwaukee 🍻
How timely! Because I’ll be in Rome - first time! - next week
Enjoy- and get yourself to Ostia with the local train !
Ironic Egypt went from being one of the worlds breadbaskets to one of the worlds biggest importers of food
@andrewpalim1978: Deforestation and climate change gradually ended the north African breadbasket. And ancient populations of those areas were much smaller than they are now except for the outsized the city of Rome itself.
all that bakery scene and no cut of splitting the bread? hahaha
Where’s that bread at can I have some to eat?
The host gives me Dr. Ray vibes.
The Emperor Heraclius ended the Cura Annonae in about 620 AD.
Panem et Circenses; hold the circus, please.
When they baked an authentic ancient Roman bread did they include mouse droppings?
Why did Romans tie the loaves with string?
@@MichaelTheophilus906 Thanks! I'm not a baker so I have no idea why string would be used since it isn't seen on most modern loaves.
I came to see how -True Roman bread was made for true Romans, by the Miller's Guild.
Was that really a youth or could have been a short person?
What about the rest of Italy?
he has an interesting name
Why???
Before modern farming , in Roman times, really ? Surely they had combined harvesters and tractors back then.
😎😎😎😎
here is your loaf of bread, try not to fill up
Rōma cōnferta seruōs quippe futūra erat plēna pistrīnōrum ut hodiē uēgānī.
Nobody actually eats the bread during the entire video, lol. They just make it and throw it away I guess, because nobody is wondering what it tastes like right? cool guys, lol.
You know! this dude was made fun of in high school!
*Roman servi
8:47 he says "...now a hub for buses and tramps". This is a major speech fail.
You have to call the homeless "unhoused" in this age. Not that the government will actually do anything to get them into houses, you see. It's just essential to be kind and not cause offence. And how do we do that? By making sure we're using the appropriate, politically correct terminology. Now, instead of saying "the government lets the tramps rot on the street", we can be progressive and say "the government lets the unhoused rot on the street".
I too am disappointed by that omission of the eating experience. This is why history videos are BORING !!!
i dont think they used sough dough starter lol
Why not?
@@davidkottman3440 i dont think they had starters like us, usually just the white powder from the grapes
@@marting2003 You may want to Google a little history on that, the earliest quoted evidence of sourdough breads apparently date to 3700BC or before... your grape scrapings may well produce a sourdough bread since they would yield a variety of microbes & not pure yeast.
Still no English translation
we have no way of knowing whether the slaves were truly miserable - or rather - were more miserable than the every day office dweller to be something worth mentioning
This is so scripted
Great Video!