Although these foods are not eaten as commonly as they once were, all of them are still eaten in Alaska and I've had most of them. Fun fact: every part of the fireweed is edible. A tea made from the leaves calms nausea and the root has a mild sedative effect. The petals are used in cooking for flavor. If you visit Alaska, don't miss the opportunity to try fireweed ice cream.
Here is an idea. What about foods on luxury oceanliners like the Titanic, Lusitania, and other Whit Star liners? Sure, you can do a Bing or Google, but I think it would be a great episode.
Researchers believe there were 50-100 million indigenous people in America before Columbus. Evidence of huge population centers have been found, for example Cahokia, near present day St Louis, estimated to have had a population of 15-18,000, making it the same size as London at the time.
Pemmican made from smoke dried wild game, bear fat and huckleberries is packed with everything the body needs in a survival situation. It's compact, light weight and has great shelf life.
Things like this really show how far human ingenuity goes when it comes to making the most of what’s available... we’re so spoiled nowadays. It’s very interesting and educational to see how humanity has tackled the art of feeding ourselves over the centuries. I can’t help but wonder who figured out these interesting and clever ways of processing and preserving food in the past.
Fireweed isn't used for honey but it IS used for fireweed jelly! I used to have to pick bucketfuls of this during the summer. I also picked tons of clover flowers for honey.
I live in north Norway and use this for inspiration. Just today I salted some halibut I caught yesterday, I will hang it to dry after. We call it "klippfisk". :-) Edit: I added a short so you see the catch.
In my country if you eat dried fish you're considered poor LUL but I kinda love it for breakfast specially the little fish opened into two and dried up. We fry them and eat with scrambled eggs
We live in Southcentral Alaska and do in part subsistence hunting and fishing and enjoy a variety of foods from the local area. dena'ina and russian recipes, salmon, moose, black bear and do are best as not to waist any parts. Of course summer berries of all sorts. Thank you for showing some of the Alaskan Cuisines I really enjoyed the program
Depression era food in the US would be a cool video! My grandparents lived through that era and would tell stories of eating dandelion salads and throwing the week’s leftovers into a pot for a Sunday stew.
@weirdhistory please do a video on ancient Greece with my family used to eat back then circa Socrates or spartan era of king Leonidas or may be a range covering that through World War II and the 60s that would be much much appreciated if you can do so. Not to mention I would imagine you would get just as many if not more viewers as you did with the Roman Fashion & food videos, also by the way thank you so very much for your contact love your channel especially the ones you did about the decades now truly enjoying what we eat during depression with Soviets eight Alaskans eight and so much more. One of my favorite channels ever!!!
Kelp pickles sound awesome! As does the Pirog and the Moose pie. I don't know about the preserved whale blubber, walrus, stink head, or Inuit ice cream. I wasn't raised with foods like that.
I have lived in AK for 42 years. I have had almost all of the foods in this vid. What I know from experience, if you are hungry enough, you will enjoy most all of them.
The native people all looked very fit and healthy, so they have made the very best of what nutrition their region offered. Great survival techniques, against a harsh climate. Brilliant.
My son and I would love to see a video on Ethiopian food and, on a totally unrelated continent, I would love to see a video about aboriginal food. Love your channel!!!
Oops, I meant to say "traditional" aboriginal food. Obviously everyone eats everything these days but I was thinking more in the vein of the interesting foraged fruits and grasses and emus and goannas and witchetty grubs... Sorry if my post sounded confusing!
Probiotic foods like Kimchi, Sauerkraut, or coleslaw (?). To me it seems like each culture has a probiotic dish. I'd love to learn more probiotic dishes from around the world.
As a kid, I lived in Alaska before statehood. It really was pioneer,frontier country. Common foods were Pilot bread, moose nose soup. Fish head soup, pickled kelp, smoked fish, muktuk, Eskimo ice cream, fish eyes & beer, wild berries, clams, crab, fish, & game including Spruce hens, mushrooms. As we lived in SE Alaska, our diet included the fish, game, seafood, berries & mushrooms. Most of the other delicacies were eaten by indigenous peoples or those of far northern regions of the state. I have heard of all these foods.
Notice that after statehood the original culture dissappears straight away? Its was a real eye opener watching a mini documentary of hawaii in the 1940s before it was ruined in 1959!!!
The more you learn about the ancient past you realize that even tho cold weather made things harsh and hard. Cold weather actually really helped with food storage and preservation over hot weather that really spoiled food fast and had a lot go to waste if not prepared correctly.
The innuit ice cream sounds pretty good, especially with the snow added, might taste like snow cream which I look forward to making every winter when it snows
You should make videos about different cuisines, some popular, some not so well known. Traditional dishes from round the globe....what did chnese Emperor's eat for example.
It’s beautiful how well First Nations people knew and utilized resources in their environment. They managed the land and fauna so effectively- makes me feel like a big dumb honkie to see how we struggle with land and animal management today.
I live in northern Alaska. We still eat a ton of this stuff lol. My wife's whole family is native. You better believe Eskimo ice cream is a thing, muktuk, seal oil, beaver tail, I eat caribou all the time, moose all the time, fish like white fish or salmon, fish head soup is still very common, (hunting rules) the jerky is still a thing, lots more. Most of it comes from the different natives that come to Anchorage or Fairbanks. Teach it to everyone else and then it spreads. Oh bannock and fry bread are still extremely popular and yes they eat it with seal oil, not me lol.
I would like to try everything but the Alaskan ice cream. My dad was stationed in Alaska during the Korean War, several years before it became a state. He would often tell me of stories from his time there. Not much about the food though.
I couldn't get past a tiny taste of stinky head. I also tried stinky flipper which is the same idea but made with a seal flipper. I was not a fan. I'm not too crazy about muktuk either but most of the rest are pretty good or at least not too bad.
I love how bannock is so prevalent across native tribes in North America and yet I didn’t even know it was from Scottish influence! My great great grandpa was Scottish and immigrated to Canada where now most of my aunt, cousins and uncles on my dad side convey the Scottish last name! Louttit :p Ty for your history lesson asapscience
FYI to those who aren’t familiar with it…Moose is so close to beef that I have fooled regular beef eaters into complimenting moose roast unaware it wasn’t beef they just ate.
Very cool video. My grandfather and father spent the 1950s working as trappers in rual Canada. For weeks on end they pretty much lived on pemmican and bannock. Any fresh fish or meat had to be kept for the sled dogs.
@weirdhistory could you please make a video on the Lakota people of the Americas? I am in the process of being enrolled in these tribes due to my parents negligence as child. I would love to learn more about my people but haven't been able to find anything on youtube I enjoy. Please help. Much love
moose nose? in Indonesia, especially East Java province, there is a food menu called "rujak cingur". rujak is usually a mix of fruits served with a sauce made of palm sugar, chili and sometimes with peanut. but in this East Java, the rujak is mix of fruits and veggies (can't remember which is which, it can be vary). And instead of the usual sauce, it served with petis (shrimp paste). and the cingur part, it is a cow's nose. just mix it all together, yummy
Cranberry catsup is the shit! I have been making it since I was a kid. You boil onions with the berrries, extract the juice. Then you add sugar, vinegar, cinnamon, clove, celery seed, . . That's all I can remember off the top of my head you make a bunch and can it. Poor it over a spicy meatloaf, its a game changer. It isn't just the end product. Its spending fall afternoons out in the sun collecting berries. Standing around with your friends, cleaning the berries and freezing them. First snow is when I pull all the berries I picked that fall. I spend the day off the road in my kitchen.Far away from crazy drivers. It's kinda zwn.
Alaskan ice cream is honestly pretty good when made with more modern ingredients, honestly I image it’s still pretty good even traditionally made! Probably just less sweet
All of these foods sounds so strange to me. I imagine that some of them like the combination berries and meet would be really tasty and the dessert with fat and berries too but the rest, no idea. Can't even imagine. Also considering the long, dark and hard winters, the fatty diet makes sense because of its highly caloric and nutritional content specially back then without modern amenities. I didn't know that there were berries so far north. So today I learned something new and that's good. Thank you for the video, very interesting 👍🌸
This is something. It's like watching Discovery. The wilderness of Alaska is harsh. It's kinda like the content of the Wild West with food and other topics of recipes.
Relatively sure that muktuk isn't a great source of vitamin C. I did a cursory search for the nutrition information on it, but certainly not thoroughly enough to be certain. My understanding of the Arctic expeditions was that their success relied on imitating the Inuit diet as not to require as much vitamin C since the lack of carbohydrates (which interfere with the absorption of vitamin C) allowed the explorers to avoid scurvy.
I live in Alaska and I can assure you, we have bees here. The honey is superb. Why would you say we have no bees? The fireweed you mentioned is a source for the bees to make some fantastic honey. My friend has 20 hives. I can never understand why people just spew out false information , add a bunch of stock photos that have nothing to do with the subject, and expect everyone to buy it. To me, this is a warning NOT to subscribe. By the way, most modern day native Alaskans get their food from the grocery store. We don't live in igloos. We have phones and everything! Greetings from Seward, Alaska.
My lunch for today 21 Nov., 2021 Pork ribs rubbed with gunpowder seasoning and pressure cooked in root beer. With country style baked beans with A1 steak sauce and Kansas City BBQ sauce added into. Yum Yum
Sorry but that’s not true. They didn’t have an array of antibiotics and other medications. A cut could easily become infected and be fatal. In that they expended more physical energy, they had better muscular. But we are far healthier now.
@@Ladypuppy510 in the 60s only 8% of Americans had significant health issues, since the 80s it’s risen to 54%. Agree with u that they would of died from diseases that are easily treatable now or diseases that have been completely eradicated by vaccines but taking society as a whole I would be willing to bet that they were mentally sharper and physically fitter than we are today.
@@benchippy8039 but everyone had 10 children so 1 or 2 would reach the adulthood... Soo yes the living were healthier because the not so healthy part of the population died because of minor illnesses
@@benchippy8039 A significant factor in the increase in chronic diseases is that most people now live long enough to develop them. People a couple of centuries ago were typically more physically fit because they had to be but a large proportion of them were also small and had weakened immune systems due to chronic malnutrition. The most common cause of death for women was complications of childbirth. Epidemic diseases swept through a couple of times a century and wiped out entire families, sometimes entire towns. There's no utopia and everything comes with a cost.
Although these foods are not eaten as commonly as they once were, all of them are still eaten in Alaska and I've had most of them. Fun fact: every part of the fireweed is edible. A tea made from the leaves calms nausea and the root has a mild sedative effect. The petals are used in cooking for flavor. If you visit Alaska, don't miss the opportunity to try fireweed ice cream.
Fireweed ice cream? Dang I really have to go to try that
Pretty sure all Alaskan school children have made aguutuk at least once
That sounds good.
Hmm cool to know
Fireweed honey is the only honey that stays liquid forever. I learned that hanging with honey vendors at farmers markets
Pemmican is surprisingly good. The Inuit ice cream makes sense on a nutritional level. Especially during the winter months.
Pemmican is yummy on its own, can be made into a broth, and is one butt kicking Scrabble word 😃👍
@@laurabeane8862 it's eight letters, so would rarely happen!
@@oliviamartini9700 it's a cross-on word...like "Za"
@@laurabeane8862 highly unlikely, a Scrabble with four 4-pt tiles. Though that score would indeed kick ass if you can't play QUARTZY 😜
@@oliviamartini9700 it's better than haunted, or zygote
Nice to see Townsend footage used. They are a neat channel for 18-19th century food if anyone is interested in the subject.
Definitely recommend Townsend for both recipes and colonial era handcrafts.
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I’ve eaten kelp and moose meat and they’re tasty! Alaska is such a breathe takingly beautiful place worth a trip.
Thank you Patti~
The filling in sandwich cookies was sugar, lard, and vanilla extract. So the Alaska ice cream isn’t unusual.
Here is an idea. What about foods on luxury oceanliners like the Titanic, Lusitania, and other Whit Star liners? Sure, you can do a Bing or Google, but I think it would be a great episode.
Could've done a bing or google for all of these videos, but I NEED to hear him tell me the facts as they are 🤷🏾♂️
Well... hate to be that guy, but the lusitania wasn't a white star liner
@@sharronneedles6721 It was own by Cunard Liners.
@@GroundersSourceOfficial Correct, it was owned by Cunard, not white star
It was the same as on land at the time. They stocked the ships. I do like you said Bing tho.
Could you do a video on all of the indigenous tribes of north america before 1600? How well settled was it? How many people?
Researchers believe there were 50-100 million indigenous people in America before Columbus. Evidence of huge population centers have been found, for example Cahokia, near present day St Louis, estimated to have had a population of 15-18,000, making it the same size as London at the time.
There were millions of savages running around
@@codiefitz3876 savages?
it is not*** what did we used to eat***... it is what we still eat ... love , an Inuit woman
Hi Dawn, Athabascan here~
It all sounds so good. I am Puerto Rican, and I think I would eat all of it.
Yeah lets go Alaskans, Yup'ik here~
Hello from North Carolina. Truly fascinated with the Inuit way of life. Such beautiful people. Past & present!
Of Pilot Point origin here. 👋
Pemmican made from smoke dried wild game, bear fat and huckleberries is packed with everything the body needs in a survival situation. It's compact, light weight and has great shelf life.
I lived 20 years on Alaska, and the best wild game is caribou, hands down.
I think Dalls sheep is the best.
I'm from southern Ontario Canada and I have and still make Bannock. It is best wrapped on a stick and cooked over a fire!
Things like this really show how far human ingenuity goes when it comes to making the most of what’s available... we’re so spoiled nowadays. It’s very interesting and educational to see how humanity has tackled the art of feeding ourselves over the centuries. I can’t help but wonder who figured out these interesting and clever ways of processing and preserving food in the past.
Love living in Alaska. It’s especially fun when Texans visit and see T-shirts about how everything is big in Alaska in Texas is…cute.
🤣🤣🤣
You should do Australian convict meals I reckon that would be pretty cool a mix of aboriginal meals and British meals
Publish your pruno recipe after the tone...
Great idea
Probably fed australian prisoners roasted kangaroo and stewed wombat balls 🤪
@@christopherfreeman1340 you're missing a yeast and a sugar, try again
Fireweed isn't used for honey but it IS used for fireweed jelly! I used to have to pick bucketfuls of this during the summer. I also picked tons of clover flowers for honey.
Um, no. There is firewood honey made. I've seen it around.
Hi, from AK and yes we sure do have fireweed honey
Fireweed is 100% used for honey. You can buy it in Florida.
I live in north Norway and use this for inspiration. Just today I salted some halibut I caught yesterday, I will hang it to dry after. We call it "klippfisk". :-)
Edit: I added a short so you see the catch.
Proof.
We do something similar with fish.
I'm in California but thankfully my mom gets dried fish sent to her from Alaska by her relatives!! and lucky lucky you
In my country if you eat dried fish you're considered poor LUL but I kinda love it for breakfast specially the little fish opened into two and dried up. We fry them and eat with scrambled eggs
@@romella_karmey Romella that is horrible... we love dry fish and we are not poor lol ... and also try seal oil with it ...
We live in Southcentral Alaska and do in part subsistence hunting and fishing and enjoy a variety of foods from the local area. dena'ina and russian recipes, salmon, moose, black bear and do are best as not to waist any parts. Of course summer berries of all sorts. Thank you for showing some of the Alaskan Cuisines I really enjoyed the program
I've read that bear is loaded with parasites. How do you make it safe?
Great episode!!! Love these Weird History Food Videos!!! Keep 'em coming!!! ;D
I could listen to this guy's voice for hours. I also feel like I've heard it on TV before...
There’s billions of people, some sound alike
Depression era food in the US would be a cool video! My grandparents lived through that era and would tell stories of eating dandelion salads and throwing the week’s leftovers into a pot for a Sunday stew.
Might be interested in checking out cooking with clara, she grew up cooking in the depression era
They actually have a video covering that topic!
Dandelion salads....dang
Tasting History also has some videos on depression era foods!
I don't know why, but I really enjoy watching the food history videos while eating.
I've watched them while *NOT* eating. 😀👍
Most of the recipes sound delicious. Thanks for sharing!
These dishes are still served here in Alaska. We make several of these all the time.
Ive often thought about moving to alaska. Is it worth moving to?
@weirdhistory please do a video on ancient Greece with my family used to eat back then circa Socrates or spartan era of king Leonidas or may be a range covering that through World War II and the 60s that would be much much appreciated if you can do so. Not to mention I would imagine you would get just as many if not more viewers as you did with the Roman Fashion & food videos, also by the way thank you so very much for your contact love your channel especially the ones you did about the decades now truly enjoying what we eat during depression with Soviets eight Alaskans eight and so much more. One of my favorite channels ever!!!
Kelp pickles sound awesome! As does the Pirog and the Moose pie. I don't know about the preserved whale blubber, walrus, stink head, or Inuit ice cream. I wasn't raised with foods like that.
I have lived in AK for 42 years. I have had almost all of the foods in this vid. What I know from experience, if you are hungry enough, you will enjoy most all of them.
This type of episode is what I live for
The native people all looked very fit and healthy, so they have made the very best of what nutrition their region offered. Great survival techniques, against a harsh climate. Brilliant.
you should make a video about what people ate in British colonial India , it would be interesting
To add to that he should just go down the list of british colonies.
great idea!!!
Good one.
That or what they ate on the silk road
They are garbanzo beans and naan. The only difference between how the Hindi and the British ate it was the Brits looked down their nose at it.
Love your channel and especially love learning what kinds of foods people used to or still eat to day, you can make loads of those 😁
My son and I would love to see a video on Ethiopian food and, on a totally unrelated continent, I would love to see a video about aboriginal food. Love your channel!!!
Oops, I meant to say "traditional" aboriginal food. Obviously everyone eats everything these days but I was thinking more in the vein of the interesting foraged fruits and grasses and emus and goannas and witchetty grubs... Sorry if my post sounded confusing!
Probiotic foods like Kimchi, Sauerkraut, or coleslaw (?). To me it seems like each culture has a probiotic dish. I'd love to learn more probiotic dishes from around the world.
Closeslaw is not probiotic
I honestly learn more from this channel than I did in all my years of school
Ikr, same here. Love this channel~
Always such a pleasure to indulge in a video here! 🤗 Love being a subbie✌️
I love these episodes please keep them coming! :)
As a kid, I lived in Alaska before statehood. It really was pioneer,frontier country. Common foods were Pilot bread, moose nose soup. Fish head soup, pickled kelp, smoked fish, muktuk, Eskimo ice cream, fish eyes & beer, wild berries, clams, crab, fish, & game including Spruce hens, mushrooms. As we lived in SE Alaska, our diet included the fish, game, seafood, berries & mushrooms. Most of the other delicacies were eaten by indigenous peoples or those of far northern regions of the state. I have heard of all these foods.
Had them all. Thanks for the memories 😊
Notice that after statehood the original culture dissappears straight away? Its was a real eye opener watching a mini documentary of hawaii in the 1940s before it was ruined in 1959!!!
The more you learn about the ancient past you realize that even tho cold weather made things harsh and hard. Cold weather actually really helped with food storage and preservation over hot weather that really spoiled food fast and had a lot go to waste if not prepared correctly.
The innuit ice cream sounds pretty good, especially with the snow added, might taste like snow cream which I look forward to making every winter when it snows
You should make videos about different cuisines, some popular, some not so well known. Traditional dishes from round the globe....what did chnese Emperor's eat for example.
I'd love videos on imperial court cuisine from around the world!
It’s beautiful how well First Nations people knew and utilized resources in their environment. They managed the land and fauna so effectively- makes me feel like a big dumb honkie to see how we struggle with land and animal management today.
Here in Alaska they actually starved in large numbers many winters.
I was scared to move to Alaska after I heard that the sun doesn’t shine.
And then, it dawned on me.
Well i hope you manage to rise(😁) to the challenge and at least visit.
lol and I had a friend in the military who was scared to move their for the same reason... now he loves it
LOVE IT!!!!
What is the sun doing when it’s not shining?
@@kylerose3174 I dunno what?
Very interesting. I really enjoy the videos on food.
I love that emmymadeinjapan and Jos. Townsend & Sons made appearances in this! Great video, as usual!
thank you for the alaska representation!
as an alaskan, i love this video
I live in northern Alaska. We still eat a ton of this stuff lol. My wife's whole family is native. You better believe Eskimo ice cream is a thing, muktuk, seal oil, beaver tail, I eat caribou all the time, moose all the time, fish like white fish or salmon, fish head soup is still very common, (hunting rules) the jerky is still a thing, lots more. Most of it comes from the different natives that come to Anchorage or Fairbanks. Teach it to everyone else and then it spreads.
Oh bannock and fry bread are still extremely popular and yes they eat it with seal oil, not me lol.
Awww. There’s still enough beaver to eat them? That’s so great since they are pretty much gone everywhere else.
I would like to try everything but the Alaskan ice cream. My dad was stationed in Alaska during the Korean War, several years before it became a state. He would often tell me of stories from his time there. Not much about the food though.
Some of those actually sounded pretty good! I love this channel. 🌟🦋💜🦋
Another informative and interesting video thank you
I'd like to try all of those. Well, except for the fermented fish heads.
Sounds about like shrimp paste or crab paste, which are used in tons of SE Asian dishes, to me. 🤷🏻♀️
I couldn't get past a tiny taste of stinky head. I also tried stinky flipper which is the same idea but made with a seal flipper. I was not a fan. I'm not too crazy about muktuk either but most of the rest are pretty good or at least not too bad.
I love how bannock is so prevalent across native tribes in North America and yet I didn’t even know it was from Scottish influence! My great great grandpa was Scottish and immigrated to Canada where now most of my aunt, cousins and uncles on my dad side convey the Scottish last name! Louttit :p Ty for your history lesson asapscience
Your narration and humor makes the subject interesting .
"moose mince meat" is some surprisingly satisfying alliteration.
Love watching this channel
FYI to those who aren’t familiar with it…Moose is so close to beef that I have fooled regular beef eaters into complimenting moose roast unaware it wasn’t beef they just ate.
Yes, although it depends upon which moose you killed. Beef is mostly raised under controlled conditions and is more consistent.
Don't do that again! Not nice ... and risky.
I’ve done that with venison backstraps
@@JohnnyAngel8 What an odd comment. Moose is safer than beef.
@@wolfmantroy6601 Not if someone is allergic.
Very cool video. My grandfather and father spent the 1950s working as trappers in rual Canada. For weeks on end they pretty much lived on pemmican and bannock. Any fresh fish or meat had to be kept for the sled dogs.
These are the finest foods one can have in the Alaskan frontier
I wouldn't mind trying all of these. 🤤
Squaw honey sounds yummy. I've had clover tea at camp, and that was good.
Great video!!
This is a damn good channel
Now I'm hungry! Thanks 😊
My favorite food memory is eating wild salmon that had been smoked in the backyard. Nothing alike the dainty deli meats you would see on a bagel.
Very interesting video! A lot of these foods sound keto-friendly
Lol
The use of all parts of an animal is efficient and somehow respectful of the animal. Nothing wasted. Here food do not cringe me at all.
@weirdhistory could you please make a video on the Lakota people of the Americas? I am in the process of being enrolled in these tribes due to my parents negligence as child. I would love to learn more about my people but haven't been able to find anything on youtube I enjoy. Please help. Much love
Bruh these videos cool n all but wassup with those "timelines"?? We still waiting for the 2000's!!
moose nose?
in Indonesia, especially East Java province, there is a food menu called "rujak cingur".
rujak is usually a mix of fruits served with a sauce made of palm sugar, chili and sometimes with peanut.
but in this East Java, the rujak is mix of fruits and veggies (can't remember which is which, it can be vary). And instead of the usual sauce, it served with petis (shrimp paste).
and the cingur part, it is a cow's nose.
just mix it all together, yummy
Cranberry catsup is the shit!
I have been making it since I was a kid. You boil onions with the berrries, extract the juice. Then you add sugar, vinegar, cinnamon, clove, celery seed, . . That's all I can remember off the top of my head you make a bunch and can it. Poor it over a spicy meatloaf, its a game changer.
It isn't just the end product. Its spending fall afternoons out in the sun collecting berries. Standing around with your friends, cleaning the berries and freezing them.
First snow is when I pull all the berries I picked that fall. I spend the day off the road in my kitchen.Far away from crazy drivers. It's kinda zwn.
Alaskan ice cream is honestly pretty good when made with more modern ingredients, honestly I image it’s still pretty good even traditionally made! Probably just less sweet
I would love to try them all especially the muktuk.
Loved it.
Thank you.. I'd like the bannet bread. And I can try making some . Some other things I see good to have around in cold Winters. Interesting.
These all sound so good to eat
Fascinating video
they all sound delicious!
mmm
I live in a town in the Yukon and I can say a lot of people still eat these things.
All of these foods sounds so strange to me. I imagine that some of them like the combination berries and meet would be really tasty and the dessert with fat and berries too but the rest, no idea. Can't even imagine. Also considering the long, dark and hard winters, the fatty diet makes sense because of its highly caloric and nutritional content specially back then without modern amenities. I didn't know that there were berries so far north. So today I learned something new and that's good. Thank you for the video, very interesting 👍🌸
Berries and meat is a classic combo, like turkey and cranberries!
This is something. It's like watching Discovery. The wilderness of Alaska is harsh. It's kinda like the content of the Wild West with food and other topics of recipes.
yo its my home state, learned most of this in alaska studies haha, something all kids here gotta take in highschool
Moose heart and tongue soup!!!! Ive mentioned it before. It is very common to this day.
common lmao
This stuff sounds amazing to me.
Live in the US and have never even heard of some of these delicious dishes. Makes me want an Inuit wife.
Townsend was the first thing I thought of when I saw, pemmican. So glad you used some of his footage for reference. 😊
Relatively sure that muktuk isn't a great source of vitamin C. I did a cursory search for the nutrition information on it, but certainly not thoroughly enough to be certain. My understanding of the Arctic expeditions was that their success relied on imitating the Inuit diet as not to require as much vitamin C since the lack of carbohydrates (which interfere with the absorption of vitamin C) allowed the explorers to avoid scurvy.
I live in Alaska and I can assure you, we have bees here. The honey is superb. Why would you say we have no bees? The fireweed you mentioned is a source for the bees to make some fantastic honey. My friend has 20 hives. I can never understand why people just spew out false information , add a bunch of stock photos that have nothing to do with the subject, and expect everyone to buy it. To me, this is a warning NOT to subscribe. By the way, most modern day native Alaskans get their food from the grocery store. We don't live in igloos. We have phones and everything! Greetings from Seward, Alaska.
Grew up in the Interior of Alaska and have eaten all of this and more. You did so good yet left out so many areas of Alaska.
My lunch for today 21 Nov., 2021 Pork ribs rubbed with gunpowder seasoning and pressure cooked in root beer. With country style baked beans with A1 steak sauce and Kansas City BBQ sauce added into. Yum Yum
Your choice in background music really has gone up in quality!
My grandma in Ekwok made me promise to never try stinkyheads because of the risk of botulism
I'd love to see videos on imperial court cuisine from around the world!
Cranberry ketchup sounds like a great condiment for the holidays!
AWESOME 👍
I’m a 5th generation Alaskan. I’ve tried all of these except the walrus. And recommend all but the moose nose
Any relation to a musher with your last name ?
@@TammyToo nah, but there are only 3 families in the state with the last name.
@@MommyMilkerIcecream I also knew a teacher with your last name.
Mmm caribou marrow. It honestly sounds awesome.
I’m Australian and I’d eat all them food’s looks nice
I bet they were so much healthier both physically and mentally. Health has declined exponentially since the 1980s
Well that's quite some statement... If it happens to be the case, it would be a great topic for a new video! 👍
Sorry but that’s not true. They didn’t have an array of antibiotics and other medications. A cut could easily become infected and be fatal. In that they expended more physical energy, they had better muscular. But we are far healthier now.
@@Ladypuppy510 in the 60s only 8% of Americans had significant health issues, since the 80s it’s risen to 54%. Agree with u that they would of died from diseases that are easily treatable now or diseases that have been completely eradicated by vaccines but taking society as a whole I would be willing to bet that they were mentally sharper and physically fitter than we are today.
@@benchippy8039 but everyone had 10 children so 1 or 2 would reach the adulthood...
Soo yes the living were healthier because the not so healthy part of the population died because of minor illnesses
@@benchippy8039 A significant factor in the increase in chronic diseases is that most people now live long enough to develop them. People a couple of centuries ago were typically more physically fit because they had to be but a large proportion of them were also small and had weakened immune systems due to chronic malnutrition. The most common cause of death for women was complications of childbirth. Epidemic diseases swept through a couple of times a century and wiped out entire families, sometimes entire towns. There's no utopia and everything comes with a cost.
Love the Lennon comment,right on man!!!goo goo gachoo!!!
Do a video on Minik Wallace and the Polar Eskimos brought to New York City. Interesting but sad story
Very nice.