"The main street in Atlanta is Peachtree Street" is quite the understatement. You can stand at the intersection of Peachtree Street, West Peachtree Street, and Peachtree Road. And from that intersection you can see Peachtree Circle entering onto Peachtree Road. And that is far from the only time you can stand on the corner of Peachtree and Peachtree It's absolutely nuts
Doesn't one of those roads then carry on south, about a 30 minute or so drive, to Peachtree City, Georgia? My current residence and home to a staggering number of golf carts thanks to a parallel golf cart trail network?
That's awesome. I used to live near the intersection of Chestnut Park, Chestnut Park, and Chestnut Park. Which was just two blocks from Cluny Avenue and Cluny Drive.
I live in California and I grow peaches in my yard, as well as oranges, lemons, limes, passionfruit, avocado, figs, grapes, and apples. No joke. The climate is amazing here for gardening.
FiatLux i grew up in california and my dad grew avocados, oranges, bananas, apples, squash, corn, lemons and limes, peaches, guava and so much more. i miss my home state!
I’m from California and got stationed in Warner Robins GA, 20 min away from Macon. And you can’t even plant flowers, they burn up and die in a week. If you don’t water your lawn twice a day it will turn brown and die. I miss California so much.
the level of creativity in their street names is shocking. I should know because within 2 miles of my house there are 2 streets that start with “Peachtree”
these kinds of historical or food sciency videos are great. everyone and their families do recipes and cooking videos, but getting them with cool context is amazing!
_Peaches are native to China and brought here by Spanish Monks_ That sounds like some interesting excerpt I'd find on the back of a book; my weak spot.
@@MrClean-ep7uc yeah to give an idea of how long the story of peaches is the period from first cultivation in northern china to its introduction to europe occurs over the span of thousands of years all of which happened BC. the most interesting part of which being the scientific name of the fruit which is perscia and comes from the fact that for a long time the persian empire was the largest producer of peaches.
Love these southern history videos, your passion for the region that's sprinkled throughout all your cooking videos really shines through and to a Canadian who didn't learn much about these regions of the U.S in school they are very interesting :)
Adam is hypocritically avoiding this topic because his tomato crops depend on seasonal labour from his economically-disadvantaged children (they were born with no money and they only survive because he feeds them).
How crazy. I lived in the south most my life and had Georgia peaches often as a kid. Now that I live in California, the juiciest, sweetest peaches I’ve ever had were from here. This explains so much about why I prefer the peaches here but lie to my family by saying the best are from Georgia. I have been brainwashed into spreading the lie haha
Well we may not have the best peaches but I guarantee we have the best peaches grown that are sprayed over and over and over by toxic pesticides and herbicides, that means at least something, right ??
This video shows a rare talent of discreetly talking about the social issues of today’s news, linking it to the horrendous past but in a way that captivates and invites the audience to learn without feeling of burden or shame that usually accompanies a talk about race and inequality. Tying southern history and culture with food is a brilliant in, no controversy yet we open a dialogue. As a POC I thank you for this history lesson!
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"Horrendous past" Weird how its fine for africa and arabia to have a history (and present!) rife with slavery but nobody ever wants to talk about that
@ That's Africa's racism discussion to take. Or perhaps Europe, since it was mainly southern Europeans who were enslaved by Africans. Either way, it's irrelevant for the American situation.
I'd love to see a deep dive on what it means for food to be labeled "organic". You mentioned that peaches have to be sprayed with lots of chemicals and so are rarely organic, but I thought organic farmers must still spray some sort of pesticide...
from what I've picked up from other youtubers and just general research, I hear that, in general, "Organic" can usually mean that certain pesticides are restricted and certain herbicides are also restricted. However, since politics is politics, lobbying has sort of ruined the idea of a pure "organic" fruit without chemicals - so most laws are still written to still allow certain herbicides and pesticides. Not to mention the question of factory-made fertilizer which doesn't seem very "organic" but are usually just science-y sounding explanations of what happens, such as composting re-adding various chemicals. Hopefully these would be more rigorously tested pesticides and herbicides, but again, the only people with enough money to sponsor scientific testing for herbicides and pesticides are the big farms that benefit off of using more herbicides and pesticides. So in my opinion you can't really be sure, and the whole concept of an "organic" fruit compared to the alternative is faulty. If you really want some high quality produce, your best bet is still to support local farms. They probably have a decent amount of bruised produce that's perfect to eat but won't sell on store shelves as they have to compete with perfectly round produce. Not only that but supporting local farmers probably ensures a more quality product for you. You can notice some stuff in subtle ways that Adam has mentioned on the channel before - Wild salmon is more red than pink due to eating only natural pigments rather than factory farmed dyes, fresh chicken eggs have more beta carotene and thus has a deeper yellow yolk, home farmed tomatoes have insanely better flavor compared to grocery store ones - You get the gist. But that would be an amazing idea to see Ragusea cover.
The USDA definition of "organic" means some food crop that is grown without the usage of synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides. Organic animals are required to be fed with such organic food crops and not treated with synthetic hormones and antibiotics, and should be given access to freely roam in the outdoors and allowed to pasture.
No matter how delicately he approaches this topic, people are gonna have their beliefs questioned and he may lose a lot of viewers. I assume this is so because I assume Adam is an incredibly intelligent person and will come down on the side of "conventional farming is in most cases nearly 100% better in nearly every category, with few but massive exceptions" that science minded folks take. edit: he probably wont lose that many because he's so charming and considerate and well researched. he'd probably have the best organic/conventional video on the web...oh who am I kidding, Adam, go for it!
@@froggalexis factory salmon is fed krill. Somethig cheap to buy or easy to grow along side the salmon. Thats why the color is what it is. Which is not really a pink. Ive sold seafood for many years and never seen a salmon what was pink. Orange yeas. Never pink. Wild Sockeye is red or a more reddish orange. Byt wild steelhead (a rainbow trout caught after its ocean run) is the same color as farmed atlantic salmon. A steelhead has orange flesh. A rainbow trout has white flesh. Same dna. Wild pacific salmon is the same color as farmed atlantic salmon Its not just diet, but living conditions, and species that determines flesh color. Diet is extremely important tho. Im not saying that no one dies their fish. Im saying that its not all that common when krill is so easy to get, satisfies a large portion of the salmons nutirtional needs and also gives them the color people expect. Krill are basically a type of shrimp. You can buy dried krill in pet sections or pet stores. They are kinda orange. Thats where it comes from.
Ive lived in GA my whole life, and I never even once saw a peach orchard. As my friend who went to college for agricultural science said, our agriculture is based on the 3 P's. Pecans, Peanuts, and Pine trees. It is not 4 P's, because the Georgia Peach is almost a myth XD
I know right, I was born in CA and saw like a whole farmers market of fruits, and there was lots of peaches and mangos, and when I moved to GA because of led poisoning or whatever, I havnt seen peaches at all its just blueberries and burger king
It probably depends on what part of the state you're in. Pecans and pines are typical of the FL Panhandle also, and may be among the only successful crops south of the Fall Line (ie on the Coastal Plain) where the soil is probably cr*p like it is in Florida. I suspect peaches would do much better with longer winters such as in the Appalachian or even Piedmont areas, which also have older, likely better soil.
Hands down my favorite video so far, this was so interesting to watch and the amount of complexity that something as simple as a peach had was impressive. History, science, politics, so much. Cheers!
Hands-down Adam, you’ve got the best commentary on the relationship of Americans and their easy access to food. Well done again!! Keep up the good work and ignore the detractors.
As a public health officer who trained in Atlanta, I think the best part of this whole SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is the fact that I discovered this channel and subscribed. I have learned so much about food history and preparation this Spring. It’s absolutely amazing. Thank you for these wonderful videos! It’s what I used to love about the Food TV network back in its earliest days.
If you want a good read about migrant farm workers I recommend "Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States" by Seth M. Holmes
@@AishaAishaAishaAisha Blueberries are native! And potatoes, tomatoes, and corn are from the Americas. Look up the "Columbian Exchange" on Wikipedia, and you'll see the huge range of things that were transferred between the "Old World" and the "New World".
@@aaronsirkman8375 So are chilies! And those were very popular exports, to the point that it is impossible to imagine whole swaths of Chinese cuisine without chilies.
I don't comment a lot, but I did want to leave a thanks for making content like this. I found your channel a while back because I was looking for a recipe, but I stay subscribed because of informative and thought provoking videos like this one.
You're my favorite RUclips cook because we both live in Georgia. When I do your recipes they always come out very well. I think it's because we both get our stuff from publix and Kroger
Also, thanks, Adam, for the rabbithole... today I learned that the old peach shed in South Carolina where my grandfolk would fetch a half-bushel of peaches on the way back from Saturday groceries... has been designated a national historical landmark. I had no idea I was participating in a little bit of history. Taylor's Peach Shed if you want to look it up.
So what you're saying is Georgia redefined itself by going from an agrarian focused economy based on exploited labor to an agrarian focused economy based on exploited labor
Yeah, you free a bunch of people and don’t pay for anything for them as well as flatten most of the things whether they were fighting or not. They end up working for the people they were enslaved by before. Welcome to the south, if you’re not dirt poor and being worked into the ground, you will be soon enough....or just rural America in general. The only really difference between Indiana and Virginia is tasty in food and one has a much longer history. Folks are mostly the same from who I’ve met so far
@@ColonizerChan Rural anything is fucked my dude, NAFTA created the Zapatistas. Decolonization and unchecked population growth means that all the land is gonna have to be used for food (bubye tropical forests) and that the production costs are doing to be even tighter than industrial ones, that means that everyone who's not using an AI to analyse their irrigation data is going bust either from regulation or competition or both. The Industrial revolution was a mistake.
@@MrCrashDavi Yeah we should go back to working with dad and uncle and our 3 brothers, (would be 5 but 2 of them died as infants) on some baron's farm and hoping we make it to 30. This industrial revolution is so cringe man, wish I could work 15 hours a day since childhood and eat porridge every day and sleep in a poorly insulated house and pray every time someone catches a cold that they don't stop breathing in their sleep.
@@MrCrashDavi never heard of it and i googled it. You're completely right about alot of stuff, but there's a few things wrong: 1. The land used by the indigenous is mostly farming plots(ejidos) 2. NAFTA itself wasn't the problem it was reviewing article 27 that threatened their ownership of the land AND fear that American imports would increase in price
Video like this is exactly how you know he used to work in public radio. Change the state specific details around and I could swear I've heard this before on Wisconsin Public Radio.
This is the first time I've heard someone say 'funguses' (which is still correct as a plural of fungus). It sounded funny to me only because the plural 'fungi' is more commonly used.
@@hedgeearthridge6807 Well, for a lot of people at least, they're two different things. 'Fish' is a collective; 'fishes' is a singulative (namely, it's used when discussing different _varieties_ of fish. Confer 'fruit' versus 'fruits')
“You guys enslaved people and started an entire war just to restrict human rights!” “Hey hey hey hey hey! Peaches.” Note to self, some people don’t know what a joke is
Are they supposed to like brand themselves with plantations? I don't understand the point of saying this. I don't understand how a state's branding efforts somehow make it so you can't acknowledge slavery
I love this kind of small town content. Makes me want to try to do something like this myself. Outstanding content! Love the mix too. One of my new favorite channels!
Here’s a true peach story. I spent most of my youth in Georgia. My sister had a VW Van up at UGA in Athens. It had a problem accelerating. Several mechanics failed to figure it out. One day a boyfriend was messing with the clutch and discovered the gas pedal had a peach pit stuck under it. Hey, those anti-littering laws shouldn’t have applied to peach pits in Georgia! Am I right? Well. And there’s no such thing as a decent commercially grown peach. Sadly.
One thing I'm majorly glad about is your willingness to not underplay the historical racial issues that got the south to develop the way it did. I mean yea its not the primary reason, and you cover that, but it's good to not sweep it under the rug. Top notch!
The crop history and slightly more long-form videos of yours where you delve into something I'd never considered, like "hey, why IS NC's neighbor considered the peach state -- I see way more peach orchards in SC than I do when I'm in GA!" are truly your best content, Adam.
My grandfather grew 2 peach trees, growing up in New York. We would pick them early fall (which would be end of August-early Sept.) I remember the taste of the peaches distinctly. When I came to Florida a couple of years ago, my neighbors also grew peach trees. They told me to take as much as I need. Well, thinking it would be the same, it really wasn't... The taste from Florida peaches vs New York peaches are vastly different.
Had a peach tree in our center-of-town little yard growing up in rural Pennsylvania, and I have found each successive place I've lived required the planting of one ever since. Peach pie is unbeatable. Also it means that any peach flavored candy I've ever tried tastes like plastic garbage.
@Harve Seks yep unfortunately. 4channers believe racism died in either the 1960s or 1860s when really racism is still horribly strong, but of course let's call movemnts fighting racism "racist."
@Harve Seks Yes, it's a well-known psychological phenomenon called Projection. To those who project, it's very difficult to see it due to a form of cognitive dissonance which stops their brain from actually processing their own actions and instead ascribes them to people around them. To most everyone outside of the projector's bubble, it's clear as day who is actually behaving in a racist manner.
Shoutouts to the side content of watching Adam Ragusea's muscle build change per video I still am not over how buff this man was in the knife skills video
I've eaten raw peaches in the Chinese state of Yunnan. Delicious and wonderful variety. I wish America would also grow and mass market Chinese "crunchy" peaches. Maybe there's a specialty market for them.
I've been to providence canyons many time and knew it was from erosion but I didn't know it was because of cotton. So cool to see that pop up in the video!
Actually, picking peaches is likely a safer and higher quality job than what most low income Americans work. I would know, as I've lived in poverty my whole life. As far as I'm aware, picking peaches is a better opportunity for migrant workers than what is oftentimes available at home. Apparently at least sometimes the farm owners provide housing for the workers too, as we saw in the video. That puts even more money in the workers' pockets. As a "poor" person, I can tell you that almost all my income has to go into paying for a roof over my head, as is the case with many others.
Here in Australia we get most of our fruit picked by backpackers. We have a program where you can get a 12 month visa extension if you spend a few months picking fruit, plus backpackers are always looking for cash - so most people do it. Still immigrant labour, but mostly from Europe and America.
Loving this sober, no nonsense take on history through the lens of gastronomy. You really can't argue any of these points even though I'm sure there's a whole bunch of fools and tools out there who'd love to try.
I like your cooking videos a lot. I too, love to cook. But I am most impressed by and grateful for the videos in which you explore science and, most of all, social issues - you are a real educator. Well done, that man. I trust you will forgive me for skipping over the sponsor ads, as I can't stand watching those, as much as I realise they are necessary to your channel.
This was awesome, would love to see more food documentary-style videos from you, Adam. Really interesting, discovering the history and heritage behind everyday staples.
I lived in Augusta for maybe 15 years and learned more about the national in this 12 minute video than I did living there. Well, aside from the fact it's incredibly slow to actually change in it's discriminatory ways.
Im from SC and let me tell you, i have seen and eaten so many peaches that im low key sick of them. We even have a massive water tower in the shape of a peach
The thing is: Having grown up in an even more arid climate, I am very worried about the Californian approach. Irrigation is super when you have the water for it, but I fear that the climate change that might be causing some peach varieties to struggle further south could well make water in Cal so scarce that - in the long run at least - the entire system might come crashing down...
I ain't even about atmospheric climate change. California agriculture is heavily reliant on extremely unsustainable use of rivers and underground aquifers. At their current rate, a lot of the water sources that they use will be exhausted in less than a century.
When I clicked on this video, I thought hey this reminds me of my former computer science professor talking about his brother studying peaches. Then 0:55 his brother and his brother's son pop up. Pretty cool. When you say Okie and Dr. Okie it just makes me think of class haha.
The variety of food related topics that you address is the best that I've seen. Please keep including videos on technique, science, history, opinion (garlic bread), dispersed among recipes. I also like your "NO," myth-busting presentations.
“California is aired. Nice clean dry air.” Me in the Central Valley. Constantly being pooped on by major cities with pollution. Yesterday it was brown dusty and windy.
I would mention Orange, NSW, Australia whose main export is cherries, and a town near me with a name that translates as 'carrot' but has a tomato drawn on their welcome sign, and their main crops are cotton and sunflower seeds...
Didn't anticipate a single cooking/food youtuber to address race in any sufficient degree so this was a pleasant surprise. Thanks for the video, Adam. I'm a recent viewer but I think I'll be around for a while.
I am shocked at the number of commenters here who are practically defending slavery. Slave owners weren’t the bad people, they say. It was the tribes in Africa that first enslaved people. Scary how many people here think this. Slavery was/is evil. Full stop. Why is there an argument?
here in the uk it’s eastern european’s that tend to work in fruit picking, a group of them arrange work, move over, live in a sort of hostel on the farm and work 6 days a week in the summer. can’t imagine the pay is very much
I really appreciate how your channel is a blend of cooking and journalism videos and how both kinds are equally compelling. Thanks!
And science!
But the abduction part was wrong they took prisoners either of war or criminals and it was pretty bad in Africa already so it's not that bad
@@ΝικοςΠαπασωτηρακοπουλος
my man are you really trying to justify slavery
He still adds personal opinion in so not so journalistic.
Νικος Παπασωτηρακοπουλος the abduction part was in fact not wrong. You’re out here justifying slavery I can’t💀
"The main street in Atlanta is Peachtree Street" is quite the understatement. You can stand at the intersection of Peachtree Street, West Peachtree Street, and Peachtree Road. And from that intersection you can see Peachtree Circle entering onto Peachtree Road. And that is far from the only time you can stand on the corner of Peachtree and Peachtree
It's absolutely nuts
Doesn't one of those roads then carry on south, about a 30 minute or so drive, to Peachtree City, Georgia? My current residence and home to a staggering number of golf carts thanks to a parallel golf cart trail network?
I think you mean: "It's absolutely peachy."
That's awesome. I used to live near the intersection of Chestnut Park, Chestnut Park, and Chestnut Park. Which was just two blocks from Cluny Avenue and Cluny Drive.
How does one not get lost
@@manasim.9936 You can't not get lost in Atlanta. No one who goes in ever comes out due to the mess of Peachtrees
I live in California and I grow peaches in my yard, as well as oranges, lemons, limes, passionfruit, avocado, figs, grapes, and apples. No joke. The climate is amazing here for gardening.
FiatLux i grew up in california and my dad grew avocados, oranges, bananas, apples, squash, corn, lemons and limes, peaches, guava and so much more. i miss my home state!
pris diaz Me too. A third of an acre in San Gabriel and 9 fruit trees. Including a peach tree.
citrus trees are really big in the bay area(east/north/south bay). Pretty much anything not too close to the coast
I’m from California and got stationed in Warner Robins GA, 20 min away from Macon. And you can’t even plant flowers, they burn up and die in a week. If you don’t water your lawn twice a day it will turn brown and die. I miss California so much.
:0 you're sooo lucky
"The main street in Atlanta is called Peachstree St"
So are all the other street's in Atlanta. It gets genuinely confusing to drive around
I remember the Peachtree hotel too.
"Y'all are like a damned compass near north!" - Robin Williams
the level of creativity in their street names is shocking. I should know because within 2 miles of my house there are 2 streets that start with “Peachtree”
There are 15 streets named Peachtree st. and countless place, drive, road, circle
i used to live in georgia for 5-6 years and I havnt seen a single peach in the farms i visited or grocery stores. It just toilet paper and blueberries
"Peaches of course are native to China"
Yes... Of course... Everyone knows that...
Many fruits we eat regularly now originate from china
@@34cvc I mean, 50% of all agricultural plants are from Southeast Asia, so
Almonds are peach seeds my dad said. Was he right?
Kung fu panda taught me that
Other fruits native to China include apples, oranges, kiwi, and persimmon.
these kinds of historical or food sciency videos are great. everyone and their families do recipes and cooking videos, but getting them with cool context is amazing!
_Peaches are native to China and brought here by Spanish Monks_
That sounds like some interesting excerpt I'd find on the back of a book; my weak spot.
probably made it to europe way before then spanish brought to america dummie. Lemons and Limes both came from asia too
Nobody expects the Spanish Monks!
@@MrClean-ep7uc yeah to give an idea of how long the story of peaches is the period from first cultivation in northern china to its introduction to europe occurs over the span of thousands of years all of which happened BC. the most interesting part of which being the scientific name of the fruit which is perscia and comes from the fact that for a long time the persian empire was the largest producer of peaches.
@@jackharris6497 interesting!
4:22 "that didn't admit black members till 1990 or women until 2012"
wait what?
@Erik Lerström Still nothing wrong with that. You want a club, start one. Most people want to be with their own. Like red birds and bluebirds.
cjay2 red birds and bluebirds are literally different species
_Sherman's grave rumbles_
@@cjay2
Cough segregationist cough cough.
@@genieglasslamp5028 and classist
I'm a native Southerner and a history museum educator so it brings me such joy to keep seeing you make these videos, Adam!
Love these southern history videos, your passion for the region that's sprinkled throughout all your cooking videos really shines through and to a Canadian who didn't learn much about these regions of the U.S in school they are very interesting :)
Come down and visit sometime, if you come in winter you might not completely melt
Adam how are the tomatoes when are you going to give up an update?
I lay awake at night thinking of those tomatoes
just peachy
Adam is hypocritically avoiding this topic because his tomato crops depend on seasonal labour from his economically-disadvantaged children (they were born with no money and they only survive because he feeds them).
go check his tik tok, tomato progress there
How crazy. I lived in the south most my life and had Georgia peaches often as a kid. Now that I live in California, the juiciest, sweetest peaches I’ve ever had were from here. This explains so much about why I prefer the peaches here but lie to my family by saying the best are from Georgia. I have been brainwashed into spreading the lie haha
Well we may not have the best peaches but I guarantee we have the best peaches grown that are sprayed over and over and over by toxic pesticides and herbicides, that means at least something, right ??
I love how your channel is evolving to cover interesting topics not really covered by other cooking channels.
I also love how his background in journalism makes his videos that much more interesting due to how analytical he is
It's just a big virtue signal.
@@JM-fo1te Ahh, yes. He spent hours and hours researching and shooting this video just so that people can think he's a good person. /s
@@JM-fo1te Acknowledging the existence of slavery = virtue signaling. Wow.
This video shows a rare talent of discreetly talking about the social issues of today’s news, linking it to the horrendous past but in a way that captivates and invites the audience to learn without feeling of burden or shame that usually accompanies a talk about race and inequality. Tying southern history and culture with food is a brilliant in, no controversy yet we open a dialogue. As a POC I thank you for this history lesson!
"Horrendous past"
Weird how its fine for africa and arabia to have a history (and present!) rife with slavery but nobody ever wants to talk about that
@ That's Africa's racism discussion to take. Or perhaps Europe, since it was mainly southern Europeans who were enslaved by Africans. Either way, it's irrelevant for the American situation.
Biiviz Every country deals with the primary issues that plague it. For America, it’s institutionalized racism.
Brett Sylvester that’s not America tho, we are Americans
He was indeed a journalist
I'd love to see a deep dive on what it means for food to be labeled "organic". You mentioned that peaches have to be sprayed with lots of chemicals and so are rarely organic, but I thought organic farmers must still spray some sort of pesticide...
from what I've picked up from other youtubers and just general research, I hear that, in general, "Organic" can usually mean that certain pesticides are restricted and certain herbicides are also restricted.
However, since politics is politics, lobbying has sort of ruined the idea of a pure "organic" fruit without chemicals - so most laws are still written to still allow certain herbicides and pesticides. Not to mention the question of factory-made fertilizer which doesn't seem very "organic" but are usually just science-y sounding explanations of what happens, such as composting re-adding various chemicals.
Hopefully these would be more rigorously tested pesticides and herbicides, but again, the only people with enough money to sponsor scientific testing for herbicides and pesticides are the big farms that benefit off of using more herbicides and pesticides. So in my opinion you can't really be sure, and the whole concept of an "organic" fruit compared to the alternative is faulty.
If you really want some high quality produce, your best bet is still to support local farms. They probably have a decent amount of bruised produce that's perfect to eat but won't sell on store shelves as they have to compete with perfectly round produce.
Not only that but supporting local farmers probably ensures a more quality product for you. You can notice some stuff in subtle ways that Adam has mentioned on the channel before - Wild salmon is more red than pink due to eating only natural pigments rather than factory farmed dyes, fresh chicken eggs have more beta carotene and thus has a deeper yellow yolk, home farmed tomatoes have insanely better flavor compared to grocery store ones - You get the gist. But that would be an amazing idea to see Ragusea cover.
The USDA definition of "organic" means some food crop that is grown without the usage of synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides. Organic animals are required to be fed with such organic food crops and not treated with synthetic hormones and antibiotics, and should be given access to freely roam in the outdoors and allowed to pasture.
frog g e I just started to work on a really small local farm on the south shore of Mass, let me tell you, everyone sprays with something
No matter how delicately he approaches this topic, people are gonna have their beliefs questioned and he may lose a lot of viewers. I assume this is so because I assume Adam is an incredibly intelligent person and will come down on the side of "conventional farming is in most cases nearly 100% better in nearly every category, with few but massive exceptions" that science minded folks take.
edit: he probably wont lose that many because he's so charming and considerate and well researched. he'd probably have the best organic/conventional video on the web...oh who am I kidding, Adam, go for it!
@@froggalexis factory salmon is fed krill. Somethig cheap to buy or easy to grow along side the salmon. Thats why the color is what it is. Which is not really a pink. Ive sold seafood for many years and never seen a salmon what was pink. Orange yeas. Never pink. Wild Sockeye is red or a more reddish orange. Byt wild steelhead (a rainbow trout caught after its ocean run) is the same color as farmed atlantic salmon. A steelhead has orange flesh. A rainbow trout has white flesh. Same dna.
Wild pacific salmon is the same color as farmed atlantic salmon
Its not just diet, but living conditions, and species that determines flesh color. Diet is extremely important tho.
Im not saying that no one dies their fish. Im saying that its not all that common when krill is so easy to get, satisfies a large portion of the salmons nutirtional needs and also gives them the color people expect.
Krill are basically a type of shrimp. You can buy dried krill in pet sections or pet stores. They are kinda orange. Thats where it comes from.
Ive lived in GA my whole life, and I never even once saw a peach orchard. As my friend who went to college for agricultural science said, our agriculture is based on the 3 P's. Pecans, Peanuts, and Pine trees. It is not 4 P's, because the Georgia Peach is almost a myth XD
I know right, I was born in CA and saw like a whole farmers market of fruits, and there was lots of peaches and mangos, and when I moved to GA because of led poisoning or whatever, I havnt seen peaches at all its just blueberries and burger king
It probably depends on what part of the state you're in. Pecans and pines are typical of the FL Panhandle also, and may be among the only successful crops south of the Fall Line (ie on the Coastal Plain) where the soil is probably cr*p like it is in Florida. I suspect peaches would do much better with longer winters such as in the Appalachian or even Piedmont areas, which also have older, likely better soil.
makes sense, especially since i heard georgia has more blueberries than peaches
I mean... there’s way more berries than fruit ratio wise though right?
Don't know if it's a joke or a real statistic but I still laughed
What’s going to happen when white people run out of guilt?
sikmanist I mean, one peach is a lot less fruits than a portion of berries
also if i renember, it is a real statistic
Going to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches
Dylan Mohan D-> hi
That song is practically all I could think about while watching this…
Peaches come from a can they were put there by a man in a factory downtown
Nice fo meet you Equius! I never thought I’d see you outside of Homestuck
ari D-> I breached containment
Hands down my favorite video so far, this was so interesting to watch and the amount of complexity that something as simple as a peach had was impressive. History, science, politics, so much. Cheers!
Jose De Jesus Mexicano everything has a history, and politics are always a step behind history XD
Hands-down Adam, you’ve got the best commentary on the relationship of Americans and their easy access to food. Well done again!! Keep up the good work and ignore the detractors.
2:30 I had to turn on the captions for this sentence, then I was relieved and felt guilty at the same time when it said "MEAGER reward"
Same
Oh that's what he said. My eyebrows went 3m up
What do you think he said?
@@fredfredrickson8892 I thought he said the N word. had to listen to it twice.
My jaw dropped
Damn he knows so much about georgia, he should really start living there
*"hE ALreADY lIvEs tHEre sTUpiD"*
@@f-8859 r/woooosh
I feel like I see you as much as Justin Y these days or am I tripping
@@f-8859 r/wooosh, i thought your brain could tell I was joking from the letters.
@A4DI r/Woooosh you really couldn’t tell that he wooooshed him ironically??? Lol
As a public health officer who trained in Atlanta, I think the best part of this whole SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is the fact that I discovered this channel and subscribed. I have learned so much about food history and preparation this Spring. It’s absolutely amazing. Thank you for these wonderful videos! It’s what I used to love about the Food TV network back in its earliest days.
If you want a good read about migrant farm workers I recommend "Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States" by Seth M. Holmes
Channels that can make me watch a full video about something I don’t care about:
Adam Ragusea
Ted-Ed
0:19
Adam: we don't grow that many peaches
Subtitle: we don't grow that many peoples...
panangam ok
I read this while he said it
Ah yes, the peoples harvest
Georgia: “We are the peach state!”
California: “Well yes, but actually no”
Isela Ravelo noooooo China!!! Everything AMERICA HAS WAS BUILT FROM ANOTHER CONTINENT!!!!!
Fortnite Head. Paris nope
@@AishaAishaAishaAisha Blueberries are native! And potatoes, tomatoes, and corn are from the Americas. Look up the "Columbian Exchange" on Wikipedia, and you'll see the huge range of things that were transferred between the "Old World" and the "New World".
@@AishaAishaAishaAisha everything from america before europe found it: guess I'm asian now
@@aaronsirkman8375
So are chilies! And those were very popular exports, to the point that it is impossible to imagine whole swaths of Chinese cuisine without chilies.
My friend handed me a peach. I told him I prefer pears.
*So he handed me another one.*
I don't comment a lot, but I did want to leave a thanks for making content like this. I found your channel a while back because I was looking for a recipe, but I stay subscribed because of informative and thought provoking videos like this one.
You're my favorite RUclips cook because we both live in Georgia. When I do your recipes they always come out very well. I think it's because we both get our stuff from publix and Kroger
As a non-American I am very fascinated in these kinds of histories of America, especially when you can go into the details with such a little fruit!
Clearly you were a good journalist. I really like when you take a kitchen tangent. Keep up the good work.
Also, thanks, Adam, for the rabbithole... today I learned that the old peach shed in South Carolina where my grandfolk would fetch a half-bushel of peaches on the way back from Saturday groceries... has been designated a national historical landmark. I had no idea I was participating in a little bit of history. Taylor's Peach Shed if you want to look it up.
Idk why but the phrase "peachy breeze is peachy keen" keeps popping into my head
greg should of been the peachy breeze kid lol
“Hit the Quan”
-Greg’s dad
@@sergeantrainstorm1269 zoo we mama
Scotty Douglas
So what you're saying is Georgia redefined itself by going from an agrarian focused economy based on exploited labor to an agrarian focused economy based on exploited labor
Yeah, you free a bunch of people and don’t pay for anything for them as well as flatten most of the things whether they were fighting or not.
They end up working for the people they were enslaved by before.
Welcome to the south, if you’re not dirt poor and being worked into the ground, you will be soon enough....or just rural America in general. The only really difference between Indiana and Virginia is tasty in food and one has a much longer history. Folks are mostly the same from who I’ve met so far
@@ColonizerChan Rural anything is fucked my dude, NAFTA created the Zapatistas. Decolonization and unchecked population growth means that all the land is gonna have to be used for food (bubye tropical forests) and that the production costs are doing to be even tighter than industrial ones, that means that everyone who's not using an AI to analyse their irrigation data is going bust either from regulation or competition or both.
The Industrial revolution was a mistake.
@@MrCrashDavi Yeah we should go back to working with dad and uncle and our 3 brothers, (would be 5 but 2 of them died as infants) on some baron's farm and hoping we make it to 30. This industrial revolution is so cringe man, wish I could work 15 hours a day since childhood and eat porridge every day and sleep in a poorly insulated house and pray every time someone catches a cold that they don't stop breathing in their sleep.
@@MrCrashDavi never heard of it and i googled it. You're completely right about alot of stuff, but there's a few things wrong:
1. The land used by the indigenous is mostly farming plots(ejidos)
2. NAFTA itself wasn't the problem it was reviewing article 27 that threatened their ownership of the land AND fear that American imports would increase in price
@@MrCrashDavi *ponic farming is easy to do for any small startup company and uses less land/dirt
Adam always has the smoothest transitions to a sponsorship
Yeah, it always makes my brain feel weird when that happens, almost imperceptibly. 😅
Video like this is exactly how you know he used to work in public radio. Change the state specific details around and I could swear I've heard this before on Wisconsin Public Radio.
This is the first time I've heard someone say 'funguses' (which is still correct as a plural of fungus). It sounded funny to me only because the plural 'fungi' is more commonly used.
Neither are incorrect. 'Fungi' would be the correct grammar in Latin, whereas 'funguses' uses English grammar rules. You can use either.
@@semanticsamuel936 Anything can be _correct_ if you're not a prescriptivist.
That aside, the person you're responding to never said it was incorrect.
It's like Fish and Fishes. They are both correct. Though I don't care about "proper" spelling, english is a shitty language anyway. XD
@@hedgeearthridge6807 Well, for a lot of people at least, they're two different things. 'Fish' is a collective; 'fishes' is a singulative (namely, it's used when discussing different _varieties_ of fish. Confer 'fruit' versus 'fruits')
“You guys enslaved people and started an entire war just to restrict human rights!”
“Hey hey hey hey hey! Peaches.”
Note to self, some people don’t know what a joke is
@ModestMagician
I mean...they still did it
Are they supposed to like brand themselves with plantations? I don't understand the point of saying this. I don't understand how a state's branding efforts somehow make it so you can't acknowledge slavery
@ModestMagician Peaches are delicious, i agree
"p-pp-pe- peaches?"
@@bruceU I love peaches!!!
I love this kind of small town content. Makes me want to try to do something like this myself.
Outstanding content! Love the mix too. One of my new favorite channels!
Here’s a true peach story. I spent most of my youth in Georgia. My sister had a VW Van up at UGA in Athens. It had a problem accelerating. Several mechanics failed to figure it out.
One day a boyfriend was messing with the clutch and discovered the gas pedal had a peach pit stuck under it.
Hey, those anti-littering laws shouldn’t have applied to peach pits in Georgia! Am I right? Well. And there’s no such thing as a decent commercially grown peach. Sadly.
Very well done. I appreciate the honesty and sensitivity of this video.
Adam: “My friends Heidi and Chris just planted this peach tree”
Me: “how the heck did they get so many peaches”?
Adam: “A few years ago”
I love that your channel is not just about cooking but also very educational on history and science.
Well done, Adam. Nearly life-long Georgian here. Good to see some truth telling about our agricultural history and the farm models of today.
Adams Monday videos are the best.
One thing I'm majorly glad about is your willingness to not underplay the historical racial issues that got the south to develop the way it did. I mean yea its not the primary reason, and you cover that, but it's good to not sweep it under the rug. Top notch!
The crop history and slightly more long-form videos of yours where you delve into something I'd never considered, like "hey, why IS NC's neighbor considered the peach state -- I see way more peach orchards in SC than I do when I'm in GA!" are truly your best content, Adam.
My grandfather grew 2 peach trees, growing up in New York. We would pick them early fall (which would be end of August-early Sept.) I remember the taste of the peaches distinctly.
When I came to Florida a couple of years ago, my neighbors also grew peach trees. They told me to take as much as I need. Well, thinking it would be the same, it really wasn't...
The taste from Florida peaches vs New York peaches are vastly different.
Had a peach tree in our center-of-town little yard growing up in rural Pennsylvania, and I have found each successive place I've lived required the planting of one ever since. Peach pie is unbeatable. Also it means that any peach flavored candy I've ever tried tastes like plastic garbage.
The past is not even past. But anyway, peaches. (Thanks as always for making history interesting.)
@Con Troversy BLM isn't racist
@Harve Seks I'm not to sit back and let them spread lies. "Unfortunately racist organizations such as BLM...". Wtf?
Con Troversy Racism is definitely FAR from gone. It will ALWAYS exist.
@Harve Seks yep unfortunately. 4channers believe racism died in either the 1960s or 1860s when really racism is still horribly strong, but of course let's call movemnts fighting racism "racist."
@Harve Seks Yes, it's a well-known psychological phenomenon called Projection. To those who project, it's very difficult to see it due to a form of cognitive dissonance which stops their brain from actually processing their own actions and instead ascribes them to people around them. To most everyone outside of the projector's bubble, it's clear as day who is actually behaving in a racist manner.
I just found this channel and....wow. I've been cooking for 17 years and I learn something in each video. Fantastic job!
Shoutouts to the side content of watching Adam Ragusea's muscle build change per video
I still am not over how buff this man was in the knife skills video
Thank you, Adam, for being the natural educator that you are. ❤
I've eaten raw peaches in the Chinese state of Yunnan. Delicious and wonderful variety. I wish America would also grow and mass market Chinese "crunchy" peaches. Maybe there's a specialty market for them.
I have been enjoying your videos for a while now. I love the entertainment and education value you present.
Instead of bragging about being first, let’s talk about peaches.
i like peach
Peach is good
I’ve enjoyed peach cream soda, along with peaches.
My country's language has it's own word for peach, yet there's next to zero peach farmers in here.
Peach.
peach cobbler is pretty pog
I've been to providence canyons many time and knew it was from erosion but I didn't know it was because of cotton. So cool to see that pop up in the video!
Adam, these types of videos that you do are my favorite. Better than the cooking ones.
how to like a comment twice
I had a class with Professor Okie! Great professor, glade you were able to interview him 🙂
Actually, picking peaches is likely a safer and higher quality job than what most low income Americans work. I would know, as I've lived in poverty my whole life. As far as I'm aware, picking peaches is a better opportunity for migrant workers than what is oftentimes available at home. Apparently at least sometimes the farm owners provide housing for the workers too, as we saw in the video. That puts even more money in the workers' pockets. As a "poor" person, I can tell you that almost all my income has to go into paying for a roof over my head, as is the case with many others.
Here in Australia we get most of our fruit picked by backpackers. We have a program where you can get a 12 month visa extension if you spend a few months picking fruit, plus backpackers are always looking for cash - so most people do it.
Still immigrant labour, but mostly from Europe and America.
Same here in Italy with our agro-turismo.
Loving this sober, no nonsense take on history through the lens of gastronomy. You really can't argue any of these points even though I'm sure there's a whole bunch of fools and tools out there who'd love to try.
Lovely insight into a pocket of history once again. Adam approaches and communicates these topics in a great way.
I love the history content! Thank you for all the hard work!
I like your cooking videos a lot. I too, love to cook. But I am most impressed by and grateful for the videos in which you explore science and, most of all, social issues - you are a real educator. Well done, that man. I trust you will forgive me for skipping over the sponsor ads, as I can't stand watching those, as much as I realise they are necessary to your channel.
This was awesome, would love to see more food documentary-style videos from you, Adam. Really interesting, discovering the history and heritage behind everyday staples.
*This man will 1 million subs before the end of this year!*
IDK why this was recommended so early, but I'm glad to be here! :D
You are in for a lot of quality content
I lived in Augusta for maybe 15 years and learned more about the national in this 12 minute video than I did living there. Well, aside from the fact it's incredibly slow to actually change in it's discriminatory ways.
If your sorting by newest: turn back now, it's not worth it
Man it was insightful to see what was sharecropped a lot and how we still depend on cheap labor
Im from SC and let me tell you, i have seen and eaten so many peaches that im low key sick of them. We even have a massive water tower in the shape of a peach
Pat’s Pride are the best
I love your channel for the same reasons I really loved watching Good Eats when I was younger, a sweet mix of food, history and science.
it's like ohio being the state of corn. it isn't. it's mostly wheat.
Isn't it mostly the Pauls brothers?
isn't it potatoes? idk i'm not american and I watch gumball a lot
isn't that just iowa?
Illinois should be the pumpkin state then
@@yulfahrioramdhani2022 idaho is potatoes, not ohio. i can see how you could make that mistake, though
Adam these history of food videos are really great! keep em up, always an interesting watch.
Phenomenal video. You're bringing what should be general knowledge but isn't to the forefront
Awesome to see you doing these deep historical dives into food and agriculture.
The thing is: Having grown up in an even more arid climate, I am very worried about the Californian approach. Irrigation is super when you have the water for it, but I fear that the climate change that might be causing some peach varieties to struggle further south could well make water in Cal so scarce that - in the long run at least - the entire system might come crashing down...
I ain't even about atmospheric climate change. California agriculture is heavily reliant on extremely unsustainable use of rivers and underground aquifers. At their current rate, a lot of the water sources that they use will be exhausted in less than a century.
I so much admire the work of people who breed plants to adapt better to other climates 💯
* I like to season the Georgia, not my peaches.
A perfectly ripe peach is heaven on earth
The number one commodity was people. Everything else was 2nd.
Nah I totally get what you're saying but the southern slave trade wasn't as big as the cotton trade.
When I clicked on this video, I thought hey this reminds me of my former computer science professor talking about his brother studying peaches. Then 0:55 his brother and his brother's son pop up. Pretty cool. When you say Okie and Dr. Okie it just makes me think of class haha.
Let's get this guy to 1 million at the end of the year👍
mr boombasti we can get there way sooner :)
The variety of food related topics that you address is the best that I've seen. Please keep including videos on technique, science, history, opinion (garlic bread), dispersed among recipes. I also like your "NO," myth-busting presentations.
The title sounds like it's from the Onion.
Only if you're a yank with a hateboner for everything southern
@@zym6687 heheh
hateboner
I love how this video is very topical and it’s still a normal Adam Ragusa information video
“California is aired. Nice clean dry air.”
Me in the Central Valley. Constantly being pooped on by major cities with pollution. Yesterday it was brown dusty and windy.
We don't have to all be about flattering ourselves. Thanks for getting to the truth out there.
"Peach state"
People that always uses the peach emogi
"Hehe boi"
I would mention Orange, NSW, Australia whose main export is cherries,
and a town near me with a name that translates as 'carrot' but has a tomato drawn on their welcome sign, and their main crops are cotton and sunflower seeds...
Didn't anticipate a single cooking/food youtuber to address race in any sufficient degree so this was a pleasant surprise. Thanks for the video, Adam. I'm a recent viewer but I think I'll be around for a while.
Am I the only one that wants to see Binging with Babish and Adam Ragusea do a cook-off?
I am shocked at the number of commenters here who are practically defending slavery. Slave owners weren’t the bad people, they say. It was the tribes in Africa that first enslaved people. Scary how many people here think this. Slavery was/is evil. Full stop. Why is there an argument?
whites were the first people ever to make it illegal yet we take all the blame for it
@@dd-nk4jw I’m sure Black people wanted to outlaw it first. But, as slaves, they didn’t really have the power to do that.
Both were
@@dd-nk4jw if you crack the whip, you're the bad guy.
Excellent info. I'm glad to hear a lot of this again but you added soooooooo much more that I didn't know. Love it.
As a Georgia girl, I rather be called a peach than a pecan (pee-can) lol I loved this. You give me big Alton Brown vibes, Adam. 👍🏿
Adam lives in Georgia, Alton lives in Georgia, you live in Georgia, and I live in Georgia! We got Georgia on our minds.
Southern Comfort Hell yeah! Pass the sweet tea lol
He's definitely Alton's successor!
Thanks for living a relatively informative and peaceful life and sharing it with us. Much needed.
You might as-well try some mango juice. Because then you’ll get a good taste of the jungle
yes my favorite fruit is mango :D
here in the uk it’s eastern european’s that tend to work in fruit picking, a group of them arrange work, move over, live in a sort of hostel on the farm and work 6 days a week in the summer. can’t imagine the pay is very much