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Комментарии • 8 тыс.

  • @TastingHistory
    @TastingHistory  3 года назад +981

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    • @BJReolon
      @BJReolon 3 года назад +6

      hi

    • @mnels5214
      @mnels5214 3 года назад +6

      The kitties ❤even if I didn't like wine I would subscribe for the kitty playground

    • @macdjord
      @macdjord 3 года назад +12

      Jamie is adorable and deserves many pettings.

    • @anonymoose9315
      @anonymoose9315 3 года назад +8

      Despite your distaste for Chicago pizza I still love you.

    • @deangraves7462
      @deangraves7462 3 года назад +15

      Countdown before the mayor of Chicago sends you a pizza with dead fish on it.

  • @VodkaHellstorm
    @VodkaHellstorm 3 года назад +11138

    This recipe just reads like "take butter, add butter, while waiting for your butter to cook, eat some butter, rub butter on your butter, then on yourself, then on your butter again. Throw a bit of dough in there somewhere. Serve hot."

    • @clarie4497
      @clarie4497 3 года назад +401

      This is a very underrated comment lmao

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад +369

      Sounds like my kind of recipe.

    • @spitcloth
      @spitcloth 3 года назад +571

      IKR? Whole thing is an exercise in, "How do we just eat butter while pretending that we're not eating just straight butter? Hmm..."

    • @FlameDarkfire
      @FlameDarkfire 3 года назад +337

      Add nutmeg to taste.

    • @joeloffing2113
      @joeloffing2113 3 года назад +226

      @@FlameDarkfire Townsend has entered the chat.

  • @hcn6708
    @hcn6708 3 года назад +5637

    "Pineapples in Pizza? That's so outrageous! They don't even do that in Italy!"
    16th century Italians: Hmmm yes SUGAR PIZZA

    • @Asiaa514
      @Asiaa514 3 года назад +470

      We have sweet pizza here in Italy, it's not the sweet the problem, it's the pineapple, we don't use pineapple on pizza, it's blasphemy hahaha

    • @colabrodointellettuale2447
      @colabrodointellettuale2447 3 года назад +46

      @@Asiaa514 boh a me fa cagare l'ananas

    • @Asiaa514
      @Asiaa514 3 года назад +48

      @@colabrodointellettuale2447 fa cagare l'ananas sulla pizza, l'ananas in sé è buono, da solo ovviamente

    • @eveakane6563
      @eveakane6563 3 года назад +385

      Fruits in savory dishes are a thing people. Let it go like Elsa.

    • @EmmyDereest
      @EmmyDereest 3 года назад +228

      @@eveakane6563 This! Some of the best traditional pizza toppings are figs and fresh stone fruit.

  • @CTRIsTheBest
    @CTRIsTheBest Год назад +632

    "whats the pope favourite pizza topping" i can't be the only one who said "Poperoni"

    • @junecampbell2152
      @junecampbell2152 Год назад +20

      You are in fact, not the only person who said that. I did too.

    • @macattack5691
      @macattack5691 Год назад +6

      Me too.

    • @RT-bt5ql
      @RT-bt5ql Год назад +1

      Popes pedo

    • @HueghMungus
      @HueghMungus Год назад +2

      @@junecampbell2152 There's 8 billion people on earth, some will have same comments just by chance

    • @Shrapnel82
      @Shrapnel82 Год назад

      And holypenos.

  • @thecynicaloptimist1884
    @thecynicaloptimist1884 Год назад +159

    Hearing you describe Chicago-style pizza as "basically soup" brought me a chuckle. It reminds me somewhat of the pie debates I have with my parents in England. Sometimes you go to a pub and order, say, a steak and ale pie, and the pastry is just a lid. I'm staunchly of the view that a pie crust has to completely encase the filling, if it's just a lid, that's not a pie, it's stew with a hat.

    • @yourmusictastesuks
      @yourmusictastesuks 2 месяца назад +2

      I live in Ohio, the United States and I can't travel much and I love food, do you mind telling me what ale pie is? I could look it up but I want a person who has had it describe it.

    • @owaing
      @owaing 2 месяца назад +4

      @@yourmusictastesuks It's "steak and ale" pie. It's a steak pie with the meat filling cooked with ale (beer).

    • @squidwardtortellini362
      @squidwardtortellini362 2 месяца назад +3

      The more I read the more British it gets lol

    • @yourmusictastesuks
      @yourmusictastesuks 2 месяца назад +1

      @@owaing kind of what I had in mind but I wanted to be sure, sounds pretty decent.

    • @KelseyDrummer
      @KelseyDrummer Месяц назад +1

      A stew with a hat is a perfect description.

  • @solDelta
    @solDelta 3 года назад +4637

    I'm Australian and I could hear those shots fired at Chicago from here

    • @TastingHistory
      @TastingHistory  3 года назад +663

      🤣

    • @JudgeNicodemus
      @JudgeNicodemus 3 года назад +1264

      Most of Chicagos citizens hear enough gunshots without Max roasting them.

    • @Heritage367
      @Heritage367 3 года назад +186

      @@JudgeNicodemus hiyooooooh!

    • @MontgomeryWenis
      @MontgomeryWenis 3 года назад +228

      @@TastingHistory Your distain for deep dish is insulting and I'm personally offended. Stay in California. Chicago doesn't want you.

    • @TastingHistory
      @TastingHistory  3 года назад +511

      @@MontgomeryWenis it’s my years in NY that make me biased 🤣 All in good fun.

  • @diamondddude171
    @diamondddude171 3 года назад +926

    “That delicious”
    Well of course it is, it’s got a pound of butter in it lmao.

    • @benjalucian1515
      @benjalucian1515 3 года назад +17

      My thoughts too. How could it taste bad?

    • @craigrobbins2463
      @craigrobbins2463 3 года назад +47

      the portion is like a whole slice of angel food cake. YOu can't tell me angel food wouldn't be great with rose water and butter

    • @diamondddude171
      @diamondddude171 3 года назад +12

      @@craigrobbins2463 you’re right I wouldn’t tell you that

    • @katiehettinger7857
      @katiehettinger7857 3 года назад +18

      Wonder what was served with it? Fruit, jam, cold cuts, cheese, eggs, stew any or all might be nice.

    • @benjalucian1515
      @benjalucian1515 3 года назад +14

      @@katiehettinger7857 it was for a feast for the Pope. It was served with all those things and probably a lot more.

  • @rowan_jalso
    @rowan_jalso Год назад +103

    I think you just made a cake shaped, rose flavored croissant. Which sounds awesome.

  • @dewilew2137
    @dewilew2137 Год назад +297

    I’m always so impressed with your pronunciation of various foreign words and languages. Your Italian pronunciation is SO GOOD. So many people don’t even try, or they just say the words phonetically with an American accent. You really went for it and you nailed it! Great job! 💗
    Edit: you even do a good transatlantic accent! I’m so impressed!

    • @chrisheartman9263
      @chrisheartman9263 Год назад +15

      I mean, it was a stereotypical italian through american lenses, but yeah, he did really try! And some, if not most pronounciations were decent, if not alright! He did a pretty good job, indeed.

    • @Shaitan_no_allah
      @Shaitan_no_allah Год назад +2

      He literally mispronounced all the Italian words, but okay

    • @AKbamoida
      @AKbamoida Год назад +10

      His French and German are also decent, also his British accent isn't terrible (source: I'm British and speak these languages)

    • @dewilew2137
      @dewilew2137 Год назад +10

      @@Shaitan_no_allah No, he “literally” did not. 🙄

    • @dewilew2137
      @dewilew2137 Год назад +14

      @@chrisheartman9263 he’s Not from Italy, so he doesn’t have an Italian accent. For someone with an American accent, he did fine. MUCH better than most.

  • @IDontWantThisStupidHandle
    @IDontWantThisStupidHandle 3 года назад +960

    Pizza a otto: "I'll gladly pay you in eight days for a pizza today."

    • @itzallaboutme2day
      @itzallaboutme2day 3 года назад +73

      Yes. I thought this too. Waited for him to reference it. Realized I'm old and moved on.

    • @ernstschmidt4725
      @ernstschmidt4725 3 года назад +37

      @@itzallaboutme2day popeye was old when i was young, good fun though.

    • @Anonarchist
      @Anonarchist 3 года назад +28

      Oh, get outta Wimpiovanni!

    • @MedicOnTheMove1
      @MedicOnTheMove1 3 года назад +7

      The first thing I thought of! 😂

    • @caseygibson7266
      @caseygibson7266 3 года назад +4

      Darn, I was just about to make that joke too.

  • @PhantomSavage
    @PhantomSavage 3 года назад +3752

    Soo... when the pope wanted "Pizza" he really meant "Bake me a giant loaf of brioche, crust it in sugar, and spritz it with perfume."
    I mean.. I wouldn't call it "Pizza".. but I can't deny that'd be delicious.

    • @songcramp66
      @songcramp66 3 года назад +136

      @@SimonWoodburyForget Lack of tomato sauce and cheese definitely disqualifies it as a pizza.

    • @abonynge
      @abonynge 3 года назад +97

      It really is just bread with rose scented frosting.

    • @robotmascot
      @robotmascot 3 года назад +180

      @@songcramp66 If you go to Rome you can find pizzerias serving pizza bianca, which often has just some mix of olive oil, salt, and rosemary, no tomato sauce, no cheese. It's definitely still a pizza.

    • @victoriahoward8244
      @victoriahoward8244 3 года назад +54

      When you are the Pope, you do what you want.

    • @victoriahoward8244
      @victoriahoward8244 3 года назад +14

      @@abonynge And I AM HERE FOR IT. 🌹🌹🌹

  • @davidcatanach2620
    @davidcatanach2620 Год назад +117

    SOOOOOO glad I found this channel! Super funny, mildly informative, time warps 20 mins into 5, such fun. Thank you, sir.

    • @nollypolly
      @nollypolly 10 месяцев назад +6

      100% with you! I have ADHD and not much can keep my attention but I've binged watched about a dozen vids since finding it 3 hours ago lol

    • @travelingman5146
      @travelingman5146 2 месяца назад +1

      Very informative!
      Not mildly!

  • @MurderWho
    @MurderWho Год назад +31

    As soon as I heard rose water and sugar, I knew it would be Scappi :)
    The summer before last, I earned a fair amount of coin making historical pizzas for a client, and Scappi ended up being his favourite excursion into that part of food history.
    I'm hoping to pick up some more catering contracts from him this summer.

  • @FailSonOfAnarchy
    @FailSonOfAnarchy 3 года назад +927

    "and enough salt." Love the vagueness of old recipes.

    • @jamesbradleysears7188
      @jamesbradleysears7188 3 года назад +100

      Was their version of "to taste".

    • @GroundThing
      @GroundThing 3 года назад +53

      @@jamesbradleysears7188 And like "to taste" entirely unhelpful if you're going to be altering the flavor profile of the finished dish.

    • @GrimAhren
      @GrimAhren 3 года назад +41

      @@jamesbradleysears7188 which itself seems to be a later version of "a pinch of salt." Seems like decades ago most recipes said "pinch of salt" and now it's all "to taste".

    • @jamesbradleysears7188
      @jamesbradleysears7188 3 года назад +25

      If you meed a precise measurement for your own taste, you really ought to be staying away from recipes, or cooking, entirely.

    • @GroundThing
      @GroundThing 3 года назад +31

      @@jamesbradleysears7188 The whole point is that you can't really taste it, at least before it's cooked, at which point you can't exactly add more salt, per "to taste". If it says X grams of salt, and I know I like my food saltier than average, I can adjust to say 1.5X grams of salt or if I like less salt I might go to 0.67X grams of salt, aka exactly how I do for garlic or vinegar, or most other ingredients.

  • @neilholmes8200
    @neilholmes8200 2 года назад +2301

    I love how old recipes have ingredients like "enough salt"

    • @TerrorLTZ
      @TerrorLTZ Год назад +98

      someone who eats ramen
      grabs a bowl worth of salt.
      this is "enough" salt?

    • @LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial
      @LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial Год назад +133

      Yea and shit like "some sugar" bruh

    • @LosGelfos
      @LosGelfos Год назад +103

      Modern Italian recipes today still say things like that : Sale (quanto basta). 'Sale'' is salt. 'Quanto basta' means 'however much is enough'.

    • @joemama-bu5ue
      @joemama-bu5ue Год назад +105

      @@LosGelfos I mean any modern recipes still have stuff like "add seasoning/salt to taste" so yeah it's basically the same

    • @reillyd.4753
      @reillyd.4753 Год назад +20

      Well salt is up to preference so it’s however much you want to add for it to be salted enough for your own personal taste.

  • @lindaputthoff470
    @lindaputthoff470 Год назад +339

    My husband came back from Italy and complained that spaghetti in Venice did not have ground beef in it. It had pepperoni or hard boiled eggs. SO, I added pepperoni to my spaghetti meat sauce. Love it.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L Год назад +24

      I’ve been adding fried salami or pepperoni to all sorts of pasta sauce for a while! It’s fantastic!

    • @SgtDuster
      @SgtDuster Год назад +39

      Funny because pepperoni isn't even italian, it's an american invention. Salami is.

    • @badweetabix
      @badweetabix Год назад +34

      @@SgtDuster Yes and no. It was invented by Italian immigrants in America, but possibility from other immigrant communities in other countries and introduced into America.

    • @SgtDuster
      @SgtDuster Год назад +1

      @@badweetabix Just like chinese buffets in N-A.

    • @Teert712
      @Teert712 Год назад +26

      @@SgtDuster While pepperoni is an invention of italian imigrants it is very closely based on other italian sausages invented centuries earlier in italy so it's very likely that he was actually served some sort of italian salsiccia rather than pepperoni. It would be pretty weird for italian restaurant in italy to serve american pepperoni, but they're very alike.

  • @rdiddyspace1708
    @rdiddyspace1708 Год назад +59

    you are definitely doctor of food history in my book!
    I was definitely confused when I ordered a "pizza" in Rome as a tourist and they put a sliced hard boiled egg on top of a flatbread with tomato sauce and called it pizza. What I really wanted was an American pizza over there.

    • @SandBoy408
      @SandBoy408 6 месяцев назад +2

      We don´t want "american pizza" in Italy. We don´t like, we don´t even consider it a pizza. Domino´s, for example, has failed 2 years ago in Italy 😂

    • @theawecat27
      @theawecat27 Месяц назад +3

      ​​@@SandBoy408 i hope you don't think domino's is representative of american pizza, i promise you that we have so much better. i honestly don't know how domino's hasn't failed here for how easily you can get better pizza.

    • @SandBoy408
      @SandBoy408 Месяц назад +1

      @@theawecat27 I don´t like NYC style pizza or chicago deep too. The only way i can apreciate american pizza is at some neapolitan pizzeria, like at Anthony Mangieri

  • @rsolsjo
    @rsolsjo 3 года назад +350

    Butterpizza: make it with butter, work in more butter, cook it in butter, soak it in butter and add sugar and rosewater

    • @whatzittooya9012
      @whatzittooya9012 3 года назад +29

      Paula Deen Pizza

    • @lorddestrustor8828
      @lorddestrustor8828 3 года назад +27

      Alright chief, but I'm also going to need a little bit of butter to spread on that bad boy.

    • @Charok1
      @Charok1 3 года назад +14

      Don't forget dipping the finished slice in GARLIC BUTTER.
      Seriously, that recipe has too much freaking butter.

    • @Amy_the_Lizard
      @Amy_the_Lizard 3 года назад +8

      @@Charok1 Garlic AND rosewater in the same dish..? O.o

    • @sekhmetsaes
      @sekhmetsaes 3 года назад +4

      Welcome to Italian pastry!

  • @janbaer3241
    @janbaer3241 2 года назад +2350

    "You can use our mill whenever you want, but you have to cater two pizza parties a year at the church." That seems like a good deal.

    • @singletona082
      @singletona082 2 года назад +127

      I mean this... sounds completely fair.

    • @maddockemerson4603
      @maddockemerson4603 2 года назад +57

      Well, these are two deliveries of twelve pizzas each, which is a lot a dough and other ingredients that you’d need to acquire all on your own. If we assume similar prices to a modern large pizza, that’s about a hundred dollars’ value per “party” so about 200 a year, which might not seem like a lot if compared to rent which is more than twice that each month, but this isn’t for something that’s absolutely essential like a place to live, it’s just a mill. It’s there so you don’t have to grind your grains by hand or order flour that’s already ground up. So this could actually be kinda pricey, depending on the success of the business that relies on it.

    • @swahilimaster
      @swahilimaster Год назад +93

      @@maddockemerson4603 You are pricing the pizza based on cost to purchase, not cost to produce, pizza has huge profit margins because of how extremely cheap the ingredients are. I can't attest to the price of ingredients in those days, but by today's standards you could easily produce a large cheese pizza with about 3 dollars worth of ingredients, most of that being the cost of the cheese.

    • @vaspeter2600
      @vaspeter2600 Год назад +31

      @@maddockemerson4603 In addition to the above, grinding your own grains was largely outlawed (or at least skirted the edge of legality) in medieval Europe. The commoners generally paid a portion of their flour as tax to the local lord, and naturally the nobility wasn't overly keen on seeing this form of income dwindle.

    • @annhentaiuser6658
      @annhentaiuser6658 Год назад

      No wonder why medieval priests are fat af.

  • @SuperNetSpyder
    @SuperNetSpyder Год назад +22

    This is still the best thing the RUclips algorithm has ever set me on to. Food and History, Mama Mia'!

    • @reneebush2399
      @reneebush2399 Год назад

      You may want to add in some towndsend and Victorian Way as well. They are more geared to a certain historical time and place, but great nonetheless.

  • @vipergtsrgt1
    @vipergtsrgt1 Год назад +64

    I ate a whole Red Baron pizza before watching this. If Max can do it, so can I.

    • @papwithanhatchet902
      @papwithanhatchet902 Год назад +4

      Then you risk being a “chubby kid” just like Max admitted he was. I still eat a whole pizza at one sitting about once a month and it’s not helping me, let me tell you.

    • @hennie_booboo
      @hennie_booboo Год назад +3

      we're here for a good time, not a long time ;-)

    • @thenovicenovelist
      @thenovicenovelist Год назад

      I love Red Baron fully loaded pepperoni pizza. I can only eat about 3 slices at most though. But, that just means I'll have something to look forward to the next day as well. But I don't eat pizza as much as I used to.

  • @IsaacIsaacIsaacson
    @IsaacIsaacIsaacson 3 года назад +631

    Max: "It smells kinda like croissants!"
    You mean butter? It smells like butter... haha

    • @jenniferaraisuru
      @jenniferaraisuru 3 года назад +10

      This comment alone has made me want to make this recipe!

    • @lepauvrehomme
      @lepauvrehomme 3 года назад +1

      Duh!

    • @buckbundy8642
      @buckbundy8642 3 года назад +8

      Flakey dough impregnated with unheard of amounts of butter. It’s basically a giant, flat croissant with gently perfumed sugar frosting lol. flakey

    • @mjamin9124
      @mjamin9124 2 года назад

      flour butter

  • @m.pellegrini2540
    @m.pellegrini2540 2 года назад +3655

    Fun fact: in Italy, specifically in Central Italy, we have a dish that we call "pizza", even though it looks nothing like Neapolitan pizza and it's tall and fluffy like the one in the video. It's called "pizza di Pasqua" or "pizza al formaggio" (literally "Easter pizza" or "cheese pizza") and we eat it during Easter, especially in Umbria and Marche which were also part of the Papal States. Maybe these tall and fluffy foods were what central Italians used to call pizza back in the day...

    • @LuPoN7
      @LuPoN7 2 года назад +65

      Truth, I wanted to add this but found you comment first :D

    • @Heidegaff
      @Heidegaff 2 года назад +90

      Fun fact: now I, a southern Italian, hate Central Italy even more than before.

    • @LuPoN7
      @LuPoN7 2 года назад +17

      @@Heidegaff ma se se fanno pure a Napoli 😂

    • @jayjaygolden5123
      @jayjaygolden5123 2 года назад +148

      italians: american pizzas are not pizza!! porcodio!!
      also italians:

    • @CoffeeGodAzzy
      @CoffeeGodAzzy 2 года назад +10

      @@Heidegaff I’m half southern half central Italian 😂

  • @elenauffa5201
    @elenauffa5201 Год назад +12

    Domino's opened some restaurants in Italy a few years ago, but they closed last summer, because...well, they didn't sell enough pizza

  • @IreneSalmakis
    @IreneSalmakis Год назад +50

    I totally understand how this combination is the genesis of pizza. The sweet and floral elements in something so savory and buttery is at the core of what a good pizza dough is. The rose water is just perfect.

  • @BlaineTog
    @BlaineTog 3 года назад +1013

    Chicago and Oboe Doctors: "What did we ever do to you, history boy?"

    • @michaelpalmer8682
      @michaelpalmer8682 3 года назад +65

      they know what they did..

    • @AJKecsk
      @AJKecsk 3 года назад +26

      we know what we did.

    • @PauaP
      @PauaP 3 года назад +12

      What did you do?

    • @SamKosel
      @SamKosel 3 года назад +28

      @@PauaP They did the thing that they have done.

    • @antoniomromo
      @antoniomromo 3 года назад +19

      They called him history boy. It's History MAN!!!

  • @sephirothjc
    @sephirothjc 3 года назад +207

    This kind of thing is why I find arguments about authenticity pointless. Recipes keep evolving and changing; sure, recipes should be preserved but don't start an argument because I like to put some crushed garlic in my carbonara.

    • @CaptHollister
      @CaptHollister 3 года назад +20

      It's ok. I use Manchego cheese from Spain in my risotto instead of Parmigiano.

    • @sammiller6631
      @sammiller6631 3 года назад +6

      @@CaptHollister Manchego cheese? Heathen!

    • @HO1ySh33t
      @HO1ySh33t 3 года назад +15

      Hey I put roasted chicken breast and crispy skin in my carbonara, then I call it Italian oyakodon.
      Everything goes!

    • @xionmemoria
      @xionmemoria 3 года назад +8

      I grate sharp cheddar over my congee!

    • @caro1ns
      @caro1ns 3 года назад +1

      Long as you don't put in cream...

  • @corir207
    @corir207 Год назад +50

    It reminds me of making brioche from scratch! Sounds really lovely with the rose water.

  • @brohiggins9332
    @brohiggins9332 Год назад +3

    I knew I liked this guy, Max Miller, but him throwing in a "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar" John Leguizamo clip, is high laughs! OMG Love Tasting History

  • @Bread.Brad_
    @Bread.Brad_ 3 года назад +290

    Back then: Pizza is for the poor, a two-penny can feed a whole family!
    Today: $5.99 medium two topping pizza only at Dominoes!
    Good to know that pizza is a historical constant

    • @dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668
      @dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668 3 года назад +24

      @Lenia Carter The smell of weed makes me want to assault my neighbors, so I don't think so

    • @kiriraganna
      @kiriraganna 3 года назад +9

      @Lenia Carter World peace or whatever, but don't smoke that gunk anywhere near other people. It smells like rotten farts, meat soup and latex. Eat it if you must consume it, or you'll be far from world peace.

    • @jadakowers4727
      @jadakowers4727 3 года назад

      Domino’s has bad customer service!

    • @Caseyuptobat
      @Caseyuptobat 3 года назад +3

      @@kiriraganna I'm sorry to know your neighbors only smoke shitty basement weed.

    • @kiriraganna
      @kiriraganna 3 года назад +5

      @@Caseyuptobat Lol nah. I don't know or care what people around me smoke but I have never once in my life smelled anything but bullsh*t and I have smelled it hundreds of times, smoked by hundreds of different people. You sound like cigarette smokers: they always claim there's a huge difference between good and bad quality tobacco, but they still destroy everyone's lungs, ruin apartments with smoke and terrorize everyone around them. Just eat your junk and don't make your addiction everyone else's problem.

  • @ROMANTIKILLER2
    @ROMANTIKILLER2 3 года назад +277

    now this is a controversial episode: as an Italian, I've always had the moral duty to look with contempt at whoever ordered or promoted pizza with pinapple, yet it looks like in the Reinassance we Italians were baking pizza with sugar and rosewater ...

    • @CaptHollister
      @CaptHollister 3 года назад +30

      Don't worry. Hawaiian pizza (ie pizza with pineapple) is a Canadian invention, but even the majority of Canadians loathe it.

    • @spankyjeffro5320
      @spankyjeffro5320 3 года назад +15

      You italians don't get to have an opinion on pizza, you eat it with cutlery.

    • @owenbloomfield1177
      @owenbloomfield1177 3 года назад +21

      @@CaptHollister I'm a Canadian and I love it!

    • @motherhors7036
      @motherhors7036 3 года назад

      and fruits

    • @CaptHollister
      @CaptHollister 3 года назад +7

      @@owenbloomfield1177 I'm a Canadian and I think it goes against all that is good in the world.

  • @alessandromangiapia7082
    @alessandromangiapia7082 Год назад +11

    Hi Max, my definition of pizza is a flatbread that does not contains pineapple or chicken :)
    Jokes apart, the word is directly translated to the English pie. Here in Naples I could easily show a few pizzas that you wouldn’t even think of calling pizza. On Easter we do pizzas with are literally covered and look like a pie with a cover on top. Fried pizza is like a folded and fried calzone. So yes, it’s a pie :) and small fish = anchovies, it’s typical on early marinara pizza recipes, garlic, tomato sauce and anchovies

  • @stevethomas760
    @stevethomas760 5 месяцев назад +3

    Max, I had to laugh when you mentioned doctor. A friend and his wife were traveling in Italy. Came up on a crowd of people gathered around a man who was having a medical emergency. My friend, "I'm a doctor", crowd parted and he then helped the person. All he needed was he medication. My friend is a doctor, of phycology.

  • @IncredibleMD
    @IncredibleMD 2 года назад +1936

    I appreciate that he's pronouncing Italian correctly. So many English speakers leave out the hand motions when they try to pronounce it! If you do that, no one will be able to understand your accent!

    • @RRSmurf
      @RRSmurf 2 года назад +28

      🤣

    • @jaredragland4707
      @jaredragland4707 2 года назад +73

      Bellissima! (imagine I did the proper "two fingers beside my mouth" gesture to indicate how delicious your comment is)

    • @kovam1234
      @kovam1234 2 года назад

      whats the point then if ur not able to understand shit? #monkeybrainnotfunny

    • @arianewinter4266
      @arianewinter4266 2 года назад +72

      to be honest, I worked with 2 italiens togeather who did not really speak my language well, and I do not speak italian, but they where so expressiv with their guesturing, that I understood way more they where telling me, than the other way around. It helps so much ^^

    • @arianewinter4266
      @arianewinter4266 2 года назад +6

      @@thothheartmaat2833 thats a nice skill, I totaly fail to do that

  • @Orbnoticas
    @Orbnoticas 3 года назад +330

    "was Dumont a drama queen or severely gluten intolerant, you decide". My sides are in orbit. Liked and favourited.

  • @dennisotero8
    @dennisotero8 6 месяцев назад +3

    Either in Pompeii or Hereculum there was a wall mural with a Pizza on a table.
    Seems that the recepie was lost till it was found again. So Pizza has been around
    For many centuries before.
    Even the Greeks had a Pizza version
    Using Foccacia bread.

  • @innoc4063
    @innoc4063 Год назад +13

    This channel is quickly becoming one of my favorites. It's an awesome thing that you can learn so much about the world just through the kind of foods that have endured the ages.

  • @arifhossain9751
    @arifhossain9751 3 года назад +517

    "Rosewater and sugar"
    Hey those ingredients sound familiar...
    -everyone in the Asian subcontinent

    • @derpherpblerp
      @derpherpblerp 3 года назад +2

      Exactly. :D :D

    • @FullMonterey
      @FullMonterey 3 года назад +26

      You mean Indian subcontinent?

    • @arifhossain9751
      @arifhossain9751 3 года назад +13

      @@FullMonterey
      Same difference.

    • @Boom12
      @Boom12 3 года назад +12

      Baklava anyone?

    • @yungboy4216
      @yungboy4216 3 года назад +9

      @@FullMonterey Nah as a Bengali we don't do rose water

  • @williamwhite2971
    @williamwhite2971 3 года назад +382

    "Now butter up that dough, boy."
    "But dad, my heart hurts!"
    *glares in Italian*

    • @bobbybologna3029
      @bobbybologna3029 3 года назад +24

      ^ this is a bot folks.

    • @alecoppeac
      @alecoppeac 3 года назад +7

      He's not a bot, he's the greatest content creator of all time

    • @gundam5271
      @gundam5271 3 года назад +19

      @@bobbybologna3029 nah, each of his comments are unique. He may be a complete waste of space but he’s got commitment

    • @li.m4095
      @li.m4095 3 года назад +1

      I feel that Omg lmao

    • @Claymann71
      @Claymann71 3 года назад +6

      BACON
      YOUR
      SAUSAGE

  • @aeray3581
    @aeray3581 Год назад +4

    @TastingHistory
    Fun trivia: Hawaiian pizza is a Canadian invention.

  • @toshi5239
    @toshi5239 Год назад +3

    14:42 ur old timey accent is too spot on bro

  • @Lauren.E.O
    @Lauren.E.O 3 года назад +506

    Okay, anyone judging a pizza-and-watermelon diet clearly hasn’t been lucky enough to try it.

    • @phoenixantis6994
      @phoenixantis6994 3 года назад +33

      That's him, officer, that's the guy right there, take the shot before he gets away.

    • @Lieutenant_Dude
      @Lieutenant_Dude 3 года назад +39

      @@phoenixantis6994 why not eat them separately? A watermelon feta salad could go well with a savory pizza

    • @arisgaliatsatos595
      @arisgaliatsatos595 3 года назад +16

      Same goes with watermelon and feta cheese. Not lucky enough to have it the entire summer lol

    • @bobbybologna3029
      @bobbybologna3029 3 года назад +7

      RIP Food, we had a good run.

    • @e.urbach7780
      @e.urbach7780 3 года назад +32

      My Sicilian great-grandfather used to eat bread with watermelon every time he could! Although, the bread was homemade and fresh (still warm from the oven), and the watermelons were home-grown, fresh, and sweet (still warm from the sun). I get the impression from my family that it was a common snack among Italian immigrants in the midwest because it was inexpensive as well as delicious.

  • @MaybeNotARobot
    @MaybeNotARobot 3 года назад +570

    even thousands of years ago, the italians were saying “i makea the pizza”

    • @guitaryst
      @guitaryst 3 года назад +24

      Or "Et faciet pizza."

    • @clueless4327
      @clueless4327 3 года назад +11

      *hundreds, but yeah!

    • @scrithen2836
      @scrithen2836 2 года назад +6

      I cooka da meatball

    • @ZergleJerk
      @ZergleJerk 2 года назад

      Is'ah famiddy resoopee

    • @rodU65
      @rodU65 2 года назад

      BABATI BUBITY BABA🤣

  • @shadowmancy9183
    @shadowmancy9183 Год назад +4

    Historical recipe I love to make- grilled and poached salmon (taken from Pleyn Delit). Take a bunch of parsley , add a few leaves to a shallow pan of water, and soak the remaining leaves in vinegar, then chill the vinegar-parsley mix. Take your salmon fillet, cut into serving sizes. Grill each for 5 minutes (I added some salt and pepper, but since those were luxury spices, they aren't in the recipe), then poach for 5 minutes in the water until firm. Place on a plate and chill. Right before serving, liberally garnish the salmon with the vinegar-soaked parsley.

  • @BrandiPratt-vm8pc
    @BrandiPratt-vm8pc Год назад +39

    Could you do a feature on sugar subtleties and sugar molds? The drama and fancy presentation of the Renaissance. How was it done? What recipe did they use etc.

  • @JellyBeanFluff
    @JellyBeanFluff 3 года назад +365

    Not gonna lie when Max asked what the Pope's favorite pizza was, my brain immediately went "...Poperoni?"
    I'll show myself out 🤣

    • @maeve615
      @maeve615 3 года назад +27

      With Swiss cheese... 'cause it's holy :)

    • @jonathan91732
      @jonathan91732 3 года назад +3

      "Not gonna lie" ? Why would you lie in the first place. Please do leave, Jamie. Not gonna lie, you suck

    • @SmartyPoohBear
      @SmartyPoohBear 3 года назад

      I really was expecting that to be the start of a joke. XD

    • @thestratman9
      @thestratman9 2 года назад +1

      @@jonathan91732 who hurt you?

    • @gracebedell2608
      @gracebedell2608 2 года назад +3

      @@maeve615 I legit thought this was going to be a swiss gaurd joke but ya know what... This is equally good haha

  • @marcmaubertcrotte
    @marcmaubertcrotte 3 года назад +783

    I don't see enough people complimenting Max's old timey presenter voice. Nailed it!

  • @brendanhoffmann8402
    @brendanhoffmann8402 Год назад +3

    In Australia I've noticed we pile the ingredients high on a pizza... there's even the 'Pizza with the lot', common around Melbourne. I like making pizza with specially made Turkish bread pizza bases. I pile it high usually.

  • @carlamendez6590
    @carlamendez6590 Год назад +6

    I just went to Pompeii and would love an ancient bread recipe and history from Pompeii. ❤️ your show!

  • @itacom2199
    @itacom2199 3 года назад +319

    Margherita Pizza is truly a patriotic dish: born in the South, bears the name of a Northern queen and it has the colours of the Flag!

    • @willowarkan2263
      @willowarkan2263 3 года назад +23

      It helps that the flag has good colors for a nice balanced meal. Green for some vegetable or herb, red can be some meats, berries or tomato[=)] and white can be rice, white bread or even pasta if you stretch the definition of white a bit.
      Take the german flag, it would probably be some meat, dark bread and what gold leaf? And the french's blue as a limiting factor, like what a mixed berry muffin including blue berries?

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 3 года назад +14

      @@willowarkan2263
      The Norwegian flag has similar limitations, though pavlova with strawberries and blueberries makes a nice patriotic dish, even if strawberries aren’t really in season yet on our constitution day (17 May).

    • @itacom2199
      @itacom2199 3 года назад +4

      @@willowarkan2263 Yeah, it's true, there aren't a lot of naturally blue foods

    • @itacom2199
      @itacom2199 3 года назад +1

      @@ragnkja What's pavlova?

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 3 года назад +6

      @@itacom2199
      Meringue with whipped cream and fresh fruit.

  • @Lurtz_s
    @Lurtz_s 3 года назад +77

    Pizza time.

  • @ruthdepew7212
    @ruthdepew7212 Год назад +3

    I saw my first pizza at age eight in 1956 while visiting a New Hampshire beach. We went back home to central Illinois and didn't see another pizza for several years. Later my college town had one pizza restaurant, but the next town over, a much larger place,
    "wasn't much for foreign food," so had no place to get a pizza. The times, they have a' changed.

  • @marie.theartist
    @marie.theartist Год назад +20

    The persians had a great influence around the world. You are so close, if tostadas should be called pizza because arab people migrated also to Spain, Portugal... And then Spanish people who had great influence in the arab food brought their influence of gastronomy to Mexico. So flour tortillas (pita like bread) with cow meat rings a bell, amongst other arab influence food. By the way, paella rice from Spain is a version if the biryani rice ( Arab food).

    • @KCCC326
      @KCCC326 Год назад

      I've never seen a Spaniard cry over rice. Seen several Indian and arabs cry over the memory of biryani.

    • @bakrahabibi5471
      @bakrahabibi5471 Год назад

      Biryani isn't Arab food. Tho it is descended from Palao, which was brought by Arabs. Basically, wherever Islam was, palao was. And to adjust it to the south Asian palette, mughal kitchens started to experiment with spices until they got Biryani.

    • @bakrahabibi5471
      @bakrahabibi5471 Год назад

      I think you mightve meant Palao, instead of Biryani. Would make more sense

  • @TGirl_Kelley
    @TGirl_Kelley 3 года назад +219

    "What's the Pope's favorite pizza topping?"
    Popearoni?

  • @Lauren.E.O
    @Lauren.E.O 3 года назад +1304

    When the pizza takes WAY longer than “30 minutes or less” to arrive 😂

    • @TastingHistory
      @TastingHistory  3 года назад +175

      🤣

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 3 года назад +29

      This one definitely isn’t baked in the time it takes to put the toppings on the next one.

    • @travisjohnson1225
      @travisjohnson1225 3 года назад +57

      I recently learned that Dominoes had to cancel that offer cause too many people were injured by over-pressured delivery drivers.

    • @davidallamericananarchist9220
      @davidallamericananarchist9220 3 года назад +15

      @@travisjohnson1225 you're late, I'm not paying for those!

    • @Lauren.E.O
      @Lauren.E.O 3 года назад +19

      @@travisjohnson1225 I can believe that. It’s a weird deal, anyway.

  • @ShiningLily3
    @ShiningLily3 Год назад +2

    The fact that pizza wasn't really found in anywhere in Italy except for only a select amount of places, jives with my mom's story of visiting her parents hometown of Trento as a teeanger in the 60s. Absolutely no one there knew what pizza was. They convinced her, since they didn't know any better, that it is most certainly an American invention.

  • @paulakpacente
    @paulakpacente 6 дней назад

    I'm from northern Illinois, and deep dish pizza is to die for. My husband and I sold deep dish pizza in Billings, MT for 15 years. No one wanted to buy the business so we closed it in 2008, but people still ask us "When are you going to make that pizza again"?

  • @yendub
    @yendub 3 года назад +401

    With all that butter, it sounds like he is trying to make early puff pastry.

    • @beth8775
      @beth8775 3 года назад +54

      Seems like brioche.

    • @michael5068
      @michael5068 3 года назад +7

      Thought the same thing

    • @Katharina-rp7iq
      @Katharina-rp7iq 3 года назад +20

      The dough Ingredients remind me of croissants...though those are made with about 100 folded layers of dough and butter.

    • @mirandamom1346
      @mirandamom1346 3 года назад +17

      Rough puff... very rough

    • @kaylizzie7890
      @kaylizzie7890 3 года назад +16

      @@beth8775 brioche is made with eggs. This is more like a croissant. Bread with butter layered in to make it flaky.

  • @qrowing
    @qrowing Год назад +1545

    This guy really said "You owe me 12 pizzas."
    I love it.

    • @rubberman302
      @rubberman302 Год назад +82

      12 pizzas twice a year.

    • @FerreiraDeAssis
      @FerreiraDeAssis Год назад +70

      @@rubberman302 that's like, 2 pizzas per month. quite reasonable, actually.

    • @rubberman302
      @rubberman302 Год назад +4

      @@FerreiraDeAssis I wasent trying to imply that it was unreasonable. your way of writing it just makes it look more so 😆

    • @k-dogg9086
      @k-dogg9086 Год назад +6

      Sounds like something Michelangelo would say

    • @APXWOX
      @APXWOX Год назад

      the day after I buy a tesla

  • @abigailjordan1227
    @abigailjordan1227 Год назад +1

    I love your slight bit of humor provided in almost every episode, even when i don't fully understand it i find it funny and regardless of the humorous parts i find it educational and entertaining, ty for continuing your work

  • @lizardofoz4954
    @lizardofoz4954 3 года назад +207

    First thing I noticed: today's plushie is a piranha plant, not a pokemon! O_O It's the end of the times!

    • @TastingHistory
      @TastingHistory  3 года назад +83

      Shook

    • @mnels5214
      @mnels5214 3 года назад +31

      Her/his name is Audrey II and s/he is a lady.

    • @CyborgRowlet
      @CyborgRowlet 3 года назад +1

      Is the tradition ending?

    • @karlajaeger2082
      @karlajaeger2082 3 года назад +31

      @@CyborgRowlet it's because of mario; he and luigi are Italian.

    • @janeeggleston9542
      @janeeggleston9542 3 года назад +12

      I’m a mean green mother from outer space, and I’m bad!

  • @bshaw8175
    @bshaw8175 3 года назад +160

    something that i just realised is most traditional pizzas are basically an antipasto/charcuterie board cooked on bread

    • @sweetlorikeet
      @sweetlorikeet 3 года назад +18

      The solution to the problem of most antipasto not coming with nearly enough bread

    • @powerist209
      @powerist209 3 года назад +8

      Well, Aeneid’s eating proto-pizza was the reason why they landed in Italy.
      The prophecy being that they will find home once they eat the plates or table, which Aeneid’s bread plate counted as one.

    • @Nuvares
      @Nuvares 3 года назад +6

      @@sweetlorikeet I can see it now. Angry chef in the kitchen "It's always the same... 'NoT eNoUgH bReAd WiTh ThE aNtIpAsTo' Well now the bread IS the antipasto Mwa Ha Ha Ha!"

  • @andyboyce
    @andyboyce Месяц назад

    Love the episodes I have watched so far. And I enjoy figuring out your background connections to the episode.

  • @marortiz7913
    @marortiz7913 Год назад +4

    i am binge watching all your videos, im so happy i found your channel!!!! im obsessed

  • @marcusviniciusmagalhaesdea3779
    @marcusviniciusmagalhaesdea3779 3 года назад +69

    Max: Shocked with ancient sweet pizza.
    Me in Rio de Janeiro with half of a Snowy Banana Pizza (Bananas, Dulce de Leche, White Chocolate and Cinnamon) in the fridge: You know nothing Max Miller.

    • @Heritage367
      @Heritage367 3 года назад +2

      That sounds amazing!

    • @fedra76it
      @fedra76it 3 года назад +4

      Basically, a pizza version of the banoffee pie. I'm drooling.

    • @penguasakucing8136
      @penguasakucing8136 3 года назад +7

      Nah, the Carioca sweet pizza can be easily handwaved as one of the blasphemous modern experiments. But show this Renaissance recipe to the Italian to make them break with "My Pizza Tradition as I know it is a lie!"

    • @michael5068
      @michael5068 3 года назад +5

      Brazilian pizzas are wild

    • @zainiikhwan9405
      @zainiikhwan9405 3 года назад +2

      Have you heard of Durian pizza *wink wink *

  • @TheSamuelCish
    @TheSamuelCish 2 года назад +1119

    Every time this engaging cooking show starts the history segment, I'm like, "Hey, I forgot this was history too!" Then when it goes back to cooking, I'm like, "This history channel does cooking too! Amazing!"

    • @annonimooseq1246
      @annonimooseq1246 2 года назад +38

      You’ve captured exactly my thought process when I watch these

    • @ADeeSHUPA
      @ADeeSHUPA 2 года назад

      @@annonimooseq1246 붸뤼 ないす

    • @akiblue
      @akiblue 2 года назад +11

      Except that the history Channel no longer does history, it does alien conspiracies and knife forging completions.

  • @lindseyhudson1274
    @lindseyhudson1274 Год назад +7

    I love your Halloween dinner story because I too have a Halloween dinner must! My mom made sandwiches ( usually tuna) and soup ( usually Campbell’s chicken and stars). Anytime I have either I think of Halloween and my mom.

    • @BasedSockHead007
      @BasedSockHead007 Год назад +1

      My family does chili every year but my mom doesn’t like it spicy so I have to add a lot of spice and hot sauce !

  • @Sarah.Riedel
    @Sarah.Riedel 5 месяцев назад +1

    Your story about your first NYC apartment brought back *big* memories (or small memories) of my own first apartment after I graduated from NYU in 2005, on 13th Street between 2nd and 3rd Aves (right across the street from the Kiehl's flagship store, if you're into skincare at all). My bathroom had a literal KINDERGARTEN-SIZED sink, like the kind you see in preschools, and my bedroom was so tiny that my twin bed, desk and dresser, which I had assembled from Ikea, could only fit in one particular configuration, like a Tetris game except with furniture; I discovered, when it came time to move out, that the furniture literally could not fit out the bedroom door, and so I sold all three articles as-is, still in the room, when I passed it on to the next subletter.

  • @shaunacorrigan9372
    @shaunacorrigan9372 3 года назад +312

    "Don't give your cats wine, but do let them play in the box the wine came in!" As if that wasn't all they wanted anyway😹

    • @FrarmerFrank
      @FrarmerFrank 3 года назад +16

      I left a empty box in my hallway and a cat snuck in the house to play in the box......I said "hi, yeah you can have the box" and put the box out with the cat in it

    • @pheart2381
      @pheart2381 3 года назад +6

      My cat usually enters the box before the contents have been removed!

    • @whitneykopsie9772
      @whitneykopsie9772 3 года назад +9

      There is catnip wine for cats. 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @raerohan4241
      @raerohan4241 2 года назад

      @@whitneykopsie9772 Pretty sure that's not actual wine though. Alcohol in any quantity is toxic for cats

  • @luminoustedium
    @luminoustedium 3 года назад +226

    In fairness, "lots and lots of dough" is exactly the kind of thing the papal court was into

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад +8

      I can't believe Martin Luther was against pizza.

    • @ultrademigod
      @ultrademigod 3 года назад +12

      @@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 He was pretty much against anything remotely nice or fun.

    • @fernandoerbin6751
      @fernandoerbin6751 3 года назад

      @@ultrademigod Except beer.

    • @MachineMan-mj4gj
      @MachineMan-mj4gj 3 года назад +1

      @@ultrademigod Because Jesus is Serious Business.

    • @basilofgoodwishes4138
      @basilofgoodwishes4138 3 года назад +1

      @@ultrademigod He was also against the Jews for disagreeing with him. He is that type of asshole.

  • @trinitrojack
    @trinitrojack Год назад +5

    I'm always amazed at how much there is behind the history of food! Never would have guessed this was pizza lol !

  • @andyrosevelt
    @andyrosevelt Год назад +1

    I seriously love your videos you have such a great presence I’d watch you at any time

  • @alinapala
    @alinapala 3 года назад +175

    Ha! I'm posting this in a group of FB called "Italians mad at food". It usually hosts lots of discussions about what pizza is. I'm expecting loads of fun with this!

    • @Ubya_
      @Ubya_ 3 года назад +51

      as an italian i can't be mad, he was pretty politically and culinary correct. if an italian gets mad at this video, he is butthurd by default

    • @chezmoi42
      @chezmoi42 3 года назад +20

      That sounds like a Reddit: r/Italians mad at food. They've got them for everything else.

    • @dimsum81
      @dimsum81 3 года назад +5

      How can you tell if they're mad, glad, or sad? They sound and look the same lol

    • @eurinome4320
      @eurinome4320 3 года назад +12

      I think that the only thing in this video that can make an italian angry, is the fact that you call pizza the chicago thing XD

    • @ColdEthyl92
      @ColdEthyl92 3 года назад +1

      You've got to let us know how it goes 😂

  • @axel.lessio
    @axel.lessio 3 года назад +352

    I'm one of the few Italians who love any interpretation of pizza as long as it's good! No matter the country or even the time it comes from, what matters is passion and good ingredients.

    • @yungboy4216
      @yungboy4216 3 года назад +48

      Italian pizza is way more diverse than people give it credit for, from what I've seen at least their professional pizza makers are as happy to experiment as Americans are

    • @fedra76it
      @fedra76it 3 года назад +29

      @@yungboy4216 Very true. There are lots of different recipes for the dough, and endless possibilities as concerns the topping. It's paradise, really. The bottom line is just: don't rush it, and don't use low-quality ingredients.

    • @axel.lessio
      @axel.lessio 3 года назад +16

      @@fedra76it, exactly. There will always be extreme traditionalists claiming there is only one right way to do things, but overall we're quite open to innovation. :)

    • @bobbybologna3029
      @bobbybologna3029 3 года назад

      Just use everything store bought, if that doesn't immediately offend you then we have discovered you're not italian.

    • @fedra76it
      @fedra76it 3 года назад +2

      @@bobbybologna3029 Well, he said "as long as it's good". This excludes store-bought ones ;)

  • @painkiller4188
    @painkiller4188 Год назад +3

    you where basically making croissants since its a similar dough + a lot of butter but layered while here you mix it in + baked in another form

  • @lamp8112
    @lamp8112 Год назад +2

    Please do another pizza video and include New Haven apizza. Being a decendant of the Italian immigrants that moved there and growing up only knowing that style, until I was an adult, I can tell you there is a whole interesting history behind it. It's a bit different. I now live in the Minneapolis area and miss it very much, along with sfogliatelli and other pastries and Libby's Italian ice. Not to be confused with grocery store Italian ice. Anyhow, thanks for your videos, I love what you do!!!

  • @panchemist
    @panchemist 3 года назад +188

    "Thats so because it's a lot of a freakin dough!"
    What kind of mafia movie am i watching...? Oh, "Max the Feeder", Insidious promoter of gluttony.

  • @dadadadada17
    @dadadadada17 3 года назад +251

    My Italian grandmother called cakes "sweet pizzas", so it seems the name became more specific with the time.

    • @poisonerlady
      @poisonerlady 2 года назад +27

      Yeah, in Italian dialects "pizza" means a wide range of stuff. "Pizza scema" it's a type of simple flat bread, "pizza dolce" it's literally cake (it's the base for our birthday-cake) :3

    • @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679
      @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679 2 года назад +5

      "pizza" is a rough translation. it can mean "cake", "pie" or "bread" Essentially, all it really means is "some type of cooked flour with stuff on it".
      and it's delicious!

    • @my2lttleanglz
      @my2lttleanglz 2 года назад +2

      that prob why some people call pizza pizza pie

  • @Hiihtopipa
    @Hiihtopipa Год назад +1

    Fresh butter didn't have as much salt as normal butter in that time. It had more than our salted butter today but it was eatable. Also they in those times used water to take the salt away from the butter IF needed.

  • @tammyslash7251
    @tammyslash7251 Год назад +2

    You are so fun to watch.!! Thanks so much 🙏

  • @PeteofHartainia
    @PeteofHartainia 3 года назад +597

    "Don't give your cats wine." Instructions unclear: my cat has started a speakeasy.

    • @MeAuntieNora
      @MeAuntieNora 3 года назад +30

      A meoweasy.

    • @Lofi_Man1
      @Lofi_Man1 3 года назад +14

      Did u do a prohibition?

    • @seileach67
      @seileach67 3 года назад +19

      Lackadaisy has entered the chat

    • @chinanolan1529
      @chinanolan1529 3 года назад +15

      [in Chicago mob voice] Da boss sez youse tell da cat he's buying wine from da Southside organization... it's a pretty place, shame if somethin' happened to it."

    • @edenjung9816
      @edenjung9816 2 года назад +1

      Be aware, someone might kill him and his spouse might have to take over.

  • @circadianarchist
    @circadianarchist 3 года назад +323

    In case you have never heard of this, there is a rhyme in Italian that we learn as kids:
    La regina Elisabetta
    mangia la pizza con la forchetta,
    la regina Margherita
    mangia la pizza con le dita.
    Queen Elizabeth eats her pizza with a fork,
    Queen Margherita eats her pizza with her fingers.
    Which, by the way, both are perfectly socially acceptable ways of eating pizza in Italy :)

    • @kenmore01
      @kenmore01 3 года назад +13

      I'm glad. People look at me funny when I pick up a knife and fork to eat hot pizza. I just don't want to burn my mouth!

    • @Sacto1654
      @Sacto1654 3 года назад +19

      Many Americans think eating pizza with a knife and fork is a terrible idea. I completely disagree, especially with some of the toppings we see on American pizzas and especially with the Chicago-style deep dish pizza.

    • @emdee7744
      @emdee7744 3 года назад +6

      @@kenmore01 Ditto! I was raised eating pizza with a knife and fork and when I went to college people made fun of me. But I wasn't the one with hot mozzarella in my mouth, exclaiming "hot, hot, hot!" while fanning my mouth.

    • @kenmore01
      @kenmore01 3 года назад

      @@emdee7744 LOL, yep! 😂

    • @kaiceecrane3884
      @kaiceecrane3884 3 года назад +1

      @@emdee7744 that's because overly using utensils is seen as posh, when available use hands first.

  • @Daughterofminerva
    @Daughterofminerva Год назад +12

    I am impressed about the accuracy of your research on the history of pizza. I am Neapolitan and I can definitely confirm at least some of the facts you mentioned ( not even I knew all these stuff ,only the story about Queen Margherita and the facts that Brandi's was the " first" pizzeria )

  • @balesjo
    @balesjo 11 месяцев назад +1

    Yeah, there's something about a Red Barron pizza like as well, but I discovered them only a few years back. Man, I downed many a Dominoes Pizza at 2am on weekends as I went home after a night of beer at the Dallas clubs.

  • @SG-js2qn
    @SG-js2qn 3 года назад +115

    That's what I was thinking when I saw the ingredients: "This is a croissant cake."

    • @sadrevolution
      @sadrevolution 3 года назад

      Apt description. With rose water icing.

  • @mudslicker3122
    @mudslicker3122 3 года назад +68

    I’ll have my butter pizza with more butter and then cook that bish in more butter. Sugar rose water for topping because I’m keeping it light.

  • @markwhitney4580
    @markwhitney4580 12 дней назад

    Hey Max, I know this video is 2 years old, but I made this. I quartered the recipe and used orange water instead of rose water. It was good, but I decided to cut it in half through the center and add whipped mascarpone. Wonderful spring/summer dessert. I am wondering whether the dough can be frozen? I would like to make an entire batch, quarter them, and flavor them with various fruits.

  • @billmiller9253
    @billmiller9253 3 месяца назад

    Written between 29 BC and 19 BC, the poem “Aeneid” describes the hero Aeneas arriving with his crew in Latium and sitting down to enjoy a meal of 'thin wheaten cakes' used as plates topped with mushrooms and herbs. 'Look! We have eaten our plates!
    I recall remarking on this passage as describing pizza in a Latin translation class. Pushes the origin back a few more than 500 years.😁

  • @justanotherhuman6532
    @justanotherhuman6532 3 года назад +176

    Then came Chicago, who promptly invented a casserole.

    • @Helgatwb
      @Helgatwb 3 года назад +15

      Yes, and it's delicious

    • @wwaxwork
      @wwaxwork 3 года назад +6

      Tasty tasty casserole.

    • @beth8775
      @beth8775 3 года назад +8

      😂I'm from the midwest and somehow never made this connection! It all makes sense now.

    • @aeolia80
      @aeolia80 3 года назад +10

      Chicago style is actually a torta salata. But I have a feeling they just called it a pizza pie so as not to confuse people, lol

    • @MontgomeryWenis
      @MontgomeryWenis 3 года назад +6

      Deep dish is the prestige peak of pizza.

  • @theultimatederp3288
    @theultimatederp3288 3 года назад +196

    How much butter do you need?
    Scappi: *YES*

  • @terragthegreat175
    @terragthegreat175 7 месяцев назад +2

    4:44 man I was not expecting a reference to an old movie that I recently happened to watch.

  • @michelemossotto8563
    @michelemossotto8563 Месяц назад

    Very interesting video, even I, as an Italian, did not know all these things about pizza history. What's interesting is that there's actually some dishes we still call pizza, that looks a lot like what you did. We call it Pizza Pasquale (Easter Pizza) and it comes in different versions from different cities in Italy; some of them are savory and made with cheese, others are sweet and flavored with anise or other spices. I think we once called everything pizza but you should look into it.

  • @Lynn.Panadero4242
    @Lynn.Panadero4242 3 года назад +202

    Your Red Barron Pizza and Halloween connection surely comes from watching “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.” Snoopy fights the Red Baron all through the show. I think it’s a great tradition.

  • @jessica2530
    @jessica2530 3 года назад +40

    Twelve pizzas for Easter sounds like a great tradition to bring back!

    • @hannahcollins1816
      @hannahcollins1816 3 года назад +3

      Would go well with my adult Easter game plan of hiding mini shooters in the yard 😂

    • @brissygirl4997
      @brissygirl4997 3 года назад

      Don't forget the chickens to go with that pizza

    • @googiegress7459
      @googiegress7459 3 года назад +1

      @@hannahcollins1816 YES except here's the kicker: when you find the shot, you take the shot. This will likely make it so nobody can find too many since their finding abilities diminish as they succeed.

  • @senorasarahCDMX
    @senorasarahCDMX Год назад +1

    Max I love the authenticity of your artwork! In several of the paintings you showed of Naples, there was a large fortress/castle in the background. I was in Naples in the spring, and it's really there! Also the plain pizza you're making doesn't surprise me...apparently a plain pizza in Naples even today is really just bread. We got fried pizzas while there, which were pretty good but since we're used to more ingredients, they weren't my favorite pizza ever.

  • @BonnieDuritsky
    @BonnieDuritsky Месяц назад +1

    10:32 “wolfpeach” - sounds like that’d be a wicked Pokemon OR a new version of Mario’s princess.

  • @Maturewind
    @Maturewind Год назад +795

    In Italy this will be considered as a pizza. In my region we have something similar named: "Pizza di Pasqua". It is sweet and it contains raisin and candied fruit.

    • @rubberman302
      @rubberman302 Год назад +36

      Thats a fuit cake here in ths US.

    • @slashslash501
      @slashslash501 Год назад +34

      Is it connected to Easter in some way? Here where I'm from we call Easter "Paskha" and also bake bread with fruits and raisins for this holiday

    • @dashman36
      @dashman36 Год назад +26

      I can confirm this for Romania also. We make it for Easter, both the orthodox and catholics. It has sweet cheese, raisins and a little bit of rum flavoring.

    • @dashman36
      @dashman36 Год назад +12

      @@slashslash501 I can confirm this for Romania also. We make it for Easter, both the orthodox and catholics. It has sweet cheese, raisins and a little bit of rum flavoring.

    • @tenkuken7168
      @tenkuken7168 Год назад +22

      why they hate pinapple if you put raisins and and candied fruit on it

  • @thesecondislander
    @thesecondislander 3 года назад +61

    Max, i just need you to know how much i appreciate you going all in when pronouncing things in foreign languages

  • @JSanders
    @JSanders Год назад +1

    Your channel is a blast! Thank you for what you do!

  • @kamelaparis7489
    @kamelaparis7489 Год назад +1

    Love your personality . Your fun to watch, great humor too .