It's awesome! I'm so glad you kept Der Voller (or as I called it until today, the weird kid and the fat man), I missed it and was worried, then backed up and saw it when you mentioned it.
I am a Catalan expat living abroad. I literally just finished prepping the cream, dough and fruit for tomorrow's coca when I saw this video, I thought I was dreaming! Thank you Max for great content as always, and for the representation :D
I might have something to prove (nudge nudge , wink, wink...). Awesome (humble) job. Please let us know when you have time to visit Madison, Wisconsin or somewheres in the north woods. You have reinvigorated my kitchen attitude and constantly brighten my day! I'll share my grandmother's pierogi recipe and show you some serious cherry bounce. (Yes, it involves Korbell)
"If it doesn't spark joy, let it spark a fire" - can I get a t-shirt with this quote?! :D So much better than saying goodbye to your old over 20 y.o. high school gym T you kept for sentimental reasons
I can just see it now. On the front would have 'Tasting History' at the corner. On the back, there would be the quote at the bottom and a picture of a giant bonfire with furniture burning at the top. Have it as a limited edition shirt sold in June.
09:05 "Not a good night to be an EMT, I'm sure". Being a current EMT, you are exactly right Max. Whenever people do stuff with bonfires out where I work, the calls are endless...
Your comment reminded me of the Chinese New Year's tradition of burning (fake) money for your ancestors. Actually kinda interesting to see the parallels, especially with the concept of "cleaning up" and having a fresh start from the past year, and loud celebrations to ward off evil.
ikr! I am a Finnish, English and Swedish speaker myself and I thoroughly enjoyed the semlor episode like FINALLY someone who's not from Scandinavia and doesn't totally butcher the pronunciation. It feels... respectful, you know.
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I'm from Aragon, right next to Catalonia. We have the same tradition but with a few differences. We write down in a paper all the bad things that have happened to us during the year and throw the paper into the fire, and then, apart from jumping over the fire, we run over the coals when it has burned down. It's definitely intended as a purifying ritual, to leave all the bad mojo behind :)
Dude, this was one hell of a funny episode. No recipe from a Spanish-speaking land (Spain, or otherwise) is complete without a good, solid, metric measure of double entendre. 🤣🤣🤣 Plus all that quotable material you threw into the bonfire of of minds: "Without fire, there is no festival", "If it doesn't spark joy, let it spark a fire". You were inspired. Bravo. Oh, and congratulations for the new intro and "time for History" animations. Glad your channel is reaching new levels.
@@TastingHistory BTW I agree about the inclusion of Der Völler. It's such a great painting for the opening. As an uncultured buffoon I've been curious about what this painting was called and its history, so I was also glad to hear its name.
We didn't know of this tradition. We usually make a "Sun Bread" that is a round corn bread for Summer Solstice. This year for our ceremony I think I will make our Sun Bread with some pine nuts and dried fruit on top to honor our Spanish friends. Thanks for the idea.
"...+2 to any rolls to cast spells or brew potions" NERRRRRRRRD God I love this channel. ETA: I've found, much as you have, that anise is only bad when it's paired with too much sugar. It's really great with just a little sweetness.
I live in southern France (Occitanie), about 2 hours from Catalunya. In my small town, the Saint John's feast celebration still culminates with a bonfire that (mostly young) people jump over. It's preceded by a parade through town, with some people in pagan costumes, & others dressed in white. Before the bonfire's location was moved 2 years ago, it was right outside my window. Quite a show!
I can't believe it. Max, I've been a follower since day one, and now you make coca de sant joan from my home country, Catalonia? This channel can't get any better!!! Feliç revetlla de Sant Joan a tots!
One of the best episodes. I love the history, the jokes, the pop culture snippits, the artwork .... really well done Max, you really are putting your all into these and it shows.
In Puerto Rico we celebrate it as well! Here it’s called “La noche de San Juan” and we go to the beach at night and jump backwards towards the water seven times at midnight
In Brazil we call it "fogueira de são João"! (St. John's bonfire rough translation) it's very famous and we do it during the winter in "festa junina". We eat a lot a good food during this event... Damn covid
Bah, I miss Festa Juninas so much from home. Growing up in Brazil, I had many birthdays themed after it, since my birthday is in June. Such a fun celebration, especially with Quentão and Pinhão (mulled wine and Brazilian Pine nuts, which are enormous and delicious). Abraço!
I am catalan abroad, it has been so nice to see this episode, yeah coca de sant joan is very important when is the day of "revetlla", thanks for this episode.
A Disney guy using THAT footage of her most majestic... Madam... Such a beautiful thing. Honestly, I love that you used her here in such a way. Thank you from a Disney history fan :).
As a Catalan, I could not be any more amazed by your curiosity, effort, knowledge, professionalism... the list would be infinite! I am not sure if you know how much we viewers appreciate all you do! And your pronunciation of "coca de Sant Joan" and "sense foc no hi ha festa" is perfect!! I (no one important, as a matter of fact), proclame you "honorary Catalan" ;) Thank you! ❤
It's a common myth that the Inquisition was responsible for most witch trials, but they were a lot more common in Protestant Europe, hence why they happened so much in British America.
A warning from catalonia: the "coca" for salty ingredients, like the ones with meat or veggies, is not the same kind of bread as the sweet "coca de sant joan". It's more flat and hard. Look for "coca de verduras" or "coca de escalibada" for recipes of that type
@@anvime739 - I know, I've made crepes, pancakes and chapatis many times (before I went paleodiet, which was a game changer for my health, really, but I digress), coca is not just bread, even if it's similar: the way of making it is more like making pizza. A toast with something on top is not pizza, a pita bread loaf with something inside like a burrito or a kebab is not pizza, but coca is almost pizza (and vice versa).
The Saint John's holiday is also huge in Brazil! It's amazing to see how many similarities there are between the festivities of such different countries! Great video max :)
Adore your channel Max! I’m fascinated w history and food history in particular. Love watching your episodes and appreciate all the research you’ve put in. On a side, (funny note), I couldn’t stop thinking as this episode played, that the Spanish sparkling was losing its fizz & chill! I wanted to shout: “Max! Stop waving the glass around and drink it already!” 😜❤
That’s so cool! Hopefully they don’t end up like America where any religious holidays are banned like saying merry Christmas is wrong and public schools can’t celebrate Christmas or Easter 😢 very sad when what a nation is founded on is removed. I pray that doesn’t happen to you guys. It hurts
I'm catalán from Barcelona. San Joan night is so magic for all of us. And I don't know how many coca I ate yesterday night 🤤 My favorite, coca de llardons!!!! I have to say that chicharrones and llardons are the same In Spanish language: chicharrones In catalán language: llardons
In the Iberian Peninsula, all the Inquisition cared about was Judaism. There was money to be got from that particular persecution. I've once read about this village in the North of Portugal that wanted a woman prosecuted for witchcraft. They got their wish, except the woman was found to be innocent, and then they proceeded to poke anyone that couldn't prove to be a Christian until the 100th generation. Good for the so called 'witches', but definitely not for anyone else. Especially if there was a target with some money involved.
@@marneus - The Catholics also persecuted witches... a lot. Max just has not researched the matter enough and also Catholics are very good at whitewashing their history. Here in the Basque Country there were many persecutions with many killed, some were local persecutions (the 13 of Durango), some were made by the Inquisition (Zugarramurdi, Aezkoa, etc.) and the worst of all was made by an infamous French civilian judge, Pierre de Lancre, who thought Basques were all witches, men and women alike, priests too, just because they enjoyed dancing (and possibly sex) too much. He wrote a most infamous treatise on the matter, the "Tableau de l'Inconstance des Mauvais Anges et Demons". The last purported witch ever burned in Europe was in a Catholic country: Austria.
@@LuisAldamiz This is much a "SEE?! THEY DO IT TOO!" situation, though. Like the thing where people say a couple of crusades against islamic lands is the same as several dozen jihads against christian lands. Or that the allies bombing Dresden was just as bad as what the germans were doing, even though the luftwaffe killed more civilians in Stalingrad alone than the allies did altogether. Like, yeah, sure, both sides are doing the same things, but one side's doing them a hell of a lot more often, which is kinda the part that matters here. Cause the explanation's fairly simple - why did witch hunts generally occur? Cause people in some small village somewhere hated one of their neighbors and oh hey, look! What a coincidence. The person who we hate and whose every action we therefore find suspicious, keeps doing suspicious shit. Must be a witch. Time to yeet 'em into the fire! Like, it's basically just crowdsourced murder. So it's no wonder that authorities, including the church generally frowned on the practice and tried to stop it. However, the protestant church has never really had the authority to tell people what to do aaaaaand many of the places practicing it were precisely isolated little communities, such as the ones in the rural parts of England and their colonies. So you've got a bunch of people with no supervision living in the middle of nowhere, whose branch of christianity encourages interpreting the bible your own way and, hey, surprise surprise, they kept interpreting it as "Jesus says it's OK to lynch people I don't like".
Omg, this reminded me of the summer I spent in Barcelona like 20 years ago. The St John festival night was insane. Hundreds of drunk people on the beach, shooting fireworks into the sea. Holy cow, it was amazing
Are there any Christian factions which have considered Jesus as a "saint"? Your grammar seems to imply there were, though I'm not sure that's how you meant it. (And it would be considered by the vast majority, a heretical view.)
@@YadraVoat as far as I know there are not. However, in late antiquity you had the Arian Christians who denied Christ being homoousios (the same substance as God) and instead thought Christ was subordinate to God and therefore not fully divine
@@Zoltar_V The Arians were considered Gnostic not Christian. Even the Early writings point this out and no, to my knowledge (as sparse as it can be) no Christian faith has Christ anything other then the Logos (part of the trinity and by extension God).
St. John was the proto-ascetic. He represented the first monastic. Starting around the 4th century many people "fled" to the desert to take up his lifestyle.
Yay I'm early enough to say Tasting History is the most wholesome show on youtube! My husband and I watch all the episodes together and really love the show. Thank you for the positive content, Max!
@@rainydaylady6596 John actually interviewed Max on one of Townsends’ Nutmeg Tavern livestreams. This is making me hopeful for a more direct collab in the future (especially an in person one).
The French - Canadians also celebrate Saint John's Eve which is Halloween for the french-canadians which is a lead-in into the Fête Nationale, the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist
The province of Québec National Holiday 24th of june. Anybody remembers the bonfires in parcs with the celebrations? ( that is going out of fashion for obvious reasons ) Bonfire = Bon Feu = Good Fire
Absolutely loved this! Got to talking about King Cake with my husband (he's never had it! I'll have to rectify this) and then he mentioned a rather topical/seasonal subject - mulberries! In fact, he's cooking up some mulberry jam made from foraged berries as I type. It would be lovely to see an episode on the history of this often overlooked fruit, and how it came to nursery rhyme fame!
(un)curiously enough, we also celebrate saint john's day here in Brasil, and we do the fire jumping too, but here it's the winter solstice, so you have a good reason to light a fire
Oohhhhh new opening! Nice work, Matthew, you did fantastic!!! Also, can we just take a moment how awesome it is that Max not only does a shoutout to his inspirations for his episodes, but does it with specific people when it is a specific person (ex. his patreon/friend for this episode). Idk how to describe it but it feels both humble in gesture and in character. He doesn’t make it feel that he’s arrogant; he’s human, and humans get inspiration from one another. I’m rambling now but I just really like that he sources his inspo
We celebrate St.Johns Eve here in Norway as well. It's a nice midsummers eve party with bonfires, and the traditional meal is a sour cream porridge. Here in the west of Norway it is traditionally served with cured meat and a kind of bland pretzel.
We celebrate St.Johns' Eve here in Portugal too, it's called 'S.João'. We traditionally eat grilled sardines, pork sandwiches called "bifanas" and jump over a fire made with rosemary, lavender and sage which is supposed to cleanse your soul or something. It's nice
Please do a king cake episode, I come from Cajun country and never really thought about the history of a king cake. No one could make it more interesting than you could. Love the episode, definitely going to try this.
Part of my family is from Soller in Mallorca and the coca is a Good Friday dish, and has 2 version one with sardines and the other with peper and vegetable, at Christmas the coca is present but the crust is made of potatoes. My grandmother used to do them as well as ensaimadas, sweet bread rolls. My cousins keep the tradition and make them still.
I can so relate, my inner Der Völler has been struggling to get out this whole past year. I’m so glad he got left in the lineup, I love the smirk on the serving boy’s face.
Já quem tem outros brasileiros aqui além de mim, deveríamos tentar convencer ele a fazer algo brasileiro, talvez alguma coisa indigina, já que temos descrições historicas disso , e muitas da culinária atual vem dela.
I've been an instructor and volunteer with St. John Ambulance for almost 15 years and I appreciate seeing how others celebrate this day. Thanks. I'm going to have to try to make this.
in here our St. John's holiday is called "festa junina" and I think it's more of a celebration of country people? People usually wear straw hats and checkered shirts and eat corn-based food. Oh, and when you're in school there are dance competitions between classes to songs that I think are our version of country music. It really feels like a mid-year Christmas to me
I really liked that most of the traditions he depicted in the video explains some of our own "festa junina" traditions, such as the bonfire jumping... :)
You are hilarious! I love how you meld pop culture, food, humor and history. I love your quotes. It's refreshing to have scholarship sprinkled in with entertainment. Who knew I needed this!
i really appreciate the matching of the dough rectangle to the exact aspect ratio of my screen. my first impression was that this must have been very deliberately planned out. i am not sure if this is true, but i will continue to be happy with my supposition that max chose his dough dimensions with careful forethought as to the format his viewers would be enjoying his content. i wouldn't think less of this channel if he didnt, but it makes me happy to think he did.
I was literally now making plans to celebrate Sant Joan tomorrow, and yesterday I baked a coca. I would've never expected Max to make a video about this holiday! This was great!!! Greetings from Barcelona :)
In Quebec, our national (provincial) holiday celebrating Quebec is called Le St-Jean De Baptiste, and its the 24th of June. Most celebration consists of drinking alcohol and throwing parties though. Cool to see parallels in other cultures! Edit: Just saw someone has beat me to it lol
Yes, in Brazil we call it "festa junina" which translates to something like "June Party". Some people also call it "Festa de são João" which means "Saint John Party". Its awesome, usually we have dances called "quadrilha", Where couples dance together in a fun way and everyone dresses like a "caipira" (basically a rural worker steriotype).
Max, Bonfires are a important part of St. John's in Brazil too, being a big holiday in some regions of the country with a lot of corn recipes based on african recipes that got their own variantions over the years. Some of them like Canjica, Mungunzá and Pamonha are deeply related with the Northestearn Region and with the Canudos Revolt, pretty worth of an episode
The region of Poland where I'm from is the one where Łysa Góra (Bald Mountain but really it's a wee hill 595m high) is and where the sabbaths took place. Even the official logo for Świętokrzyskie region has a witch in it! Poland has so many predominantly pagan traditions, it's fantastic - Zielone Świątki, Noc Kupały, Marzanna, dożynki, postrzyżyny.. The list goes on!
I was surprised to discover that most of the best mountain climbers come from Poland, because I didn’t think Poland really had many mountains. lol It’s cool that you’ve held on to those old traditions; many of those from. Europe never carried over to the North America, for some reason.
You have done very good research, I’m from Barcelona and you’ve honestly given a really good explanation of the festivities and how to make a good coca, it’s also really cool that you’ve made the traditional one with pine nuts and the fruit. As always you have outdone yourself, congrats Max, I’m a huge fan of the channel.
YEEEEEEES! Can't believe you did it... My favourite is the "Coca de Llardons" but the candied fruit one is also good. Kind of weird you, from California, are explaining things that I didn't know about the origins of our traditions, but I appreciate SO much. You should do "Panallets" next autumn! They are AMAZING! P.s. I suggest eating it as a desert paired with "Moscatell" or another sweet wine :D
This reminds me of our traditional Christmas cake in Portugal, that you mentioned, "Bolo-Rei" or "King Cake". It is very similar but in cake form, with pieces of the candied fruit in the dough and bigger pieces on top. You should try and make it some time. We also have the tradition of making the bonfires on Saint Anthony and Saint John's holidays.
His version of King Cake is primarily French. It's a big tradition in Louisiana during Mardi Gras, and the "treasure" is a plastic baby instead of a coin these days.
@@DodiTov it is very similar to our traditional portuguese Bolo Rei cake. And our treasure used to be a dried fava bean or a hiden metal prize that would bring good fortune to whoever found it.
Here in Estonia we have Jaanipäev which is St John's day, prob most important holiday in entire year here. Also have bonfires and we often jump over them
In Québec we have the St-Jean-Baptiste on june 24 It's the Québec national holiday. We make big fire, fireworks and have party with friends. Bonne St-Jean-Baptiste à tous! 😉🔥🎆
Max- love your videos- I learn something new every time I watch one. There are 4 fire festivals in Ireland: Imbolc- Feb. 1-2 , Beltane - May 1st, Lughnassadh- August 1st, and Samhain - Oct 31-Nov. 1. Imbolc celebrates the upcoming spring and is usually celebrated with St Brigids day- you make a St Brigid cross and hang in your house or barn, Beltane- celebrates Summer, Lughnassadh- late Summer or early Fall and finally Samhain which is really celebrating the upcoming Winter.
You’re gonna have a smattering of AAAAALLLLL the languages before too long if you keep this up. I minored in linguistics in grad school, so that’s low key my favorite part of this channel.
Being a trained classical singer really helps. We are taught a lot of pronunciation so we can sing all the music. It makes picking up other languages' pronunciation easier as we already know how to break a word into phonemes.
Can I just say that I love the fact that you take the time to learn how to properly pronounce words/places/names from other cultures; it’s super refreshing to see that level of detail! Lovely video as always :)
As someone who's been living in Catalonia for almost two decades, I'm really happy and glad you made this recipe. Thank you for showing a tiny bit of Catalan history.
I've been following this channel since the beginning and this took me completely by surprise. Gràcies Max per l'atenció i l'esforç dedicats a aquesta recepta. Molt d'amor des de Catalunya, i feliç Sant Joan!
And in Switzerland, during our national day on august 1st, all around the mountains of Switzerland, bonfires are lit. It's an amazing spectacle and usually a great time to spend with your family and friends, roasting some cervelas over open flame (not the bonfire, it would carbonize the sausages in an instant). Thanks for another great upload.
This is the best show on you tube. The quality of research, presentation and writing is better than anything on cable. You must have a staff of five people.
This is great! In Puerto Rico, we dive backwards into the ocean as part of the tradition for Noche de San Juan (nod to the Baptist). Wish we had some specific foods attached!
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Thank you Matthew Bage for the awesome new opening! Hope everyone loves it as much as I do.
I absolutely love it !
No problem. This show deserves it.
It's awesome! I'm so glad you kept Der Voller (or as I called it until today, the weird kid and the fat man), I missed it and was worried, then backed up and saw it when you mentioned it.
It's so good! It's so nice to see your channel keep growing and getting better ☺️
It's very nice
“Without fire, there is no festival” has the same energy as “A party without a cake is just a meeting” and I appreciate both. 🔥 🍰
Exactly 🤣
With fyre, there is also no festival
@@gaelencarter4804 Nice 😂
@@gaelencarter4804 that is funny 😆
Fire Good.
"If it does not spark joy, let it spark the fire." - The MaxMilleria, Volume 2021, Chapter 6.22, Verse 12:24
This comment!
🔥🔥Burn baby, burn!🔥🔥
Dracarys all day, every day.
So mote it be.
I am a Catalan expat living abroad. I literally just finished prepping the cream, dough and fruit for tomorrow's coca when I saw this video, I thought I was dreaming! Thank you Max for great content as always, and for the representation :D
Awww that's so nice... Enjoy your celebration 🎉
Great…so I’ll be over for dinner then. What kind of wine shall I bring ?
Coca amb cabell d'angel, miam
Nice, I want to visit Spain soon
You'll have to cook it yourself waiting for your trip ;) que profiti!
"If it does not spark joy, let it spark THE FIRE." Somehow I started imagining Inquisitor Marie Kondo. Untidy homes are a heresy.
As a Pagan with a "chaotically organized" room, Inquisitor Marie Kondo would have me burned at the stake multiple times.
“Now, I don’t have anything to prove, so…”
Spoken like a man with big coca energy. Keep being you, Max. 😀
We'll wait for Jose to confirm.
@@rickhernandez7666 Can Jose confirm or deny the big Coca?
I love everything about this thread.
I might have something to prove (nudge nudge , wink, wink...). Awesome (humble) job. Please let us know when you have time to visit Madison, Wisconsin or somewheres in the north woods. You have reinvigorated my kitchen attitude and constantly brighten my day! I'll share my grandmother's pierogi recipe and show you some serious cherry bounce. (Yes, it involves Korbell)
As long as you kept that snarky little guy in the Der Voller painting, I'm totally cool with the opening. Seeing his smile makes me chuckle lol
Yeah Max knows his audience. He was adamant it remain in.
@@matthewbage9937 well you did a great job :)
"Der Völler" is german. Meaning "The glutton".
@@matthewbage9937 - Great job with the opening!
@@matthewbage9937 You did a great job! I smiled when I realized it was a brand new opening, and even more when I caught sight of Der Voller
"If it doesn't spark joy, let it spark a fire" - can I get a t-shirt with this quote?! :D So much better than saying goodbye to your old over 20 y.o. high school gym T you kept for sentimental reasons
Yes please!!
I would buy this shirt.
I would also buy this 😝😝
Tasting History official merch?! I'm in!
I can just see it now. On the front would have 'Tasting History' at the corner. On the back, there would be the quote at the bottom and a picture of a giant bonfire with furniture burning at the top. Have it as a limited edition shirt sold in June.
09:05 "Not a good night to be an EMT, I'm sure". Being a current EMT, you are exactly right Max. Whenever people do stuff with bonfires out where I work, the calls are endless...
Dick jokes, Monty Python clips, D&D references... this episode has it all!
pokemon plushes too
"If it does not spark joy, let it spark the fires!" -Casually glance at the stack of bills on my counter...
LOL I'm imagining Marie Kondo at a St. John's Eve "Tidying Up" bonfire, myself.
Your comment reminded me of the Chinese New Year's tradition of burning (fake) money for your ancestors. Actually kinda interesting to see the parallels, especially with the concept of "cleaning up" and having a fresh start from the past year, and loud celebrations to ward off evil.
They were burned I say!!!
The police: yeah… you are still getting evicted, sir.
haha money printer go brrrrrrrr. Value go down
Lol
“If it doesn’t spark joy, let it spark a fire” now I know why those broken hearted persons have a tendency to burn their exes belongings.
I 100% thought those oranges were tomatoes until you said they were oranges.
😂Same here!
Me too! I thought it was going to be like a focaccia
Who else saw that thumbnail and thought, “Oh, he’s found an old-fashioned recipe for pepperoni flatbread”?
Me!
Thought it’s was some sort of pizza lol 😆
same, I thought it was sort of like focaccia with tomatoes on it or something
🙋🏻♀️
I thought they were tomatoes lol
12:20 "If it does not spark joy, let it spark the fire." this is a metal line that I hope to use like a badass some day
Pronouncing "samhain" correctly in the first minute of the video is an instant thumbs-up from me, a chairde
ikr! I am a Finnish, English and Swedish speaker myself and I thoroughly enjoyed the semlor episode like FINALLY someone who's not from Scandinavia and doesn't totally butcher the pronunciation. It feels... respectful, you know.
I'm from Aragon, right next to Catalonia. We have the same tradition but with a few differences. We write down in a paper all the bad things that have happened to us during the year and throw the paper into the fire, and then, apart from jumping over the fire, we run over the coals when it has burned down. It's definitely intended as a purifying ritual, to leave all the bad mojo behind :)
I like that! Seems lovely
Coolest name too!
Lol thought you said Aragorn
Dude, this was one hell of a funny episode. No recipe from a Spanish-speaking land (Spain, or otherwise) is complete without a good, solid, metric measure of double entendre. 🤣🤣🤣
Plus all that quotable material you threw into the bonfire of of minds: "Without fire, there is no festival", "If it doesn't spark joy, let it spark a fire".
You were inspired. Bravo.
Oh, and congratulations for the new intro and "time for History" animations. Glad your channel is reaching new levels.
Thank you 😂
@@TastingHistory BTW I agree about the inclusion of Der Völler. It's such a great painting for the opening. As an uncultured buffoon I've been curious about what this painting was called and its history, so I was also glad to hear its name.
I agree. A particularly funny episode. Laughed out loud, giggled in fact. :-D
We didn't know of this tradition. We usually make a "Sun Bread" that is a round corn bread for Summer Solstice. This year for our ceremony I think I will make our Sun Bread with some pine nuts and dried fruit on top to honor our Spanish friends. Thanks for the idea.
Unless your friends are from the Mediterranean area in Spain, coca is not something that's part of their regional traditions.
bruh this recipe is catalan not spanish
8:05 .." you get +2 to any rolls made to cast spells and brew potions...." Did Max just reveal himself as a D&D nerd?
More power (and mana) to you!
I mean really, is it any surprise at all?
When our boy upscales to a full kitchen imma miss this classic camera angle
he's not actually in the kitchen. if you pay attention you'll see he's in a studio with a green screen with his kitchen as background
He works for disney, its a set.
@@sundog3247 Used to, not anymore. He left Disney to dedicate himself 100% to his youtube channel
"...+2 to any rolls to cast spells or brew potions" NERRRRRRRRD
God I love this channel.
ETA: I've found, much as you have, that anise is only bad when it's paired with too much sugar. It's really great with just a little sweetness.
He could try to remake some dnd foods.
I'm gonna need a Wisdom saving throw
I live in southern France (Occitanie), about 2 hours from Catalunya. In my small town, the Saint John's feast celebration still culminates with a bonfire that (mostly young) people jump over. It's preceded by a parade through town, with some people in pagan costumes, & others dressed in white. Before the bonfire's location was moved 2 years ago, it was right outside my window. Quite a show!
germà del nord?
I can't believe it. Max, I've been a follower since day one, and now you make coca de sant joan from my home country, Catalonia? This channel can't get any better!!! Feliç revetlla de Sant Joan a tots!
One of the best episodes. I love the history, the jokes, the pop culture snippits, the artwork .... really well done Max, you really are putting your all into these and it shows.
In Puerto Rico we celebrate it as well! Here it’s called “La noche de San Juan” and we go to the beach at night and jump backwards towards the water seven times at midnight
That sounds like a good time
So do we in Brasil, today actualy!
You know you really don't need to jump backwards, if you stand still the water will still hit you as many times as you want.
That is also done in the Balearic Islands (Spain), we usually light bonfires at the beach, though the swimming is optional.
We celebrate it in Goa India as well as "Sao Joao" ...we have a similar tradition of jumping into wells or water bodies....
In Brazil we call it "fogueira de são João"! (St. John's bonfire rough translation) it's very famous and we do it during the winter in "festa junina".
We eat a lot a good food during this event... Damn covid
Bah, I miss Festa Juninas so much from home. Growing up in Brazil, I had many birthdays themed after it, since my birthday is in June. Such a fun celebration, especially with Quentão and Pinhão (mulled wine and Brazilian Pine nuts, which are enormous and delicious). Abraço!
I would visit family in Brazil some years when I was a kid. Almost always during Sao Joao. Lots of fireworks, good food. Muito divertido.
It is funny that the holiday is season swapped because we are in the opposite hemisphere
Yeah. Ngl, I miss São João. The cold weather and the bon fire and the games
"Devil chaser" sounds more like a hangover cure to me. ;)
Yeah like an extra spicy Prairie Oyster.
I am catalan abroad, it has been so nice to see this episode, yeah coca de sant joan is very important when is the day of "revetlla", thanks for this episode.
A Disney guy using THAT footage of her most majestic... Madam... Such a beautiful thing. Honestly, I love that you used her here in such a way. Thank you from a Disney history fan :).
As a Catalan, I could not be any more amazed by your curiosity, effort, knowledge, professionalism... the list would be infinite! I am not sure if you know how much we viewers appreciate all you do!
And your pronunciation of "coca de Sant Joan" and "sense foc no hi ha festa" is perfect!! I (no one important, as a matter of fact), proclame you "honorary Catalan" ;)
Thank you! ❤
It's a common myth that the Inquisition was responsible for most witch trials, but they were a lot more common in Protestant Europe, hence why they happened so much in British America.
A warning from catalonia: the "coca" for salty ingredients, like the ones with meat or veggies, is not the same kind of bread as the sweet "coca de sant joan". It's more flat and hard. Look for "coca de verduras" or "coca de escalibada" for recipes of that type
Do you think coca is the precursor of pizza?
@@LuisAldamiz nah. Putting stuff on bread is old as... bread itself.
@@Lizarman11 - Fair enough but this is not bread exactly, it's a pastry much as pizza is.
@@LuisAldamiz Bread used ti be flat because for millenia people didnt use yeast to raise it.
@@anvime739 - I know, I've made crepes, pancakes and chapatis many times (before I went paleodiet, which was a game changer for my health, really, but I digress), coca is not just bread, even if it's similar: the way of making it is more like making pizza. A toast with something on top is not pizza, a pita bread loaf with something inside like a burrito or a kebab is not pizza, but coca is almost pizza (and vice versa).
The Saint John's holiday is also huge in Brazil! It's amazing to see how many similarities there are between the festivities of such different countries! Great video max :)
Adore your channel Max! I’m fascinated w history and food history in particular. Love watching your episodes and appreciate all the research you’ve put in.
On a side, (funny note), I couldn’t stop thinking as this episode played, that the Spanish sparkling was losing its fizz & chill! I wanted to shout: “Max! Stop waving the glass around and drink it already!” 😜❤
That’s so cool! Hopefully they don’t end up like America where any religious holidays are banned like saying merry Christmas is wrong and public schools can’t celebrate Christmas or Easter 😢 very sad when what a nation is founded on is removed. I pray that doesn’t happen to you guys. It hurts
I'm catalán from Barcelona. San Joan night is so magic for all of us. And I don't know how many coca I ate yesterday night 🤤 My favorite, coca de llardons!!!!
I have to say that chicharrones and llardons are the same
In Spanish language: chicharrones
In catalán language: llardons
Glad to see the terrifying waiter child is a staple of this channel forever.
😏
Those eyes... he's definitely coming for my girl
Love that you said "xooan" just like in Catalan instead of "Juan" like in spanish
you have been well advised my friend ;)
Villager: It's a witch!
Inquisitor: You believe in powers other than God?
The Catholic Church did not believed in withes. It was the protestatns the ones who burned witches.
In the Iberian Peninsula, all the Inquisition cared about was Judaism. There was money to be got from that particular persecution. I've once read about this village in the North of Portugal that wanted a woman prosecuted for witchcraft. They got their wish, except the woman was found to be innocent, and then they proceeded to poke anyone that couldn't prove to be a Christian until the 100th generation.
Good for the so called 'witches', but definitely not for anyone else. Especially if there was a target with some money involved.
@@marneus - The Catholics also persecuted witches... a lot. Max just has not researched the matter enough and also Catholics are very good at whitewashing their history. Here in the Basque Country there were many persecutions with many killed, some were local persecutions (the 13 of Durango), some were made by the Inquisition (Zugarramurdi, Aezkoa, etc.) and the worst of all was made by an infamous French civilian judge, Pierre de Lancre, who thought Basques were all witches, men and women alike, priests too, just because they enjoyed dancing (and possibly sex) too much. He wrote a most infamous treatise on the matter, the "Tableau de l'Inconstance des Mauvais Anges et Demons". The last purported witch ever burned in Europe was in a Catholic country: Austria.
@@LuisAldamiz This is much a "SEE?! THEY DO IT TOO!" situation, though. Like the thing where people say a couple of crusades against islamic lands is the same as several dozen jihads against christian lands. Or that the allies bombing Dresden was just as bad as what the germans were doing, even though the luftwaffe killed more civilians in Stalingrad alone than the allies did altogether. Like, yeah, sure, both sides are doing the same things, but one side's doing them a hell of a lot more often, which is kinda the part that matters here.
Cause the explanation's fairly simple - why did witch hunts generally occur? Cause people in some small village somewhere hated one of their neighbors and oh hey, look! What a coincidence. The person who we hate and whose every action we therefore find suspicious, keeps doing suspicious shit. Must be a witch. Time to yeet 'em into the fire! Like, it's basically just crowdsourced murder. So it's no wonder that authorities, including the church generally frowned on the practice and tried to stop it. However, the protestant church has never really had the authority to tell people what to do aaaaaand many of the places practicing it were precisely isolated little communities, such as the ones in the rural parts of England and their colonies. So you've got a bunch of people with no supervision living in the middle of nowhere, whose branch of christianity encourages interpreting the bible your own way and, hey, surprise surprise, they kept interpreting it as "Jesus says it's OK to lynch people I don't like".
@@LuisAldamiz I think Max simply generalized the situation on the Iberian Peninsula over a large period of time.
Omg, this reminded me of the summer I spent in Barcelona like 20 years ago. The St John festival night was insane. Hundreds of drunk people on the beach, shooting fireworks into the sea. Holy cow, it was amazing
' Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition ' Priceless as ever Max !
St. John was once the most revered saint after Jesus through most of Christendom. This focaccia type bread looks delicious.
Are there any Christian factions which have considered Jesus as a "saint"? Your grammar seems to imply there were, though I'm not sure that's how you meant it. (And it would be considered by the vast majority, a heretical view.)
@@YadraVoat as far as I know there are not. However, in late antiquity you had the Arian Christians who denied Christ being homoousios (the same substance as God) and instead thought Christ was subordinate to God and therefore not fully divine
@@Zoltar_V The Arians were considered Gnostic not Christian. Even the Early writings point this out and no, to my knowledge (as sparse as it can be) no Christian faith has Christ anything other then the Logos (part of the trinity and by extension God).
St. John was the proto-ascetic. He represented the first monastic. Starting around the 4th century many people "fled" to the desert to take up his lifestyle.
Uh what about the Most HOLY Theotokos, mother of our God
Yay I'm early enough to say Tasting History is the most wholesome show on youtube! My husband and I watch all the episodes together and really love the show. Thank you for the positive content, Max!
Thank you so much, Farah!
Look at Townsends channel. The do cooking etc. from the 18th century. I'll bet Max has it on his playlist. 🖖🙂💕
@@rainydaylady6596 Townsends is the RUclips king!
@@TastingHistory I'd say it's a tie between you and Townsends. 👍🖖🙂💕💕💕
@@rainydaylady6596 John actually interviewed Max on one of Townsends’ Nutmeg Tavern livestreams. This is making me hopeful for a more direct collab in the future (especially an in person one).
The French - Canadians also celebrate Saint John's Eve which is Halloween for the french-canadians which is a lead-in into the Fête Nationale, the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist
You know it took me the whole vidéo and reading the comment to make the link betwen the feast of John et la Saint-Jean-Batist...
The province of Québec National Holiday 24th of june. Anybody remembers the bonfires in parcs with the celebrations? ( that is going out of fashion for obvious reasons ) Bonfire = Bon Feu = Good Fire
coquille St-Jacques
As soon as Max said June 23 and Saint John, I started questioning things
@@patrickrankin3150 Coquille St Jean made with crevettes de Matane.
Absolutely loved this! Got to talking about King Cake with my husband (he's never had it! I'll have to rectify this) and then he mentioned a rather topical/seasonal subject - mulberries! In fact, he's cooking up some mulberry jam made from foraged berries as I type. It would be lovely to see an episode on the history of this often overlooked fruit, and how it came to nursery rhyme fame!
Yeah mulberries are great!
Fresh, they taste like apple and blackberry.
(un)curiously enough, we also celebrate saint john's day here in Brasil, and we do the fire jumping too, but here it's the winter solstice, so you have a good reason to light a fire
Oohhhhh new opening! Nice work, Matthew, you did fantastic!!!
Also, can we just take a moment how awesome it is that Max not only does a shoutout to his inspirations for his episodes, but does it with specific people when it is a specific person (ex. his patreon/friend for this episode). Idk how to describe it but it feels both humble in gesture and in character. He doesn’t make it feel that he’s arrogant; he’s human, and humans get inspiration from one another. I’m rambling now but I just really like that he sources his inspo
5 seconds in and that California joke is already lit 10/10
Pun intended? 🤣
THat joke made me crack the widest grin.
THE BEACONS ARE LIT, CALIFORNIA CALLS FOR.. Wait nevermind, california us just on fire in general again
🤣 the smoke kills me every summer
Right now in Arizona, I smell the smoke from all the fires. Ugh.
We celebrate St.Johns Eve here in Norway as well. It's a nice midsummers eve party with bonfires, and the traditional meal is a sour cream porridge. Here in the west of Norway it is traditionally served with cured meat and a kind of bland pretzel.
We celebrate St.Johns' Eve here in Portugal too, it's called 'S.João'. We traditionally eat grilled sardines, pork sandwiches called "bifanas" and jump over a fire made with rosemary, lavender and sage which is supposed to cleanse your soul or something. It's nice
Please do a king cake episode, I come from Cajun country and never really thought about the history of a king cake. No one could make it more interesting than you could. Love the episode, definitely going to try this.
Part of my family is from Soller in Mallorca and the coca is a Good Friday dish, and has 2 version one with sardines and the other with peper and vegetable, at Christmas the coca is present but the crust is made of potatoes. My grandmother used to do them as well as ensaimadas, sweet bread rolls. My cousins keep the tradition and make them still.
It wouldn’t be the same without Der Völler 😅
Exactly 🤣
I can so relate, my inner Der Völler has been struggling to get out this whole past year. I’m so glad he got left in the lineup, I love the smirk on the serving boy’s face.
Catalonian here! God i never thought i'd see one of my favorite channels bake my favorite cake, it looked amazing!! Bona Revetlla Max! 🔥
In Brazil we usually have bonfires and feasts in saint Anthony's John's and Peter's day
And dress as hillbillies for some reason
Not that Im complaining
Saudade de uma festa junina...
Nem fala quero uma festa junina
Festa junina 😭😭😭
Já quem tem outros brasileiros aqui além de mim, deveríamos tentar convencer ele a fazer algo brasileiro, talvez alguma coisa indigina, já que temos descrições historicas disso , e muitas da culinária atual vem dela.
I've been an instructor and volunteer with St. John Ambulance for almost 15 years and I appreciate seeing how others celebrate this day. Thanks. I'm going to have to try to make this.
My culture!!! Sant Joan is one of my favorite nights of the year. Thank you Max!!!
Every time Max tells us what ingredients we'll need I hear the voice of Mrs. Crocombe. I can't be the only one, right?
Ahhhhh!! SAME. 😆
Def the same!! :) I"m starting to get way more cooking channels in my subs than anything else....
The dough seems like basically brioche but with lard instead of butter.
Yes, Catalonian
in here our St. John's holiday is called "festa junina" and I think it's more of a celebration of country people? People usually wear straw hats and checkered shirts and eat corn-based food. Oh, and when you're in school there are dance competitions between classes to songs that I think are our version of country music. It really feels like a mid-year Christmas to me
I really liked that most of the traditions he depicted in the video explains some of our own "festa junina" traditions, such as the bonfire jumping... :)
My fellow Brazilian!
tava procurando os brasileiros
You are hilarious! I love how you meld pop culture, food, humor and history. I love your quotes. It's refreshing to have scholarship sprinkled in with entertainment. Who knew I needed this!
i really appreciate the matching of the dough rectangle to the exact aspect ratio of my screen. my first impression was that this must have been very deliberately planned out. i am not sure if this is true, but i will continue to be happy with my supposition that max chose his dough dimensions with careful forethought as to the format his viewers would be enjoying his content. i wouldn't think less of this channel if he didnt, but it makes me happy to think he did.
14 minutes in the proportion is explained. i'm not gonna say my assumption was flat wrong, but i definitely missed the mark.
alternate title for this episode: "it's okay to have a small coca".
It's how it tastes that really matters
@@limp_dickens that's what (s)he said.
Der Voller funnily enough was my favorite painting of the whole bunch, and I was very happy to see it still be kept in the update.
I was literally now making plans to celebrate Sant Joan tomorrow, and yesterday I baked a coca. I would've never expected Max to make a video about this holiday! This was great!!! Greetings from Barcelona :)
Saw your new History slam on my screen. All I could say was, Wooow! Live it.
In Quebec, our national (provincial) holiday celebrating Quebec is called Le St-Jean De Baptiste, and its the 24th of June. Most celebration consists of drinking alcohol and throwing parties though. Cool to see parallels in other cultures!
Edit: Just saw someone has beat me to it lol
My favorite painting, as well. The knowing smile of the boy and the doctor taking the fat guy's pulse is priceless!
St John is a huge celebration here in Brazil too. Jumping over bonfires and overeating and all.
Triggerei
Yes, in Brazil we call it "festa junina" which translates to something like "June Party". Some people also call it "Festa de são João" which means "Saint John Party". Its awesome, usually we have dances called "quadrilha", Where couples dance together in a fun way and everyone dresses like a "caipira" (basically a rural worker steriotype).
And specially drinking hot wine like madmen
Max, Bonfires are a important part of St. John's in Brazil too, being a big holiday in some regions of the country with a lot of corn recipes based on african recipes that got their own variantions over the years. Some of them like Canjica, Mungunzá and Pamonha are deeply related with the Northestearn Region and with the Canudos Revolt, pretty worth of an episode
The region of Poland where I'm from is the one where Łysa Góra (Bald Mountain but really it's a wee hill 595m high) is and where the sabbaths took place. Even the official logo for Świętokrzyskie region has a witch in it! Poland has so many predominantly pagan traditions, it's fantastic - Zielone Świątki, Noc Kupały, Marzanna, dożynki, postrzyżyny.. The list goes on!
I was surprised to discover that most of the best mountain climbers come from Poland, because I didn’t think Poland really had many mountains. lol It’s cool that you’ve held on to those old traditions; many of those from. Europe never carried over to the North America, for some reason.
Yayyy! Catalan recipe! 😍 You wouldn't believe how good they are guys!
Max's new video gives a +2 to knowledge rolls based on food and history, as well as rolls to avoid the Spanish Inquisition.
You have done very good research, I’m from Barcelona and you’ve honestly given a really good explanation of the festivities and how to make a good coca, it’s also really cool that you’ve made the traditional one with pine nuts and the fruit. As always you have outdone yourself, congrats Max, I’m a huge fan of the channel.
“Coca measuring contest” - really glad I hadn’t just taken a drink! 😂
In the south of Germany we also celebrate St. John's night, eating Hollerkücherl, cakes made out of elder flowers.
"If it doesn't spark joy, let it spark the fire." LOLOL Love it!!! And love your channel! You are truly inspiring!
YEEEEEEES! Can't believe you did it... My favourite is the "Coca de Llardons" but the candied fruit one is also good. Kind of weird you, from California, are explaining things that I didn't know about the origins of our traditions, but I appreciate SO much. You should do "Panallets" next autumn! They are AMAZING!
P.s. I suggest eating it as a desert paired with "Moscatell" or another sweet wine :D
I always look forward to Tuesdays now, congratulations on your collab with Sola and for the new intro!
Thank you ☺️
THE INTRO IS SPLENDID, GOODNESS!!!
Thanks! It turned out pretty nice.
closer a million than 500k. well deserved!
"if it doesn't spark joy, let it spark the fire" will be my new motto in life
The feast of Sant Joan is also celebrated in the northeast of Brazil (also with bonfires),
and it's called São João.
This reminds me of our traditional Christmas cake in Portugal, that you mentioned, "Bolo-Rei" or "King Cake". It is very similar but in cake form, with pieces of the candied fruit in the dough and bigger pieces on top. You should try and make it some time. We also have the tradition of making the bonfires on Saint Anthony and Saint John's holidays.
His version of King Cake is primarily French. It's a big tradition in Louisiana during Mardi Gras, and the "treasure" is a plastic baby instead of a coin these days.
@@DodiTov it is very similar to our traditional portuguese Bolo Rei cake. And our treasure used to be a dried fava bean or a hiden metal prize that would bring good fortune to whoever found it.
Here in Estonia we have Jaanipäev which is St John's day, prob most important holiday in entire year here. Also have bonfires and we often jump over them
In Québec we have the St-Jean-Baptiste on june 24
It's the Québec national holiday. We make big fire, fireworks and have party with friends. Bonne St-Jean-Baptiste à tous! 😉🔥🎆
Max- love your videos- I learn something new every time I watch one. There are 4 fire festivals in Ireland: Imbolc- Feb. 1-2 , Beltane - May 1st, Lughnassadh- August 1st, and Samhain - Oct 31-Nov. 1. Imbolc celebrates the upcoming spring and is usually celebrated with St Brigids day- you make a St Brigid cross and hang in your house or barn, Beltane- celebrates Summer, Lughnassadh- late Summer or early Fall and finally Samhain which is really celebrating the upcoming Winter.
I didn't really know about the history in this episode, so this is great! New history, new graphics, and great food!
You’re gonna have a smattering of AAAAALLLLL the languages before too long if you keep this up. I minored in linguistics in grad school, so that’s low key my favorite part of this channel.
I'm always impressed by his pronunciation. You can tell he really does his homework.
Being a trained classical singer really helps. We are taught a lot of pronunciation so we can sing all the music. It makes picking up other languages' pronunciation easier as we already know how to break a word into phonemes.
I've dabbled in language (unofficially, but with obsession), and I love that you can tell how much effort he puts into his pronunciations!
I’m a native Catalan, and I’m surprised at how good his pronunciation is
@@jmiquelmb a vegades sembla que ho pronuncii en castellà, pero a mi també mha deixa't parat
Seconding everyone else, we need, "If it does not spark joy, let it spark a fire" as merch.
Can I just say that I love the fact that you take the time to learn how to properly pronounce words/places/names from other cultures; it’s super refreshing to see that level of detail! Lovely video as always :)
As someone who's been living in Catalonia for almost two decades, I'm really happy and glad you made this recipe. Thank you for showing a tiny bit of Catalan history.
Love that Der Völler is the Tasting History brand now
But there *is* a local holiday that involves fire, it's just expensive, a long drive, and packed with hipsters (Burning Man)
I've been following this channel since the beginning and this took me completely by surprise. Gràcies Max per l'atenció i l'esforç dedicats a aquesta recepta. Molt d'amor des de Catalunya, i feliç Sant Joan!
History, food, memes, innuendos, pop culture.
Fantastic [chef's kiss].
And in Switzerland, during our national day on august 1st, all around the mountains of Switzerland, bonfires are lit. It's an amazing spectacle and usually a great time to spend with your family and friends, roasting some cervelas over open flame (not the bonfire, it would carbonize the sausages in an instant). Thanks for another great upload.
10:16 I was absolutely expecting it and I wasn't disappointed.
Here in Louisiana, in the parishes where I live, they build bonfires up on top of the Mississippi River levee during christmas.
Neat!
Now i am imagining Villagers from the Pyrenees coffin dancing through a forest with a flaming log and i can't get the song out of my head
Someone's gotta make some fan art now.
🤣🤣🤣
This is the best show on you tube. The quality of research, presentation and writing is better than anything on cable. You must have a staff of five people.
Just me, partner and 2 cats.
@@TastingHistory Bravo. Incredible what you can produce with two people and two cats.
This is great! In Puerto Rico, we dive backwards into the ocean as part of the tradition for Noche de San Juan (nod to the Baptist). Wish we had some specific foods attached!
Aquí un boricua viviendo en España.