When my Dad was a teenager in the 50s he worked in a butcher shop. He told me there was an old lady that would come in and get the oxtail. The butcher would give it to her because it was something he would usually throw away because nobody wanted it. Oxtail was regarded as poor people's food in that place and time. Now oxtail costs more than many cuts of beef. Funny how that works.
Same for the cuts of beef and pork you now make spareribs out of here in Germany....for the longest time they were considered poor quality meat and now cost as much as a full chunk of pork or beef (can't get a good translation ^^)
In some south American or African lands poor people collect clams and similar sea food. For them it's desperate times food, because it's bad tasting. Meanwhile in EU same stuff costs so much.
Most people would take weapons and technology with them if they could go back in time with a time machine, instead you can just take your spice rack with you and become the most powerful person in medieval times.
imagine, you walk into the biggest castle you see, the king demands to know who you are, and you whip out about 30 modern day dollars worth of spices including stuff like sumac or cayenne pepper and everyone falls to their knees and the king just goes "welp, i cant compete with that" and walks out
@@Soullessknight1999 this is assuming that _you_ had to be the one supplying that firepower. There's a thing called connections, and that ties in with personal security. When you know a lot of important people, you can have _them_ sell off the spices, and in the meanwhile you have a cut of the profit. Nobody would lynch you for your precious stuff, and the (presumed) merchant would get all the more richer. Of course, you can also hire mercenaries. Their reliability however, depends.
If you are not in any way part of the local merchant guild you may find it hard to sell your goods. They may even interrogate you how these spices came into your possession. If you're lucky the local Magistrate or Lord of the land just will confiscate your goods and let you go free, since you have no authority backing up and protecting your interests in a lawful accepted manner. And can you even prove that you payed all your taxes?
personally id rather become a doctor...think about it, a simple first aid course would be the equivalent of being an leading brain surgeon back in the medieval era! that and id love to go back in time and just buy stock in companies i know will never go under...
fun fact about diabetes, in my dad's hometown in north africa they would have you pee outside and if ants came to your urine (because of the sugar) that would be a sign you had diabetes
@Steve Slade ants I think they are brainless hiveminds controlled by the queen. Go retrieve food...go retrieve nesting...go tend the eggs..come straight back..go again, repeat And so when they go to your high sugar content urine then it's the sustenance they are there for , I'm pretty sure ants literally work until they die.
@@astondias810 it s life really, in a way they are all an extension to the queen. They don't miss each other conciously like humans, instead of missing there's this term"bio-relation" which means literally "anything can miss anything" but unless the one doing the missing is human, it will be different rather that if a human Lost a companion, ally, etc. It will be more like, they recognize that all life benefits from the work of other beings.
riplip and there is a another thing ants never go to sleep for their whole lives they are just mindless beings (kinda like bees) controlled by their mother and if many die she just pops out 200 more
I think it's awesome to think that someone like me (a young lower middle class bloke) has a pantry, spice collection and book collection that would make any medieval king drop their jaw.
When I was a kid we were so poor we raised most of what we ate. We had fruit trees and a big garden. We raised chickens for eggs and rabbits for meat. We canned and froze enough to get us through the winter. At 54 I am in a good place financially but I cant afford to eat like I did as a kid. Now it is called "local organic" produce and "organic free range" rabbit. Too rich for me as a grown man. Go figure. I still love me some beans and potatoes though!
SteppapaJon I ate a lot of tubers and beans as a kid as well and do remember having chickens. Like you said now it’s a fortune to eat like a poorer person, the upper echelon caught on to what is truly healthy eating.
Officer Barbrady had a rural upbringing it’s just that people caught on to what really matters when it comes to your health. The older folk knew that the diet that wasn’t opulent actually had purpose in fueling the grueling work that needed to be done and there were results in real time to back it up, as a kid you didn’t pay attention to any of that but as an adult when you reflect you see things for what they are.
We have a saying in Germany that literally translates "To give away the spoon." It actually means to die. And it refers back to the custom of having your personal cutlery for a lifetime. Great channel and great series about medieval food!
Here in Vojvodina (the northern part of Serbia, where there used to be a larger population of Germans from Bavaria and, especially, Swabia, before WW2), we seemed to have borrowed the saying, 'Baciti kašiku', which means the same thing. There's also the expression 'Baciti peglu' ('To throw away the flat iron'), meaning 'to throw up, barf' (due to overeating or overdrinking).
Actually, the fact that higher class food increasingly tastes like Christmas makes a lot of sense. Christmas is one of, if not the, biggest feast of the year, so you would use the finest ingredients you could get. Honestly even today making a fruitcake, for example, is relatively expensive, with all the spices, nuts, dried and candied fruit, and alcohol.
My grandmother and her mother, my great gran, used to make real homemade fruitcakes. They started in sept and gathered all the candied fruits like cherries/pineapple /citron/all types of current and raisins and ginger.(also nuts. I almost forgot) I remember the dried currents and raisins were soaked in christen brothers brandy for a week. Then all the spices and once they got them all baked and wrapped and placed in tins they opened them one or 2 times a week and Brushed them with a half sugar half brandy(or dark rum it just depended on what they had) and then back into the tins. I have to say the flavor of these fruit cakes were wonderful and lovely. Nothing like the store bought stuff. Once they passed away no one did it any longer. It was also very expensive. Another holiday treat that my grandmother loved was these dried fruit trays. They were always beautifully made but not my favorite thing. Dried and candied citrus and pineapple and other tropical fruits and almost always there were little piles of marzipan fruits in the middle that were beautiful. Oh and stuffed dates. These too kinda fell out of fashion But i also remember getting oranges and apples in my Christmas stocking with candy and a few small toys amd i loved oranges as a child.
What a beautiful irony that it was a point of pride for a knight or a small lord to have a spice chest in their kitchen full of expensive and exotic spices, all procured through special trade or crusade to elevate the flavors in your daily food to new heights... ... and in truth, the lower "peasant" class has figured out how to make a meal 3 times tastier than yours on cheap ingredients native to the region without having to take a single step away from their town or farm.
@@bighands69 They were reliant on the government in a very negative way in that their immutable social station was completely defined by the feudal system that they lived under. Remember that commons like the sea, sunlight, air, seaweed etc. were deemed to be the property of their lords' jurisdiction. Less spoon fed but certainly not free.
@@bighands69 Less reliance? They could arbitrarily confiscate anything you owned. If you disagreed they would burn your village down and kill your family.
It is hard to say. On top of Jason's own taste here, we would never taste the dishes like it was supposed to taste back then due to an infinite amount of reasons. They even cite that in a previous episode.
@@darkzerk7 muriKAAAAAA. Seriously my man, you need to read an actual book of laws from the medieval period, there are many well preserved ones. It's not like your shitty Game of Thrones show.
It kind of amuses me to think about how precious spices were back then. There's always the quote floating around about how you could blow someone's mind from the olden days by showing them a cellphone, or something like that. But I think what would stagger them even more would be to take them to any local supermarket and show them the spice aisle. You could buy literal pounds of spices for a pittance, and get them whenever you want, rather than having to fork over tons of gold and wait for them to be painstakingly caravnned in from distant lands.
I believe the reason why medieval people wouldn't be impressed by a cellphone is because they had nothing like it back then, so they can't comprehend it (Would probably call it magic). However, they did have spices and some that are even very similar or the same as we use today, they'd be way more impressed by that even though the cellphone is the more technologically advanced item.
@@beardedbjorn5520 wouldn't be suprised if that was the case. Partly because pepper is a lot smaller and lighter than coin, and carting around a pouch filled with metal is kinda triksy. Esspecially when your going off to do some fighting. Would be weighing you down somewhat and thats far from ideal. But leave it back at camp, and chances are someone will try to steal a bit (less of a problem if you have a set of retainers with you). Pouch filled with pepper? Far easier to cart around.
@@diablo2v2 Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh - he grew up in the mean streets of, er, Stratford upon Avon. l'm surprised nobody has punched his lights out.
I knew about tasting urine for diabetes. But here’s a new one, my youngest sister diagnosed her diabetes because she had been urinating frequently at night. She went wilderness camping and had to keep relieving herself at night on a bush to the edge of the campsite. She noticed the next day that honey bees were all over it! Other bushes of the same sort were bee free. As an experiment, she poured urine on another kind of bush, and within 10 minutes, the bees arrived. When she went to the doctor, he thought it was just hilarious, but he tested her and sure enough, she had diabetes!
I am so sick (fighting a few viruses, and Hashimoto's synd. etc) and finding gems like these two people, brightens my day, a d distracts a bit from all the pain. Thank you for making these wonderful and edifying videos!!!!👍🌞🤸🏻♀️
I hope you are feeling better now. Back when my family was human trafficking me when was a 12 year old child, they and the pedophiles refused to take me to Medieval Times restaurant/show (medieval-based restaurant with a show of jousting on horseback) because they felt the actors dressed as knights would figure out they were enslaving me and raping me and I would get rescued by a knight and live happily ever after which they did not want. So I went ahead and rescued myself instead and now I'm free to watch people eat medieval food or go myself to a medieval restaurant in Estonia or something :) so I am glad that at least I could see the commercials on TV for medieval times restaurant and dream of being rescued to get enough hope to rescue myself. And jousting looks like a cool sport for me to watch live. :) so I'm still gonna go do that someday. :)
@Shannon Aguilar I am going to suggest functional medicine. Finding a medical doctor that does functional medicine may help you to manage your health so as to add more tools to your armory. It is not a cure but can help.
This is not the first time I’m watching this series, nor will it be the last. Bless this man and the historian lady, this series is my absolute favourite on RUclips and this channel’s content is what present History channel should try to live up to!
@@breeinatree4811 this reply is a little too late, but Yes! I love Mrs Crocombe and her sassy remarks haha. There's also another similar channel called the townsends which explores 18th century American lifestyle, which is also extremely well done.
One thing about studying history: your sense of gratitude for the modern world goes up. I give thanks to live in a world where nutmeg is fairly affordable and I can randomly sprinkle it on my milk. (It’s good that way, especially if you microwave your milk first.) Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to put this series together!
Lmfao when he put on that finger wiping cloth over his shoulder, I got a random flashback of the scene where Denethor was eating that cherry tomato - guess my brain low key also thought they looked very alike xD
My dream is to watch a video made by this guy with other medieval experts from other countries on youtube and mix all their knowledge only on a channel so we can understand a general european medieval culture. Think about a Spanish, a German, a British, an Italian and a French talk all together and explain crusades, knights or battles PLEASE DO IT! We need it!
You forgot the Portuguese, have much more culture than the spanish and were way more powerfull than some of the countries you named. Not to mention, Portuguese cousine is one of the richest in the world.
@@bastobasto4866 well the Portuguese were the first to bring capsicum to the southeast asia in the Renaissance, that is the single most important historic event for me as far as food goes
I wonder how they found out that the urine would be sweet....were people just drinking each other's urine regularly, and they started to see a trend in the taste or what?
That the spice box was so valuable makes me think of an interesting D&D heist plot. The PCs break into a lord's manor. Instead of going for their stash of gold or jewels, they'd be angling for the lord's spice box. Complete with needing to get the key off the lady's belt, whether through stealthy pick-pocketing, or the, ahem, "bardic approach".
These Medieval food videos are so fascinating! Food is such a familiar experience, and to think of how we can relate to the same taste sensations that people so many hundreds of years ago would have experience really brings it to life. At to that all the extra facts of culture, commodities, class and community, it's just all incredibly interesting. It's also highlighted to me just how long bacon consumption has been for us, and how even the idea of novelty and souvenir spoons can be traced all the way back to Medieval royalty, there are so many gems of information packed into these videos. Thank you so much for making them.
Yes, but I wonder if foods were classified the same way in each system. Not sure how subtly the medieval system broke down vegetables, for example. Were they all cold and wet? Because in TCM they're not.
theres this thing in chinese that no one can really translate but its this feeling/quality some things have that you need to balance out with its opposite, cuz if you dont, you’ll get a sore throat/sickness, so you eat fruit because you had something fried or spicy
I've watched the videos with Jason and Christine probably 20 times each now over the years .. I can't get enough... Please do more videos with her Jason 😊
I belong to the SCA which is a medieval reenactment group, and I have made medieval food. It's rather spicy/savory and interesting tasting to modern taste buds. I made 'pasties' with ground beef, cinnamon (among other seasonings), and raisins one time, and it was really very interesting tasting, but good.
if you look at alot of late medieval/early modern dishes you'll find alot of similar pairings, nutmeg was found in almost everything since the price came down on it to the point that it was widely affordable for special meals. Another strange thing to modern taste buds was the use of oysters and anchovies as a seasoning: they were often either used as a paste for the anchovies or boiled as a stock for the oysters. Oyster gravy and oyster stuffing used to be common all the way up to around WW1 and anchovy paste is still used in some foods today like Worcestershire sauce and some ketchup.
You laugh about checking the urine but I was a med lab tech and I remember (more years than I want to confess to) back when I was in college when we were first studying urinalysis and the various test our instructor told us that so much could be learned just using our senses so not to abandon them totally for the technology. If doing a diabetic their urine could give off fruity smell and while not recommending it of course but would you taste it it would be sweet. and yes we were grossed out but as we learned and progressed we reached a point that on many tests we could tell the most likely outcomes just by what we observed and the tech merely confirmed them.
@14miki oh I know , heck the quickest acid/base testing device is your tongue. I was lucky my MLT instructors also how to do a lot of tests manually as well something I will be forever grateful.
@@annereilley4892 really I never would have guess..I till wouldn't want to be tasting other people's urine let alone if they are sick specially when I have seen what can be living in there. But please by all means, be my guess and have at it.
As a vet tech, our lab teacher started the urology section and she showed how to do a basic exam before testing. She mentioned you could taste it for sweetness and explained about glucose, but no one believed her. Then she took a giant gulp and we all freaked out. She giggled and admitted it was apple juice. Then explained that the taste test is true but there's other more accurate ways to do it
This is aboslutely awesome what is being done in this channel. I'm from Poland where I have my stables and I enjoy long distance horse riding ( recently I have done 600km in 15 days on a horseback including outdoor sleeping ), but I'm also very much in history. I'm passionate about wild food and medieval and pre-medieval methods of cooking, preserving and gathering of foods. Don't ever give up investigating these topics! If you ever came across of a book written by Lukasz Luczaj - the professor of the University here in Poland, do read it. He has learned a lot about wild growing plants (visiting and working in the countryside in China ) the ways of preparing, storing and cooking, but also about outdoor cooking and living. You might find it helpful in your research.
This is what I once believed archaeology was about--people and how they worked alone and together, hunted, gathered, grew, cooked and ate, wore, made and celebrated, perhaps with how and why. But with only an oral tradition (as in North America), I kept being told I was wrong and could't interpret material culture like that, so I took up writing instead. You've given me fresh interest in material culture, thanks!
The status of that white bread is underscored by the fact that our modern word "lord" came from the Old English "hlaford," which means "bread keepr" -- hlaf meaning bread but giving us the word "loaf." So truly a status symbol back then.
Cynthia Clampitt possible but don't forget that William 1 changed the language to French and it remained French until the early 1500's. So the root word you are looking for comes from medieval French and not Medieval English.
You & her make such a wonderful team or duo in the whole food series. I would like to see more videos with Chris in them? Lol Your like the experimental taste tester and she is like this medieval chef scientist lady lol.
I'm from Bulgaria, so we know Czech glass or Czech crystal as a very expensive and luxury. Especially the older folks. Because of our common socialistic past and the whole USSR thing, you could find чешки кристал in almost all of our homes. And I'm mightily impressed that it dates back to the medieval times. Respect.
I can't speak for other regions, but the Czech Republic is well-known for glassmaking in the United States. Most of our glass companies were originally founded by immigrants from Bavaria and Bohemia in the 19th century. It's also a big reason why so many American beers tend to be Pilsner or lager style. Many of the beer brewers also came to America from the Czech Republic and Germany. They were easily able to bottle and sell their own beer, due to their mastery of glassmaking.
@@maymay5600 It's named after the Bohemian town (Budějovice) where it was originally brewed. Since the brewery was founded by German citizens, it got the German version of the town's name (Budweis). So basically Budweiser means "from Budweis" or "Budweisian" so to speak.
My French teacher had me research into the transition between the strong castles and the fancier renaissance castles in France. I found a bunch of cool things about food and etiquette and such! One fact is that the French royals considered food close to the earth as the peasant food so they’d eat the food that didn’t touch the ground such as fish, poultry, tree fruits, etc. Peasants may have eaten healthier bc they actually ate veggies haha! Also, I can’t find the time period (maybe 14th century?), but French nobility had a very complicated seating hierarchy tied to social class with different ranks of chairs from thrones and armchairs at the high table all the way down to folding chairs and stools at the long tables.
This video auto played and I remember watching it originally years ago. It is excellent both you and Chris come across so well in this video. I would watch hours of this. Please keep this kind of content coming!!
I really dig this part of the series... I like the chemistry between you guys. I hope you plan on doing more of this series with this lady. Super informative and it really helps digest the information being that the presentation is that of two friends chatting..
But you're not actually doing either. The people in medieval times actually lived in them and the people a century from now will actually be in star ships.
This was good stuff, supplemented my SCA knowledge very well. It actually brought to the fore that in SCA we focus on dishes and recipes, but not on how people went about eating - the mechanics of it, like the shoulder towel and not using your left hand, for instance. One thing with this video, I would have liked to see him doing more of the actual eating - cutting the food and using the knife, finding what bits he needs to use a spoon for, etc.
The SCA has some of the greatest feasts anyone will ever eat! I remember the food was so good that it was superior to the finest resturants in Europe or the US. If you're at a SCA feast, you will definitely be eating well that night!😉😄
I recently stumbled upon this channel and one of the things I love most about the videos, besides the information presented, is that you all take the time to credit everyone involved in creating these masterpieces. That is awesome!
When wheat is contaminated with ergot fungus, removing the fibrous shell of the seeds to make white flour can actually save your life. A lot of medieval peasants were poisoned with ergotism, a condition they called "St. Anthony's Fire". It made you lose fingers and toes over time and quite possibly go mad. White bread was not "unhealthy food" at a time where dietary fibre was more than abundant. It was in fact quite a lot healthier than the risk of contamination from brown flour.
@@HamCubes from Ergot fungus we get Ergometrine which is used when a placenta is retain or a post-natal uterus does not cramp down. Ergot fungus causes hallucinations and miscarriages.
14miki, That's why they soaked the grains. You would soak them with a little bit of acid like vinegar or lemon or whey, and it would take care of the anti-nutrients so all the nutrients in the grain were bio-available. They did this with legumes, also. We should go back to the way our grandma did it. Much healthier eating.
These videos truly bring small snippets of the past to life for me, I always have them playing while I'm out in tractor in the paddocks going about my day to day, keep up the good work Jason your videos are absolute class 👌
michael hu It comes from India and slowly migrated to South East Asia and China then later Japan. Not a big leap from India to europe, considering they are much more related than India and east asia.
I keep revisiting these videos, these could be an entire series about food during the middle ages, recreating recorded recipes for lords and ladies across Europe. Big fan of this channel, hope you make a game like Kingdom Come: Deliverance one day, sir.
Actually the 4 humors in medieval medicine were Sanguine (Blood) Choleric (Yellow Bile) Melancholic (Black Bile) and Phlegm. Though the heat cold wet dry properties of these were used to gauge a person's health and mental state.
There was another mistake in the video. The fork was common in the Byzantine Empire as early as the 5th century. It wasn't invented in 13th century Italy.
This program basically shows you how even a working man in living in reasonably well off country in the modern era could be richer than even the most powerful kings of europe back in the medieval era standards of living wise.
@@GalliadII Well the Romans already had a version of that centuries before that period. Actually, aside from flowing water, I would argue true globalisation. After all, think of all the food you are able to eat nowadays relatively cheap: Indian, Chinese, Korean, Arab, Mexican...etc, all within a few hours travelling distance if you live in a big city. Even if you are the King of England, most of what you can eat are sourced locally.
@@tat3179 yes the romans had it, but medieval europeans did not. there was an attitude against all things roman during the middle ages. this did not change until the renaisance began. and yes, I agree. But still this food looks great as well.
@@GalliadII Sure, my point is while flowing water is vital, our true wealth in this generation we are in is the fact that the resources and cultures of the entire planet is within our reach, within reasonable limits of course.
@@tat3179 most of them anyways. ^^ but consider the luxury to be able to flush your toilet. there are people alive today who do not even know what a toilet is. I once heared a story of african refugues who washed potatos in the toilet, because they did not know what it was.
This is so great. Interesting and informative. And so nice that nothing is presented with gunfire, explosions or metal music going on in the background, looking at you, every American show ever!
I would love to see more peasant dishes. More exploration of the peasant diet. I want to have my own kitchen garden and cook seasonally so seeing the ways that peasants used to do that would be super interesting.
Jason (if I may be fo familiar!) your passion is so infectious, I had to watch as many as I could after I subscribed. Thanks for the content and keep them coming!
It is very interesting to know that in Medieval time, physicians know properties of food too. I always thought this is only known to Chinese/ Eastern people. 'tis true that I remember when my father donated his blood he cooked a pot of chicken stew with ginseng and dates. I didn't liked that sweet flavoured protein too much but guess that's what a body which is weak (wet and cold ) craves for. It is also why when people catches cold should drink ginger tea because ginger is also is warm in its food property.
The sad part is that it's now expensive even in parts of the world where they used to be in abundance and costed very little, it's because they now have to be "exported"!
Big Respect, Chris. Thanks for bringing your clear enthusiasm about this aspect of medieval life. Another commented that you have "No wasted words" and in modern RUclips culture (even from 4 years ago) it's nice to see. :P
When my Dad was a teenager in the 50s he worked in a butcher shop. He told me there was an old lady that would come in and get the oxtail. The butcher would give it to her because it was something he would usually throw away because nobody wanted it. Oxtail was regarded as poor people's food in that place and time. Now oxtail costs more than many cuts of beef. Funny how that works.
Yup - also hearts and coley from the fishmonger... Got me survived, so far. We didn't have puddings :(
Same for the cuts of beef and pork you now make spareribs out of here in Germany....for the longest time they were considered poor quality meat and now cost as much as a full chunk of pork or beef (can't get a good translation ^^)
in my country, we cook almost every part of cow body. especially the tail that we make a stew from it
Lobster used to be for the lower classes... Stuff keeps reversing
In some south American or African lands poor people collect clams and similar sea food. For them it's desperate times food, because it's bad tasting.
Meanwhile in EU same stuff costs so much.
Imagine in the distant future, a historian recreates McDonald’s burgers and fries with fascination.
Ailie McKenzie in few hundreds years or shorter, probably most food human eat would be synthetic food recycled from waste.
@@bilibiliism people probably won't eat any food because of food shortages
@Ailie McKenzie Yeah, the world will stop eating beef after tens of thousands of years, lmao
You mean a chemist 😉
What distant future? We’ll be dead in 50 years
You know someone's mad flexing when they show you their decked out spice box
A curious boast, but alas
An odd show-off, though very well
You should see my spice box
Uh good sire you have that sugar acorn i see!
Unorthodox display of hubris, but very well.
That lady is so pleasant. I could listen to her all day.
Yup, she is great, reminds me a lot of my grandma.
@@Michael-ez6ix You too?!
Yeah, she's amazing. I wish she was my history teacher when I was a kid.
I have never seen anything so boring and so entertaining at the same time.
@@rhigh100 I would say tame and fascinating instead, because it's not really filling me up with excitement but it's definitely not in any way boring
Their interaction is so lovely to watch. She seems shy but he is so excited about her knowledge and steps aside to let us see how awesome she is
Most people would take weapons and technology with them if they could go back in time with a time machine, instead you can just take your spice rack with you and become the most powerful person in medieval times.
imagine, you walk into the biggest castle you see, the king demands to know who you are, and you whip out about 30 modern day dollars worth of spices including stuff like sumac or cayenne pepper and everyone falls to their knees and the king just goes "welp, i cant compete with that" and walks out
You can’t be powerful unless you have the firepower to back it up
@@Soullessknight1999 this is assuming that _you_ had to be the one supplying that firepower. There's a thing called connections, and that ties in with personal security. When you know a lot of important people, you can have _them_ sell off the spices, and in the meanwhile you have a cut of the profit. Nobody would lynch you for your precious stuff, and the (presumed) merchant would get all the more richer.
Of course, you can also hire mercenaries. Their reliability however, depends.
If you are not in any way part of the local merchant guild you may find it hard to sell your goods.
They may even interrogate you how these spices came into your possession. If you're lucky the local Magistrate or Lord of the land just will confiscate your goods and let you go free, since you have no authority backing up and protecting your interests in a lawful accepted manner. And can you even prove that you payed all your taxes?
personally id rather become a doctor...think about it, a simple first aid course would be the equivalent of being an leading brain surgeon back in the medieval era! that and id love to go back in time and just buy stock in companies i know will never go under...
This channel is such a hidden gem, thanks youtube!
I know, right! 😃
Yes! & that lady is precious!
Zeroloda ARRRRRRRE YOU REEEEEEEEADY
Indeed!
Zeroloda idk how come everyone found it out a week ago
fun fact about diabetes, in my dad's hometown in north africa they would have you pee outside and if ants came to your urine (because of the sugar) that would be a sign you had diabetes
@Steve Slade maybe during cooler mornings?
Thank you for sharing this story. So interesting. :)
@Steve Slade ants I think they are brainless hiveminds controlled by the queen. Go retrieve food...go retrieve nesting...go tend the eggs..come straight back..go again, repeat
And so when they go to your high sugar content urine then it's the sustenance they are there for , I'm pretty sure ants literally work until they die.
@@astondias810 it s life really, in a way they are all an extension to the queen. They don't miss each other conciously like humans, instead of missing there's this term"bio-relation" which means literally "anything can miss anything" but unless the one doing the missing is human, it will be different rather that if a human Lost a companion, ally, etc. It will be more like, they recognize that all life benefits from the work of other beings.
riplip and there is a another thing ants never go to sleep for their whole lives they are just mindless beings (kinda like bees) controlled by their mother and if many die she just pops out 200 more
I think it's awesome to think that someone like me (a young lower middle class bloke) has a pantry, spice collection and book collection that would make any medieval king drop their jaw.
When I was a kid we were so poor we raised most of what we ate. We had fruit trees and a big garden. We raised chickens for eggs and rabbits for meat. We canned and froze enough to get us through the winter. At 54 I am in a good place financially but I cant afford to eat like I did as a kid. Now it is called "local organic" produce and "organic free range" rabbit. Too rich for me as a grown man. Go figure. I still love me some beans and potatoes though!
SteppapaJon I ate a lot of tubers and beans as a kid as well and do remember having chickens. Like you said now it’s a fortune to eat like a poorer person, the upper echelon caught on to what is truly healthy eating.
Officer Barbrady had a rural upbringing it’s just that people caught on to what really matters when it comes to your health. The older folk knew that the diet that wasn’t opulent actually had purpose in fueling the grueling work that needed to be done and there were results in real time to back it up, as a kid you didn’t pay attention to any of that but as an adult when you reflect you see things for what they are.
Modern science made the rich & sweet food easier to manufacture than natural & hearty food as well as making spices readily avaliable year long.
So at 54 you just no longer raise most of what you eat?
Time to buy a homestead.
We have a saying in Germany that literally translates "To give away the spoon." It actually means to die. And it refers back to the custom of having your personal cutlery for a lifetime. Great channel and great series about medieval food!
Here in Vojvodina (the northern part of Serbia, where there used to be a larger population of Germans from Bavaria and, especially, Swabia, before WW2), we seemed to have borrowed the saying, 'Baciti kašiku', which means the same thing. There's also the expression 'Baciti peglu' ('To throw away the flat iron'), meaning 'to throw up, barf' (due to overeating or overdrinking).
That's interesting! I want to remember to borrow that phrase now.
There's also the phrase "born with a silver spoon" too
Dumm gelaufen!
Well now I wonder where "Ins Gras beißen" (to bite the grass, also meaning to die, but in a mocking way) comes from
Medieval celebrity chef to his kitchen-hands:
"The dish thou hast prepared is indubitably under-cooked."
You, you, you, you, and you. Begone!
That sentense deserves to be in a Gordom Ramsay image, high quality meme lol
By the grace of God, the rabbit is RAW!
"Wherefore art the gravey of yon lamb?"
@@yuhboi6816 I hate to be that guy but that joke doesn't work. "Wherefore" means why, not where.
Actually, the fact that higher class food increasingly tastes like Christmas makes a lot of sense. Christmas is one of, if not the, biggest feast of the year, so you would use the finest ingredients you could get. Honestly even today making a fruitcake, for example, is relatively expensive, with all the spices, nuts, dried and candied fruit, and alcohol.
My grandmother and her mother, my great gran, used to make real homemade fruitcakes. They started in sept and gathered all the candied fruits like cherries/pineapple /citron/all types of current and raisins and ginger.(also nuts. I almost forgot)
I remember the dried currents and raisins were soaked in christen brothers brandy for a week.
Then all the spices and once they got them all baked and wrapped and placed in tins they opened them one or 2 times a week and
Brushed them with a half sugar half brandy(or dark rum it just depended on what they had) and then back into the tins.
I have to say the flavor of these fruit cakes were wonderful and lovely. Nothing like the store bought stuff.
Once they passed away no one did it any longer. It was also very expensive.
Another holiday treat that my grandmother loved was these dried fruit trays. They were always beautifully made but not my favorite thing. Dried and candied citrus and pineapple and other tropical fruits and almost always there were little piles of marzipan fruits in the middle that were beautiful. Oh and stuffed dates.
These too kinda fell out of fashion
But i also remember getting oranges and apples in my Christmas stocking with candy and a few small toys amd i loved oranges as a child.
@@Emeraldwitch30 Home made fruitcake is definitely better than store bought 😊 What great memories!
Please give these two a series, it's like Medieval River Cottage I love it
River pottage
@@sirandrelefaedelinoge criminally underrated comment
@@MrDavidFitzgerald agreed
What a beautiful irony that it was a point of pride for a knight or a small lord to have a spice chest in their kitchen full of expensive and exotic spices, all procured through special trade or crusade to elevate the flavors in your daily food to new heights...
... and in truth, the lower "peasant" class has figured out how to make a meal 3 times tastier than yours on cheap ingredients native to the region without having to take a single step away from their town or farm.
They had less reliance of government than today. People expect to be spoon feed and take no responsibility.
@@bighands69 They were reliant on the government in a very negative way in that their immutable social station was completely defined by the feudal system that they lived under. Remember that commons like the sea, sunlight, air, seaweed etc. were deemed to be the property of their lords' jurisdiction. Less spoon fed but certainly not free.
@@bighands69 Less reliance? They could arbitrarily confiscate anything you owned. If you disagreed they would burn your village down and kill your family.
It is hard to say. On top of Jason's own taste here, we would never taste the dishes like it was supposed to taste back then due to an infinite amount of reasons. They even cite that in a previous episode.
@@darkzerk7 muriKAAAAAA. Seriously my man, you need to read an actual book of laws from the medieval period, there are many well preserved ones. It's not like your shitty Game of Thrones show.
It kind of amuses me to think about how precious spices were back then. There's always the quote floating around about how you could blow someone's mind from the olden days by showing them a cellphone, or something like that. But I think what would stagger them even more would be to take them to any local supermarket and show them the spice aisle. You could buy literal pounds of spices for a pittance, and get them whenever you want, rather than having to fork over tons of gold and wait for them to be painstakingly caravnned in from distant lands.
How to become god in medieval time
Digital tech? Nope.
A crate of spice? Yes.
I believe the reason why medieval people wouldn't be impressed by a cellphone is because they had nothing like it back then, so they can't comprehend it (Would probably call it magic). However, they did have spices and some that are even very similar or the same as we use today, they'd be way more impressed by that even though the cellphone is the more technologically advanced item.
I don’t know how accurate it is, but there were some accounts of knights during the second Crusade choosing to be paid in pepper instead of coin.
@@beardedbjorn5520 wouldn't be suprised if that was the case. Partly because pepper is a lot smaller and lighter than coin, and carting around a pouch filled with metal is kinda triksy. Esspecially when your going off to do some fighting. Would be weighing you down somewhat and thats far from ideal. But leave it back at camp, and chances are someone will try to steal a bit (less of a problem if you have a set of retainers with you). Pouch filled with pepper? Far easier to cart around.
Yeah beacuse they wouldnt understand a phone at all but they woud understand this
Ooooh those good ol' days. They had Burger King and Burger Knight.
I would totally open a rip-off of Burger King called BURGER LORD
Burger QUARTERMASTER
jamma246 Burger Baron
Burger Pope
Food which brings u closer to God.
@@SomalianDuke They serve burgers made using communion bread
English people describing food and cooking is always the most wholesome and relaxing thing ever
Its funny because we are so bad at it.
@@projectilequestion Speak for yersen.
haley K facts
unless its Gordon Ramsay, he's quite spicy hahaha
@@diablo2v2 Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh - he grew up in the mean streets of, er, Stratford upon Avon. l'm surprised nobody has punched his lights out.
I knew about tasting urine for diabetes. But here’s a new one, my youngest sister diagnosed her diabetes because she had been urinating frequently at night. She went wilderness camping and had to keep relieving herself at night on a bush to the edge of the campsite. She noticed the next day that honey bees were all over it! Other bushes of the same sort were bee free. As an experiment, she poured urine on another kind of bush, and within 10 minutes, the bees arrived. When she went to the doctor, he thought it was just hilarious, but he tested her and sure enough, she had diabetes!
Clever sister. ❤️
She did science! Very cool. I'd call her Queen Bee from then on.
Clever girl!
So that's where artisanal pee honey comes from.
@@mariekatherine5238 So, was it fun or daunting? Having diabetes is not good, I think.
The idea that there were medieval celebrity chefs is so wild to me but absolutely makes sense lol
I am so sick (fighting a few viruses, and Hashimoto's synd. etc)
and finding gems like these two people, brightens my day, a d distracts a bit from all the pain. Thank you for making these wonderful and edifying videos!!!!👍🌞🤸🏻♀️
Shannon Aguilar Hope you’re feeling better!
I hope you are feeling better now. Back when my family was human trafficking me when was a 12 year old child, they and the pedophiles refused to take me to Medieval Times restaurant/show (medieval-based restaurant with a show of jousting on horseback) because they felt the actors dressed as knights would figure out they were enslaving me and raping me and I would get rescued by a knight and live happily ever after which they did not want. So I went ahead and rescued myself instead and now I'm free to watch people eat medieval food or go myself to a medieval restaurant in Estonia or something :) so I am glad that at least I could see the commercials on TV for medieval times restaurant and dream of being rescued to get enough hope to rescue myself. And jousting looks like a cool sport for me to watch live. :) so I'm still gonna go do that someday. :)
@@lemurlover7975 lol wtf
@@lemurlover7975 Great sense of humour.
@Shannon Aguilar
I am going to suggest functional medicine. Finding a medical doctor that does functional medicine may help you to manage your health so as to add more tools to your armory. It is not a cure but can help.
This is not the first time I’m watching this series, nor will it be the last. Bless this man and the historian lady, this series is my absolute favourite on RUclips and this channel’s content is what present History channel should try to live up to!
Have you ever heard of Mrs. Crocombe from English History? Its Victorian cookery but just as good. That woman can throw some shade too.
@@breeinatree4811 this reply is a little too late, but Yes! I love Mrs Crocombe and her sassy remarks haha. There's also another similar channel called the townsends which explores 18th century American lifestyle, which is also extremely well done.
One thing about studying history: your sense of gratitude for the modern world goes up. I give thanks to live in a world where nutmeg is fairly affordable and I can randomly sprinkle it on my milk. (It’s good that way, especially if you microwave your milk first.) Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to put this series together!
He looks like a kind and friendly Denethor (LOTR)
Has proper tableside manners too!
right...i will have nightmares of that word :D
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lmfao when he put on that finger wiping cloth over his shoulder, I got a random flashback of the scene where Denethor was eating that cherry tomato - guess my brain low key also thought they looked very alike xD
Can I just say that you seem to be right?!👈😁✌🙄
My dream is to watch a video made by this guy with other medieval experts from other countries on youtube and mix all their knowledge only on a channel so we can understand a general european medieval culture. Think about a Spanish, a German, a British, an Italian and a French talk all together and explain crusades, knights or battles
PLEASE DO IT! We need it!
Nice idea, would take some organising.
You forgot the Portuguese, have much more culture than the spanish and were way more powerfull than some of the countries you named. Not to mention, Portuguese cousine is one of the richest in the world.
@@GamingWithHasty Let me guess : You're portuguese ? lol
Ever heard of something called a library?
Main purpose is storing something called books where collected knowledge of all sorts are available..
@@bastobasto4866 well the Portuguese were the first to bring capsicum to the southeast asia in the Renaissance, that is the single most important historic event for me as far as food goes
The food episodes with Chris are amazing, so relaxing to watch. I'm going to try salt + sorrel on my fried fish this spring!
This series is outstanding. Great information and seems to be thoroughly researched. Thanks.
I love how happy and fascinated you both are, she’s so happy that you and all of us watching are enjoying this so much
*tastes piss*
"Its a bit tart, someones not getting their after breakfast biscuit"
*Tastes piss*
Delicious. Finally, some good fucking food
*Tastes Piss*
IT'S RAW!
You need more hot humors, spice all your meals for three weeks and get back to me.
I wonder how they found out that the urine would be sweet....were people just drinking each other's urine regularly, and they started to see a trend in the taste or what?
@@SimbaBrank23 worst Pepsi challenge ever
@@elloowu6293 Wouldn't this be more of a Mountain Dew "Do the Dew" challenge?
That the spice box was so valuable makes me think of an interesting D&D heist plot. The PCs break into a lord's manor. Instead of going for their stash of gold or jewels, they'd be angling for the lord's spice box. Complete with needing to get the key off the lady's belt, whether through stealthy pick-pocketing, or the, ahem, "bardic approach".
good idea!
I can't stop rewatching this. Chris is compelling.
This channel is just...so perfect
These Medieval food videos are so fascinating! Food is such a familiar experience, and to think of how we can relate to the same taste sensations that people so many hundreds of years ago would have experience really brings it to life. At to that all the extra facts of culture, commodities, class and community, it's just all incredibly interesting. It's also highlighted to me just how long bacon consumption has been for us, and how even the idea of novelty and souvenir spoons can be traced all the way back to Medieval royalty, there are so many gems of information packed into these videos. Thank you so much for making them.
Romans had their own (obviously tomatoless) form of pizza. That always gets me
This is a great program.
Tom N. Yes!
"hot/dry, cold/wet"
It is awesome how cultures completely interact (Chinese follow this concept of hot/dry etc) in different ways
europa's cuisine can't beat asia's, i believe.
The same "hot/cold" duality is also present in traditional Ayurvedic medicine...fascinating!
@@kayfoster7385 well they were closer to the spice islands
Yes, but I wonder if foods were classified the same way in each system. Not sure how subtly the medieval system broke down vegetables, for example. Were they all cold and wet? Because in TCM they're not.
theres this thing in chinese that no one can really translate but its this feeling/quality some things have that you need to balance out with its opposite, cuz if you dont, you’ll get a sore throat/sickness, so you eat fruit because you had something fried or spicy
Get this woman a cooking show! This is one of my favorite channels on RUclips, btw.
MANN i just discovered this channel. its absolutely badass. great production quality, great subjects.. youtube as it should be :)
Thanks.
I've watched the videos with Jason and Christine probably 20 times each now over the years .. I can't get enough... Please do more videos with her Jason 😊
I belong to the SCA which is a medieval reenactment group, and I have made medieval food. It's rather spicy/savory and interesting tasting to modern taste buds. I made 'pasties' with ground beef, cinnamon (among other seasonings), and raisins one time, and it was really very interesting tasting, but good.
I am also a SCAdian ( Trimaris) and I've yet to try suchlike. I look forward to it.
It sounds similar to Middle Eastern cuisine.
if you look at alot of late medieval/early modern dishes you'll find alot of similar pairings, nutmeg was found in almost everything since the price came down on it to the point that it was widely affordable for special meals. Another strange thing to modern taste buds was the use of oysters and anchovies as a seasoning: they were often either used as a paste for the anchovies or boiled as a stock for the oysters. Oyster gravy and oyster stuffing used to be common all the way up to around WW1 and anchovy paste is still used in some foods today like Worcestershire sauce and some ketchup.
Lol, "interesting" is usually a diplomatic way of telling somebody you don't exactly like a bit of food while trying to preserve their feelings.
Superb entry.
Chris is super fun and interesting and charming.
Chris is amazing - she is SO knowledgeable! thank you for having her on.
You laugh about checking the urine but I was a med lab tech and I remember (more years than I want to confess to) back when I was in college when we were first studying urinalysis and the various test our instructor told us that so much could be learned just using our senses so not to abandon them totally for the technology. If doing a diabetic their urine could give off fruity smell and while not recommending it of course but would you taste it it would be sweet. and yes we were grossed out but as we learned and progressed we reached a point that on many tests we could tell the most likely outcomes just by what we observed and the tech merely confirmed them.
it's not like they drank a mug of it, they probably put a drop on their finger to taste.
@14miki oh I know , heck the quickest acid/base testing device is your tongue. I was lucky my MLT instructors also how to do a lot of tests manually as well something I will be forever grateful.
@@annereilley4892 really I never would have guess..I till wouldn't want to be tasting other people's urine let alone if they are sick specially when I have seen what can be living in there. But please by all means, be my guess and have at it.
lets have some oh yeah
As a vet tech, our lab teacher started the urology section and she showed how to do a basic exam before testing. She mentioned you could taste it for sweetness and explained about glucose, but no one believed her. Then she took a giant gulp and we all freaked out. She giggled and admitted it was apple juice. Then explained that the taste test is true but there's other more accurate ways to do it
The most sought after chef in those times was Gordonus Ramesses, who was frequently found searching for the nobility's fine lamb sauces...
Art thou an imbecile pottage?
@@Runix1 I fear so, Ser Ramesses.
"Ramesses", lol, was he Egyptian? Maybe a descendent of Cleopatra and Alexander the Great.
This is aboslutely awesome what is being done in this channel. I'm from Poland where I have my stables and I enjoy long distance horse riding ( recently I have done 600km in 15 days on a horseback including outdoor sleeping ), but I'm also very much in history. I'm passionate about wild food and medieval and pre-medieval methods of cooking, preserving and gathering of foods. Don't ever give up investigating these topics! If you ever came across of a book written by Lukasz Luczaj - the professor of the University here in Poland, do read it. He has learned a lot about wild growing plants (visiting and working in the countryside in China ) the ways of preparing, storing and cooking, but also about outdoor cooking and living. You might find it helpful in your research.
I’ll see if I can find that book, thanks. What do you do with your horse when you are asleep when you’re travelling?
@@ModernKnight keep it safe and tie it to an area and fall asleep
the two people showing, are so fun to watch, just lovely...
This needs to be at my first renaissance festival! I absolutely love the enthusiasm and passion in this video from them, great video, thank you all!
This is what I once believed archaeology was about--people and how they worked alone and together, hunted, gathered, grew, cooked and ate, wore, made and celebrated, perhaps with how and why. But with only an oral tradition (as in North America), I kept being told I was wrong and could't interpret material culture like that, so I took up writing instead. You've given me fresh interest in material culture, thanks!
The status of that white bread is underscored by the fact that our modern word "lord" came from the Old English "hlaford," which means "bread keepr" -- hlaf meaning bread but giving us the word "loaf." So truly a status symbol back then.
And "lady" comes from "hladigh" - bread maker.
Yep. Exactly. That's what I love about being a food historian -- pointing out just how important food has been in world history. :)
Ha, I read Halfords instead of Hlaford :D
LOL -- that would certainly make a difference, wouldn't it.
Cynthia Clampitt possible but don't forget that William 1 changed the language to French and it remained French until the early 1500's. So the root word you are looking for comes from medieval French and not Medieval English.
You & her make such a wonderful team or duo in the whole food series. I would like to see more videos with Chris in them? Lol Your like the experimental taste tester and she is like this medieval chef scientist lady lol.
I am REALLY enjoying this medieval food series!
Please post more!
Can this women please make her own youtube channel reading some books or something? Her voice is so pleasant i could literally listen to her all day.
I love Jason and Chris. Informative, entertaining, and both have calm soothing voices. Props from the USA.
I’m really impressed by the historian’s knowledge of Czech glass. I didn’t think it was that well known outside of our country.
I'm from Bulgaria, so we know Czech glass or Czech crystal as a very expensive and luxury. Especially the older folks. Because of our common socialistic past and the whole USSR thing, you could find чешки кристал in almost all of our homes. And I'm mightily impressed that it dates back to the medieval times. Respect.
She's a historian, it's her job. Of course she'd know!
I can't speak for other regions, but the Czech Republic is well-known for glassmaking in the United States. Most of our glass companies were originally founded by immigrants from Bavaria and Bohemia in the 19th century.
It's also a big reason why so many American beers tend to be Pilsner or lager style. Many of the beer brewers also came to America from the Czech Republic and Germany. They were easily able to bottle and sell their own beer, due to their mastery of glassmaking.
@Jed Lawson hmmmm, does it have a meaning? and what was the original original name in czech?
@@maymay5600 It's named after the Bohemian town (Budějovice) where it was originally brewed. Since the brewery was founded by German citizens, it got the German version of the town's name (Budweis). So basically Budweiser means "from Budweis" or "Budweisian" so to speak.
My French teacher had me research into the transition between the strong castles and the fancier renaissance castles in France. I found a bunch of cool things about food and etiquette and such! One fact is that the French royals considered food close to the earth as the peasant food so they’d eat the food that didn’t touch the ground such as fish, poultry, tree fruits, etc. Peasants may have eaten healthier bc they actually ate veggies haha! Also, I can’t find the time period (maybe 14th century?), but French nobility had a very complicated seating hierarchy tied to social class with different ranks of chairs from thrones and armchairs at the high table all the way down to folding chairs and stools at the long tables.
This must be one of the best sites on RUclips.The whole production is class.
These are so fun to watch! Thank you for such interesting food history!
This video auto played and I remember watching it originally years ago. It is excellent both you and Chris come across so well in this video. I would watch hours of this. Please keep this kind of content coming!!
I'm so happy to have stumbled on this channel. Utterly fascinating, and beautifully presented. Hope to see more of Chris as well. She's awesome!
Welcome aboard!
I would LOVE to see a small series on preparing foods for certain weathers and statuses.
I really dig this part of the series... I like the chemistry between you guys. I hope you plan on doing more of this series with this lady. Super informative and it really helps digest the information being that the presentation is that of two friends chatting..
I am flying around with a big-ass spaceship on one screen and watch medieval food preparation on the other. What a time to be alive, man... :)
Lol this is beautiful. No Man’s Sky?
@@tortoisenhare Star Citizen
But you're not actually doing either. The people in medieval times actually lived in them and the people a century from now will actually be in star ships.
@@annereilley4892 No shit Sherlock.
I was just about to ask if it was Start Citizen. I LOVE what they are doing!
This was good stuff, supplemented my SCA knowledge very well. It actually brought to the fore that in SCA we focus on dishes and recipes, but not on how people went about eating - the mechanics of it, like the shoulder towel and not using your left hand, for instance. One thing with this video, I would have liked to see him doing more of the actual eating - cutting the food and using the knife, finding what bits he needs to use a spoon for, etc.
The SCA has some of the greatest feasts anyone will ever eat! I remember the food was so good that it was superior to the finest resturants in Europe or the US.
If you're at a SCA feast, you will definitely be eating well that night!😉😄
this has turned into my favorite channel. amazing insight.
thanks!
i love them both!
i can't believe i watched a bunch of videos on this channel before but i forgot to subscribe until today
you're spot on! the disinfectant used during a root canal is sourced from clove oil (it's horrifying tasting though!)
Clove oil also is a local anesthetic to numb the pain.
Their enthusiasm is contagious.
I recently stumbled upon this channel and one of the things I love most about the videos, besides the information presented, is that you all take the time to credit everyone involved in creating these masterpieces. That is awesome!
When wheat is contaminated with ergot fungus, removing the fibrous shell of the seeds to make white flour can actually save your life.
A lot of medieval peasants were poisoned with ergotism, a condition they called "St. Anthony's Fire". It made you lose fingers and toes over time and quite possibly go mad.
White bread was not "unhealthy food" at a time where dietary fibre was more than abundant. It was in fact quite a lot healthier than the risk of contamination from brown flour.
GregTom2 I always think of ergot as a plague of the Middle Ages, but many wheat farmers in the upper Midwest had an ergot outbreak this past summer.
Also, spelt white bread is, in fact, healthier than modern processed wheat white bread. Not as healthy as rye or barley bread, but hey.
@@HamCubes from Ergot fungus we get Ergometrine which is used when a placenta is retain or a post-natal uterus does not cramp down. Ergot fungus causes hallucinations and miscarriages.
14miki, That's why they soaked the grains. You would soak them with a little bit of acid like vinegar or lemon or whey, and it would take care of the anti-nutrients so all the nutrients in the grain were bio-available. They did this with legumes, also. We should go back to the way our grandma did it. Much healthier eating.
Medieval acid... 🤔
These are my favorite videos of yours. I love learning about medieval diets!
thank you this is a real treat, will inspire me for years to come. I am a big spice lover. Drying my own herbs.making my own rubs and marinades,
You guys have great energy together. Love it
My grandmother (Netherlands) still used to make pears in spiced wine. So do I occasionally. It is delicious!
This is such a wholesome channel. Love it.
Not a clue why this was recommended to me, but it's so interesting I'll be watching more now.
These videos truly bring small snippets of the past to life for me, I always have them playing while I'm out in tractor in the paddocks going about my day to day, keep up the good work Jason your videos are absolute class 👌
The theory of hot cold wet is actually really common when it comes to Chinese medicine treatment, I am not surprised with this.
I was thinking the same thing.
michael hu It comes from India and slowly migrated to South East Asia and China then later Japan. Not a big leap from India to europe, considering they are much more related than India and east asia.
Yeah the first europeans t write bout this were the greek. It probably spread by the beginning of antiquity
@@npg68 do you keep any rabbits ??? ; )
Would have come into Europe via Arab physicians who would have picked up through their trading networks with the Far East.
I keep revisiting these videos, these could be an entire series about food during the middle ages, recreating recorded recipes for lords and ladies across Europe.
Big fan of this channel, hope you make a game like Kingdom Come: Deliverance one day, sir.
The enthusiasm and interest displayed by this pair is lovely. Really enjoyable episode!😊
This was fun to watch. Thank you!
Now I don't feel so weird. I have this pull to look at peoples spice racks or spice cupboards. Haha
Haha 😁
You're not alone there
He such a great conversationalist. I find his choice of words strangely satisfying.
Actually the 4 humors in medieval medicine were Sanguine (Blood) Choleric (Yellow Bile) Melancholic (Black Bile) and Phlegm. Though the heat cold wet dry properties of these were used to gauge a person's health and mental state.
Yes, copied from the ancient Greeks
There was another mistake in the video. The fork was common in the Byzantine Empire as early as the 5th century. It wasn't invented in 13th century Italy.
I enjoy this woman, she would be seen on the show more!
Absolutely loving this series! The food episodes are very interesting. The host is fantastic. Bravo!
So informative, so many unknown details and interesting ones, nice video!!!
This womans knowledge is impressive. Thank you!
I wanted to find out more about her, here's her website: brigaandfriends.co.uk/
This program basically shows you how even a working man in living in reasonably well off country in the modern era could be richer than even the most powerful kings of europe back in the medieval era standards of living wise.
well, I think pretty much everyone with a roof over their head in the western world lives better than any medieval king. two words: flowing water.
@@GalliadII Well the Romans already had a version of that centuries before that period. Actually, aside from flowing water, I would argue true globalisation. After all, think of all the food you are able to eat nowadays relatively cheap: Indian, Chinese, Korean, Arab, Mexican...etc, all within a few hours travelling distance if you live in a big city. Even if you are the King of England, most of what you can eat are sourced locally.
@@tat3179 yes the romans had it, but medieval europeans did not. there was an attitude against all things roman during the middle ages. this did not change until the renaisance began. and yes, I agree. But still this food looks great as well.
@@GalliadII Sure, my point is while flowing water is vital, our true wealth in this generation we are in is the fact that the resources and cultures of the entire planet is within our reach, within reasonable limits of course.
@@tat3179 most of them anyways. ^^
but consider the luxury to be able to flush your toilet. there are people alive today who do not even know what a toilet is.
I once heared a story of african refugues who washed potatos in the toilet, because they did not know what it was.
This is so great. Interesting and informative. And so nice that nothing is presented with gunfire, explosions or metal music going on in the background, looking at you, every American show ever!
THIS SERIES IS SO AMAZING THANK YOU!!!!
I would love to see more peasant dishes. More exploration of the peasant diet. I want to have my own kitchen garden and cook seasonally so seeing the ways that peasants used to do that would be super interesting.
This man is a rare type of person. Absolutely melts my heart
That kind of sugar is common in Mexico, we call it "piloncillo" or "panela". I did not know it was used then. Interesting video :D
This channel reminds me so much of townsend amd sons so much just medieval and well look up the amazing channel
Townsend & Son is another fine show. (RUclips)
Jason (if I may be fo familiar!) your passion is so infectious, I had to watch as many as I could after I subscribed. Thanks for the content and keep them coming!
you may be so familiar! thanks for your support.
These videos are actually great. I feel like I've learnt a lot, but it also got me quite hungry. Cheers, Ser!
It is very interesting to know that in Medieval time, physicians know properties of food too. I always thought this is only known to Chinese/ Eastern people. 'tis true that I remember when my father donated his blood he cooked a pot of chicken stew with ginseng and dates. I didn't liked that sweet flavoured protein too much but guess that's what a body which is weak (wet and cold ) craves for. It is also why when people catches cold should drink ginger tea because ginger is also is warm in its food property.
I would love to see more episodes with Chris, she's lovely!
This is a lovely series. I wanna cook everything on the menu now!
Spices are still expensive. Take a look at how much you pay per ounce! The difference is the availability of them.
Wanda Pease Never buy spices in the supermaket. There usually cost way more and are of worse quality then the ones I get on amazob.
saffron and vanilla beans are most expensive
The sad part is that it's now expensive even in parts of the world where they used to be in abundance and costed very little, it's because they now have to be "exported"!
@@redchilli450 makes sense why Amazon is cheaper now
@Holden Mcgroine I grew up seeing certain spices on my mom's spice rack NEVER lose a single speck of mass from birth to 18.
Big Respect, Chris. Thanks for bringing your clear enthusiasm about this aspect of medieval life. Another commented that you have "No wasted words" and in modern RUclips culture (even from 4 years ago) it's nice to see. :P
How had I not found this channel yet? So interesting!