@@MrHanderson91 very unlikely. As I was cleaning my coffin after a good day's rest, as one does, I pondered on your statement and found it utterly ridiculous. I flew across to some old acquaintances that have enjoyed living in this beautiful country for far longer than I, and they all swear that never have they heard or seen anyone that consumes human blood. This malicious stereotype needs to end.
As a Greek myself who hasn't looked into this stuff a lot, I really thank you for this video - and it amazes me how many similarities their cuisine had to the modern stuff we have for food today. Tiganites, loukoumades, souvlaki, and more .... all these things are still present in much the same form.
@@metigame1450 😂😂😂😂😂😂 we copied the turks? THE TURKSSSS???? Haaahahahaaa… When your ancestors invaded Anatolia, the ONLY food you had was raw horse meat!! YOU copied everything from the Greeks, the Arabs and the Persians
FYI: The toxicity of acorns vary widely, some such the varieties grown in Texas, Spain and Greece have very low toxicity or non toxic. Others such as acorns of Calif need quite a bit of work to be eatable - although there were almost a million Indians who had them as a staple before the Spanish came.
@@tommy-er6hh its true. Indians were still in India during this period. Prior to the Spanish, it would have been the indigenous tribes that would have lived there
Kykeon is also thought to have contained a psychedelic, such as mushrooms or ergot. These both can grow on barley. Wine was often combined with various plants, across the ancient world.
The word Kekeon describes and defines the mixture of certain ingredients to a brew.A herbal tea mixed with ginger and lemon can be called kekeon. As far as it concerns the kekeon used in the Eleusinian Mysteries in order to prepare the indivdual for the ritual the fact that it might contain psychedelic ingredients is bassed on the attempt of certain individuals to put into context what they read about said mysteries of the very few refferences they found in the ancient Helleinic literature.This theory cannot be proved or disproved so this instantly means that it cannot be taken as an actual fact. To put it simply the suggestion that said kekeon included psycedelic is the attempt for someone that tries to describe something he doesnt even grasp 1% off into his lifetime and cultural context.
@@moutsatsosa @moutsatsosa Everything I stated was clear & correct. Your note was rude & meandering to say the least. Perhaps this is a reflection of your personal insecurities & insecurity in your mutterings. First, the accepted spelling is Kykeon. Clearly, I'm speaking about the Kykeon of the Eleusinian mysteries. There are clearly several kinds, as Homer himself mentions two. One with barley & goat cheese & another which he says was drugged by Circe, making the men into swine. The evidence for a psychedelic ritual Kykeon is circumstantial, that's why I said it's "thought" to have contained it. However a recent discovery of ergot in a vessel found at an Eleusinian temple in a Greek colony in Spain lends some physical evidence, as do other artifacts. After institutional Christianity spread many rituals were wiped out. It would not shock me if many cattle herding societies used mushrooms. As you must know the Greeks were only one branch of a wider linguistic & cultural tree. There is overwhelming evidence for mushroom use in neighboring Egypt (with barley as a substrate) & throughout the world, including in Greece. The Greeks definitely spiked their wine with opium & other psychoactive plants. I don't know what ails your soul but I recommend 7 or 8 grams of mushrooms. Afterwards I doubt you will leave such arrogant & ignorant notes for simple statements by strangers & we will both be on to better things.
@@S.J.L What are you on about? 1.Stop suggesting trips on the brew.Stop suggesting for people to go tripping in general,it is immoral. 2.The colony you refer to in Spain was not of the Megarians.It was of the Corinthians.The other one that was excavated was of the Phokians.The Megarians colonized Byzantion and Celebria in Thrace,Celinunda in Sicelly,Astakos,Mesimbria,Silibria and Halkidon in Bythinia(North west part of modern day Turkey). 3.I dont know what rude means to you and your culture but i can do rude if you want,just lower yourself a bit more and it will be good enough reason for me. 4.Personal insecurities and bitching?What are you on about dude?Every time someone tell you something you perceive to be against what you believe in you instantly insult them?Thats how you been brought up?Shame dude. Now for psychotropics and opium.Lets start with opium.Every Hellin cultivated opium in their garden.It was used as a sedative and painkiller.Depending on the city therefore the culture it was used in different ways for example the Lakedemons mixed it with honey to reduce the bitterness and digested it before the battle in order to,well to keep butchering even when they where butchered,gota love those guys.The Athenians and the Thebans used it mainly for medical purposes.I havent found any reference in the Hellenic literature about using opium to get high in fact there was a reference about it in Dioscuredes but he doesn't mention getting high purposes. In general if you even read the Hellenic literature and understand their civilization you will realize that getting high was something demeaning to them.The point was to get happy and lightheaded enough.Thats the reason they mixed wine with water.Every other addition to that mix was for extra flavor.The Athenians for example considered those that did not mix their wine with water barbarians not because they were so but because of their inability to control their carnal desires and force their logic prevail over them. As for psychotropic mushrooms in the broad area of medi-tera there are Liberty Cap,Psilocybe Serbika,Psilocybe Gallaecide,Fly Agaric and Psilocybe Fimetaria.Liberty cap and Fly Agaric were documented as psychotropics but there is not further mention of them been used anywhere even for experimental purposes.Like i ve mentioned "feeling good" was not in their philosophy in general.I understand how hard it is for a modern person to grasp the truth in that sentence but that's how it is and they 've written it themselves. To dive further into that,cause its more important that everything else that we discuss here,from a theological point of view you need to understand that they believed that a person should never be blissful and the person that was sooner or later was doomed to live a great calamity. So you see the person that comes out and says that they tried to get pissed or tripping balls doesnt fully understand them and therefore looks to them from his point of view and not from a window in time such as the one they have provided.That way said person would be able to come up with many theories that he will be able to make convincing enough to make them believable.That doesn't make them true.
@@S.J.L calls someone rude and meandering then proceeded to insult the person. If what you said was correct in your original posting provide period sources.
@@anilkarakaya9343 agreed - that is indeed not their Greek name. Also, in Greece, the name’s stem is used for the classic “Turkish delight” pastries. Having said that, there are Ancient Greek references to such a treat. Lest we forget Greek culture was split between mainland Greece and near Middle East. So it could have arrived to in mainland Greece via those parts. I’d hazard a guess that it’s true origins are more ancient than the 13th century and certainly might not be specifically Greek. So much common culinary culture has been shared around the Mediterranean over thousands of years.
@@anilkarakaya9343 In ancient Greece there was a dessert with the proportions and the method of preparation of loukuma. It was called honey coins and had a round shape. The first mention of this historic sweet is recorded in the Olympic games in 776 BC. It seems that the offering of loukumades as a prize was established in honor of the humble baker-athlete from Ilida Koroivus, who was crowned Olympic champion in the road race. Aristotle, Archestratus and Aristophanes also mention it in their works. The recipe for its preparation is said to be the first recorded ancient pastry recipe. Aristotle refers to it as "gifted plates, placentas".
Hello! Having seen your documentaries on England and Germany, I was wondering whether you could do a documentary on the entirety of history of Greece. Your narration and explanation of historical facts was very honourable to the accuracy of events and situations as they had unfolded. Also, the description on your behalf of the peoples in each period was astonishingly detailed! It would be an honour if you made a proper doc for my nation's history. Although it's recorded by everyone, I'd like to see your take and explanation.
I enjoyed learning cumin was used at dinner tables as we use salt & pepper today. I'll never look at cumin the same way again. Thanks 😊! Also, I'm impressed by your use as a background @ 13:20 Caspar David Friedrich's Journey into a sea of fog & mists painting. I've loved that painting (& numerous others of his) for years. Good job on making quality videos!
The tiganites still exist, like loukoumades and I remember my farmer grandad eating bread dipped in wine for breakfast to wake himself up, it is traditionally called "krasopsychia", which means "breadcrumb wine". I have been given by my grandma tiganites (with honey) and olives and bread for breakfast too. It amazes me that some things didn't change in thousands of years.
Excellent stuff. Will click on a Fire of Learning video for subjects I usually might not, knowing I'll learn something interesting, presented in an unshowy but engaging, thorough and articulate delivery. As good as they come, thanks for the work.
My squirrel phase in high school didn’t end until I cracked my tooth on a nut, the fake tooth just couldn’t crack the nuts as well, and I forced to return to humanity
when i lived in Greece we would eat sometimes stewed dandelions greens & some times we would eat the dandelion in a lemon olive oil kinda broth or soup
Παρακαλώ παρακολουθήστε αυτόν τον στίχο Αποκάλυψη 14:12 12 Εδώ είναι η υπομονή των αγίων: ορίστε αυτοί που τηρούν τις εντολές του Θεού και την πίστη του Ιησού.
In Indonesian Batak tribe, there's a food that almost similar with the Spartan black soup. It is roasted pig, using the blood as the sauce in addition of the andaliman sambal.
@@alessandrogini5283 In Peloponese they butcher a pig, Monday after Easter and collect the blood and mix it with vinegar so it doesn't thicken up. They add this to usual Paspalas at the end and call it Skotopaspalas.
They actually may have discovered sylphium in Turkey on two remote mountains that were once greek exclaves. The species only has 6000 individuals but a professor is successfully cultivating them but it was very dificult and required techniques the ancients would not have had. It basically matches all of the descriptions.
I would like to make some ancient Greek pancakes, especially since my wife and I enjoy both modern Greek food and pancakes lol. Thank you for another fascinating episode! God be with you out there everybody! ✝️ :)
you can easily find recipes , max miller has one on youtube if you search teganites probably comes first . Of course you can easily find in google the modern greek version of em .
Hi greetings from ur older bro egypt u forgot to mention greeks where rlly good builder they builded the tallest statue of the world but the ottomans destroyed it its rlly sad :( 🇪🇬❤️🇬🇷
I once had a very vivid dream where I visited an ancient city and my mother in law bought a large group of people a tray of the most delicious cheesy bread I had ever had. It was cut into rectangles and I remember tasting it in my dream. I woke up and did some research, and the closest that I could find was white pizza (or pizza bianca). So I think I ate the very first pizza in an ancient city in my dream.
Odd, I just thought to myself. "Oh, I haven't watched Fire of Learning in a long time. Does he still make videos?" Dude has like 300k short from a million subs.
🎉Turkish contribution to coffee is that they purified it from cardamom and other spices used by the Arabic countries. Garoum or garos was the bones and interiors of fishes ( mostly anchovies) left to dry out in the sun and then powdered. Bloodsausages are made everywhere in Europe (I amhalf Greek half Swedish) so I can understand the existence of melas zomos. In kerkini north of Greece we 😅 trying to have again buffalos
@@lou6749 it traveled from Ethiopia to the Arabic countries and then to Turkey and from there to Europe so I guess around 1650 if we assume that it was invented in Ethiopia around 1550.
@@alxx1378 so there fore it's not Turkish coffee after all that's what I thought ..turkey is only 100 years old ,coffee has been around centuries before turkey it's self..
@@lou6749 the ottoman empire were in the region since 1453 after the fall of Constantinople from there are the Turks and I know that cause I'm half Greek.
@@alxx1378 the Ottoman Empire is a continuation of the Byzantine Empire so it must of been the Byzantine Empire that introduced it. Not Ottoman Empire.. ottomans originated from Mongolia region ..
Very possibly the species and cultivars of vegetables, herbs, and spices may have been different and/or been might higher in nutrients, e.g. calcium in leaf potentially over 700 mg per 100 g (though such is only moderate compared to the highest known). Variety and quantity of herb and spice was likely also much greater; such can be found a bit in Apicius and such survived in Europe until a few centuries ago. Many now widely forgotten vegetables such as lamb's quarters (chenopodium album), nettle, in some places thistle, etc. remain used in the Mediterranean. As far as bitter vetch, I believe there is record somewhere of it as vegetable. Centuries of cultivation and changes in diet and much of the world yet not all (e.g. parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America), most have lost the taste for higher nutrient bitter vegetables and less sweet fruits. As far as silphium, it's often thought to be a species of ferula. In recent years, some have found other species of ferula that is thought to possibly silphium.
I was surprised it wasn't mentioned but silphium was widely associated as a abortifacient and was indeed prized as such, one of the reasons it does not exist now so much is due to Christian laws against the crop.
Did they eat a lot of pomegranate? And if so what age? Just seems to be referenced a lot but im unsure if it was actually eaten or more for show as some other fruits in history
6:32 im kinda surprised because we also have a pork blood stew here in the Philippines which is called "dinuguan" i wonder if theres some sort of connection
Could you do a history of Poland, Ukraine, or any of them since it would be interesting to learn more about their past conflicts and the current issues apply to them today?
10:51 a simple Greek tip for all of you food lovers out there, next time you have eggs for breakfast try adding some cumin on your seasoning. I promise you won't have them any other way afterwards.
In Saudi Arabia during the holly month of ramadan we eat something called "Luqaimat" as our oldest known desert and you guessed it :) it is exactly as the mentioned loukoumades in the video, fried dough balls with honey or liquid sugar, i wonder who came with it first? the word "Luqaimat" comes from the old arabic word LUQMAH witch literally translate to "a small bite sized food" and i wonder of the authenticity of the word loukoumades and is it from a greek word or does it come from further east?
A very common meat product in Ancient Greece was tarichos, which seems to have been highly salted fish jerky. Some of the comic playwrights describe it as being cheap enough for poor people to regularly consume.
I visited the country in Mexico as a young man and was served goat blood soup. I could not refuse as it was prepared especially for the guests. It was in fact quite tasty.
It looks like a rich and interesting cuisine, the things I like to eat really taste, fish are my favorite foods and a lot of fruits, vegetables and spices, in the past the greeks had the nectar of the gods, peach, which they drank in conch shells from the sea and called the gods,
I live in the US,. By mom makes and loves a duck blood soup. This recipe was handed down parents to children all the way back to one of the old countries my family was descended from. The taste is very sweet partly from the dried grapes but also has a very minerally taste. I don't care for it but I eat most all wild critters running around my part of the forests. I make the duck blood soup for my siblings kids most of them love it all are under teenaged years old. Keeping family tradition alive for the next generation
There is nothing wrong with cooking with animal blood. I’m 63 years old and was raised in Quebec Canada. I helped my mom making blood sausage and we used the pig meat the intestine and the pigs blood and it was delicious.
Safe to assume that this was the diet of ordinary people. Compare that to today when half the intake of most people is white bread, rice or pasta with the nutrients removed. Amazing.
I’m interested in the Kikeon, maybe the barley in it wasn’t just grounded but made into something like barley-tea or milk beforehand. That would change the drink drastically. Also how the grated goat cheese was used, maybe they added just a little bit of very hard cheese comparable to how we grate Parmesan over noodles. Or they even used the salty liquid a young goat cheese is stored in.
one of the most important foods of ancient world has gone unoticed not just in this video but as a whole , its the carob , in many places it was used as money
I love this video, and I am very glad I found this channel and surely I will watch many more vids as it is very well documented, but as a Romanian, born and raised in Romania, I never heard of human blood being a delicacy, not even from history, I don't think Dracula aka King Vlad the Impaler ever drank human blood, nope, I don't think this is true, sorry.
"Welcome to the Barbarian Club, how barbaric are you?"
"I eat butter"
"Understandable Sir, please step right in"
- Welcome to the Barbarian Club, how barbaric are you?
- I drink wine.
- Huh, so what?
- Undiluted.
- *gasp*
“Welcome to the Barbarian Club, how barbaric are you?”
“Would you like to drink some of this milk?”
“Come on in”
This is pure slander. I have lived for 400 years in Romania, and never have I met someone that consumes human blood.
You just missed it
@@MrHanderson91 very unlikely. As I was cleaning my coffin after a good day's rest, as one does, I pondered on your statement and found it utterly ridiculous. I flew across to some old acquaintances that have enjoyed living in this beautiful country for far longer than I, and they all swear that never have they heard or seen anyone that consumes human blood. This malicious stereotype needs to end.
I live in Romania and I eat human blood almost everyday. Where do you live?
@@detroithypeg under your bed.
Ayeee hol up dracula boy
I appreciate your use of references and citations; I wish more youtubers did that
Don't worry, for most youtubers, if they didn't include a source, they just read wikipedia.
Amen
@@BoxStudioExecutive Wikipedia is not always correct
@@aokiaoki4238 exactly, he did not imply it is always correct rather that other youtubers are lazy
As a Greek myself who hasn't looked into this stuff a lot, I really thank you for this video - and it amazes me how many similarities their cuisine had to the modern stuff we have for food today. Tiganites, loukoumades, souvlaki, and more .... all these things are still present in much the same form.
We also ate “kokoretsi” in antiquity
im greek too and yea honestly same
Greeks learned how to cook during the last 30 years copying Turks
@@metigame1450 😂😂😂😂😂😂 we copied the turks? THE TURKSSSS???? Haaahahahaaa…
When your ancestors invaded Anatolia, the ONLY food you had was raw horse meat!!
YOU copied everything from the Greeks, the Arabs and the Persians
@@KRYPTIA-mp4ol what is that??
I used to cook food in Ancient Grease all the time before I quit my job at McDonalds
Oh god d canola what franchise did u work at mine doesnt do that
Kekekekekek 😄
Gordon Ramsey: "This grease is so ancient it's Mycenaean!"
Lol
This is a genius comment. Absoilutely hilarious. Wish I could give 1K likes
FYI: The toxicity of acorns vary widely, some such the varieties grown in Texas, Spain and Greece have very low toxicity or non toxic.
Others such as acorns of Calif need quite a bit of work to be eatable - although there were almost a million Indians who had them as a staple before the Spanish came.
Indians weren’t in California when the Spanish came
@@emmemagnolia blatant falsehood.
@@emmemagnolia what are you talking about??
@@emmemagnolia oh yes they just imported their own natives to populate the hills to then re-enslave
Tf are you on
@@tommy-er6hh its true. Indians were still in India during this period. Prior to the Spanish, it would have been the indigenous tribes that would have lived there
One of the best videos I have ever seen about ancient food! Thank you for posting this wonder!
The best feast is getting a Fire of Learning video on a weekend about food of the Ancients. :)
Kykeon is also thought to have contained a psychedelic, such as mushrooms or ergot. These both can grow on barley. Wine was often combined with various plants, across the ancient world.
The word Kekeon describes and defines the mixture of certain ingredients to a brew.A herbal tea mixed with ginger and lemon can be called kekeon.
As far as it concerns the kekeon used in the Eleusinian Mysteries in order to prepare the indivdual for the ritual the fact that it might contain psychedelic ingredients is bassed on the attempt of certain individuals to put into context what they read about said mysteries of the very few refferences they found in the ancient Helleinic literature.This theory cannot be proved or disproved so this instantly means that it cannot be taken as an actual fact.
To put it simply the suggestion that said kekeon included psycedelic is the attempt for someone that tries to describe something he doesnt even grasp 1% off into his lifetime and cultural context.
@@moutsatsosa @moutsatsosa Everything I stated was clear & correct. Your note was rude & meandering to say the least. Perhaps this is a reflection of your personal insecurities & insecurity in your mutterings.
First, the accepted spelling is Kykeon. Clearly, I'm speaking about the Kykeon of the Eleusinian mysteries. There are clearly several kinds, as Homer himself mentions two. One with barley & goat cheese & another which he says was drugged by Circe, making the men into swine. The evidence for a psychedelic ritual Kykeon is circumstantial, that's why I said it's "thought" to have contained it. However a recent discovery of ergot in a vessel found at an Eleusinian temple in a Greek colony in Spain lends some physical evidence, as do other artifacts.
After institutional Christianity spread many rituals were wiped out. It would not shock me if many cattle herding societies used mushrooms. As you must know the Greeks were only one branch of a wider linguistic & cultural tree. There is overwhelming evidence for mushroom use in neighboring Egypt (with barley as a substrate) & throughout the world, including in Greece.
The Greeks definitely spiked their wine with opium & other psychoactive plants.
I don't know what ails your soul but I recommend 7 or 8 grams of mushrooms. Afterwards I doubt you will leave such arrogant & ignorant notes for simple statements by strangers & we will both be on to better things.
@@S.J.L What are you on about?
1.Stop suggesting trips on the brew.Stop suggesting for people to go tripping in general,it is immoral.
2.The colony you refer to in Spain was not of the Megarians.It was of the Corinthians.The other one that was excavated was of the Phokians.The Megarians colonized Byzantion and Celebria in Thrace,Celinunda in Sicelly,Astakos,Mesimbria,Silibria and Halkidon in Bythinia(North west part of modern day Turkey).
3.I dont know what rude means to you and your culture but i can do rude if you want,just lower yourself a bit more and it will be good enough reason for me.
4.Personal insecurities and bitching?What are you on about dude?Every time someone tell you something you perceive to be against what you believe in you instantly insult them?Thats how you been brought up?Shame dude.
Now for psychotropics and opium.Lets start with opium.Every Hellin cultivated opium in their garden.It was used as a sedative and painkiller.Depending on the city therefore the culture it was used in different ways for example the Lakedemons mixed it with honey to reduce the bitterness and digested it before the battle in order to,well to keep butchering even when they where butchered,gota love those guys.The Athenians and the Thebans used it mainly for medical purposes.I havent found any reference in the Hellenic literature about using opium to get high in fact there was a reference about it in Dioscuredes but he doesn't mention getting high purposes.
In general if you even read the Hellenic literature and understand their civilization you will realize that getting high was something demeaning to them.The point was to get happy and lightheaded enough.Thats the reason they mixed wine with water.Every other addition to that mix was for extra flavor.The Athenians for example considered those that did not mix their wine with water barbarians not because they were so but because of their inability to control their carnal desires and force their logic prevail over them.
As for psychotropic mushrooms in the broad area of medi-tera there are Liberty Cap,Psilocybe Serbika,Psilocybe Gallaecide,Fly Agaric and Psilocybe Fimetaria.Liberty cap and Fly Agaric were documented as psychotropics but there is not further mention of them been used anywhere even for experimental purposes.Like i ve mentioned "feeling good" was not in their philosophy in general.I understand how hard it is for a modern person to grasp the truth in that sentence but that's how it is and they 've written it themselves.
To dive further into that,cause its more important that everything else that we discuss here,from a theological point of view you need to understand that they believed that a person should never be blissful and the person that was sooner or later was doomed to live a great calamity.
So you see the person that comes out and says that they tried to get pissed or tripping balls doesnt fully understand them and therefore looks to them from his point of view and not from a window in time such as the one they have provided.That way said person would be able to come up with many theories that he will be able to make convincing enough to make them believable.That doesn't make them true.
@@moutsatsosa "Me thinketh the lady doth protest too much."
@@S.J.L calls someone rude and meandering then proceeded to insult the person.
If what you said was correct in your original posting provide period sources.
As a Greek I can attest to “loukoumades” (Λουκουμάδες) still being very popular and absolutely 😋
@@anilkarakaya9343 agreed - that is indeed not their Greek name. Also, in Greece, the name’s stem is used for the classic “Turkish delight” pastries.
Having said that, there are Ancient Greek references to such a treat.
Lest we forget Greek culture was split between mainland Greece and near Middle East. So it could have arrived to in mainland Greece via those parts. I’d hazard a guess that it’s true origins are more ancient than the 13th century and certainly might not be specifically Greek.
So much common culinary culture has been shared around the Mediterranean over thousands of years.
@@anilkarakaya9343 In ancient Greece there was a dessert with the proportions and the method of preparation of loukuma. It was called honey coins and had a round shape. The first mention of this historic sweet is recorded in the Olympic games in 776 BC. It seems that the offering of loukumades as a prize was established in honor of the humble baker-athlete from Ilida Koroivus, who was crowned Olympic champion in the road race. Aristotle, Archestratus and Aristophanes also mention it in their works. The recipe for its preparation is said to be the first recorded ancient pastry recipe. Aristotle refers to it as "gifted plates, placentas".
why wouldn't they be they look delish
I’m the child of a Greek living in South Africa. They’re so popular that we even eat them here
@@cookeecutkk In Corfu, loukoumades called tiganites and cooked in festival of Saint Spiridon...
What a delicious culture, as sweet as their aesthetic
Hello! Having seen your documentaries on England and Germany, I was wondering whether you could do a documentary on the entirety of history of Greece. Your narration and explanation of historical facts was very honourable to the accuracy of events and situations as they had unfolded. Also, the description on your behalf of the peoples in each period was astonishingly detailed! It would be an honour if you made a proper doc for my nation's history. Although it's recorded by everyone, I'd like to see your take and explanation.
Absolutely love this channel it's very interesting and informative. Thank you for sharing this with us that watch your channel.
They ate Greece-y food. Duh.
You win.
Very, very healthy fats. Nothing like the highly processed and inflammatory fats eaten today en masse
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Firing squad for you. Now
I nearly reported that joke to RUclips. 😉
I enjoyed learning cumin was used at dinner tables as we use salt & pepper today. I'll never look at cumin the same way again. Thanks 😊!
Also, I'm impressed by your use as a background @ 13:20 Caspar David Friedrich's Journey into a sea of fog & mists painting. I've loved that painting (& numerous others of his) for years.
Good job on making quality videos!
The tiganites still exist, like loukoumades and I remember my farmer grandad eating bread dipped in wine for breakfast to wake himself up, it is traditionally called "krasopsychia", which means "breadcrumb wine". I have been given by my grandma tiganites (with honey) and olives and bread for breakfast too. It amazes me that some things didn't change in thousands of years.
It's not often a high quality Vampire joke is hidden in a Greek culinary essay.
Excellent stuff. Will click on a Fire of Learning video for subjects I usually might not, knowing I'll learn something interesting, presented in an unshowy but engaging, thorough and articulate delivery. As good as they come, thanks for the work.
Fascinating video. I'm constantly thinking about the origins of food, especially in the Mediterranean. Thank you for your research.
My squirrel phase in high school didn’t end until I cracked my tooth on a nut, the fake tooth just couldn’t crack the nuts as well, and I forced to return to humanity
Olives "eaten on their own"...
... but emphatically NOT raw, eaten straight off the tree.
(I tried it ONCE!)
Did you also go through a squirrel phase in high school?
I guess you have to brine them?
I remember being taught about olive gathering & brining in elementary school.
🤣
how does it taste ?
@@ZhangLee. bitter is not enough, more like ''poison'' 😆
when i lived in Greece we would eat sometimes stewed dandelions greens & some times we would eat the dandelion in a lemon olive oil kinda broth or soup
Horta is good, also glistrida and mountain tea
"Human blood is a delicacy in certain parts or Romania" 😂
That was an unnecessary and disgusting post. Not funny in the least.
I've heard of pig blood used in dishes, but never human...I hope it was a joke...tasteless if so, as it came out as stating a fact...
It's a reference to vampires in Transylvania... I hope.
Seriously!! Romania!! Think About IT!!! It's a vampire joke!!! If you have to struggled with it, so sad for you!!! 🤠👍🦇
@Beatrice Powell yes it was funny or do you feel offended because you are a vampire?
"Melas Zomos" also available here in the Philippines we called it "Dinugo-an" same ingredients like what ancient Greeks eat
Really? I didn't know that, thanks for the cool fun fact!
But with chilies for extra torment. Paired with puto (no, not prostitute, for the Mexicans that might read this).
How does it taste?
Melas zoumos is still a traditional food in Greece, called Paspalas. Up to the 70s people raised their own pigs they added the blood too.
I think the Scottish call it black putting.
I think it was literally last night, as I ate my meal plan that I wondered what ancient Greeks ate. I was curious if they had pasta yet. Great timing.
You ate your... meal plan!?
@@edmundironside9435 if you can't defeat em join em
all our favorite foods prob originate in asia, india, and the Americas. unless you only eat pork, fish, bread with pigs blood and wine : P
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Yes they had pasta, they even had made machines to press dough into strings and of course Hilopites
Πολύ ωραίο βίντεο..Σε ευχαριστώ για τον κόπο σου.
Παρακαλώ παρακολουθήστε αυτόν τον στίχο Αποκάλυψη 14:12 12 Εδώ είναι η υπομονή των αγίων: ορίστε αυτοί που τηρούν τις εντολές του Θεού και την πίστη του Ιησού.
In Indonesian Batak tribe, there's a food that almost similar with the Spartan black soup. It is roasted pig, using the blood as the sauce in addition of the andaliman sambal.
I’ve tried British black pudding before, and did not hate it one bit
We still make it in Greece, it's called Paspalas
@@aokiaoki4238 i Need the recipe
@@alessandrogini5283 In Peloponese they butcher a pig, Monday after Easter and collect the blood and mix it with vinegar so it doesn't thicken up. They add this to usual Paspalas at the end and call it Skotopaspalas.
"human blood is considered a delicacy in some parts of romania" lmfao
Can you Believe I've Actually found a couple of threads where they had Problems Comprehending the vampire joke!!! 🤠👍🦇
They actually may have discovered sylphium in Turkey on two remote mountains that were once greek exclaves. The species only has 6000 individuals but a professor is successfully cultivating them but it was very dificult and required techniques the ancients would not have had. It basically matches all of the descriptions.
What's the name of the plant?
@@romancetips365no reply that figures
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Ferula Drudeana
Wonderful historical gastronomy...
Glad to see some Greek stuff
Excellent video! Thanks!
I would like to make some ancient Greek pancakes, especially since my wife and I enjoy both modern Greek food and pancakes lol. Thank you for another fascinating episode!
God be with you out there everybody! ✝️ :)
By the way Cheesecake is also ancient Greek sweet. Of course the recipe was different back then
@@georgekoul Μελόπιτα is definitely a very old cheesecake
you can easily find recipes , max miller has one on youtube if you search teganites probably comes first . Of course you can easily find in google the modern greek version of em .
@@evaggelosk.4086 Thank you!
whats with the religious shit lol keep your views to yourself
Thank you for another awesome video
Very informative video. Thanks!! 👍
I'm pretty sure "Tiganites throwing out vapor" essentially means:
"A steaming stack of flapjacks"😉
Pancakes
One of Peanut's favorite meals!
I simply love Greece!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I haven't made teganites for a while, good reminder! 😋
Hi greetings from ur older bro egypt u forgot to mention greeks where rlly good builder they builded the tallest statue of the world but the ottomans destroyed it its rlly sad :( 🇪🇬❤️🇬🇷
True rip Byzantine Egypt was good time ;( 27 bc to 641 ad
Tasting History with Max Miller featured a few recipies from ancient greece.
9:18 - gotta love depiction of details. none fish could escape artist's view
I once had a very vivid dream where I visited an ancient city and my mother in law bought a large group of people a tray of the most delicious cheesy bread I had ever had. It was cut into rectangles and I remember tasting it in my dream. I woke up and did some research, and the closest that I could find was white pizza (or pizza bianca). So I think I ate the very first pizza in an ancient city in my dream.
Do you have a video on silphium, thoughts about its supposed rediscovery?
I second that motion!!! 🤠👍
British/Irish blood pudding is absolutely delicious so blood can sometimes be very tasty
The Germans have something called Blutwurst, basically a cold cut from blood
Odd, I just thought to myself. "Oh, I haven't watched Fire of Learning in a long time. Does he still make videos?" Dude has like 300k short from a million subs.
Un autre exellent vidéo et en plus, ça me donne faim.
🎉Turkish contribution to coffee is that they purified it from cardamom and other spices used by the Arabic countries. Garoum or garos was the bones and interiors of fishes ( mostly anchovies) left to dry out in the sun and then powdered. Bloodsausages are made everywhere in Europe (I amhalf Greek half Swedish) so I can understand the existence of melas zomos. In kerkini north of Greece we 😅 trying to have again buffalos
How old is this Turkish coffee??
@@lou6749 it traveled from Ethiopia to the Arabic countries and then to Turkey and from there to Europe so I guess around 1650 if we assume that it was invented in Ethiopia around 1550.
@@alxx1378 so there fore it's not Turkish coffee after all that's what I thought ..turkey is only 100 years old ,coffee has been around centuries before turkey it's self..
@@lou6749 the ottoman empire were in the region since 1453 after the fall of Constantinople from there are the Turks and I know that cause I'm half Greek.
@@alxx1378 the Ottoman Empire is a continuation of the Byzantine Empire so it must of been the Byzantine Empire that introduced it. Not Ottoman Empire.. ottomans originated from Mongolia region ..
How fascinating it is to know that our famous "Dinuguan" Dish in Philippines has similarity with theirs. We use pig's blood to cook it
Very possibly the species and cultivars of vegetables, herbs, and spices may have been different and/or been might higher in nutrients, e.g. calcium in leaf potentially over 700 mg per 100 g (though such is only moderate compared to the highest known). Variety and quantity of herb and spice was likely also much greater; such can be found a bit in Apicius and such survived in Europe until a few centuries ago. Many now widely forgotten vegetables such as lamb's quarters (chenopodium album), nettle, in some places thistle, etc. remain used in the Mediterranean. As far as bitter vetch, I believe there is record somewhere of it as vegetable. Centuries of cultivation and changes in diet and much of the world yet not all (e.g. parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America), most have lost the taste for higher nutrient bitter vegetables and less sweet fruits.
As far as silphium, it's often thought to be a species of ferula. In recent years, some have found other species of ferula that is thought to possibly silphium.
I was surprised it wasn't mentioned but silphium was widely associated as a abortifacient and was indeed prized as such, one of the reasons it does not exist now so much is due to Christian laws against the crop.
Didn't they also have a syrup made from reduced grape juice? Such reduced juices are still used today by some in Germany.
Yes this still exists in Greece and we make cookies with it. It's called moustos in Greek.
@@Bakerygo It's called Epsima or Petimezi
Well spoken video with some awesome information.
Shrimp and honey though 💀
Ngl... I kinda want to eat it💀
I did not expect this video to be funny 😂
The "squirrel phase" and the human blood 😂
I love Julius Caesar, but, I prefer ancient Greece and it's philosophers alot more. Thanks for another educative video Fire of Learning.
Great video I just moved to Greece 4 months ago:)
5:31 thats Agia Galini village in Crete lol i went there on vacation once
Yes you rigth
Ferula drudeana is the most likely candidate for sylphium. It's a variety of fennel that grows wild in parts of Turkiye.
Did they eat a lot of pomegranate? And if so what age? Just seems to be referenced a lot but im unsure if it was actually eaten or more for show as some other fruits in history
@Fire of Learning could you please make a video about The Food of Ancient Rome
6:32 im kinda surprised because we also have a pork blood stew here in the Philippines which is called "dinuguan" i wonder if theres some sort of connection
Could you do a history of Poland, Ukraine, or any of them since it would be interesting to learn more about their past conflicts and the current issues apply to them today?
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Beautiful Painting.
thank you caitlyn jenner. very good video
What is good mate, nothing about greek history is good. EVERYTHING is false.
I love your sense of humor
very interesting, thank you!
Babe wake up there’s another fire if learning vid
10:51 a simple Greek tip for all of you food lovers out there, next time you have eggs for breakfast try adding some cumin on your seasoning. I promise you won't have them any other way afterwards.
I don't like cum on my food unless I'm eating dick
Interesting! Thank you!
I have a book titled Medicinal Plants of Greece, has some great info in there.
As a Greek this is very interesting.
fascinating .. so far fires of learning is pretty amazing
I would’ve never thought they ate Dinuguan 😂 got it down to the vinegar.
I have tried Greek food but modern Greek food I gave some to my adopted grandmother and she loved it
In Saudi Arabia during the holly month of ramadan we eat something called "Luqaimat" as our oldest known desert and you guessed it :) it is exactly as the mentioned loukoumades in the video, fried dough balls with honey or liquid sugar, i wonder who came with it first? the word "Luqaimat" comes from the old arabic word LUQMAH witch literally translate to "a small bite sized food" and i wonder of the authenticity of the word loukoumades and is it from a greek word or does it come from further east?
Portugal had garum factories on a fairly large scale, some of the most prized garum in the empire!
“Human blood . . . In parts of Romania . . . “
Well delivered and tasteful joke 😂😂😂
My favorite Greek food is the one shown at 0:29. It's called Kywek Kywek.
Yoooo, the greeks had Cheese balls? I didnt know the greeks were a fan of cheetos.
Great vid!
A very common meat product in Ancient Greece was tarichos, which seems to have been highly salted fish jerky. Some of the comic playwrights describe it as being cheap enough for poor people to regularly consume.
I visited the country in Mexico as a young man and was served goat blood soup. I could not refuse as it was prepared especially for the guests. It was in fact quite tasty.
Well done
Thank you for the video on Ancient Greeks food.👏👏👏👏 What do you think about the food of the Greek gods, as it appears in the legends?
9:23 You can tell by the pose of buyer that there is a negotiation going on.
It looks like a rich and interesting cuisine, the things I like to eat really taste, fish are my favorite foods and a lot of fruits, vegetables and spices, in the past the greeks had the nectar of the gods, peach, which they drank in conch shells from the sea and called the gods,
6:38 That's basically what you call as dinuguan here in the Philippines
Quite accurate. Well done!
I live in the US,. By mom makes and loves a duck blood soup. This recipe was handed down parents to children all the way back to one of the old countries my family was descended from. The taste is very sweet partly from the dried grapes but also has a very minerally taste. I don't care for it but I eat most all wild critters running around my part of the forests. I make the duck blood soup for my siblings kids most of them love it all are under teenaged years old. Keeping family tradition alive for the next generation
There is nothing wrong with cooking with animal blood. I’m 63 years old and was raised in Quebec Canada. I helped my mom making blood sausage and we used the pig meat the intestine and the pigs blood and it was delicious.
In Argentina we use pig blood to make morcilla, a black sausage, in Ireland I think they do too and they call It black pudding
In Greece also
Safe to assume that this was the diet of ordinary people. Compare that to today when half the intake of most people is white bread, rice or pasta with the nutrients removed. Amazing.
I’m interested in the Kikeon, maybe the barley in it wasn’t just grounded but made into something like barley-tea or milk beforehand. That would change the drink drastically. Also how the grated goat cheese was used, maybe they added just a little bit of very hard cheese comparable to how we grate Parmesan over noodles. Or they even used the salty liquid a young goat cheese is stored in.
Check out the channel "Tasting History with Max Miller", he has a video on Kykeon. It apparently doesn't taste that good..
@@SidheKnight I know that video very well and think Max might’ve got some things wrong.
I have made Athenian cabbage and it is very much like a Mediterranean colesslaw, quite good.
The king is back!
one of the most important foods of ancient world has gone unoticed not just in this video but as a whole , its the carob , in many places it was used as money
11:58 in fact loukoumades were created and served as a reward to the first Olympic games winners in 776 BC 🇬🇷
I love this video, and I am very glad I found this channel and surely I will watch many more vids as it is very well documented, but as a Romanian, born and raised in Romania, I never heard of human blood being a delicacy, not even from history, I don't think Dracula aka King Vlad the Impaler ever drank human blood, nope, I don't think this is true, sorry.
"Human blood is a delicacy in parts of Romania"... Whoosh!
Cyclops cheese... Well, cool, that's ALSO gonna bother me forever. Thanks.
So many foods I'm never gonna be able to try!
Tiganites in my experiences differ from your typical pancake. They are generally denser, and chewier. Almost like a thick crepe.
Greetings from that certain part of Romania where human blood is considered to be a delicacy 🙂