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The Triumph of Seeds, Thor Hansen
Consider the Fork, Bee Wilson
Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat, Robert Spengler
Bread: A Global History, William Rubel
Nuts: A Global History, Ken Albala
Corn: A Global History, Michael Owen Jones
Rice: A Global History, Renee Marton
Beans: A Global History, Natalie Rachel Morris
Pasta and Noodles: A Global History, Kantha Shelke
Potato: A Global History, Andrew F. Smith
The Rice Economies, Francesca Gray
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If you havent read it already, you might like Against the Grain by James C. Scott, it makes a good case for why early states relied very heavily on grain compared to other staples, even in environments in which other staples were native/better suited for the ecosystem.
Does the book mention potatoes as an exception to that rule?
@@viracocha6093 in fact, it mentions potatoes as *not* an exception. But it does talk about potatoes.
@@viracocha6093 the book is mostly about state formation in the Eastern mediterranean though. I'd say its stuff on the Americas is probably its weakest point, just because it doesn't go into much detail.
@@viracocha6093TBQH if you’re going for an exception to the rule, it’d be rice, because while the north have always been fond of grain and wheat, it’s a lot less popular in southern china, to the extent that entire books are written abt how rice vs grain may have shaped the cultural differences in the two regions.
@@bluewilliams4911 Rice is a grain though.
Another important crop to humans are olives, which evolved an oily layer as protection against the rain. The olive oil made from that was a major source of calories for early mediterranean societies.
An interesting thing about how staple foods are important to culture and language. In Brazil the combination of rice and beans is so important that saying "Doing the rice and beans well" (Fazer bem o arroz com feijão) means having a strong foundation or doing the basics correctly
You said in the episode that you presented the world of Elush that they positioned into a mediterranean climate. If you still keep this idea than you might think that mediterranean climates, because of their temperatures, two or more harvests each year, and because of the dryness, seeds from plants like wheat and barley usually have thicker skins, that means that can be stored for a long period of time, so if we add up all of those things plus that Elush is positioned next to a big river we can assume that the city states that have grains as their main source of food will have great influential power over the trade with food, like the Egyptians with the Mycenaean, the Hittites and the Sumerians in the bronze age. Is my assumption correct?
Omg, so I have been making food from my fantasy world and it's always amazing to taste! I highly recommend it! Even if the food isn't 100% perfect, you can kind excuse it as being "from another world". I am so excited to see what you cook!
As someone who culturally identifies as being of a concivilization, I have been trying this for a while with easier staple foods, but am scared of getting things wrong.
I was having trouble coming up with food for a culture in my world because they live in a very cold environment without many trees around and snow for 10 out of the 12 months. Your tubers that grow deep in the ground because of droughts gave me an idea. Thanks for making this video it inspired me. Your videos are very helpful and give me ideas all the time, I like to watch your videos whenever I’m stuck on making an aspect of one of my cultures.
That sounds like an interesting challenge- do you have anywhere where you're sharing your world?
@@yolkcheeks actually I’m planing to start posting videos to my RUclips channel soon hopefully sometime next week if everything goes to plan.
Tbh this sounds to me like a group that mostly eats meat, like reindeer herders in Siberia.
@@rootbeer635I'm worldbuilding a group of people in cold-ish enviorment, but not as extreme as yours, and thats sad that you dont have any content at your channel
@@Danila438yeah I posted a couple videos but then deleted them because I didn’t like the quality of them.
Recently I discovered this game in early access - Book of Travels - and it strikes me with the same vibes as your channel and Worldbuilding Notes.
Ooh I'll have to investigate 👀
This was very educational both for real lifestyle and for worldbuilding. Thank you for the video, it was very educational!
YES A new worldbuilding channel. INSTANT SUB
Thank you! I was thinking about staple foods and resources for my worldbuilding project.
I hope it's helpful :D
This helped me flesh out some of the details on one of my conculture’s foods, and gave me the tools to not just pick a climate and borrow foods from there, and what sorts of plants to invent
YES! I've wanted to do some research into stable foods for my cultures but never got around to it, this is super helpful!
i could see the exploding seed pods become a sort of generational hazing ritual kinda like a big kid giving a lemon slice to a little kid who has never tasted a lemon before. If I grew up in a world of exploding legumes i would have convinced my little sister to touch the mature pod before she knew better.
The kind of plant you describe tend to grow in hot-warm Mediterranean climates, and the lack of trees or their necessity for food might mean they would need more fuel efficient ways to cook. That seems to suggest a cuisine of fine chopping ingredients before steaming, fermenting or boiling them. It would maybe land itself well to this method of preparing: grain is mixed with legumes and boiled until fully cooked. On top of the cooking vessel a steaming basket with fruits and\or vegetables is placed, all of it seasoned with a fermented condiment or drink. Finely chopped nuts might be used to add a body of fat to meals. Costal settlements might add seafood to their diet as well, and the outer regions would require cattle, mostly goats and ruminents.
i noticed that you provide captions for your videos! i really appreciate that, as a subscriber with an auditory processing disorder that uses subtitles to help understand what's being said, but i'd like to say that the subtitles are supposed to match what the video says as closely as possible. while it would be nice to use them as a way to correct what you *meant* to say, doing that means that deaf or hard of hearing viewers or viewers with auditory processing disorders dont have the same information given to them as non-disabled viewers
Eep, sorry, I copy pasted them from an older version of the script D: I'll fix in the morning!
@@NakariSpeardane thank you! i appreciate it :)
Fixed!
This was so interesting and insightful! I'm a chef, but I'm changing my view on food, from purely flavour and glamour, to something more modest. This video has given me some new thoughts, and it's been a while since that happened. Thank you for taking the time to learn and to teach. Subscribed.
4:49 funny + love the little faces on the legumes
I love how you use memes in your videos to showcase your world building!
Really nice and informative video
the illustration at 4:57 is hilarious hahaha
this is giving me some good ideas for my new world. thank you
Just found your channel, very interesting and inspiring!
Ive really wanted to worldbuild my cultures food but could never figure it out, thanks for the inspiration
Don't think I've commented on your channel before but I love your videos so much :]
For some annoying reason I keep getting really fixated on food world building despite not knowing anything about cooking or food production (and being too much of a picky eater & allergy hoarder to have a vast knowledge of taste and textures i can reference), so this and the cooking video are two of my favorite worldbuilding videos on youtube, hehe
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@@ConnorQuimby i misread that as “Well the Wayfinders are missing You”
Something that tends to be important in cuisine around the world are what I call "super foods" which is obviously an incorrect term but I can't think of a better name. They're stuff that grows easily, are nutritious and last for a long time without rotting; some examples would be: rice, potatoes, wheat and Corn.
They're often times eated daily but as complementary dishes to fill people better since they tend to be cheap; wheat and corn are processed into bread and tortillas respectively for this purpose while rice and potatoes are eaten without such processing. However, they also tend to be staples in other ways, Japan for example makes Sake, Mochi and other things with their rice; wheat flour is also used for cakes; in some cultures people sometimes let a certain fungus named Huitlacoche grow in corn so they could eat the fungus and so on.
This super food tends to be the most commonly grown food in their respective culture and is very important to the point where a lot of side dishes uses it, this is something very important for world building so don't skip this past part.
Hope this was of help.
The word for this is staple, that was the topic of the video
When harvesting the exploding legume things, couldn’t someone just put their whole hand around the seed pod and just grab it really quick and hard so when it opened, there would be nowhere for the seeds to go except into their hand? Or they could put a cup around it from the bottom, then slide their hand over the top with the stem in between their fingers and shake until the seeds were released into the cup. Or maybe this makes no sense. Anyway I love your channel and this was a great video lol
You could do that! Just runs the risk of jostling other pods nearby when you're doing it, which would get you a much lower yield overall.
@@NakariSpeardane Ah, that makes sense! Thanks for the reply :)
@@NakariSpeardane put a bag around it
On the topic of staple foods shaping our language and culture; did you know the word companion literally means “one who breaks bread with another”? From Latin com - with and panis - bread
ah food, an important element of culture, question with regards to particularly the grain-producing elush, have they noticed any small predators domesticating themselves, do the elush have cats?
Are you plannin on making a video about the biology of elush, i would love that
Maybe some day! What kinds of things would you want to know?
I myself would want to know more about animals that the people of Elush domesticated, and maybe diferent ethnicities of humans that live in that region, I already see differences between the wayfinder people and the Claypoters, I would like to see more.
@@NakariSpeardane something like a
overview of what animals live in elush
@@NakariSpeardane fauna and flora would be cool to see.
Do the seasons work in the same way in Elush as in the real world ? Beacuse in my climate at least, figs and chesnuts/acorns are not available at the same time. So this would mean that the Elush process their acorns & dry their chesnuts in the autumn, stocking up for the whole year, and do the same with the figs in the summer ?
Either way that acorn-chestnut-fig trio sounds like a nice flavour combination, I'll have to try it.
Kolanut are very important to South-eastern Nigeria. They are no traditional social interactions without kolanut. And Yams ( not sweet ones) are also the most eaten in the country.
Buckwheat - the best pseudo-cereal! (At least my favourite:))
I know this vid is old, but: Bread: A Global History, William Rubel
Nuts: A Global History, Ken Albala
Corn: A Global History, Michael Owen Jones
Rice: A Global History, Renee Marton
Beans: A Global History, Natalie Rachel Morris
Pasta and Noodles: A Global History, Kantha Shelke
Potato: A Global History, Andrew F. Smith
WHO'S RIPPING OFF WHO HERE!!?
How might a carnivorous species organize their staples?
The complex biological facts of food does make it feel worshipful.
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So are your peeps vegetarian?
Nope! It's just that meat isn't the basis of their diet/what provides them most energy :D
@@NakariSpeardane back in the peer polities video I felt like they must do a lot of fishing, but now I see these are the same cultures as the demonym video. Those two (especially the “mud-eater” / “real people”) definitely gave a more foraging / agriculture vibe.
I’ll bet the quick-people in the outlands do a bit more hunting than the settled parts of Elush.
Oh my god, that’s distracted boyfriend isn’t it.
In rich societies, the wealthy people can afford to eat legumes, while in poor societies legumes are reserved for the poor and rich people must settle for meat.
that sounds a bit backwards to me...