The Original Fast Food: Culinary Legacies Left By The Ancient Romans
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- The Roman empire was a time of power and brutality, fuelled by violent games and bloodbaths. However, it was also abundent in refinement and extreme sensuality. Food and cooking was an key indicator of success, with quality and abundance of dishes the primary measure. As the first and largest european civilisation, Rome was at the epicentre of culinary innovation, with an acute emphasis on vegatables, meat and spices.
From eating lying down, to watering down fine wines, Rome had unique practices when it came to dining. Techniques are examined, and strange staples, such as a fish intestine sauce that was the Roman equivalent of ketchup, are revealed. We explore the taste laboratories of Epicius, the master behind Rome’s cooking prowess, and source of inspiration for the best chefs today.
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It’s amazing how history shows how things have flipped around. In Roman times it was a characteristic of the rich to eat at home and the poor always ate out.
Now we like to eat out
"He was looking for a rabbit-"
Me: Oh
*covers my pet rabbit's eyes*
Oh no.
When it dies, you shall feast.
Quite a few inaccuracies. One of which is men with beards. For roman men it was mandatory to shave, it was a sacred ritual. The first beard in adolescence was offered to the gods. Wearing a beard ( barba in Italian ) meant being too similar to their enemies, the barbarians, who were considered to be more crude. Only soldiers and philosophers were allowed to wear them.
Moreover the pronunciation should be a little more curated considering it's a documentary. Cena ( dinner ) isn't pronounced kena but chena as in chocolate. As an Italian I can't help but notice and correct :)
@@jtakayama6294 So when Rome needed to start importing food and was no longer an exporter, was bread no longer free? The two rations of loaves everyone received a day did they lower them or remove them all together? Is this the reason for the fall of the Empire? Because they became an importer? Please help answer these questions you seem like a seasoned intellectual.
It's pronounced as kena! C is k in Latin.
“The Romans built the first European civilisation “.....err no they didn’t, what about Greece, what about the Etruscans....just going to forget about them then.
Romans descended from the Etruscans is what I read.
Charlie Bubbles It’s tough to be a white supremacy mouthpiece when you remember olive-skinned people. Documentaries are fun.
@@ategabbysev2993
That's probably why we all speak turkish in Europe.....
Because the Greeks & Etruscans hung out in the Mediterranean while the Romans actually ventured out into Europe and civilized it.
@@n3v3rg01ngback Humans are so brainwashed to even care about skin color.... sigh
I read once Romans used lavender on fish. I tried it and it was tasty.
Maybe it was a garnish
Nowadays people put lavender on or in everything. Cookies.
@@jessicavaliente9342 Lavender & sour cream cookies are actually quite nice.
Lavender and Sea salt on French Fries is really tasty as well!
Lavender dressing is wonderful on salad if the chef knows how to make it without it tasting soapy.
I've been making rose essence from our yearly blooms of aromatic beach rose (rosa rugosa,) for perfume and mild flavorings, and have preserved a few (wonderful) batches of rose hip jelly over the years, but now I'm inspired to try a rose petal cornish hen. This was a fascinating insight into historical cooking!
Does it taste like it smells? Or does the flavor change when cooked? Sounds delicious.
@@mojojeinxs9960 Yes, indeed, it kind-of tastes like it smells, but it's a bit milder in flavor than one would expect, with a slight tartness due to the vitamin C content of the fruit. It's scrumptious!
@@LindaB651 send me some. :)
Linda Bealer
Sounds delicious 😋
Report back! :)
"...always lying on their left elbow and only eating with the right hand..." then proceeds to show us a Roman lady doing the exact opposite.
@@angelicgirl305 you're a bad girl. Lmao
Haha Nice catch!!
@@angelicgirl305 Omg, you really need to do your homework before ever posting a comment like that again!
You have no clue how ignorant your comment was, do you?
Am I crazy? I thought anyone editing an image can flip the original image.
Angelic Girl Man, trolls have gotten lazy in the age of Trump. Surely you’re better than this.
He said romans were the first to domesticate pigs, they already did so in mesapotamia. He doesn't know what he's talking about.
@Pichkalu Pappita Exactly.
@Pichkalu Pappita More like paying homage to ancestors than anything, to me it sounds like you're just trying to dismiss what the Ancient Romans accomplished because your ancestors were actually irrelevant.
Mesopotamia was the first civilization.
@@drpureinsanity You don't pay homage to your ancestors by lying about things they didn't do
@@AlpenTree Nope Indus Valley was
"The first to domesticate porks"
Lol that was charming.
PIGS, not porks.
11:22 He said porks, Magda.
“The Romans built Europe’s first civilization”
Greeks: We’re a joke to you?
Must have been the Politics😇
Rome was superior in War, Enslaving, Blood-sports, Stealing; Food, Culture, Arts, Religion, from others.
@@keesjanhoeksema9575 Alexander of Macedon and Pyrrhus of Epirus: Are we a joke to you?
abmong
The first European Civilisations date back to the Cycladic and Minoan Civilisations between ~3500-3000BC. So this assertion that the Romans were Europe’s first civilisation is absurd.
@@Nabonidus-m7x Re read the reply. Unless you really want to better at the things mentioned.
@@hogwashmcturnip8930 I'm not Greek, and I was only referring to the superiority in war part.
Hi guys, that's my photo you're using as the video's thumbnail, some proper credits would have been really nice. Thank you!
That was rude 😡
@@audreyanderson1192 It's rude to ask for photo credits? No, it's the law, and on top of that, simply polite.
Can you prove it is your photo?
Ursula's historical recipes no the fact that they used your photo! I was agreeing with you. Sorry that wasn’t clear 🙃
That's a compliment that they used your photo.... but they definitely should of said something before they did. It looks really good, like mouth watering good! It's why I clicked on the video 😁.......🤔shit yea people give her something for using her photo!......just subscribed to you Ursula!
38:25 - “...the Romans would have been the first ones to be consuming this Mediterranean-style food...” - Whaaaaat?!?
The first former civilization was Sumeria and most relevant from a cultural point of view was Ancient Greece, the way we think today is highly influenced my the paradigm of Greek philosophy
7:58 "the rich... always ate lying down, leaning on their left elbow, and only eating with the right hand"
I guess someone forgot to tell the director, since half those people are leaning on their right elbow, and the guy is clearly eating with his LEFT hand...
Well it makes sense to lean on the left elbow and eat with the right hand, you're stomach is on the left side of your body as well as your heart...and images can be flipped. During pregnancy they say sleeping on your left side helps with circulation and keeps your heart strong...
@@blackvelvet1350 also probably easier to eat when you aren't lying on the side of your dominant hand...
The entire film has been inverted, probably to get around copyright.
Stupid video
@Bunkiebe ya beat me to it
The first European ‘Civilisations’ date back to the Cycladic and Minoan Civilisations, starting between ~3500-3000BC. So this assertion that the Romans were Europe’s first civilisation is absurd.
Yes but "what have the Cycladic and Minoan Civilisations ever done for us!" ?
This documentary is full of historical inaccuracies
thanks for listing so many examples
liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike............?
Like the fact that the romans ate what we eat today. Lol potatoes, tomatoes, chocolate, turkey, certain types of pepper are all from the Americans and weren't in Europe until the 16th century.
@@joshcrowe5401 Don't you know that the Romans discovered America? That's why the US still has a senate and why their emblem is an eagle. They could easily have brought back potatoes and turkeys from across the atlantic.
@@joshcrowe5401 correct. Vanilla, coffee & they sweetened with honey not sugar Caine or beets.
Currently watching this laying down leaning on my left elbow and eating w my right hand...omg just like the rich Romans!
That is how they stood, they had to hold the smartphone in the left hand. It's practical
First European Civiliation... Aren't we forgetting the Greek?
If you want to call Europeans Civilized...LOL
Kale Flower What?
city states are not civilization
@@kaleflower2319 Europeans are the only civilized peoples.
@@kaleflower2319 If you want to describe the people who invented democracy, philosophy and the Classic Arts and Literature as civilized then...you know your history. Without the Greeks you wouldn't even have a word for democracy!
"Beulah, peel me a grape." I know Mae West said this but I imagine the rich folks back then snapping their finger and saying it.
Today it‘s tv/games and snacks/fast food. Bread and games did not change.
Bread, garum, and wine.
Kauê Moura - 3 major food groups.
Too interesting. Thank you for posting.
Hilarious that they include a little blacksmith table like he’d have his fire and hammering right there next to random foodstuffs.
Cold water makes me feel more awake when I drink it?
Advice often emulates environment.
I need to write down that recipe at 42:00 ....maybe use a different small bird though. o.o
This made me hungry lol
I'm decently in my 30's but I lol'd hard when he shoved the prune up the birds ass, I need to go home
Timestamps or it didn't happen :)
So when Rome needed to start importing food and was no longer an exporter, was bread no longer free? The two rations of loaves everyone received a day did they lower them or remove them all together? Is this the reason for the fall of the Empire? Because they became an importer?
Cheese bread with honey and olive oil. Yum
The quality of this production is not exactly low but terribly and carelessly executed
I had to bookmark this because I want to try some of these "recipes", Awesome video. I subbed and I think you're going to grow fast.
John Di Francisco The nightingale recipe sounds delicious but, since the bird isn’t really something we eat anymore I wonder if you could use Cornish Game hens?
@@racafritz Great idea! I've never tried them before. I like trying new things.Thanks for the tip!
I think some of these would be very tasty. I too want to try some.
@@racafritz I think the game hen, because they are so plump and juicy, would be perfect. That's what I'm going to use in trying the recipe.
Ingrid Dubbel That makes sense. Definitely a game hen would probably work with the flavors. If anyone makes this dish please post how it was.
One of the best docs I’ve ever watched
Why tf u gotta eat grapes like tht
Tried it once, nearly choked. Don't recommend
It is good practice for tea baging?
Seriously, it just looks more sensuous. Grapes are an aphrodisiac.
Left hand was used for collecting your shit. So you would eat with your right hand.
I really appreciate these vids. Could u perhaps do one about Saladin n the foods the Muslims ate during the Crusades? Thanku
Спасибо! Очень хорошое познавательное видео! 👍👍👍
The Egyptians domesticated pigs long before the Roman's.
TH-cam ads are getting really too much
Chef Epicius ... was EPIC ... 🙂
So are you just blatantly downloading other peoples youtube videos and reuploading them? Every single one of the documentaries you've put out is already on youtube. You just give it a different title.
Who cares? The most important is that you could watch them. Sooner or later other videos will be taken down.
Changing the names of the videos helps to dodge copyright strikes and using a random thumbnail images helps guard against bots
Watching this, I couldn't help but think of "Tasting History'
If you want to see some of these dishes cooked and eaten today, check out his channel. It's fantastic. Food and history...a perfect combination!
I love that channel! ❤️
Narrator: Rome built the first ever European civilization
All Previous European Civilizations: Am I a joke to you?
More than likely.
What's with all the wheat fondling and watering the horse from a bowl? Not to mention the prowess of the carrot cutter. Makes me question the legitimacy of the whole video.
And all of those weakling legs... Thirty kilometer marches wearing forty kilos, my... foot.
My firs thought was "why is that guy artfully arranging a few wheat stocks together like a bouquet of flowers? Isn't this a food market? Shouldn't he either have flour or whole wheat grains? Who buys their wheat by the bouquet?"
@@arthas640 it denotes what he is selling. The Romans liked sales displays. There was much competitiob, naturally being aesthetically pleasing stalls drew in business.
Yet what they dramatized has veracity. Roman soldiers were very well trained, thus, they were very fit. As for walking whom in a day, that is well documented. Henry II of England was famous for having his armies move as much as 40 to 50 miles per day.
I don't question the Roman fitness and long marches. I question the actors'.
calihartley2010 - So you're not only a racist, but idiot, too.
Close to the toilets huh? How many meals got purposely flavored in those same toilets? Can't think no one wasn't Scorned enough to do so
Where can I find the quail honey rose recipe? Any ideas?
Final remarks are imprecise as translated concerning greed which is more than historically a personal perspective in addition to being a cultural norm inherently particulars to its own perspective. A fellow with, two homes and three living rooms who balks to pay for equipment his projects destroy owned by a workman living his life in a one room hovel could be said to be greedy especially when the majority of his neighbors are neither as stingy nor as apparently affluent (and definitely not hanging about harassing skilled and diligent tradesmen). In Rome many of specific peer groups lived more relatively similar lifestyles before the end of the republic and the corruptions of the more tyrannical emperors although much more divided in lifestyles than Greece. You might argue it’s nature as a welfare state given that famine wasn’t a significant problem or let to become one.
“The first to domesticate porks” gfhshajsnnals
Stuffed Camel's Huff's!?!? Whaaat??!!
Stuffed camel toes.
@@jasondismuke4837 🤢
I have a recipe for stuff camel!!! It was added in as a joke: Arabian recipe- like 12 goats, 24 ducks, 30 chickens, tonnes of shit in it, rice, veg, herbs and spices. Not at home currently so can't get into the specifics. Not so much a joke the whole cookbook is rather smart-assy- Here's a recipe for your next big get together!!! 😷😎😷
I watch for the entertainment value! Fun show
I can't watch these--the music is so annoying. Too bad.
Did anyone catch the name of that first Cook Book?
Ughh, they conflate Apicious with being a cook. The books we have are dedicated to him.
Ugh, there is so much wrong or outdated information in this!
What is outdated? I appreciate the info from you, thanks!
Toga Party!!
But do they have Wild boar's tripe, fried in Auroch's dripping?
Very entertaining subject, good illustrated reconstruction except some details A nitpicker like me will probably notice,
“The Romans ate more or less everything we eat” ! would be nice If this would have been explained, Since most of the food we eat originates from South and middle America since the discovery of the New World in the 1500’s? (The connection to Indian spices is A nice Hellenistic addition)
Would have been nice also to go deeper how the Roman kitchen was influenced by other cultures they concurred or traded with; Etruscan, Egypt, Greece, Gaul, Iberia, Middle east etc.
(The original Romans before there big empire where called backward Barbarians by their neighbors)
The Gladiators might have been on A balanced dieet without pasta? but the legionaries did have A form of Pasta that looked like dried lasagna sheets, easy to keep and transport.
2:56 The Copper skillet with iron handle looks A little ‘modern’ (1800?) for these Romans, Ancient Roman skillets where usually bronze with handle and pan in one piece 30:25 (Or the Legionnaires one with A foldable handle)
Otherwise nice representation!
Its a french documentary
Could someone PLEASE read through the captions and correct the spellings? There are waaaay too many for me to remember! Absolutely the Incorrectly Spelled History!!! Sheesh!!!
Weren't sausages considered a barbarian food until much later?
Is it my imagination or does the woman at 13:17 look extremely modern?
RoaringMind yeah she def does .
2:42 -cringes in the pain of inaccuracies and the color purple...-
Carbs, glorious carbs!
I'll go back in time with a pack of Marlboros and a cooler of beer and sit in the middle of the colleseum....cook them some American style cheeseburgers, steaks, and bratwurst and the Empire would probably end right there. Gold? Silver? I could probably by a palace with 10 cheeseburgers.
Force-feeding is still done today. In France, and a few other countries, geese and ducks are cram fed with food to enlarge their livers for the production of foie gras. Horrible, cruel thing to do.
How did they resurrect Brigham Young?
28:20 "ceterum censeo: Carthaginem esse delendam" said Cato. Bad research !
Ask Miss information and a lie about Carthage
I wonder if Epicius named himself - people did do that, as they do now - after the Athenian philosopher Epicurus/Epicouros who proposed that life was about enjoyment of earthly pleasures including food ... root of the word Epicure ... I've been wondering that since the first time I learned of Epicius ... probably from this same video on somebody else's channel lol ...
they ate pizza, duh
H Kone um I thought it was McDonald’s
@@myismidas you fool, mcdonalds was invented later
How the Roman banquet has influence Pizza Hut are you serious? You are kidding right?
Maybe the narrator should learn to pronounce Latin words :-)
The guy hammering that blade has no clue or idea what he is doing lol, i hope they gave him a cheap prop at least
Yeah, the narrative text doesn't seem up to bbc standards, this must be made for someone else. Lots of mistakes and over generalisations. Even Wikipedia would have been more accurate. What is happening to british education?
'Boilers'
Expecto Patroneum!
'The average Roman would have breakfast and they had to make do with that until the evening. At midday they stopped for lunch' Cue actors feeding their faces at the Roman equivalent of a burger van. Is it just me? Either they went all day with nothing or they didn't! Or does 'lunch' not count as food now?
What about 11ses?
wow.....the actors really took the focus off the documentary....how about that metalsmith giving us a orchestra of dink dink ...dunk.....and the guy smelling herbs....lifting his eyebrows.....I mean this is just like watching a first grade play........the documentary info good....the re-enactors....awful better to just have regular people dress up...im not even interested in film making....but this was just vomit....that said still interesting and I saved it
Your comment made me vomit.
@@chongtak 哪你是中国台湾州了吧。。。好好儿说话呀。。。清清楚楚。。那你吐。。我就给你吐炒饭吃回去
Putting the kitchen next to the toilet yeah can't imagine why most of them didn't make to their 40th birthday .The amout of germs and filth must have killed off whole households!
"Sows' dugs" = pig udders.
Everything in this movie is new. Even my phone becomes new one ☝️
Chickpeas are from Africa
rabbit!!!!!????
Almost thought cape cod potato chips ad was part of the episode
😉
I had a pet rabbit! That just turned me off!
Festival Lyons are only found in sub-Saharan Africa not the North this ties sub-Saharan Africa with Carthage THAT'S WHERE THEIR ANCESTORS CAME FROM.
Everything in this video is extremely Eurocentric and untrue statements. The Chinese have documented cooking recipes that go back waaaaay before the Roman times.
Welcome in the Ancient China folks. Romans time to speak in Chinese.
Did the rabbit died?
Too many ads
ugh that poor rabbit
I know ):
I'm early ?
What what liars ? Romans built the first european civilization lol every human knows that they were the minoans who built the first european civilization then Etruscans came don't you have shame lying blatantly Romans were 200 b.c not more
Don't eat that bunny!
Tomatoes were grown in the area they just were not eaten. They thought they were poisoned and there is a substance that can make you sick if you eat a green tomato. They used to call it a poison apple. That is why even today we eat fried green tomatoes and seldom eat them raw. But it was not brought from the new world just like pasta wasn't brought from China. I used to like this channel but between some English snobbery most on display when talking about Cosimo of Florence, stating things like butter wasn't invented in another video and now this I've had enough I'm unsubscribing.
Tomatoes came from the Americas. Google it. 😷😎😷
You really need to brush up on food history. Maro Polo brought back the art of pasta making when he came back from his travels. Yes the butter thing was wrong. Just cuz you don't agree doesn't make it fact darling. 😷😎😷
I haven’t even watched this and I can answer the question in the title: First they got a big ol’ heap of food and ate it!
Gross and disgusting. Couldn't watch after 6 minutes.
They are wrong Greece was the before Rome.
and greece was not a civilization it was a collection of different city states
Orgy??? Bhahahaha
Absolute Bollocks
22nd
Oooh hi
Roman empire was the most evil empire.