When you said "Extremely hot spices like coriander and black pepper" I literally just died of laughter, cause I thinking that was a savage burn on British spice tolerance 😂
2:05 In fact back in the day what poor people in many parts of Europe did when they can't afford to cook on their houses was making or buy a uncooked meal like a meat pie and bring it to their local bakery so they bake it for them, usually for free. That's why one staple of english gastronomy are cakes and pies, and many other baked meals.
I never would have thought that the order in which a culture develops basic skillls influenced the _texture_ of its foods. Fascinating stuff ! By the way, your videos are extremely interesting and entertaining , and it's always joy to see you've uploaded. Keep 'em coming :)
A very good topic. You have a good point on the differences between Japanese pan/Korean bbang to Western Breads. I am pretty sure other reasons for the difference is because: 1) it filled a niche for dessert products as many East Asian countries began developing larger middle classes, 2) most Westerners or locals asking for these kinds of goods in those countries for a “taste of Europe” in the 19th-early 20th century would have been upper-class, 3) these products were widely adopted after the mechanization of flour production, skipping the “artisanal bread” stage, 4) in 1950’s Japan and Korea, it provided a good economically beneficial use for WFP Food Aid that largely came in the form of American-sourced wheat flour, so some traditionally rice, barley, and buckwheat based goods became replaced with wheat-based ones and or existing wheat-based foods became more common. This also happened with traditional alcohols like Makgeolli and Soju for decades and why instant ramen was invented.
I am worldbuilding the Drow for a verse...They have a culinary tradition which is based around fungiculture, and elves are in fact incapable of deriving much energy from grains. Their cooking methods mostly use geothermal vents or the growing of edible molds, with occasionally soups and dried foods. The layer and coral mushrooms would be at the day of harvest (which can happen up to five times a year), it would be washed and the family of the harvesters would eat as many raw ones as they can fit into their stomachs. The rest of them would be finally chopped, pressed together and then left in a cold, damp place to develop edible molds, producing a texture somewhere in-between brie and natto. For the really hard times, the rest would be sold to craftsmen who would transform it either by using the driest parts of the cave to hang dry them and sell them to the general public, or to small "snack shops" (taberna) which would either dry roast them for later consumption, or are directly turned into soups and stews sold to their clientele. Another thing people would do is that on days where they would kill a fish, the fish's blood would be extracted to prevent fast decomposition. This blood would be mixed with the not-so-fresh but still edible mushrooms in something akin to a hermetic Dutch oven and then sent into geothermal vents to cook until the blood is turned to a thick, almost solid gravy and the mushrooms are reduced. They occasionally use "rane" a kind of halophile autotrophe in their cooking, mostly for lactic fermentation, but it is such tongue-torture to eat that they would delay consumption of it for as long as possible.
The people, the coastal Sashi, that live in my world, eat a diet mainly consisting of fish, wild game such as sea birds, small berries, that are picked and dried in the summer, alcohol made of birch sap and fruit and this tuber called aath/aat. Aath is usually cubed and boiled, or grated and turned into aath flour, that I used to make a type of flat and chewy bread, which I almost like a mix between a tortilla and injera.
please stop making such good videos i need to go to sleep i have work tomorrow but seriously prehistoric/early agricultural societies are my jam and i absolutely love these videos so much augh
A really fascinating take on cultural culinary development! Lava bread sounds absolutely mythical and I need to try some. And the Maori steaming method there reminded me of Japanese onsen eggs boiled in the water to give it particular flavours ‘n’ texture. All great inspiration for me own world that I’d never’d thought of, thanks!
Great video! This is a part of worldbuilding I've ALWAYS wanted more coverage on! Also the frame of the human digestion system with the words "full of other people's labor" and "extremely weak" attached made me lose it lolol
So for my world building project, the People are a species off sapient bird. Bread is full of Carbs, but are quite poor in nutrients, making it hard to fly, so i Wonder if they could replace it with some sort of "Nut bread"?
wonderful video ! food is one of my absolute favourite aspects of worldbuilding, i've spent hours and hours on developing fictional cuisines. it just makes me so happy for some reason !
This is an EXCELLENT video, thank you for your research The study about pottery vs agriculture coming into play first, and how that influences food preferences, and the part about the amount of fuel available influencing cooking methods was wonderful. Really makes you think and is helping me o much to introduce more depth into my world building, and has definitely begun a cascade of thinking about technology and culture through the ages. Thanks!!
Thanks for covering fusion cuisine a bit. It features heavily in my world and I haven’t been sure on how to address it. This was a good starting point for that.
This and the previous video gave me subbed. These are awesome and are giving me ideas for the world I’m building, especially given how the most fleshed out one so far poses unique challenges when it comes to the culinary aspects.
That's pretty interesting abt how the order of inventions/discoveries leads to alternative preferences in the textures & flavors of foods. I havent really given food much thought for my conculture yet bc i'm not familiar enough with foods, so this was a cool tidbit that will help me come up with ideas. Also nice video as always!
One thing ive kind of been confused and cant find much of online is the topic of when cultures have public eating spaces, if they do at all, and how people would eat at their homes
I just started going through the research myself for a similar project when I came upon your video! It’s phenomenal and I’m highly anticipating the next one!
got your channel recced last night, watched your most recent video, and now i'm obsessed. ty for all this cool information to tickle my brain with and a rly cool video style to boot :>
Among the Alshizz kobold tribe of the White Wastes, survival is by eating woody scrub brush, small reptiles, and other fare so scanty that most of their enemies cannot survive in their environment. Among the Alshizz, the leaders keep all the hunted and gathered nourishment, and personally serve it to their followers at mealtimes; their control of food and drink marks their status, and those who have displeased the leaders go hungry and thirsty. Thus, on the rare occasions that the Alshizz have visited human homes, they often assume that the serving maids are the humans’ leaders, and are usually astonished to learn that these young women have no power.
Think i heard somewhere, and don't quote me on this ifk where, but different countries have different tased based on what's available and what they are as kids. The japanese prefer a different flavour too some one spanish for example, takes this as loose inspiration.
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"when they started domesticating grains, these methods became *ingrained* in their culture" :D
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When you said "Extremely hot spices like coriander and black pepper" I literally just died of laughter, cause I thinking that was a savage burn on British spice tolerance 😂
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“Full of other people’s labour” “extremely weak” love it
2:05 In fact back in the day what poor people in many parts of Europe did when they can't afford to cook on their houses was making or buy a uncooked meal like a meat pie and bring it to their local bakery so they bake it for them, usually for free. That's why one staple of english gastronomy are cakes and pies, and many other baked meals.
I never would have thought that the order in which a culture develops basic skillls influenced the _texture_ of its foods. Fascinating stuff !
By the way, your videos are extremely interesting and entertaining , and it's always joy to see you've uploaded. Keep 'em coming :)
I know right!! I read it ages ago and knew I'd have to include it in a video some day cause it made me look at food so differently :P
A very good topic. You have a good point on the differences between Japanese pan/Korean bbang to Western Breads. I am pretty sure other reasons for the difference is because:
1) it filled a niche for dessert products as many East Asian countries began developing larger middle classes,
2) most Westerners or locals asking for these kinds of goods in those countries for a “taste of Europe” in the 19th-early 20th century would have been upper-class,
3) these products were widely adopted after the mechanization of flour production, skipping the “artisanal bread” stage,
4) in 1950’s Japan and Korea, it provided a good economically beneficial use for WFP Food Aid that largely came in the form of American-sourced wheat flour, so some traditionally rice, barley, and buckwheat based goods became replaced with wheat-based ones and or existing wheat-based foods became more common. This also happened with traditional alcohols like Makgeolli and Soju for decades and why instant ramen was invented.
I am worldbuilding the Drow for a verse...They have a culinary tradition which is based around fungiculture, and elves are in fact incapable of deriving much energy from grains. Their cooking methods mostly use geothermal vents or the growing of edible molds, with occasionally soups and dried foods. The layer and coral mushrooms would be at the day of harvest (which can happen up to five times a year), it would be washed and the family of the harvesters would eat as many raw ones as they can fit into their stomachs. The rest of them would be finally chopped, pressed together and then left in a cold, damp place to develop edible molds, producing a texture somewhere in-between brie and natto. For the really hard times, the rest would be sold to craftsmen who would transform it either by using the driest parts of the cave to hang dry them and sell them to the general public, or to small "snack shops" (taberna) which would either dry roast them for later consumption, or are directly turned into soups and stews sold to their clientele. Another thing people would do is that on days where they would kill a fish, the fish's blood would be extracted to prevent fast decomposition. This blood would be mixed with the not-so-fresh but still edible mushrooms in something akin to a hermetic Dutch oven and then sent into geothermal vents to cook until the blood is turned to a thick, almost solid gravy and the mushrooms are reduced. They occasionally use "rane" a kind of halophile autotrophe in their cooking, mostly for lactic fermentation, but it is such tongue-torture to eat that they would delay consumption of it for as long as possible.
The people, the coastal Sashi, that live in my world, eat a diet mainly consisting of fish, wild game such as sea birds, small berries, that are picked and dried in the summer, alcohol made of birch sap and fruit and this tuber called aath/aat.
Aath is usually cubed and boiled, or grated and turned into aath flour, that I used to make a type of flat and chewy bread, which I almost like a mix between a tortilla and injera.
I like to keep 'alot of cultures have some kind of dumpling' in my world building cuz 1) dumpling style foods r delicious and 2) cuz I want too
please stop making such good videos i need to go to sleep i have work tomorrow
but seriously prehistoric/early agricultural societies are my jam and i absolutely love these videos so much augh
i will not >:)
A really fascinating take on cultural culinary development!
Lava bread sounds absolutely mythical and I need to try some. And the Maori steaming method there reminded me of Japanese onsen eggs boiled in the water to give it particular flavours ‘n’ texture.
All great inspiration for me own world that I’d never’d thought of, thanks!
Honestly cooking is way outside my prospective of a culture , thanks for covering this topic i'll think about this one
Great video! This is a part of worldbuilding I've ALWAYS wanted more coverage on!
Also the frame of the human digestion system with the words "full of other people's labor" and "extremely weak" attached made me lose it lolol
So for my world building project, the People are a species off sapient bird.
Bread is full of Carbs, but are quite poor in nutrients, making it hard to fly, so i Wonder if they could replace it with some sort of "Nut bread"?
wonderful video ! food is one of my absolute favourite aspects of worldbuilding, i've spent hours and hours on developing fictional cuisines. it just makes me so happy for some reason !
*after watching the video* ....i crave bread now :|
Getting all the pictures together made me crave so many breads/rices/dumplings 😭
Food is VERY important in our fantasy world!
Thanks for Makin this!
As someone who has successfully created a recipe from my own fantasy world I appreciate this dive into the topic.
This is an EXCELLENT video, thank you for your research
The study about pottery vs agriculture coming into play first, and how that influences food preferences, and the part about the amount of fuel available influencing cooking methods was wonderful. Really makes you think and is helping me o much to introduce more depth into my world building, and has definitely begun a cascade of thinking about technology and culture through the ages. Thanks!!
Ive been drinking so sorry if this is incoherent
Another method for cooking is to magifie the power of the sun, not to much to where there can be a fire but enough for dough to turn to bread.
wow this is one of the coolest channels i've stumbled upon 🥺
There was a law I remember, making 'hand-mills' illegal.
If you have a little chair sized mill, you wouldn't need to pay the lord to use their mill...
Your illustrations are cute and your videos are fascinating. Thank you for making them.
Thanks for covering fusion cuisine a bit. It features heavily in my world and I haven’t been sure on how to address it. This was a good starting point for that.
this was such a good watch
This and the previous video gave me subbed. These are awesome and are giving me ideas for the world I’m building, especially given how the most fleshed out one so far poses unique challenges when it comes to the culinary aspects.
god I loved this video, it was so informational!
That's pretty interesting abt how the order of inventions/discoveries leads to alternative preferences in the textures & flavors of foods. I havent really given food much thought for my conculture yet bc i'm not familiar enough with foods, so this was a cool tidbit that will help me come up with ideas. Also nice video as always!
One thing ive kind of been confused and cant find much of online is the topic of when cultures have public eating spaces, if they do at all, and how people would eat at their homes
I just started going through the research myself for a similar project when I came upon your video! It’s phenomenal and I’m highly anticipating the next one!
got your channel recced last night, watched your most recent video, and now i'm obsessed. ty for all this cool information to tickle my brain with and a rly cool video style to boot :>
Really good video ! Can't wait to see what you'll came up with ^^
I love this channel, thank you for the videos
Wow, I love your videos!
Among the Alshizz kobold tribe of the White Wastes, survival is by eating woody scrub brush, small reptiles, and other fare so scanty that most of their enemies cannot survive in their environment. Among the Alshizz, the leaders keep all the hunted and gathered nourishment, and personally serve it to their followers at mealtimes; their control of food and drink marks their status, and those who have displeased the leaders go hungry and thirsty. Thus, on the rare occasions that the Alshizz have visited human homes, they often assume that the serving maids are the humans’ leaders, and are usually astonished to learn that these young women have no power.
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3:25 InGRAINed in their culture?
Think i heard somewhere, and don't quote me on this ifk where, but different countries have different tased based on what's available and what they are as kids. The japanese prefer a different flavour too some one spanish for example, takes this as loose inspiration.