Location pins: 1. J Cafe (Israeli food & grocery): maps.app.goo.gl/kkbs1mwMty3eVfXa7 2. Le Dalat (Vietnamese): maps.app.goo.gl/kffeBDkyGbpjzAVQ9 3. El Mercado** (Meat and Cheese): maps.app.goo.gl/eHbWXpN5zu4tAeqz5 4. Ratsstube (German): maps.app.goo.gl/tsfUieVSdyVN7pWv8 5. Easy Burger (Burgers): maps.app.goo.gl/encmA7oGrbFap9FX6 ** = I do need to issue a qualifier. We choose our locations carefully and are extremely proud of the fact that many places we highlight see a nice boost in business thanks to our viewers. So I feel like I owe it to you to tell you that our experience while filming here was the worst we've had on the channel, ever, in just about every facet...the food quality was a huge disappointment, and after seeing how the manager treated his own staff, we nearly cut the segment from the video entirely, and kept it in just because of how great Kit was (our server) and we wanted to at least give him a quick shout-out. This is not the place or forum for me to go into further detail on this subject but it's important for me to make clear- for the first time ever in an OTR video- this is not an endorsement of a place we chose to film. I'm certainly not saying "don't go here"- just, don't view this as our recommendation.
Humans species that we evolved from did not hunt regularly. You showed and image of the extinct supsspecies called Neanderthal. They did eat almost only meat, but we are not closely related to the Neanderthals. Our branch of humans comes from Africa. In Africa hunting would have been a net loss of energy. Imagine running down an antelope for a week, till it dies or collapses due to exhaustion, and then stab it with a spear. This was something humans could only do during periods of plenty; the berry seasons. Humans would then have enough energy to hunt. The meat would then give the necessary fats, proteins, and minerals that humans needed, after living most of the year with nutrient deficiencies. Humans have the natural ability to adapt the body's salt content. The problem with not having enough salt is that we have adapted to high salt. When you stop eating salt the blood stream will stop being salt, but not the cells. With a low blood salt level the cell will start to absorb water trough osmosis till the cells burst and you die. Too much salt leads to kidney failure. The kidney uses high salt concentrations and the resulting osmosis to filter the blood stream. Not exactly sure how that happens, but it does. These kidney cells have an extreme salt content, which makes them very sensitive as it is. Increasing the salt levels can then start to kill these cells. But the body has the ability to change the salt concentration within the cells of the body if the process happens slowly. This is what the body will try to do if you have very high or low salt levels, but the process is far from being quick enough. Adapting the body to new salt levels is super slow. Humans did not consume much salt before we learned to speak. When we learned to speak we also invented the bow and arrow, which was used to hunt animals with far greater ease. Leading to an increase in salt consumption and survivability. This happened about 40 years ago. This would have lead to increased blood salt levels so much that farmers would have to add salt to their food about 30 thousand years later, when farming was fully embraced.
Oh I absolutely love smoked sprats. Smoked sprat pate is even better than smoked mackerel pate. What a shame that most of them are produced by nazi Russia 😢 so I stopped buying it! And I’m well surprised by you know old Slovak folk tale
My Mum's father was a pioneering aviator in Papua New Guinea, flying cargo in and out of highland villages after WWII. Mum told me a story about her Dad finding a little boy with an Appendicitis when he landed in a village. He flew the boy back to Port Moresby so he could go to hospital for surgery. After he recovered they took him shopping to buy something to take back to the village. They told him he could pick anything he wanted. He apparently chose a giant bag of salt. He was welcomed as a hero when he landed. Even as a child, the boy well knew the value of salt. Thank you for another great documentary. Well researched and very informative.
I am a pilot in Papua new guinea right now. Basically every flight into remote communities has several kilos of salt taken by our passengers in their cargo.
Adam, I watched your historical documentary, and I must say it is among the most interesting and educational videos I’ve ever seen. Your presentation and narration were captivating, concise, and kept my attention throughout. Your enthusiasm and fascination with the subject were evident in your facial expressions, and I share that excitement and passion. Thank you for this excellent, award-worthy presentation.
I’m only 12 minutes in and my mind is BLOWN. Thank you, this is fantastic. Another example of how TH-cam creators are better than anything traditional media turns out.
I am annoyed by those “who’s here cramming for an exam” comments because I am so around just to learn! And I love/hate the algorithm. It brings me new amazing things but also guides me to the weirdest rabbit holes
Addit: Having just finished watching the last half of your salt documentary (after watching the first half in the early hours of today), I loudly proclaim to anybody who will listen, that this doco is your Phd treatise. Thank you, Dr Adam. I'm sure your Professorship is just around the corner. Your channel and your team's work is without peer on TH-cam. It educates me and gives me immense pleasure.
@@justinmorgan2126 Metaphor might be a better term than euphemism, though euphemism qualifies because thesis and doctorate were used by me in a slang usage (one of the seven types of euphemism) My advice is for you to not assume everybody is always literal. When you ASSUME you make an ASS out of yoU and ME.
What a fantastic video. As a child, my mom would tell me stories before bed and my absolute favorite story was the story of salt. I remember a king that would trade one bag of gold, one bag of silver and a bag of jewels for a single bag of salt... Thanks for the nostalgia.
In England all the place names that end in wich are roman towns founded on top of salt mines. lead salt pans were used by the Romans at Middlewich, Nantwich and Northwich and excavations at Middlewich and Nantwich have revealed extensive salt-making settlements.
@@marvinmauldin4361a mere oportunistic person that took over the knowledgde of others like your inexistent cooks and other tales made for glorify inexisten nationalisms . 😂 keep with your fairy tale, but remember lionheart only spent less than 6 months in the uk 😂
@@xavisanchez7522 Your comment doesn't make sense and is full of spelling mistakes... also why mention Richard the Lionheart, he was Norman and did not speak English, which is pretty common knowledge for Brits, and whats that got to do with Earl Sandwich wanting to eat meat while playing cards???
Other than having something to eat every day, I couldn't care less about food lore, but salt is much more than a food thing. It IS an important element in human civilization.
History Channel (when it wasn’t full blown Ancient Aliens TV) did this around a decade ago. One of those story of mankind series. Pretty good. Couldn’t get through 5 minutes of the presenters voice.
Fantastic presentation! Enjoyed every bit of it. Your passion for the subject is apparent and makes watching/listening enjoyable. Looking forward to the next one and to seeing this channel grow!
I love how you tie things together in your video's, your research is very in-depth and you have a natural ability to tell a story and this video is no exception. When I first started watching I was wondering if you had read the book Salt, I read his book Cod then Salt and they are both excellent reads and then you mentioned it, much to my enjoyment. Thanks for doing all these wonderful excursions into the food history of the world!
I'm going to need to watch this video 6 or 10 more times to actually absorb all the information. You're amazing. I look forward to your videos every week.
I love these Videos. I like food videos and history, but this is even a bit philosophical. You combine those topics greatly. They tell a story. Always one more interesting than one would've guessed! It even has some vibes with the music in the background in the intro/outro. Certainly one of the best series on TH-cam. Keep it up mate!
Beautiful but a little distracting from the narration. Nevertheless I like the connection with Mozart, who was born in the town of “Salt Mountain” - Salzburg.
Just found your channel… it’s perfect 👍🏻 I love documentaries like this. I immediately knew I had to stop what I was doing to know the history of salt 🧂 😂
This fantastic OTR Team....as usual. A fact filled foray into the history of the most basic of ingredients . Great show, I’ve come to expect nothing less.
This was an amazing video! It reminded me of a trip I took to a small town in Chile called Cahuil, where people still harvest salt the same way it's been done for centuries, and this salt is very appreciated across the country for cooking. Nowadays they also add herbs and spices to their salt to diversify their products. Greetings from Chile and thanks again for your video!
The mention of Sůl nad Zlato (EN: Salt over Gold, or Salt above Gold) makes me as a Czech really happy, thank you so much for mentioning it. A couple things that I should mention about the Czech folk tale version of this story, one which was first written down by Božena Němcová in her folk tail collection and was later made into the Byl Jednou Jeden Král... movie: 1. in the movie, there is a curse placed on the Kingdom after the King commands all salt to be dumped into the river, to show that salt is "worthless to him". This backfires, but actually for a different reason: no one can enjoy eating savory foods without salt anymore, so they try to eat sweet things but get tired of it after a while. 2. instead of being taken in by the Salt god, Maruška is taken in by a magical handmaiden, who lets her watch the events on her Father's court unfold through a magical mirror. This same magical handmaiden then also takes in the King after he almost dies in the swamp, being saved by the handmaiden. 3. Maruška never returns to the palace, giving her father the bottomless wooden salt bowl before he leaves the handmaids house in the swamp. She instead marries a fisherman that lives close to the swamp. 4. the only person who refuses to ever ever give up their salt, that being the widow Kubátová, is ironically who the king marries upon returning, after he has been taught his lesson and gained some common sense (or as we call it here "selský rozum" - directly translates to "farmer's wisdom". But that's trivia. Its amazing how much a folk tale can change from country to country, I haven't ever heard of the "Maruška marries the son of the Salt god" version of it until now xD. But it actually makes a lot of sense given how other Czech fairy tale adaptations such as The Prince and the Evening Star (CZ: Princ a Večernice) show a motif of marrying to a son/daughter of a God. It really makes me appreciate our Slavic folk stories more so than I would otherwise, since I take it for granted so often. And I would also be interested in what other people living or who've grown up in Slavic countries have as their variations on these fairy tales, so please comment down bellow if you have unique stuff you want to mention. More the merrier!
also P.S.: The mention of that Norse tale reminded me of one story in Fimfárum, where a salt mill grinds infinite salt, but is unable to be stopped at one point and ends up sinking in a boat and that's how it explains why the ocean is salty. Another reason to add the the list of proofs that Europeans cant stop talking about salt, we really do love that shit here...perhaps too much as you said the Czech and Hungarians are tied for second largest salt consumption per capita.
In Romania we have a similar fairy tale: a king demands that his daughters tell him how much they love him. The eldest daughter says that she loves him like honey. The middle daughter says that she loves him like sugar. The youngest daughter says she loves him as much as salt in a dish. The king is offended by the youngest daughter's comparison and he no longer wants her at his court. The youngest daughter is driven away and she works in the kitchen of another king. His son, the prince, falls in love with her because she cooks so well. Her father is invited to the wedding, but he doesn't recognize the bride. The bride insists on cooking dinner for her father herself. She seasons the soup and the roast with honey and sugar. The king is offended because his food doesn't taste good. Then the bride reveals that she is his daughter and explains her comparison to him again. The father realizes that his youngest daughter was wise and apologizes for his behavior.
Related to salt in mythology. In various Finnish folktales and mythology there is described, a sort of machine or object called 'Sampo' which can produce infinite amount of money, grain and of course salt.
Wow! This is new! I have been binging on your channel so much, I assumed it was old at first. Amazing subject, I am fascinated by it so much that I do spend extra cash to get any salt that sounds interesting.
Well, there goes my morning. Time to go make a breakfast stir fry and hang out with yall. My parents immigrated from north Germany so im basically a salt expert and connoisseur
@OTRontheroad it was nice seeing it. Potatos and sauerkraut is the standard. We're from the north coast so we have salted fish as much if not more than sausages though That restaurant was really charming. You should have included Würze in the condiment hall of fame you listed, I know Maggi is pretty popular in lots of east asia
Another great video, you really do your research and I like how you have a list of your TH-cam sources for people who are interested in diving deeper. May I also say that you have an amazing narrative voice. I’m sure you’re not interested, but you would be a great narrator for audiobooks!
I enjoy your deep dives into culinary history. Salt is an intense, interesting topic. I grew up loving bagoong in Manila. Your objective, fact-based presentations are appreciated. Salt is essential to my existence. I often get up from a deep sleep at 3am to walk to the kitchen & indulge in a salt treat.
All videos of this channel are high quality with full of useful and interesting content. I’m so grateful that you choose Thailand as your base out of another countries.
Here in Indonesia, there is an old taboo that a house has to have rice, cooking oil and salt, or the house will bring misfortune. Even after online food delivery right now we have in urban, we still keep those three in our house.
very interesting. there is an old tradition in Finland that is similar! whenever someone moves into a new house or apartment, their friends have to gift them bread and salt. usually this is done at the house warming party, but the idea I think is similar: there is no life without salt (or bread)
So, Indonesian culture considers salt & rice to be lucky, also. The West even has the tradition of oil conveying a blessing. The more we know, the more interesting it all is.
@@ajknaup3530 I never believe it though, i think it is because when someone doesnt have anything to eat, they can always cook the rice with cooking oil and add salt, the very basic of fried rice. So, if I dont have rice, cooking oil and salt in my house, then according to the old saying, I am beyond poor 😀
@@jusjengkol "doesnt have anything to eat, they can always cook the rice with cooking oil and add salt," Um, that makes no sense. If you have rice and oil and salt, You HAVE something to eat.....I think that is the point. I'm extremely poor, but I follow this rule as much as possible. Many times, I have nothing but rice and oil and salt. I feel rich if I have a big bag of rice. I also have chickens for their eggs. Eggs are gross, but they are free protein.
@@jusjengkol oh, I get it; you don't believe in the "good luck" part. I understand that, but isn't it "good luck" to always have food, even if it's just rice?
This young man is absolutely showing out with the historical accuracy "And for the people of the Americas" Then proceeds to talk about Indians That bought me way more joy than it probably should have He then discussed places in the Middle East and shows pictures of dark people These small details did not go unnoticed and they are appreciated
Please watch our video on Rice for my 20-minute rant and segment about West African contributions to cuisine....you definitely hit on one of the main reasons this channel exists- to try to tell honest stories and not just repeat what's been written by the few cultures that get to write the history books. Thanks for the kind comment. Also "young man" is much appreciated a couple weeks after turning 40.
Thank you for this interesting and educational content. Growing up with the discovery channel this goes way beyond and I don’t have to sell my soul to the cable company for one interesting channel.
I had an early portable Video Cassette Recorder (Panasonic) that had a button labeled, "OTR", which stood for "One Touch Recording". (In the tape recorder days, you used to have to press both "Record" and "Play" to start recording. This was to prevent accidentally recording over something you had previously recorded. Audio tape recorders had this feature as well.) And every time I see "OTR", I understand that it really means, "One Touch Recording". Thanks Obama! Thanks Panasonic.
Extremely Welsh genetics. Also imagine yourself in the early days, you trek hundreds of miles across barren wastelands. You see water, as you have seen before, but you need to make sure this is the right place to call home. Bending down, you put your face to the dirt, licking the earth. Mm, yes. We settle here.
my life has completely changed after watching this. I had no idea. I feel like before this video I was missing a huge piece of a puzzle that I needed. Foundational knowledge right here.
I sat down with my phone and told my gf “ ohh a new video on salt ! “ she turned and very straight faced said - “ you know I love you … but some days your as dull as shit …” hahaha and she laughed at me .
I remember learning the world "salty" as in "a salty person" I didn't quite understand why it was something negative since in Spanish being salty means being happy and cheerful
If you're still curious, it's a reference to tears. It's kinda weird, since all of our fluid secretions (saliva, urine, sweat, blood) have salt in them, but there it is. Apparently, it's attested in English as far back as 1938.
Since this vid is about salt, maybe future topic you can talk about black & white pepper. Luckily, they said one of the best pepper come from area around here, eastern of Thailand/Cambodia/Vietnam.
I have a business card of a high ranking government official from sometime in the 1930s in China. His job title was "Central Administrator of Salt" and "Vice Minister of Finance." When I first received this card, I was intrigued. I became further intrigued as I researched about this man and discovered that several of China's high ranking officials at that time doubled as salt administrators. Although I knew about the origin of the word salary and about ancient Roman soldiers being paid in salt, I didn't realize the political and economic importance of salt beyond that. I soon found myself digging deeper and learning about the French Revolution and Ghandi as well. Needless to say, I appreciate this video and how well it was done.
Please never stop talking about mythology, religious aspects of things etc. I’ve finally found a channel combining the things I love the most : History, religion/theology, and food :’) I’m slowly building you a fanbase in France, you are the best discovery of this year in what I’m concerned!
does salary also come from salt? I remember I watched some other channel where they mentioned soldiers in Rome were given portions of salt as compensation for their service.
Thank you for your travels. It allows me to sit at home and visit places worldwide within hours. The knowledge I've acquired is greater than many college educations if you watch just a few hours a week.
Is it any food region not represented in Bangkok? In every episode there's a new restaurant/store from wherever with characteristic food culture that just happens to be there. Find it fascinating.
I'm glad it comes across that way- unfortunately it is a bit limiting in what we can showcase. Bangkok's a terrific melting pot, but there are definite weaknesses; there's a reason we can't really highlight much of anything from South or Central America. There's little Cambodian, Indonesian or Malay Peranakan, weirdly enough nothing (at all!) Slavic, barely any Chinese that isn't southern, and no African cuisine outside of Nigerian and Ethiopian. But still, considering the density and affordability of what it does have, it's about as good as we could hope for and makes this channel viable.
@@OTRontheroad Interesting. I live in a global food city as well (Melbourne, Australia) and I guess that is all about immigration patterns. We have Somali food here because of the UN refugees and that is amazing too, as is that Italian influence in their food as well. Kinda like how you can get Somali food in Minnesota of all places because that is where they clustered and settled. And like Thai food, Melbourne has had a global food influence (third wave cafe culture, and where the food and coffee style mimicked by McCafe comes from. Which was in turn started by the Italian and Greek WWII refugee immigrants bringing their cafe culture). However, you are doing ALOT for Thai tourism for foodies like me 😂 - soooo tempting to visit Bangkok. Came for Siracha video, stayed for the amazing food and the history behind it!
Palestine is a name invented by the Roman empire to mock the people in the area, and what you are calling Palestine didn't exist as an idea until after the second world war. So no, Jericho was not in Palestine...
Man, I’m really loving your content! I have been watching video after video, the moment I finished the first one on a random TH-cam recommendation! There’s one thing that I would just say about the origins of salt and why we have been seeking it. I too kind of disagree with the argument regarding the shift from a meat based diet, but I do think it has a lot to do with mammals in general requiring salt for proper functioning. Not only us, but as you mentioned, our ancestors followed animals to find salt deposits. That’s because those animals also needed salt intake, and they knew that. Maybe they didn’t specifically know about its exact nutritional benefits, but it’s also engrained in our bodies to a certain extent. That is what I think might be at least one of the major triggers for the salt boom, which then led to preservation and the rest, or occurred along with its usefulness for preservation.
Location pins:
1. J Cafe (Israeli food & grocery): maps.app.goo.gl/kkbs1mwMty3eVfXa7
2. Le Dalat (Vietnamese): maps.app.goo.gl/kffeBDkyGbpjzAVQ9
3. El Mercado** (Meat and Cheese): maps.app.goo.gl/eHbWXpN5zu4tAeqz5
4. Ratsstube (German): maps.app.goo.gl/tsfUieVSdyVN7pWv8
5. Easy Burger (Burgers): maps.app.goo.gl/encmA7oGrbFap9FX6
** = I do need to issue a qualifier. We choose our locations carefully and are extremely proud of the fact that many places we highlight see a nice boost in business thanks to our viewers. So I feel like I owe it to you to tell you that our experience while filming here was the worst we've had on the channel, ever, in just about every facet...the food quality was a huge disappointment, and after seeing how the manager treated his own staff, we nearly cut the segment from the video entirely, and kept it in just because of how great Kit was (our server) and we wanted to at least give him a quick shout-out. This is not the place or forum for me to go into further detail on this subject but it's important for me to make clear- for the first time ever in an OTR video- this is not an endorsement of a place we chose to film. I'm certainly not saying "don't go here"- just, don't view this as our recommendation.
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If u haven't done potato or coffee... please can you
@@ArtingFromScratch we haven't, but there is a good segment on the history of coffee in this video: th-cam.com/video/Ft59HXTGOqg/w-d-xo.html
Humans species that we evolved from did not hunt regularly.
You showed and image of the extinct supsspecies called Neanderthal.
They did eat almost only meat, but we are not closely related to the Neanderthals.
Our branch of humans comes from Africa.
In Africa hunting would have been a net loss of energy.
Imagine running down an antelope for a week, till it dies or collapses due to exhaustion, and then stab it with a spear.
This was something humans could only do during periods of plenty; the berry seasons.
Humans would then have enough energy to hunt.
The meat would then give the necessary fats, proteins, and minerals that humans needed, after living most of the year with nutrient deficiencies.
Humans have the natural ability to adapt the body's salt content.
The problem with not having enough salt is that we have adapted to high salt.
When you stop eating salt the blood stream will stop being salt, but not the cells.
With a low blood salt level the cell will start to absorb water trough osmosis till the cells burst and you die.
Too much salt leads to kidney failure.
The kidney uses high salt concentrations and the resulting osmosis to filter the blood stream.
Not exactly sure how that happens, but it does.
These kidney cells have an extreme salt content, which makes them very sensitive as it is.
Increasing the salt levels can then start to kill these cells.
But the body has the ability to change the salt concentration within the cells of the body if the process happens slowly.
This is what the body will try to do if you have very high or low salt levels, but the process is far from being quick enough.
Adapting the body to new salt levels is super slow.
Humans did not consume much salt before we learned to speak.
When we learned to speak we also invented the bow and arrow, which was used to hunt animals with far greater ease.
Leading to an increase in salt consumption and survivability.
This happened about 40 years ago.
This would have lead to increased blood salt levels so much that farmers would have to add salt to their food about 30 thousand years later, when farming was fully embraced.
Oh I absolutely love smoked sprats. Smoked sprat pate is even better than smoked mackerel pate.
What a shame that most of them are produced by nazi Russia 😢 so I stopped buying it!
And I’m well surprised by you know old Slovak folk tale
My Mum's father was a pioneering aviator in Papua New Guinea, flying cargo in and out of highland villages after WWII. Mum told me a story about her Dad finding a little boy with an Appendicitis when he landed in a village. He flew the boy back to Port Moresby so he could go to hospital for surgery. After he recovered they took him shopping to buy something to take back to the village. They told him he could pick anything he wanted. He apparently chose a giant bag of salt. He was welcomed as a hero when he landed. Even as a child, the boy well knew the value of salt. Thank you for another great documentary. Well researched and very informative.
I am a pilot in Papua new guinea right now. Basically every flight into remote communities has several kilos of salt taken by our passengers in their cargo.
Fantastic, thank you. x
This was most enlightening 😮 ❤ this makes me glad to pay to use internet.
Rest in peace uncle bosey- he was eaten by cannibals!
he just hoped it was cocaine, he didnt know.
Me, ready to go to sleep...."Wait, maybe I should find out where salt comes from first"😅
Clearly can’t go to sleep without knowing the history of salt 🧂 😊
Hahaha facts!
TH-cam does this to me
Same. 😅
The story of my every night… 🥱
I was going to make a joke about salt but, Na.
and you win the comment section
Unusually witty joke for a TH-cam poster!
😂😂
Isnt salt NaCl ?
@@koblmo
Sodium is the point, if you get it, you get it.
These history videos are absolute gems. In a way it teaches us more about humanity than the food.
Never thought I'd be watching nearly an hour long video about salt, but this was fascinating!
Adam, I watched your historical documentary, and I must say it is among the most interesting and educational videos I’ve ever seen. Your presentation and narration were captivating, concise, and kept my attention throughout. Your enthusiasm and fascination with the subject were evident in your facial expressions, and I share that excitement and passion. Thank you for this excellent, award-worthy presentation.
Do one with sugar... Starting and history of sugarcane cultivation. Love these documentary
Purified sugars are relatively new inventions. Honey, that’s an old one.
Sidney mintz has a really good book about sugar and it’s links to power and colonialism. Recommend
sugar feeds our brains, lowering iq is due to lack of frsh sugar eaten by humans #ketokilledmybrain
I’m only 12 minutes in and my mind is BLOWN. Thank you, this is fantastic. Another example of how TH-cam creators are better than anything traditional media turns out.
You gotta love youtube , one minute im watching a video on the Troubles in Northern Ireland , next im watching the History Of Salt 😂😂
I was watching a Warhammer 40K lore video, and here I am now.
I was watching a discussion about the history of the rona people before 😂
Omg I'm so glad I'm not the only yt documentary nerd!!! I need to find me a gf that is the same 🤔 😂
I am annoyed by those “who’s here cramming for an exam” comments because I am so around just to learn! And I love/hate the algorithm. It brings me new amazing things but also guides me to the weirdest rabbit holes
My Watch History looks insane so I definitely can relate 😂
Addit:
Having just finished watching the last half of your salt documentary (after watching the first half in the early hours of today), I loudly proclaim to anybody who will listen, that this doco is your Phd treatise.
Thank you, Dr Adam.
I'm sure your Professorship is just around the corner.
Your channel and your team's work is without peer on TH-cam. It educates me and gives me immense pleasure.
check out fall of civilizations, you might like that channel too
You should read salt by mark kurlanski, there’s so much more to how salt has shaped society.
It cannot be a PhD thesis because it presents absolutely nothing that is not already known.
@@justinmorgan2126 have you heard of euphemism.
Wakey wakey Dr Justin.
@@justinmorgan2126 Metaphor might be a better term than euphemism, though euphemism qualifies because thesis and doctorate were used by me in a slang usage (one of the seven types of euphemism)
My advice is for you to not assume everybody is always literal.
When you ASSUME you make an ASS out of yoU and ME.
Eating sea salted potato chips while watching this video.. amazing experience
What a fantastic video. As a child, my mom would tell me stories before bed and my absolute favorite story was the story of salt. I remember a king that would trade one bag of gold, one bag of silver and a bag of jewels for a single bag of salt... Thanks for the nostalgia.
Can I take this opportunity to thank you for the quality of your videos? Your research is thorough and so informative.
In England all the place names that end in wich are roman towns founded on top of salt mines. lead salt pans were used by the Romans at Middlewich, Nantwich and Northwich and excavations at Middlewich and Nantwich have revealed extensive salt-making settlements.
Sandwich. Yum.
Sal Sapid Omnia
Sandwich, U.K., immortalized by the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is close to the coast, but by U.S. standards, everything in England is close to the coast.
@@marvinmauldin4361a mere oportunistic person that took over the knowledgde of others like your inexistent cooks and other tales made for glorify inexisten nationalisms . 😂 keep with your fairy tale, but remember lionheart only spent less than 6 months in the uk 😂
@@xavisanchez7522 Your comment doesn't make sense and is full of spelling mistakes... also why mention Richard the Lionheart, he was Norman and did not speak English, which is pretty common knowledge for Brits, and whats that got to do with Earl Sandwich wanting to eat meat while playing cards???
You’re my fave food history channel . I can get bored of cooking shows but food history is just right up my autistic alley !
Other than having something to eat every day, I couldn't care less about food lore, but salt is much more than a food thing. It IS an important element in human civilization.
I'm autistic is the new flex ? 😂
Quick! OTR dropped a 1 hour video on salt.
How salty.
And my Fiance groaned and rolled her eyes and I told her .. “ read your book! “
My kind of entertainment, bring it on.
I couldn’t stand the bloody accent so only managed 30 secs
History Channel (when it wasn’t full blown Ancient Aliens TV) did this around a decade ago. One of those story of mankind series. Pretty good. Couldn’t get through 5 minutes of the presenters voice.
I really believe this channel is the intellectual sucessor of Anthony Bourdain. What a great piece of work.
I stumbled onto one of your videos a week or so ago and have watched many since. Very interesting, instructive, and well done! My compliments!
Fantastic presentation! Enjoyed every bit of it. Your passion for the subject is apparent and makes watching/listening enjoyable. Looking forward to the next one and to seeing this channel grow!
I love how you tie things together in your video's, your research is very in-depth and you have a natural ability to tell a story and this video is no exception. When I first started watching I was wondering if you had read the book Salt, I read his book Cod then Salt and they are both excellent reads and then you mentioned it, much to my enjoyment. Thanks for doing all these wonderful excursions into the food history of the world!
I'm going to need to watch this video 6 or 10 more times to actually absorb all the information.
You're amazing. I look forward to your videos every week.
The book he mention: Salt by Mark Kurlansky is a good read. If you love history, you will like it.
Absolutely fantastic book. So is Cod: A biography of the fish that changed the world
@@lynnwalton814 Yep. The Cod is a good book too. It shows how humans abuse our natural resources.
You guys really take on the big topics.
I love these Videos. I like food videos and history, but this is even a bit philosophical. You combine those topics greatly. They tell a story. Always one more interesting than one would've guessed! It even has some vibes with the music in the background in the intro/outro. Certainly one of the best series on TH-cam. Keep it up mate!
For those who want to know, the song playing in this video is Mozart's 20th Piano Concerto in D Minor K. 466
21st Piano Concerto, 2nd movement. K. 467.
If Mozart wrote the song playing at 23:40 then I'm a dutch uncle, time stamps please!!
It's not a song.... there's no singing.
Beautiful but a little distracting from the narration. Nevertheless I like the connection with Mozart, who was born in the town of “Salt Mountain” - Salzburg.
@@louisehaley5105 Actually, Salzburg means "Salt Castle", Salzberg would be "Salt Mountain". For reference; I am Austrian.
I’m a colector of salt from all over the world, your video is a beautiful piece of inspiration and information!
Just found your channel… it’s perfect 👍🏻 I love documentaries like this. I immediately knew I had to stop what I was doing to know the history of salt 🧂 😂
I'm sharing this with the caption "Homage pour sel". Thanks, Adam. As a side note, your production values have reached a new high point. Kudos.
Yayyy finally a new video. I finished all your other videos. Your videos are calming
The amount of work that goes into a video like this has to be immense. Thanks for your passion!
This fantastic OTR Team....as usual. A fact filled foray into the history of the most basic of ingredients . Great show, I’ve come to expect nothing less.
This was an amazing video! It reminded me of a trip I took to a small town in Chile called Cahuil, where people still harvest salt the same way it's been done for centuries, and this salt is very appreciated across the country for cooking. Nowadays they also add herbs and spices to their salt to diversify their products. Greetings from Chile and thanks again for your video!
The mention of Sůl nad Zlato (EN: Salt over Gold, or Salt above Gold) makes me as a Czech really happy, thank you so much for mentioning it. A couple things that I should mention about the Czech folk tale version of this story, one which was first written down by Božena Němcová in her folk tail collection and was later made into the Byl Jednou Jeden Král... movie:
1. in the movie, there is a curse placed on the Kingdom after the King commands all salt to be dumped into the river, to show that salt is "worthless to him". This backfires, but actually for a different reason: no one can enjoy eating savory foods without salt anymore, so they try to eat sweet things but get tired of it after a while.
2. instead of being taken in by the Salt god, Maruška is taken in by a magical handmaiden, who lets her watch the events on her Father's court unfold through a magical mirror. This same magical handmaiden then also takes in the King after he almost dies in the swamp, being saved by the handmaiden.
3. Maruška never returns to the palace, giving her father the bottomless wooden salt bowl before he leaves the handmaids house in the swamp. She instead marries a fisherman that lives close to the swamp.
4. the only person who refuses to ever ever give up their salt, that being the widow Kubátová, is ironically who the king marries upon returning, after he has been taught his lesson and gained some common sense (or as we call it here "selský rozum" - directly translates to "farmer's wisdom". But that's trivia.
Its amazing how much a folk tale can change from country to country, I haven't ever heard of the "Maruška marries the son of the Salt god" version of it until now xD. But it actually makes a lot of sense given how other Czech fairy tale adaptations such as The Prince and the Evening Star (CZ: Princ a Večernice) show a motif of marrying to a son/daughter of a God. It really makes me appreciate our Slavic folk stories more so than I would otherwise, since I take it for granted so often. And I would also be interested in what other people living or who've grown up in Slavic countries have as their variations on these fairy tales, so please comment down bellow if you have unique stuff you want to mention. More the merrier!
also P.S.: The mention of that Norse tale reminded me of one story in Fimfárum, where a salt mill grinds infinite salt, but is unable to be stopped at one point and ends up sinking in a boat and that's how it explains why the ocean is salty. Another reason to add the the list of proofs that Europeans cant stop talking about salt, we really do love that shit here...perhaps too much as you said the Czech and Hungarians are tied for second largest salt consumption per capita.
Yeah, I know this story.. "why ocean is salty?"@@cronoz-sensei4259 thanks for the detailed info
In Romania we have a similar fairy tale: a king demands that his daughters tell him how much they love him. The eldest daughter says that she loves him like honey. The middle daughter says that she loves him like sugar. The youngest daughter says she loves him as much as salt in a dish. The king is offended by the youngest daughter's comparison and he no longer wants her at his court. The youngest daughter is driven away and she works in the kitchen of another king. His son, the prince, falls in love with her because she cooks so well. Her father is invited to the wedding, but he doesn't recognize the bride. The bride insists on cooking dinner for her father herself. She seasons the soup and the roast with honey and sugar. The king is offended because his food doesn't taste good. Then the bride reveals that she is his daughter and explains her comparison to him again. The father realizes that his youngest daughter was wise and apologizes for his behavior.
Thank you so much for sharing! My grandfather was Bohemian but he barely talked to us grandkids so we never heard any of these stories.
Related to salt in mythology. In various Finnish folktales and mythology there is described, a sort of machine or object called 'Sampo' which can produce infinite amount of money, grain and of course salt.
How could you forget the incredible cultural impact of “These pretzels are making me thirsty!” ?!
This whole show is beautiful. I love all the connections, story, and current restaurant all together. This is a beautiful learning show
Wow! This is new! I have been binging on your channel so much, I assumed it was old at first. Amazing subject, I am fascinated by it so much that I do spend extra cash to get any salt that sounds interesting.
Fantastic, fascinating and really well made. Thanks for making this video.
Well, there goes my morning.
Time to go make a breakfast stir fry and hang out with yall. My parents immigrated from north Germany so im basically a salt expert and connoisseur
Well you’ll love this one- unless I’m forgetting something, this includes our first-ever German meal on the channel
dinner time here - might enhance the flavour with some added salt :)
@OTRontheroad it was nice seeing it. Potatos and sauerkraut is the standard. We're from the north coast so we have salted fish as much if not more than sausages though
That restaurant was really charming. You should have included Würze in the condiment hall of fame you listed, I know Maggi is pretty popular in lots of east asia
Another great video, you really do your research and I like how you have a list of your TH-cam sources for people who are interested in diving deeper. May I also say that you have an amazing narrative voice. I’m sure you’re not interested, but you would be a great narrator for audiobooks!
Intro sounds like beginning of a book I read: Salt, a world history.
Which is very well written, highly recommend it
Excellent book! Stimulated a lot of conversations
" Ye are the Salt of the Earth, but if that salt hath lost its savour , wherewith shall it be salted ? "
That’s the book he recommended
Do you mean
Salt a world history by Mark kurlansky?
It's a brilliant book.
So informative, colourful and fun way to tell history. I wish my history teachers in high school were even just half as good. thanks.
Wow! That was a very well made doc. I felt like I was watching PBS. I had to sub
You set yourself a giant task on this one and delivered in true OTR style! Thanks for that.
Take a shot everytime you here the word Salt 💀 🤣
I enjoy your deep dives into culinary history. Salt is an intense, interesting topic. I grew up loving bagoong in Manila. Your objective, fact-based presentations are appreciated. Salt is essential to my existence. I often get up from a deep sleep at 3am to walk to the kitchen & indulge in a salt treat.
39:52 I've been conditioned to expect a "tap tap" after hearing hard tack mentioned anywhere. Thanks @tastinghistory
I was disappointed when the word "hardtack" wasnt followed by a "tap tap", and then I realised this isnt a Tasting History video xD
Same!
All videos of this channel are high quality with full of useful and interesting content. I’m so grateful that you choose Thailand as your base out of another countries.
Here in Indonesia, there is an old taboo that a house has to have rice, cooking oil and salt, or the house will bring misfortune. Even after online food delivery right now we have in urban, we still keep those three in our house.
very interesting. there is an old tradition in Finland that is similar! whenever someone moves into a new house or apartment, their friends have to gift them bread and salt. usually this is done at the house warming party, but the idea I think is similar: there is no life without salt (or bread)
So, Indonesian culture considers salt & rice to be lucky, also. The West even has the tradition of oil conveying a blessing. The more we know, the more interesting it all is.
@@ajknaup3530 I never believe it though, i think it is because when someone doesnt have anything to eat, they can always cook the rice with cooking oil and add salt, the very basic of fried rice. So, if I dont have rice, cooking oil and salt in my house, then according to the old saying, I am beyond poor 😀
@@jusjengkol "doesnt have anything to eat, they can always cook the rice with cooking oil and add salt,"
Um, that makes no sense. If you have rice and oil and salt, You HAVE something to eat.....I think that is the point. I'm extremely poor, but I follow this rule as much as possible. Many times, I have nothing but rice and oil and salt. I feel rich if I have a big bag of rice. I also have chickens for their eggs. Eggs are gross, but they are free protein.
@@jusjengkol oh, I get it; you don't believe in the "good luck" part. I understand that, but isn't it "good luck" to always have food, even if it's just rice?
Thorough documentary .shaped civilisation and language ✌️salutations and salute
This young man is absolutely showing out with the historical accuracy
"And for the people of the Americas"
Then proceeds to talk about Indians
That bought me way more joy than it probably should have
He then discussed places in the Middle East and shows pictures of dark people
These small details did not go unnoticed and they are appreciated
Please watch our video on Rice for my 20-minute rant and segment about West African contributions to cuisine....you definitely hit on one of the main reasons this channel exists- to try to tell honest stories and not just repeat what's been written by the few cultures that get to write the history books. Thanks for the kind comment. Also "young man" is much appreciated a couple weeks after turning 40.
This was so well written, entertaining and informative! Instant subscriber!
My favorite find from a Patagonia cruise: Chilean Atacama Desert salt with ancho chili pepper powder in a grinder. Very nice combo!
Thank you for this interesting and educational content. Growing up with the discovery channel this goes way beyond and I don’t have to sell my soul to the cable company for one interesting channel.
I had an early portable Video Cassette Recorder (Panasonic) that had a button labeled, "OTR", which stood for "One Touch Recording". (In the tape recorder days, you used to have to press both "Record" and "Play" to start recording. This was to prevent accidentally recording over something you had previously recorded. Audio tape recorders had this feature as well.)
And every time I see "OTR", I understand that it really means, "One Touch Recording". Thanks Obama! Thanks Panasonic.
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Ha, I think "Over The Road" OTR shipping
I've been waiting for you to drop a new video. You guys never disappoint!
A fantastic watch, thank you for your excellent work.
I just literally watched a show about salt.. Wow this guy is good!
I thought I knew about the value and the history of Salt, but props to you, you've added a lot more to the story, Well done.
Extremely Welsh genetics. Also imagine yourself in the early days, you trek hundreds of miles across barren wastelands. You see water, as you have seen before, but you need to make sure this is the right place to call home. Bending down, you put your face to the dirt, licking the earth. Mm, yes. We settle here.
my life has completely changed after watching this. I had no idea. I feel like before this video I was missing a huge piece of a puzzle that I needed. Foundational knowledge right here.
amazing and incredibly researched video as always
Subscribed! One of the most interesting historical videos I've watched, thank-you!
I sat down with my phone and told my gf “ ohh a new video on salt ! “ she turned and very straight faced said - “ you know I love you … but some days your as dull as shit …” hahaha and she laughed at me .
Great work Adam! ❤ the way you tell the story! Congrats - 266K views in 10 days!! 🎉 So happy to see the channel has grown! Again, excellent contents!
I remember learning the world "salty" as in "a salty person"
I didn't quite understand why it was something negative since in Spanish being salty means being happy and cheerful
? Si alguien está salado entonces está de mal humor… cual es un ejemplo de una connotación positiva de la sal??
@@ninoska.noe. mira el niño qué salero tiene. Es una salado
En España eso significa que es alegre y vivaracho
En la cancion Malagueña esta describida como salerosa. Imagino significa lol mismo. Llena de vida. @@pisos95
Who is more full of life than someone angry at losing a video game?
If you're still curious, it's a reference to tears. It's kinda weird, since all of our fluid secretions (saliva, urine, sweat, blood) have salt in them, but there it is. Apparently, it's attested in English as far back as 1938.
This just went into my top favorite documentaries. Informative to the t! Thank you. ❤️ From 🇰🇪
DO NOT WATCH WHILE HUNGRY
Too late.
Adam, these videos must take so, so much work to research and produce. Who knew salt could be this interesting? Thanks!
Since this vid is about salt, maybe future topic you can talk about black & white pepper.
Luckily, they said one of the best pepper come from area around here, eastern of Thailand/Cambodia/Vietnam.
Ive seen other shows about the importance of salt in the beginnings of civilizations but this is by far the most interesting
Discovering this channel. That's very interesting and really well made. keep up the good work !
I ain't salty at OTR dropping this video :D
Someone who worked in a spice shop and now in a bbq restaurant… love this
Perfect script with fantastic directing
thanks, i rerally enjoy the diversity of food related topics and the historical perspective of each topic. i really love this channel1 great job guys!
I need one of these for every spice and condiment out there man good work
Pepper or vinegar would be a good counterpoint
I have a business card of a high ranking government official from sometime in the 1930s in China. His job title was "Central Administrator of Salt" and "Vice Minister of Finance." When I first received this card, I was intrigued. I became further intrigued as I researched about this man and discovered that several of China's high ranking officials at that time doubled as salt administrators. Although I knew about the origin of the word salary and about ancient Roman soldiers being paid in salt, I didn't realize the political and economic importance of salt beyond that. I soon found myself digging deeper and learning about the French Revolution and Ghandi as well. Needless to say, I appreciate this video and how well it was done.
Salt is a symbolic of civilization Great video !!
Thank you for the enjoyment of learning!! I love these videos, I’m sure they’re a lot of work, we all appreciate it!! ❤❤❤
How about "Wrinkle Potatoes" Canary Islands style.
Sea salt and potatoes, simply delicious❤
Thank you for making this video ❤ I really enjoyed watching it.
such a well researched and written video!
Please never stop talking about mythology, religious aspects of things etc.
I’ve finally found a channel combining the things I love the most : History, religion/theology, and food :’)
I’m slowly building you a fanbase in France, you are the best discovery of this year in what I’m concerned!
does salary also come from salt? I remember I watched some other channel where they mentioned soldiers in Rome were given portions of salt as compensation for their service.
Yes
Thank you for your travels. It allows me to sit at home and visit places worldwide within hours. The knowledge I've acquired is greater than many college educations if you watch just a few hours a week.
Another banger video about this time about the king of flavor enhancer. The OG godfather, if I may say.
Fascinating documentary. Well written & skillfully presented. 👏👏👏
Is it any food region not represented in Bangkok? In every episode there's a new restaurant/store from wherever with characteristic food culture that just happens to be there.
Find it fascinating.
I'm glad it comes across that way- unfortunately it is a bit limiting in what we can showcase. Bangkok's a terrific melting pot, but there are definite weaknesses; there's a reason we can't really highlight much of anything from South or Central America. There's little Cambodian, Indonesian or Malay Peranakan, weirdly enough nothing (at all!) Slavic, barely any Chinese that isn't southern, and no African cuisine outside of Nigerian and Ethiopian. But still, considering the density and affordability of what it does have, it's about as good as we could hope for and makes this channel viable.
@@OTRontheroad Interesting. I live in a global food city as well (Melbourne, Australia) and I guess that is all about immigration patterns. We have Somali food here because of the UN refugees and that is amazing too, as is that Italian influence in their food as well. Kinda like how you can get Somali food in Minnesota of all places because that is where they clustered and settled. And like Thai food, Melbourne has had a global food influence (third wave cafe culture, and where the food and coffee style mimicked by McCafe comes from. Which was in turn started by the Italian and Greek WWII refugee immigrants bringing their cafe culture). However, you are doing ALOT for Thai tourism for foodies like me 😂 - soooo tempting to visit Bangkok. Came for Siracha video, stayed for the amazing food and the history behind it!
Man I love the channel. I especially love these super history heavy videos! Keep it up!
Well, I know what I'm listening to on my commute today!
Great documentary, lots of effort and resources went into it.
Weird. I've watched an entire documentary about salt, but there's no reference to League of Legends players.
Also no reference to Peter Schiff....
Palestine…
I appreciate the thoroughness of this video!! Super enjoyable and interesting
Jericho is in Palestine.
Who cares
Palestine no longer exist , get over it.
Palestine is a name invented by the Roman empire to mock the people in the area, and what you are calling Palestine didn't exist as an idea until after the second world war.
So no, Jericho was not in Palestine...
@@bigboy379little dick energy
There is currently no Palestine, so Jericho is in Israel
Man, I’m really loving your content! I have been watching video after video, the moment I finished the first one on a random TH-cam recommendation!
There’s one thing that I would just say about the origins of salt and why we have been seeking it.
I too kind of disagree with the argument regarding the shift from a meat based diet, but I do think it has a lot to do with mammals in general requiring salt for proper functioning. Not only us, but as you mentioned, our ancestors followed animals to find salt deposits.
That’s because those animals also needed salt intake, and they knew that. Maybe they didn’t specifically know about its exact nutritional benefits, but it’s also engrained in our bodies to a certain extent.
That is what I think might be at least one of the major triggers for the salt boom, which then led to preservation and the rest, or occurred along with its usefulness for preservation.
All this IsNOTreal talk but it was Palestine
This is fascinatingly detailed. Love, thank you!
I flinch every time I hear "Israel". No problem with Jewish people in general, but Israel is something of a pariah these days.