How Civilization Was Created By Bread
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- Bread is the stuff of life, and i has a LOONG and storied role in the story of humans. Today on Weird History Food, we are going back in time to he beginnings of bread! Form ancient Mesopotamia all the way up to a most favorite 2020 Pandemic Era pasttime. Do you bake bread? What is your favorite kind of bread to eat? Let us know in the comments!
#bread #breadrecipe #weirdhistoryfood
The Vikings did not know potatoes. Potato is from South America therefore only arrived in Europe in 1500s. Viking breads used rye flour, barley flour, a mixture of nuts, seeds, and herbs.
Potatoes, Chiles, Tomatoes, Peanuts, and *a lot* more foods that are now staples in cuisines around the world came from the Americas and are only recent additions.
One correction on the trencher. It actually wasn’t meant for you to eat after the meal, at least, not at larger meals where they were typically used.
If a banquet or a festival was held, everyone attending ate off of a trencher. The food would soak into the trenchers and it would be collected later and dispersed among a community’s poor for a meal, as they would have soaked up a sufficient amount from the meal itself to feed a kingdom’s poor.
It was actually considered rather rude to eat your own trencher at a banquet, because it wasn’t meant for you, as you were at the meal to begin with. The poor weren’t.
There would be special softer rolls for the guests to eat if they wanted some bread.
fermentation was discovered because spoiled food was so common. back then they didnt just throw food away. preservation was so important and difficult.
Salt and vinegar. Best natural preservatives.
Beer is basically liquid bread.
Yup. Humans are used to their pov. The idea romans didn't get plastic for their bread and to the romans "indestructible glass that could make films" were polar concepts.
As i recall, they burned alive the first person to make "indestructable glass" / Resin polymer. Fearing it'd devalue the valuable glass industry that built their city if a object that never broke was around.
You can see it too, use natural yeast and you can end up with a natural sourdough, sakeraut is made from natural cabbage. Most stuff will either go blue with mold or turn yeasty. Wine was discovered before boiling grape juice to make pasteruized grape juice after refrigeration for kids.
@@nathanramstorf1033 And for vinegar you have to find out about fermentation first.
I am picturing a cave woman looking in the back for some stored seeds in the depths of winter and finding them wet and spoiled. But when you are hungry you will eat just about anything. Thus, beer was discovered by cave women and it was good!
I’ve been making bread for over 10 years for my family and friends. Everyone tells me I should open a bakery because I’m so good at it. I genuinely love it.
There is something magical about it.
@@orchidorio did you think she was making a claim that it was?
I baked more than 40,000 loaves at a restaurant I worked at for a while. Every table got a loaf.
Well why dont you try it..??
That Afghan bread is so good. I had some coworkers recently start working with me from Afghanistan and they easily bribed me with their bread, it is SO GOOD. They filled theirs with potato and spices and dip it in curry, and I could genuinely eat it every day. I would straight up look forward to work if that's what I'm eating for lunch. They gave me a 12 inch square and watched in awe and happiness as I ate the entire thing immediately.
I had something a little bit different. It was flat but it wasn't filled with anything. Still delicious though!
someone needs to sell those where I live
Bread is the goat. We wouldnt be where we are as humanity without bread.
Too true🍞🥐🥖😋
And liquid bread... beer
And beer
Obese. diabetic and dying of heart disease in our 30s?
@@bobg5362 Perhaps with American bread.
Country Life Vlog, Tasting History, and Townsends!!! Nice to see them all on here!
Sometimes, I wish these videos were just a bit longer. I can't get enough.
Ok Depeche Mode
Agreed--15:00 to 20:00 would hit the sweet spot
Yeah, but to complain might make people think you're crummy, or a gluten for punishment.
And even though I always rise to the occasion, I think I'm gonna dough now.
(Dammit... that last one sucked and I was really on a roll...)
@@williamf5745 He's Crumby, dammit! :)
Good video..I live in Germany and we have over 3000 types of bread - it's not easy to say which is my favorite bread...
Quite surprised it wasn't a huge part of the video, or even covered at all.
German dish are literally my type. It is also something closer to Roman food (minus fish and garlic) than I can think of another big Western European country
3000???
Don't forget Germany was dozens of little states before Napoleon, and each had a local identity. Also Germans are good at being specific in defining differences.
German bread is awesome. Nothing better than wheat and Rye mischbrot with the bread spice...
I raised fennel just to use as bread spice (Brotgewurze)
@@jcarey568 Also there was a (insome way still is) a speciality in learning the business of bakery. For "exam" you had to invite a new recipe. So not only every region but every baker had its own speciality.
Is that why money is called dough?
Good pun there 😂🎉
It’s because money was used to referred to as your bread. Gotta earn your bread. Bread was such a common staple of middle age diets that everyone was always carrying some coin and some bread/biscuit/cracker etc
Real Good pun here 10/10.
My dad often referred to people who "made a lot of bread" (i.e. were well paid).
@@virgogyl Yes, it's true.
This was an enjoyable video.
Fresh homemade bread is just the best.
It doesn't have to be anything fancy , like sourdough.
Just plain old simple bread is fine.
(But figuring out how to make and use sourdough is fun)
Sourdough is actually pretty easy. For the most flavor, all you need is time, for the yeast in the air to permeate the starter.
Sorry, for this SF native there has to be some sourdough, even on Vancouver Island.
Whenever I make bread, it lasts about an hour.
Just remember that sliced bread is the best thing since Betty White! ❤
Bread is great, buttered toast is my fav :)
Just read that in Ed’s voice from ed edd and eddy, “Buttered toast eddy!”
@@Nagatem you must be as old as me, genuinely best wishes to you and yours :)
Buttered toast is good and I this in Ed's voice from Ed, Edd, and Eddy also.
A loaf of homemade bread really is something special
The flour and oil disappeared very early in Covid. People panic bought and then had to use it before it spoiled. Most of it was probably wasted. Goodwill was flooded with bread makers after the panic ended. lol
I should head to my local goodwill for a bread machine then lol.
Yeah whenever there’s a Hurricane people always stock up on bread and milk. It’s a weird habit
I just resurrected my 25+ year old bread machine from my back closet.
About $1.20 in ingredients to make a 1.5 lb loaf.
10 minutes prep, and 3 hours later, Fresh Bread. (Of course, you're supposed to wait an hour for it to cool... or a half-hour...)
So much better than gummy white bread! 😁
@@brj_hanAmen!
@@LumaToSame, lol😁
Civilisation was created by beer.
Beer is magical!
Civilisation was created by LOVE
Ut, oh. This video isn't on my diet.
Carbs are literally deadly over a whole life time
Eschewing bread and carbs is foolish. Completely and utterly foolish.
Bread was one of my favorite groups when I was a kid.... 😁
Marmalade were good too!
Found the most boring person of the group!
In el salvador, where i am from, tortillas is a staple of our cuisine, pupusas are a different thing because they are entire meals unto itself since you add stuff to it to make it more delicious. Tortillas are served as sides for other foods that we eat
Thank you for recognizing that fry bread is a product of the reserve systems of Native Americans and not some sort of happy, authentic part of their history
Thanks for your worthless thanks.
Oh, shut up. People are such whiners today.
@@Jordan-sy7my Thanks for your useless sarcastic thanks
@@Jordan-sy7myare you okay?
Do like fried bread regardless of it's unfortunate origin - and kudos to Native Americans for their resilience in making lemonade when handed lemons if you will.
Always remember: bread was the solid version of the food that human tribes made with grain. The liquid version was beer. 😁
So, which came first...🍞🍻/🍻🍞🤔
I wonder if any ploughman ever ate a Ploughman's Lunch... (that's bread and beer, if you're not UK, usually with cheese).
@@binkwillans5138 Sure sounds like a ploughman type lunch!
Beer has calories and therefore keeps you alive.
Due to flour shortages during lockdown I had to use whole meal bread flour to make banana bread for the first time…never looked back.
OMG, YEAH!!!!!!
YES! I must try it. I want to try the dough in a waffle iron!
I love bread. My mom would often bake fresh bread in our bread maker, and it's such fond childhood memory of mine. I can still smell it.
Bread makers don't count as "baking". A trained monkey could make bread in those.
Well, this is something. The cradle of civilization. The staple of life. A gift of mankind.
Don't forget that Beer is also part of the reason that we humans survived...lol. Liquid bread and much safer to drink than water back in the day...
Ah yes before the common era. The era that's common. Set off by a common event
If only the world could see how oppressed Western Christians are. Not to even mention the fact that you can't throw a rock without hitting a critical theorist trying to ruin our way of life.
People should just say BC. It’s stupid to try to erase our history in the West. This was done by Jews. No other part of the world does this kind of crap.
People should just say BC. It’s stupid to try to erase our history in the West. This was done by J*ws. No other part of the world does this kind of crap.
People should just say BC. It’s stupid to try to erase our history in the West. This was done by ✡️. No other part of the world does this kind of crap.
Three replies to your comment and all censored. Isn’t that interesting, what they censor on TH-cam.
Loved the nod at Adam Ragusea!
❤ that guy.
AND the "Tasting History" reference was good too !
I'm curious about the history of rice cultivation. Where it started, how long ago, and various ways it's been used.
That's what I thought.
Hmmmmm...this video looks familiar...
(looks towards a video by Food Theory on the same topic)
Ahh, bread; my favorite food. Easy to make and insanely filling.
How about a video on how utensils plates and cups evolved in different places around the world.
Alot of pewter. Alot of people unalived.
Please do a video on popular foods later found to be dangerous to eat.
Umm, bread…?
@@johngalt97 they asked what we wanted to see. Breads not dangerous, it might be mildly bad for you but that's not the same.
Or, similarly, foods that can make you very sick if not prepared properly. (Examples: fugu, ackee)
That would be just about everything. Even broccoli contains some serious toxins (but in amounts much worse for bugs). All plants contain poisons and pesticides for defense and those are toxic for humans, too.
The fake cinnamon we use has a safe level set so low by the EU that some traditional foods can no longer be sold.
Turnips can cause goiter (and some tribes all have enlarged necks from eating them). etc., etc..
Companies give scientists grants to find benefits of foods. If they find dangers, they don't report them or they would lose funding.
5:50 As a kid, I remember my mom, at the bakery, being asked "sliced or whole?" ... and I always liked it when she said "sliced," because I liked that machine with the vibrating up-and-down blades cutting the loaf into slices.
A good friend used to complain how his mom could _NOT_ cut straight bread slices, but dad could. I suppose _THAT'S_ why it's the "greatest thing since slice bread."
“As a kid… I liked that machine with the vibrating up-and-down blades cutting the loaf into slices.“
Me, too! When I was a child our mother used to take my sister and I to the bakery in Utica, New York, that was run by my mother’s Aunt Sophie and her husband. I was fascinated by that machine.
@@thefoxfireworkshop I'm glad _someone else_ remembers that machine!
5:11 Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers were probably like: Where did that acorn go?
10:41 According to Ryan Reynolds, his wife Blake Lively bakes up a storm.
He calls their bakery "The Blakery."
Oddly enough, I was contemplating making my own loaves of bread long before lockdown. It had to deal with being forced onto a low sodium diet. you won't belive how many pre sliced loaves use High fuctose corn syrup and tons of extra salt in the recipe.
Agreeing with @tip, bread is _surprisingly_ high in sodium ! (which I have to watch)
Fun fact: Navajo fry bread is what people in Utah call "scones". The first time I ever asked for a scone outside of Utah, I was so confused by what I got
Italian-Americans call it a doughboy.
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Lots of places to find bread!
0:21 That bread looks identical to the bread my mother made recently!
Hopefully it’s as good as it look then
@@sebastianjack7075 It was!
Watching this as I'm on a keto diet.
I'm not sure exactly what to classify it as , but as far as I'm concerned , Wonderbread is not bread .
This is why *"The Conquest of Bread"* by Peter Kropotkin is among my favorite books!
I bake bread at least twice a month. Give the rising prices everywhere, it's just a better option.
2:37 In Iraq we also call it Tannur and we used it to make our flat bread and the standing oven we used to make a kind of bread we call it Samon
One of my favorite and easiest breads to make at home is pita. I don't think it's even possible to mess it up - unless you burn it. And it is insanely tasty! I've baked quite a few different kinds of bread, but pita is number one.
Been eating exclusively sourdough bread for several years now. Love it!! I made my own once or twice, but my local grocery store makes the best Italian bread style that is so fluffy and delicious! I can't get enough!!! Eating a slice as I type...lol...
Italian?! Fluffy?! Sounds like ciabatta
@@kirdot2011 nope. It's sourdough...
From what I've read, Sourdough is one of the BETTER breads to eat! (and so I do, and I LOVE it)
@@josephgaviotaActually, sourdough is not a specific bread type as it could be anything.
@@TarikDaniel I'm not the smartest person in the world, I certainly know that ... and maybe my experience is limited, having only brought bread at the store in the US ... but every time I've ever bought sour dough bread, it was always the white sourdough bread ... even when my mom made sourdough at home when I was a kid, it was the same kind of bread ... and she had the starter in a ceramic jug covered with a damp dish cloth in the back of the refrigerator.
What "other" types of sourdough are you referring to?
I think everyone should at least attempt at making their own bread at some point. It really helps you realize how important it is and it becomes one of those foods that if you hit hard times you can at least survive off of.
I tried making bread during the UK bread strike of 1977. Pretty tough on the first try.
As an Italian, I don't even consider Amercan sliced bread a type of "real" bread. In Italy, we use that type of bread for making sandwiches or toasted sandwiches, nothing else. If you want to accompany a soup, a minestrone, or gather the ragù left in your plate, or make a panino, we use other types of bread, with a hard crust outside.
Well contrary to what you think it is actually real bread.
@@metoo6599 that's why I said "consider"
Americans are a little less fettered by tradition than most other countries so we tend to think outside the box.
I’m American and that’s all I use American bread for. If I’m having a soup or minestrone, I’ll have a baguette or French bread. I think that’s pretty common for most Americans.
@@ryanfowler7944 Thank you for your comment 😊
Playing with slime satisfies genetic memory of kneading dough
Me: Using flour to make bread is boring
Me: Makes pizza instead
10:48 Speaking of Hulu...I watched the first four episodes of the Hulu series Only Murders In The Building!
It is a dream to see Steve Martin and Martin Short on a show together...and so many more big veteran stars (i.e. Tina Fey) are also on the show!
The performances on the show are incredible!
My mom used to make up beer bread mixes she'd buy at specialty stores. It was a beloved childhood memory even though the bread tasted a bit funny to me.
Didn't Food Theory already do this?
I had to scroll too far down to see this
That was easily one of MatPat's best videos
good video
A little disappointed this wasn't at least 3 hours long
I think it is beer that is responsible for civilization. After all it is known as liquid bread..
My eyes played a trick on me… I thought the title was “How Civilization was created by Brad” 🤔🤔… I was wondering who is this Brad?
Maybe he was Brian's brother?
@@johngalt97 "The Life of Brad" (Dammit, Janet!)
I think the Brad is Google's AI go to, isn't it?
@@CHEFPHIL48That's bard. Brad in this case is definitely brad leone, who loves a food sourdough.
Nice to see a mention for "Culinary Exploration" at the end of this video his bread is excellent.
9:10 pupusas getting recognition 😢
So Bombbb
Great video!
Bread is just a failed attempt at making beer.😂
"If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second." - Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward. 😋❤️🍞🥐🥖🥯
A priest is walking down the street when he sees on of the children from his church carrying a loaf of bread in one hand and his other hand in his pocket. The priest says "I see you have the staff of life in your hand, but what do you have in the other?" "A Loaf of Bread".
Do "How civilization was created by rice cultivation next.".
Interesting fact - The domestication of wheat predates the domestication of rice by about 2,500 years.
I think the one thing that all people can agree on is that we eat some form of bread, the world over from flatbreads to whole grain and every other type of bread in between
Some of us don't eat any kind of plants at all. Plants are trying to kill us.
Sourdough is my face. Tnx foe the history lesson!
We often bake bread in our house. I'm partial to a dark rye with caraway seeds.
My favorite bread is the Brazilian pao de quejo. I can eat it all day every day😊
Somehow I expected something about Peter Kropotkin.
Got tired of grocery store bread, and I just resurrected my 25+ year old Breadman machine a month ago, and darned if it didn't still work!
Been enjoying freshly baked bread (now that I have the recipe standardized.) I remove the paddle just after the final punch-down, so the hole in the bottom of the loaf is pretty small and manageable....
How many times I had to dig that thing out before I figured that out...
pliny the elder is my go to beer from russian river brewery
I'm convinced that Stephen Colbert is narrating this channel in secret.
If not, he should be.
Welp. Guess I'm making homemade bread today.
Very good post. Informative but succinct. Great job.
It makes sense since the brain can only use carbohydrates to continue functioning.
Already long ago while watching your Timeline series I noticed you really like food ^^
We're making bread again because manufactured bread sucks! At least in the US. After much trying and failing, then quitting because practicing bread making is kinda hard, then you have to eat or waste it😒, I gave up. But recently, even though I tried to get good bread, I found that either the bread wasn't full (ginormous holes), or I wasn't. I used to be able to eat toast and be full, but recently not the case. I finally found a recipe I can do, and the bread is so delish😋 Now, full on one slice. No reason to eat empty calories!
Y'all should make a video on Minute Man burgers! Historic in the world fast service and burgers.
Civilization was actually created by Sid Meier
I have to say bread is my favorite food
... and potato ... and pasta ...
I guess I love my starches 😕
@@josephgaviota I can go without those just fine, but bread??....heck NO!
I've been baking sourdough bread for over ten years. So glad I knew how during the pandemic as I didn't need any commercial yeast that was in shortage. I now trade my bread to people for some of their organic garden grown fruits and veggies and saves me money in these expensive times.
i had no idea sid meier was bread all this time!
Interesting, clever and very well presented and narrated; nice pacing.
Bread is my most favorite carbohydrate and my most favorite food group.
Now that I am trying to minimize carbs, I can't stop thinking of it.
I've scheduled in cheat days and I am really looking forward to the next one.
Since childhood white bread was considered the most low class kind of bread, but as an American adult living in Japan, I now know better. White bread in Japan is super fancy, and they don't seem to understand how other kinds of bread work. Other sorts of bread are basically white bread with stuff in them. Just like chocolate chip cookies are not chocolate cookies, Japanese rye or walnut bread it basically just white bread with seeds or nuts.
But the white bread is damn good.
"It was their worst idea since unlocked bread" lol brilliant
My favorite is an Iranian flatbread called “sangak.” It’s cooked over river stones and topped with sesame and black cumin seeds.
Now I shall go and make some nice fluffy bread!😋🥖
Here here 🎉
I’m hungry for bread now
Back during Lockdown, with all the extra time on my hands, after I had made strawberry jam and planted a tomato garden, I pulled out my bread machine from the 90s and went to the store to buy yeast. I had no idea millions of other people were making their own bread as a pastime too. Surprisingly I couldn't find yeast anywhere in my city or the towns nearby. I couldn't even find self-rising flour and that stuff is still hard to find. Later I discovered everyone was making sourdough loafs. I did make bread for a few months and gained a lot of weight during lockdown...just like a lot of people. Why didn't I just set my sights on getting fit and keep that damn bread machine in storage?
The idea that Egypt was the first to develop fermented, or leavened bread ha long since been abandoned in academic circles. The fact of the matter is that leave a dough for a couple of days in a warm climate and it will ferment using the yeasts which are naturally present on the grain. Leavened bread must have invented itself wherever it was warm and bread was baked.
The problem was that early archaeologists were not bakers so they had to work out how the yeast got into the dough. Well, the yeast is on the grain in the field. To any bakers reading this. You can get a sourdough starter up and ready to use in 24 hours, if you use whole grains. All that fussy feeding is not required.
I love bread but I learned that I am allergic to wheat. 💔 I enjoy it vicariously through watching this History of Bread! Thanks! 😊
10:30 Would love to go a concert for the Eras Tour!
The videos I have seen of it are incredible, just legendary!
Enjoyed this episode.
Sourdough my favorite
Very well done, excellent research and effort in producing this video. Thank you. Very relevant since bread, truly is the "staff of life".
I’ve been making my own bread twice a month or more for many years before the pandemic. I use a preferment called a biga. I slice it the freeze it and pull out as many slices as we need.
I learned to make bread during the pandemic when it was hard to find on the shelves.
But they quickly returned to shelves a couple months later.
By then, while kneeding yet another bowl of dough, I found myself thinking I would gladly pay someone $3 to make this loaf for me.
How about a segment on the history of the sandwich or soup?
I love hot French Bread !
Those French Baguettes are just a way of getting butter into my system 🙂
And little vermin would eat the grain and cats would eat the vermin. Bread and cats go together..