I love cooking on an open fire. Last winter, my prospecting mate and I went out for a two day campout in the snow on a gold claim. I designated myself as the cook. I made "Stone Steaks", I brought a section of scrap granite countertop. Got the fire going, brought the stone to temp, threw the steaks on... Delicious!
I love fall, simply because I get to see these funny orange lads. They are so nice! In our garden, once a Pumpkin is harvested, we roast some of the seeds, make a pie, carve it, dry it, and later use it as a bird feeder.
@@SarahGreen523 we just dry them with a fan, and keep them in our freezing cellar to stop mold. It's good to coat them in wax if you want the hollow pumpkin to last longer. Once they turn to cardboard skin stuff, they're good. Have fun!
in addition to “pumpion”, “Pumpkin” may come from the Wampanoag word “pôhpukun” (literally:”grows forth round”), they’re also the creators of the word “moose”
It's actually the comments that are most underrated. Like me announcing that l don't think much of pumpkin unless it's in a cake, because it's in these things that the flavor of pumpkin really shines through. It is simply a candle that shines through jack o' lantern, and nothing at all shines through the seeds or even roasted pumpkin unless you've got one of those irritatingly strong oven lights that half blind you when making a midnight snack.
9.8K likes about f’kn pumpkins ain’t that underrated …. certainly not “sadly” underrated. Let’s call it, “happily” underrated, so that I can read comments more easily.
My Dad once told me they where selectively breed from potatoes, in Ireland, by a guy named Jack, of the O'lanten clan, and I believed him for a lot longer than I'm willing to admit.
@@robinlillian9471 BTW, tuber isn't a plant type, they are a plant part, the same way a flower is a part of a plant. Potatoes are a member of the nightshades, along with tomatoes and eggplants. If your going to be a smartass, don't forget the smart part of it.
One of the best thing about growing Pumpkins (and other squashes) is that their flowers are edible and taste amazing. Each vine produces flowers many times throughout the season. Squash vines in general are a very giving plant.
"field pumpkins" are usually not eaten they are used as decorations and animal feed. "pie pumpkins" are usually C. maxima like the cinderella pumpkin, which is really just an heirloom pie pumpkin. In modern times they have cultivars specifically for producing pie fillings industrially.
This the case and nearly all commercial pumpkin pies (and I suspect the vast majority of home made) and made from Libby's canned pumpkin which is made from a squash which is technically not a pumpkin. Libby's canned 'pumpkin' is used because it actually tastes better than starting with a raw pumpkin. BTW, I have done that. I once grew 14 Big Tom pumpkins in my garden swing the Three Sisters technique. What else was I supposed to do? Let them rot? I think not!
Giant pumpkin grower here. At the time of this video the record for a giant pumpkin was actually 2624 pounds not 2324. As of yesterday September 26 2121 the new record is now 2702 pounds grown by an Italian man.
W🎃W! Wonder if anyone will beat that record this year? I’d love to see that 🧡 - actually any of your giant pumpkins - what do you do with them? Sell them? Do you go to the fair? Have you ever eaten one of your giant pumpkins? Or carved one? What would it be like to stand inside a giant carved pumpkin? So many questions...
@@-Reagan All of these are good questions because curious people want to know. I know of one gentleman in Pennsylvania who has carved out his giant pumpkin to make a boat. He can crouch inside with his hat on and not be seen. I'm looking forward to the vlog on TH-cam!
@@-Reagan this year the Patton brothers grew a pumpkin that was 2907 pounds but it was damaged so it is not an official weight. I have eaten some of my giant pumpkins. The Atlantic giants are softer and more watery than others and not as sweet. I display mine at my house after the competition and after Halloween I pull out the seeds to save and take the pumpkin to a highland cow farm to feed to the cows and pigs.
The fall season and year ending major holidays are uber-ambivalent for me: It's simultaneously a season of moroseness, introspectiveness, and personal reflection -- but also there is much 'gaeity' because of the holidays... Without the holidays the autumn would be so much more depressing....
Another fun fact: the "pumpkins" used for canned Pumpkin made by Sara Lee are actually specially bred butternut squash. My uncle worked in the factory in Illinois.
I absolutely love pumpkins! Every October I buy one from the local farmer's co-op. Not for carving up, but for cooking. My favorite recipe is a savory stuffed pumpkin that uses cooked ground beef (or cooked ground buffalo or venison), lots of sage, dry mustard, pepper, salt, eggs and wild rice. It comes from the Hidatsa people. As for decorations, my plastic LED-lit pumpkin does just fine. As for "pumpkin chucking" - Just wasteful! Disrespectful to our food, and all our brothers and sisters who don't have enough to eat. Anyhow, a pretty and informative video.
If they use some of those not tasty pumpkins for the toss that sounds alright. Sometimes using food in ways that aren't for eating is justified, even if it only brings interest to the food that wouldn't otherwise exist, such as fruit or pasta art.
As a Colombian child, I was kinda confused when hearing pumpkins in movies translated to Spanish being called "calabazas", when everyone else around me called them "auyamas", while naming as "calabaza" anything that resembled a spaghetti squash
Where I live pawpaws are available in September! You can't find them in stores. You have to find them wild or check Facebook marketplace to see if anyone is selling.
I found my first wild tree fruiting two months ago, wasn't ripe yet so I didn't get to taste. Now it's too late but it's been on my list of fruits to try. I know where to look next year.
I can always tell someone lives in an area where summer isn't literal hellfire blowing in your face every time you step outside because of their nonsense about being sad that it's coming to an end.
Seasonal weather comes in quality, not quantity, where I live, (US Virgin Islands). Endless heat all day long but in Winter, endless heat and sun but for 11pm to 7am. Than more heat.
I’m honestly loving the food history series. I can’t believe China grows so many pumpkins!! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)
I love going around the neighborhood after Halloween and asking for unused pumpkins so I can harvest the guts for all my holiday cooking. This year I made 4 loaves of pumpkin bread, 3 pumpkin pies, pumpkin muffins, and plenty of seeds to snack on all for free!! (people paint them here because it’s so rainy here that they’d rot if you carved them)
Used to go yearly to a fall camp out , after a mishap painting pumpkin was only then allowed. I always make feathers and tails out of cardboard and then decorate the pumpkin as a turkey 🦃
wow ! man , this is a perfect example real video art . right from the start your collage of artwork masterpieces and stunning photography is in itself the creation of a 21st century media masterpiece . PERFECT ! and I actually enjoyed your narrative but somehow watching with no sound the second time gave me tighter focus on the visual beauty . either way you truly deserve the international pumpkin award .
Very well done! You have some excellent information in here. To build on what you've got: Cucabrids were orginally introduced to the Americas by mega fauna, who would eat the fruits and disperse the seeds in their poop. The wild pumpkin or field pumpkin, is now extinct, but was the particular favorite food of mastodons and ground sloths, which we know from fossils from central America. Field pumpkins were native to marshy areas and to the edges of fields, where they would feed on the nutrients provided by the marshy soil and the dung of megafauna. Pumpkins of all sorts are still big feeders and require lots of fertilizer in the garden for this reason. Today there are four species of pumpkin, C.pepo, C.maxima, C.moschata, and C.aegyrosperma. Pepo pumpkins are the carving pumpkins with breeds like Howden, Casper, Jack O Lantern, and Connecticut Field. Maxima are the biggest fruits in the world, with breeds like Cinderella, Big Max, Giant, and Colossal. Moschata pumpkins are the most widely cultivated and the best eating pumpkins like Kombocha, Butternut, Calabaza squash, Marrow squash, and Cheese Pumpkin. And aegyrosperma pumpkins are the closest related to modern goards, and are mostly for decorations including, Jack Be Littles, Sugar Pie, Turban pumpkins, Crook Necks and Barred. All species and breeds of pumpkins are edible though the Pepo pumpkins are fairly bland and watery, and all pumpkins are rich in vitamins and beta carotene.
Europe is huge. Their summers in the south are most certainly as warm as those in the US. What may have been different at the time were weather differences due to the mini ice age or some other temporal disturbance.
Hey, someone from El Salvador🇸🇻 (Central America) here, and it’s true we still eat pumpkin seeds today! We actually cook, and grind them up using an indigenous tool made of volcanic stone called a “Metate”, until it becomes a delicious powder we call “Algüashte”, we typically use it as a condiment, and I highly recommend everyone tries, makes, or purchases some in stores!:) On another note I found it Interesting how well the Celtics/Christian traditions align with the Day of the Dead celebrations practiced close to Halloween? Might have something to do with colonization, because research is showing the indigenous people actually celebrated this festival around July-August, not November? Nice video nonetheless!
My father told me, that we Lakotas. Would grind pumpkin seeds with corn, and make a sort of powder, that would in turn. Enter sort of corn bread? But the recipe was lost, due to colonization But I shall endeavor to try and recreate it!
Christians align with other holidays to make people feel comfortable when they convert. Or so I'm told. Actuwl Christians back in the day would avoid these holidays, and allowed other people to celebrate as long as it was in Jesus's name. Or other priests.
TMI but I was in jail and made a pumpkin out of an orange and a plastic spoon, it sat at the end of my metal bed , with threads I made small hanging ghost with toilet paper. The deputy was cool and didn't make me take my decorations dpwn
Ah yes, the food Austronesians had to rely on when they became Polynesians. I'm surprised stuff that we don't usually consider as staple here in Southeast Asia (breadnut, taro, pandanus) became staples in Polynesia. Maybe they did brought rice and stuff but these hardier crops are the only ones that survived.
I've just discovered your channel and have only watched a few videos so far, but I am hooked and itching to dive into the rest. I've made my first comment on this one because squash are one of my favourite crops to grow here on my smallholding (although not an easy one here in Ireland) and also too eat. I also have a passion for history and folklore, so this video ticked all the boxes for me. :) You have that wonderful gift of cramming a lot of fascinating information into a relatively short space of time without making it seem rushed. Oh, and at a rather more shallow level (perhaps?), I find your voice very soothing and it lends itself well to both learning and relaxing at the same time - especially the way you say pumpkin. I am plagued by insomnia so I'm going to try listening to you reading the pumpkin poem at bedtime and see if that helps. Seriously, I'm not trying to weird you out - I've tried every other sleep technique under the sun so I'll try anything! :D
Very interesting. I love anything pumpkin anytime of the year. My dad wouldn’t grow pumpkins even though he enjoyed It’s pie. I love to bake/cook any pumpkin recipe. Thanks for the video.👍👍
The Tarahumara eat pumpkin seeds and flower.. In Mexico they eat a lot of pumpkin.. they grow almost anywhere.. We grew up eating calabacitas ( squash) and pumpkin atole .. south west Texas border to chihuahua
Native people from South, Central and North America developed many, many staple foods that the entire world enjoys today. Pumpkins and squash, corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, sweet potatoes... the list goes on and on and on.
As a Spanish speaker who has played squash since I was a child, I'm curious about the use of the word squash to name these I only knew as pumpkins. In Spanish is Calabaza, name coming from the Hispanic peninsula before the Romans, but also in America it has many names from the Nahuatl, Carib, and Incan.
Simply put, all pumpkins are squash, but not all squash are pumpkins. The word "calabaza" refers to squashes as a whole and could be equally applied to summer squash and winter squash. It's particularly confusing as there is a specific cultivar of pumpkin from the Caribbean called Calabaza, which is related to the Caribbean pumpkin and the Seminole pumpkin.
According to Grammarphobia: The word for the gourd is a short form of asquutasquash, a term for the vegetable in the Narragansett language, spoken by indigenous people in what’s now Rhode Island. The verb “squash,” on the other hand, ultimately comes from exquassare, a derivative of quassare, Latin for to shake off or drive away. An etymological relative is “quash.”
Different species of gourd are grown as containers and to make musical instruments and even helmets. Can you talk about the fact that they seem to originate in the New World but were found d all over the Pacific by the earliest western explorers.
Pumpkins are fun! If I had the room, I'd have a big pumpkin patch, and sit in it every Hallowe'en night! Seriously, the most fun is seeing what you get for your efforts, and what you may discover hiding under those big leaves--something you missed all season.
I've always believed that a good knowledge of history requires an understanding of each facet and food, in general, is a major factor in our development as a whole. Thanks for the video.
So interesting. I love the beautiful orange color of the pumpkins and the beauty of the trees. Decorating with pumpkins and carving them with my family is traditional. We make it spooky fun. 🎃🍁🌰🎃🍁🎃🍂🌾🍏
One of the best things about the season is the pumpkin pie and what a coincidence I find this video in my sub box immediately after settling down with a nice, big slice.
Roasted, dried, and roasted again makes it sweet. the ancestors roasted it, dried it, then cooked strips in maple sap, again drying it. As pumpkin ages in storage, it grows sweeter. Same with any winter squash. One of the favorite melons here is called Ancient, a watermelon. In the 1920s, a small jar of seeds were discovered in a tomb not too far north of here (Arizona). The tomb is believed to be over 400 years old. Only a dozen of the seeds sprouted, 3 lived long enough to reproduce. Today, family in Germany tell me it’s the number one watermelon there, producing even in cool, damp weather. Here, it makes fruit through out annual drought, from April to July.
Alas, the watermelon originated in Africa, and came to the western hemisphere with the slave trade. Like many crops, it spread rapidly once it was introduced to other areas. There's a lot of folklore about ancient seeds found in tombs. There's a tomato variety that was allegedly found in a 4000 year old tomb in Egypt, but tomatoes originate in Central America. In dry climates, people often store a backup supply of seeds in caves or cave-like tombs, because the dryness and constant cooler temperatures preserve them well. So the watermelon seeds may have only been in the tomb for decades at most. But if you want a real life example of ancient seeds restored to life, Google "Judean dates". Some agricultural scientists managed to get the archeologists to give them some date pits found in caves with materials contemporary to the Dead Sea scrolls. They managed to germinate a few, and after a long wait for the trees to mature and set fruit, now have a small date orchard, offspring of a variety grown in Roman times.
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 We raise a watermelon called Ancient. It was discovered in the 20s, in a tomb here, in Arizona, that according to styles of cloth and stoneware was determined to be about 400 years old. There are several pages about the formerly extinct Judean date on TH-cam. Very exciting news! I always love it when reading a story where a riot in the Middle Ages includes throwing potatoes, tomatoes, and so on. It's hilarious. I can see tobacco seed, but not tomatoes in an Egyptian tomb. Long before the Vikings got here, West Africans were known to have traded for gold and slaves in the Caribbean. this is, to the best of my knowledge, how cotton made it from the American Southwest to India. Good post, and thank you!
I like to drive around the morning after Halloween to collect about four nice looking ones bring home wash cut blanch mash bag and freeze. Each nag is enough pumpkin filling for a couple pies or muffins. Don't forget nutmeg cinnimun allspice or ginger
@13:23 and earlier - the corn, beans and squash cooked together create an entire (22 amino acid) protein. :) Anyway, one tribe's name for the stew was succotash, it was usually made with broad beans, or butter beans. :)
I see some sarcastic-type comments here, and maybe I’m just simple-folk, but a lot of us are here today because an ancestor could grow a pumpkin or gourd for survival. They are integral to several continents and cultures. Thank you for this timely video. Pseudo-intellectual critics…. Buy some seeds and give it a shot growing a pumpkin. You might not be as smart as you think you are. 👍🏻🎃
I grew up in Houston in the 90's and my family always would carve our pumpkins just before Halloween, and then just a few days after we'd cook and puree the pumpkins. We froze the puree and used it in all sorts of recipes. It confuses me to this day seeing so many people let their pumpkins rot on their porch. What a waste of good food.
Pumpkins have always been that peculiar food with a mysterious background, so watching this video cured the childhood curiosity of its origins. Thanks for the informative and fun video, I hope everyone has a good day and PS: drink YA water!
I grow "lady godiva" pumpkins for seed. they end up about 10lbs and give about 18oz of seeds. The shell isn't as thick as a typical pumpkin seed so great for snacking
This was the exact video I was looking for thank u lol!! I like to learn about animal taxonomy, and there’s plenty videos about that on TH-cam but plant taxonomy and knowledge in general is surprisingly limited
pumpkins are just so viscerally appealing for some reason. just holding one makes things right in the world
Pumpkins are my favorite plant related thing. Even without being carved there’s just something charming about the big orange gourd.
And their round shape!
Like I just look at Pumpkins, and give a little satisfied sigh lol
Maybe because it reminds you of something 😏
@@roboticceltic2388 Yeah, Fall. I love Fall.
@@MaskedHeroLucky I was gonna say big balls
@@roboticceltic2388 😆
Cooked dinner outside over the fire last night. I love autumn
I love cooking on an open fire. Last winter, my prospecting mate and I went out for a two day campout in the snow on a gold claim. I designated myself as the cook. I made "Stone Steaks", I brought a section of scrap granite countertop. Got the fire going, brought the stone to temp, threw the steaks on... Delicious!
I love fall, simply because I get to see these funny orange lads. They are so nice! In our garden, once a Pumpkin is harvested, we roast some of the seeds, make a pie, carve it, dry it, and later use it as a bird feeder.
@Shoenheim it puts the lotion in the basket
@Shoenheim I wish
How do you dry it? I'd like to try that idea.
@@SarahGreen523 we just dry them with a fan, and keep them in our freezing cellar to stop mold. It's good to coat them in wax if you want the hollow pumpkin to last longer. Once they turn to cardboard skin stuff, they're good. Have fun!
Bird feeder is such a cute idea!
in addition to “pumpion”, “Pumpkin” may come from the Wampanoag word “pôhpukun” (literally:”grows forth round”), they’re also the creators of the word “moose”
Another word from the American continent adapted to English is Shark, coming from Yucatec Mayan, the word for shark is Xoc, pronounced Shock
I wonder what the settler-colonials did to them?
@@berserk1437 they still very much live in Massachusetts and New England to this day
@@-hg7fc so let's give it up to the natives
@@berserk1437 "awww this shit again?!?" Is probably the most common way it was refered to.
These videos are sadly underrated, making history enjoyable to understand is a hard thing to do.
Love these stories 🥰
Its really not hard to make it enjoyable though something like this might be a tad harder.
It's actually the comments that are most underrated. Like me announcing that l don't think much of pumpkin unless it's in a cake, because it's in these things that the flavor of pumpkin really shines through. It is simply a candle that shines through jack o' lantern, and nothing at all shines through the seeds or even roasted pumpkin unless you've got one of those irritatingly strong oven lights that half blind you when making a midnight snack.
9.8K likes about f’kn pumpkins ain’t that underrated …. certainly not “sadly” underrated. Let’s call it, “happily” underrated, so that I can read comments more easily.
@@SofaKingShit 🤣🤣
My Dad once told me they where selectively breed from potatoes, in Ireland, by a guy named Jack, of the O'lanten clan, and I believed him for a lot longer than I'm willing to admit.
Pumpkins are NOT in any way related to potatoes. Pumpkins are squashes. Potatoes are tubers.
@@robinlillian9471 No sh*t Sherlock. That's the point, my dad was F-ing with me.
@@robinlillian9471 BTW, tuber isn't a plant type, they are a plant part, the same way a flower is a part of a plant. Potatoes are a member of the nightshades, along with tomatoes and eggplants. If your going to be a smartass, don't forget the smart part of it.
lol😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Ah yes, pumpkins. The sort of quality content is the reason I subscribed for.
The history of food is inexorably intertwined with the whole history of humanity.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 the avocado one was the reason I subbed lol
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Whoever invented pumpkin pie is a legend
Including pampoenkoekies(a south african pumpkin fritter)😋
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One of the best thing about growing Pumpkins (and other squashes) is that their flowers are edible and taste amazing. Each vine produces flowers many times throughout the season. Squash vines in general are a very giving plant.
Fried squash blossoms are quite good! Even if you’re just throwing them in a salad, the texture is nice!☺️
they smell lovely too, at least Jarrahdales and Cinderellas do
What do you use to fix a broken jack o lantern?
A pumpkin patch!
Why was Cinderella so bad at sports?
Because she had a pumpkin for a coach!
Totally stealing these for a rainy day.
Save those jokes for October and November
You’re my kind of people. 👏
Ooooh! Pun my word, that's awful! 😂 ♥
Groan 😖
All the great foods that came from Mexico, that is amazing 👍
"field pumpkins" are usually not eaten they are used as decorations and animal feed. "pie pumpkins" are usually C. maxima like the cinderella pumpkin, which is really just an heirloom pie pumpkin. In modern times they have cultivars specifically for producing pie fillings industrially.
This the case and nearly all commercial pumpkin pies (and I suspect the vast majority of home made) and made from Libby's canned pumpkin which is made from a squash which is technically not a pumpkin. Libby's canned 'pumpkin' is used because it actually tastes better than starting with a raw pumpkin. BTW, I have done that. I once grew 14 Big Tom pumpkins in my garden swing the Three Sisters technique. What else was I supposed to do? Let them rot? I think not!
Giant pumpkin grower here. At the time of this video the record for a giant pumpkin was actually 2624 pounds not 2324. As of yesterday September 26 2121 the new record is now 2702 pounds grown by an Italian man.
W🎃W! Wonder if anyone will beat that record this year? I’d love to see that 🧡 - actually any of your giant pumpkins - what do you do with them? Sell them? Do you go to the fair? Have you ever eaten one of your giant pumpkins? Or carved one? What would it be like to stand inside a giant carved pumpkin?
So many questions...
@@-Reagan All of these are good questions because curious people want to know. I know of one gentleman in Pennsylvania who has carved out his giant pumpkin to make a boat. He can crouch inside with his hat on and not be seen. I'm looking forward to the vlog on TH-cam!
I was looking for this comment
@@-Reagan this year the Patton brothers grew a pumpkin that was 2907 pounds but it was damaged so it is not an official weight. I have eaten some of my giant pumpkins. The Atlantic giants are softer and more watery than others and not as sweet. I display mine at my house after the competition and after Halloween I pull out the seeds to save and take the pumpkin to a highland cow farm to feed to the cows and pigs.
Why do so many people always assume that everyone is sad when summer ends? Some of us hate summer, and fall and winter are our happy time.
Agree. Fall is great.
if gross Halloween decorations where not common autumn would be my favorite season
Agree. "To each his own", though.
@@christianweibrecht6555 don’t ever say such blasphemy
@@webuyhouse8917 I don't know why so many Halloween decorations have to be gross
This is DEFINITELY NOT a sad part of the year. Fall is my favorite
Mine too!!!🍂🍁🍄
Mine too.🎃
The fall season and year ending major holidays are uber-ambivalent for me: It's simultaneously a season of moroseness, introspectiveness, and personal reflection -- but also there is much 'gaeity' because of the holidays...
Without the holidays the autumn would be so much more depressing....
Another fun fact: the "pumpkins" used for canned Pumpkin made by Sara Lee are actually specially bred butternut squash. My uncle worked in the factory in Illinois.
Illinois is the largest producer of pumpkins
I think Libby uses Dickinson pumpkins
@@katjakatt836 lol, Dickinson. Gross.
Then why do they call them pumpkins? LIARS.
No wonder I dont like their stuff. I dont like butter nut squash 🤢.
But I made a pumpkin pie from scratch with sugar pumpkins and it tasted awesome.
Always love to see a new Fruit of Learning video in my inbox!
I absolutely love pumpkins! Every October I buy one from the local farmer's co-op. Not for carving up, but for cooking. My favorite recipe is a savory stuffed pumpkin that uses cooked ground beef (or cooked ground buffalo or venison), lots of sage, dry mustard, pepper, salt, eggs and wild rice. It comes from the Hidatsa people. As for decorations, my plastic LED-lit pumpkin does just fine. As for "pumpkin chucking" - Just wasteful! Disrespectful to our food, and all our brothers and sisters who don't have enough to eat.
Anyhow, a pretty and informative video.
If they use some of those not tasty pumpkins for the toss that sounds alright. Sometimes using food in ways that aren't for eating is justified, even if it only brings interest to the food that wouldn't otherwise exist, such as fruit or pasta art.
crushed pumpkins not so tasty for humans are great for animals. chickens and deer love pumpkins
Pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup, pumpkin bread, I LOVE PUMPKIN! 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
How about pumpkin scones
As a kid growing up in the USA,we always toasted pumpkin seeds. Loved it.
this food series is so cute and interesting, thank you so much for making them
As a Colombian child, I was kinda confused when hearing pumpkins in movies translated to Spanish being called "calabazas", when everyone else around me called them "auyamas", while naming as "calabaza" anything that resembled a spaghetti squash
I recently learned of the Pawpaw fruit. It has ties to native Americans and Lewis and Clarke. Could make for an interesting video.
Where I live pawpaws are available in September! You can't find them in stores. You have to find them wild or check Facebook marketplace to see if anyone is selling.
They're so addictive. I've been slurping them down since a child. Do you know any recipes on how to cook with it?
I ate them growing up, they're quite good!
I ate pawpaw last year for the first time, also pawpaw juice is sold here, which is also very good!
I found my first wild tree fruiting two months ago, wasn't ripe yet so I didn't get to taste. Now it's too late but it's been on my list of fruits to try. I know where to look next year.
I have a Pumpkin Cookies Jar, it makes me happy every time I see it in my kitchen.
You know it's fall (the best season) when the pumpkins start to show up. As soon as I start seeing them I think "awww hell yeah"
I can always tell someone lives in an area where summer isn't literal hellfire blowing in your face every time you step outside because of their nonsense about being sad that it's coming to an end.
Lol
Seasonal weather comes in quality, not quantity, where I live, (US Virgin Islands). Endless heat all day long but in Winter, endless heat and sun but for 11pm to 7am. Than more heat.
I know right? Laughing in Floridian here. Can't wait for summer to be over fast enough and the Fall to start every year.
@@vaderladyl Same from a Cali girl
Yes. Floridian summers are satans sauna.
I’m honestly loving the food history series. I can’t believe China grows so many pumpkins!!
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)
I love going around the neighborhood after Halloween and asking for unused pumpkins so I can harvest the guts for all my holiday cooking. This year I made 4 loaves of pumpkin bread, 3 pumpkin pies, pumpkin muffins, and plenty of seeds to snack on all for free!! (people paint them here because it’s so rainy here that they’d rot if you carved them)
Used to go yearly to a fall camp out , after a mishap painting pumpkin was only then allowed.
I always make feathers and tails out of cardboard and then decorate the pumpkin as a turkey 🦃
wow ! man , this is a perfect example real video art . right from the start your collage of artwork masterpieces and stunning photography is in itself the creation of a 21st century media masterpiece . PERFECT ! and I actually enjoyed your narrative but somehow watching with no sound the second time gave me tighter focus on the visual beauty . either way you truly deserve the international pumpkin award .
Very well done! You have some excellent information in here. To build on what you've got:
Cucabrids were orginally introduced to the Americas by mega fauna, who would eat the fruits and disperse the seeds in their poop. The wild pumpkin or field pumpkin, is now extinct, but was the particular favorite food of mastodons and ground sloths, which we know from fossils from central America. Field pumpkins were native to marshy areas and to the edges of fields, where they would feed on the nutrients provided by the marshy soil and the dung of megafauna. Pumpkins of all sorts are still big feeders and require lots of fertilizer in the garden for this reason.
Today there are four species of pumpkin, C.pepo, C.maxima, C.moschata, and C.aegyrosperma. Pepo pumpkins are the carving pumpkins with breeds like Howden, Casper, Jack O Lantern, and Connecticut Field. Maxima are the biggest fruits in the world, with breeds like Cinderella, Big Max, Giant, and Colossal. Moschata pumpkins are the most widely cultivated and the best eating pumpkins like Kombocha, Butternut, Calabaza squash, Marrow squash, and Cheese Pumpkin. And aegyrosperma pumpkins are the closest related to modern goards, and are mostly for decorations including, Jack Be Littles, Sugar Pie, Turban pumpkins, Crook Necks and Barred.
All species and breeds of pumpkins are edible though the Pepo pumpkins are fairly bland and watery, and all pumpkins are rich in vitamins and beta carotene.
Great food history videos! As a Mexican who grew up growing and eating pumpkins, I greatly appreciate your work. You got a new subscriber :)
The end of summer signifies to me, a time of the year when I'm not being lit on fire the moment I leave my coffin.
Autumn without pumpkin pie is not worth it.
Apple ,peach ,cherry ,are easily better than pumpkin but enjoy the pie u choose
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@@pieluvr7362 - Nope. You're wrong. Too bad.
Pumpkin everything!♥️
I’ve been following this guy for years. Awesome that he’s becoming the world’s greatest food historian.
Really really love this series.
Worth mentioning your volume is comparatively low.
The intro was masterfully done
A lot of work obviously went into collecting all this information, as well as the wonderful visuals. I appreciate it.
Missed an opportunity to name this the “Smashing History of Pumpkins”
Except in pumpkin pie I had never eaten pumpkin until I lived in Australia and then fell in love with roasted pumpkin
Pity Americans don’t know real pumpkins, I’m in Australia
Europe is huge. Their summers in the south are most certainly as warm as those in the US. What may have been different at the time were weather differences due to the mini ice age or some other temporal disturbance.
Hey, someone from El Salvador🇸🇻 (Central America) here, and it’s true we still eat pumpkin seeds today! We actually cook, and grind them up using an indigenous tool made of volcanic stone called a “Metate”, until it becomes a delicious powder we call “Algüashte”, we typically use it as a condiment, and I highly recommend everyone tries, makes, or purchases some in stores!:)
On another note I found it Interesting how well the Celtics/Christian traditions align with the Day of the Dead celebrations practiced close to Halloween? Might have something to do with colonization, because research is showing the indigenous people actually celebrated this festival around July-August, not November? Nice video nonetheless!
My father told me, that we Lakotas. Would grind pumpkin seeds with corn, and make a sort of powder, that would in turn. Enter sort of corn bread?
But the recipe was lost, due to colonization
But I shall endeavor to try and recreate it!
@@colleennewholy9026 Ooh, let us know how it turns out! 🤤
Christians align with other holidays to make people feel comfortable when they convert. Or so I'm told. Actuwl Christians back in the day would avoid these holidays, and allowed other people to celebrate as long as it was in Jesus's name. Or other priests.
Samhain celebrations were likely tied to seasons.
@@LindaC616 idk. Christians didn't like most holidays.
Would be nice to see the history of passion fruits.
Did you mean passion fruit or am I about to learn about another fruit?
@@flazzorb yes! Is this passion fruit or a new one? I continue to learn about Asian fruits that amaze me.
I meant passion fruit. Don't know of any passio fruit lol
One year we forgot to buy pumpkins for Halloween and there weren’t any left so we carved pineapples instead. Now it’s a family tradition.
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TMI but I was in jail and made a pumpkin out of an orange and a plastic spoon, it sat at the end of my metal bed , with threads I made small hanging ghost with toilet paper. The deputy was cool and didn't make me take my decorations dpwn
How do you hollow out a pineapple?
@@ItsMeUrDaad They make pineapple corers
I really enjoy this episode.
I dont know why but I really am looking forward to the breadfruit.
What's breadfruit?
Ah yes, the food Austronesians had to rely on when they became Polynesians. I'm surprised stuff that we don't usually consider as staple here in Southeast Asia (breadnut, taro, pandanus) became staples in Polynesia. Maybe they did brought rice and stuff but these hardier crops are the only ones that survived.
@@tranerekt1731 Breadfruit is the domesticated form of a breadnut. They're related to jackfruit.
@@nunyabiznes33 huh...never tried either here in the U.S.
I've just discovered your channel and have only watched a few videos so far, but I am hooked and itching to dive into the rest.
I've made my first comment on this one because squash are one of my favourite crops to grow here on my smallholding (although not an easy one here in Ireland) and also too eat. I also have a passion for history and folklore, so this video ticked all the boxes for me. :)
You have that wonderful gift of cramming a lot of fascinating information into a relatively short space of time without making it seem rushed. Oh, and at a rather more shallow level (perhaps?), I find your voice very soothing and it lends itself well to both learning and relaxing at the same time - especially the way you say pumpkin. I am plagued by insomnia so I'm going to try listening to you reading the pumpkin poem at bedtime and see if that helps. Seriously, I'm not trying to weird you out - I've tried every other sleep technique under the sun so I'll try anything! :D
Very interesting. I love anything pumpkin anytime of the year. My dad wouldn’t grow pumpkins even though he enjoyed
It’s pie. I love to bake/cook any pumpkin recipe. Thanks for the video.👍👍
The 8 dislikes were zucchini. .
The rest was courgette
You know I liked this video a lot more than I was expecting to
The Tarahumara eat pumpkin seeds and flower.. In Mexico they eat a lot of pumpkin.. they grow almost anywhere.. We grew up eating calabacitas ( squash) and pumpkin atole .. south west Texas border to chihuahua
Excellent in every way! Educational & Entertaining! 🎃
When I didn't have a pumpkin, I have used yellow crook-neck squash to make Jack-o-lanterns. In one really bad year, I carved overgrown cucumbers.
I love that idea. Do you have any pictures?
It would be great if you can talk about the three sisters farming method as well as other Early American methods in another video.
Native people from South, Central and North America developed many, many staple foods that the entire world enjoys today. Pumpkins and squash, corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, sweet potatoes... the list goes on and on and on.
As a Spanish speaker who has played squash since I was a child, I'm curious about the use of the word squash to name these I only knew as pumpkins. In Spanish is Calabaza, name coming from the Hispanic peninsula before the Romans, but also in America it has many names from the Nahuatl, Carib, and Incan.
Simply put, all pumpkins are squash, but not all squash are pumpkins. The word "calabaza" refers to squashes as a whole and could be equally applied to summer squash and winter squash. It's particularly confusing as there is a specific cultivar of pumpkin from the Caribbean called Calabaza, which is related to the Caribbean pumpkin and the Seminole pumpkin.
According to Grammarphobia:
The word for the gourd is a short form of asquutasquash, a term for the vegetable in the Narragansett language, spoken by indigenous people in what’s now Rhode Island.
The verb “squash,” on the other hand, ultimately comes from exquassare, a derivative of quassare, Latin for to shake off or drive away. An etymological relative is “quash.”
@@hertrueself thank you very much!! 😁
Here in the Netherlands we cal them Kalebas, i assume it is derrived from calabaza.
Different species of gourd are grown as containers and to make musical instruments and even helmets. Can you talk about the fact that they seem to originate in the New World but were found d all over the Pacific by the earliest western explorers.
Pumpkins are fun! If I had the room, I'd have a big pumpkin patch, and sit in it every Hallowe'en night! Seriously, the most fun is seeing what you get for your efforts, and what you may discover hiding under those big leaves--something you missed all season.
Take your blanket with you and with a little luck the great pumpkin will grant you a wish😁
I've always believed that a good knowledge of history requires an understanding of each facet and food, in general, is a major factor in our development as a whole. Thanks for the video.
Thanks!
Thank you!
A slight sadness? Summer can $@!* right off!
So interesting. I love the beautiful orange color of the pumpkins and the beauty of the trees. Decorating with pumpkins and carving them with my family is traditional. We make it spooky fun. 🎃🍁🌰🎃🍁🎃🍂🌾🍏
I teach English to teens in Mexico. This is a great topic for them to research and report on. Thank you
Funny stumbling across this now. My kids and I just planted my Howden pumpkins for this year a few days ago.
Another great video !!!
I just love this channel.. excellent..
Autumn is my favorite season.
One of the best things about the season is the pumpkin pie and what a coincidence I find this video in my sub box immediately after settling down with a nice, big slice.
Great history lesson on pumpkins. 👍🏼 Thank you.
Great now I want pumpkin pie 🥧! Thanks, and also want to try that baked honey milk spice recipe sounds cool.
Seminole Pumpkin ( native to Florida ) has a very unique flavor and is easy to grow.
I love these videos!! Keep up the good work
I did enjoy this very much.
Fall is my favorite time. It's not cold or hot its a vibrant time without the nasty insects. My favorite foods corn, beans and pumpkins are aplenty.
I'm loving this historic fruit videos.
Roasted, dried, and roasted again makes it sweet. the ancestors roasted it, dried it, then cooked strips in maple sap, again drying it. As pumpkin ages in storage, it grows sweeter. Same with any winter squash.
One of the favorite melons here is called Ancient, a watermelon. In the 1920s, a small jar of seeds were discovered in a tomb not too far north of here (Arizona). The tomb is believed to be over 400 years old. Only a dozen of the seeds sprouted, 3 lived long enough to reproduce. Today, family in Germany tell me it’s the number one watermelon there, producing even in cool, damp weather. Here, it makes fruit through out annual drought, from April to July.
Alas, the watermelon originated in Africa, and came to the western hemisphere with the slave trade. Like many crops, it spread rapidly once it was introduced to other areas. There's a lot of folklore about ancient seeds found in tombs. There's a tomato variety that was allegedly found in a 4000 year old tomb in Egypt, but tomatoes originate in Central America.
In dry climates, people often store a backup supply of seeds in caves or cave-like tombs, because the dryness and constant cooler temperatures preserve them well. So the watermelon seeds may have only been in the tomb for decades at most.
But if you want a real life example of ancient seeds restored to life, Google "Judean dates". Some agricultural scientists managed to get the archeologists to give them some date pits found in caves with materials contemporary to the Dead Sea scrolls. They managed to germinate a few, and after a long wait for the trees to mature and set fruit, now have a small date orchard, offspring of a variety grown in Roman times.
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 We raise a watermelon called Ancient. It was discovered in the 20s, in a tomb here, in Arizona, that according to styles of cloth and stoneware was determined to be about 400 years old.
There are several pages about the formerly extinct Judean date on TH-cam. Very exciting news!
I always love it when reading a story where a riot in the Middle Ages includes throwing potatoes, tomatoes, and so on. It's hilarious.
I can see tobacco seed, but not tomatoes in an Egyptian tomb. Long before the Vikings got here, West Africans were known to have traded for gold and slaves in the Caribbean. this is, to the best of my knowledge, how cotton made it from the American Southwest to India. Good post, and thank you!
Really enjoy watching this. Very interesting. Happy New Year to everyone 💕🇬🇧❤️
This video was great! To keep with the Halloween-esque theme, do you think you could do about the history of scarecrows?
How that's an impressive amount of info on the history of pumpkins. INSPIRING!!
PUMPKINS!!!!
THE SPICE MUST FLOW!
This video just adds to my excitement for the greatest season of all! Autumn! 🍂🍁🎃👻
Well my dreams of driving around in a pumpkin carriage were squashed
I like to drive around the morning after Halloween to collect about four nice looking ones bring home wash cut blanch mash bag and freeze. Each nag is enough pumpkin filling for a couple pies or muffins. Don't forget nutmeg cinnimun allspice or ginger
@13:23 and earlier - the corn, beans and squash cooked together create an entire (22 amino acid) protein. :) Anyway, one tribe's name for the stew was succotash, it was usually made with broad beans, or butter beans. :)
I see some sarcastic-type comments here, and maybe I’m just simple-folk, but a lot of us are here today because an ancestor could grow a pumpkin or gourd for survival. They are integral to several continents and cultures. Thank you for this timely video. Pseudo-intellectual critics…. Buy some seeds and give it a shot growing a pumpkin. You might not be as smart as you think you are. 👍🏻🎃
give them lots of fertilizer
I live in Arizona. We celebrate the END of summer.
I grew up in Houston in the 90's and my family always would carve our pumpkins just before Halloween, and then just a few days after we'd cook and puree the pumpkins. We froze the puree and used it in all sorts of recipes. It confuses me to this day seeing so many people let their pumpkins rot on their porch. What a waste of good food.
Thank you. I am both a gardener and a foodie, so this vid was right up my alley.
Pumpkins have always been that peculiar food with a mysterious background, so watching this video cured the childhood curiosity of its origins. Thanks for the informative and fun video, I hope everyone has a good day and PS: drink YA water!
I enjoy pumpkin pie and just about everything pumpkin much more as an adult than I did as a kid
Finally, the video we have all been demanding
Thankfully. I'm so sick of sweating and hating pants.
I was sad this video wasn’t longer, I loved it!
Subbed!
Came for the German history. Stayed for the fruits
Pumpkin seeds are pretty good. I imagine they are mostly being sold from the larger non carving version.
I grow "lady godiva" pumpkins for seed. they end up about 10lbs and give about 18oz of seeds. The shell isn't as thick as a typical pumpkin seed so great for snacking
@@heavymetalbassist5 also anti-parasitic :). kakai and Styrian also have hull-less seeds
Happy Spooktober!
This was the exact video I was looking for thank u lol!! I like to learn about animal taxonomy, and there’s plenty videos about that on TH-cam but plant taxonomy and knowledge in general is surprisingly limited
Babe wake up! New Fire of Learning fruit video just dropped!
Cool now I know about pumpkins 🙂