As a chef, I sometimes feel burdened by cooking. Food history rein-stills how grateful and privileged I am to run a kitchen, create and prepare food daily . It is a beautifully intimate and humble art that will forever define who I am.
culinary is a dead end. dont listen to this. unless you own the restaurant youre someones slave, if you do own the restaurant youre the restaurants slave. dont pursue this field, eventually you will just end up in a management position and there are way easier management positions that pay more. dont go to culinary school, cooking is just a step on your journey; use it but dont let it use you. if you disagree you arent in the industry, youre new to the industry, or you haven't realized the truth
+James No one understands what you said. They sound like MBA students, absolutely certain that you should do like them. Not all people are motivated by the same things, for which I am thankful. The blind belief that getting rich is the only important thing, the only judge of a person, is the result a most unfortunate narcissistic mind set .
Tom Bombadil says: "We take it for granted today, but a single Dorito has more extreme nacho flavor than a peasant in the 1300s would get in his whole lifetime." == Invention of MSG.
Today we all eat like only kings did back in the day. We actually eat better because we have access to more things from all over the world in all seasons.I like these documentaries because it helps to appreciate the luxuries we take for granted today.
You don't even need to go back that far in history, only 100 years or so. Even if you were a Rockefeller or Vanderbilt you wouldn't have fresh fruits/vegetables all year. Overall food selection at grocery stores wasn't even 10% of what it is now, no matter how much money you had to spend. I read that Rockefeller loved apples and paid the equivalent of about $15k in today's money every week to make sure he had them. They also wouldn't have had central heating and air conditioning.... the nice cars we have.... the communication ability. We are quite lucky. But I wonder, in 100 years, what will people say we lacked in this time? They'll probably talk about how much we spent on fossil fuels. How much of the world was still mired in poverty. How bad pollution was.
In addition to being able to access nearly every food available on earth there is now preservation methods such as refrigeration and canning, smoking, curing - the American's diet I can speak for because I am here on this continent...has above adequate macro-nutrients and micro nutrients...there is clean water, no need for drinking fermented beverages yet one can if they wish and it will most likely be safe...unlike in times past. There is much for which to be grateful.
Well, i like these documentaries because it show us how decadente and out of morals and values we are compared to what the people had in those days. And in a modern time in wich activists and utopian vegans and wilderness lovers whant to go live a simpler life ( in many cases in less condicions that the folks back then ) it makes me respect the middle age more and more and look at the ridiculessness of the peopple of today.
Adam B Seafood in general was considered a luxury of the elite classes.Bread and pulses being the relevant norm of the lower i.e. working classes throughout much of europe,and gosh golly gee whiz,in Switzerland too;)))
many people lived into their seventies, but that was definitely not the norm. Pretty much, if you survived childhood, you were likely to live to old age (unless you were a woman; then if you made it to menopause,you were good).
Yes that seems to be true, but current research seems to show that stockfish (salted cod) only started to become common in diets in Britain in the late Saxon period (9th-11th centuries AD), presumably due to advances in boat and fishing technology. Salt fish is still a big thing in Caribbean cooking. Mmmm - saltfish and ackee!
Salted and fresh fish were more common they what is said in the video. While fish like salmon were were eaten mainly by the rich in the middle ages cheaper more abundant fish like cod were more commonly eaten by the poor. Fish in ponds and lakes were the lord's but fish in streams and rivers that were not directly on the lord's manor house area were usually fished by the poor because of the many deaths due to the black plague there were areas where there not highly populated so small hamlets in more rural areas would have places were the poor could fish and not get caught doing it. It's a lot harder to poach an animal in a lord's forest opposed to catching a few small fish in a river that's far from anyone else.
Butter is derived from the Ancient Greek “boutyron” - literally, “bovine (cow’s) cheese”; it was certainly widely available in the Classical world, and there is good evidence to suppose that it was introduced at least as far back as the Old Kingdom of Egypt, perhaps even earlier (before the middle of the fourth millennium BCE) in Mesopotamia, and farther afield in the Indus Valley civilizations centred at Harappa and Mohenjo Daro. Keep in mind that these dates are only indicative of the earliest records we have for the preparation of dairy products akin to butter. In my estimation, it is very plausible that butter had already been known for millennia before that among nomadic pastoralists and cattle-herders.
@@jasonbailey1951 - I’m an Egyptologist and Classical archaeologist. I’m not a professor because I have not yet completed my doctoral dissertation though I have taught university courses in ancient history, archaeology, and ancient languages. My PhD thesis has to do with ancient foodstuffs and other organics studied mainly through ceramic residue analysis.
My Scots Irish American Family we're cattle and Dairymen going back to ancient times. Ran out of Scotland and replaced by sheepherders, wool more valuable to the English Lords. Cattle and Dairy Farmers of America. My town was known as cowtown USA. The land of milk and honey in what once was California.
Has anyone noticed at 15:23 the guy eating soup has a spoon piercing through his green hat? 😂😂😂 I really thought he was going to use that spoon to eat his soup
8:40 That is not exactly true. Peasants were generally allowed to hunt/trap smaller animals. Only certain (larger) game was reserved for the Nobility. Hunting a Rabbit was perfectly legal virtually everywhere, at the very least if it ventured near the fields.
Sir Castic so they didn’t get sent to the gallows for having meat in their stew? That’s good if they didn’t. That’s a petty thing to be killed for. I thought that was really harsh. Even for those times :(
@@MegumiCiBear on the British Isles, sending to the gallows for poaching or even encroaching on a landowner's territory was at it's peak in the mid-1800s, with the Victorian love of the home and personal property, and yes, death would be the sentence for serious and very petty crimes, alike. For example, stealing a tea set would get you sent to Australia, which was a voluntary alternative to hanging (and not everybody was brave enough to travel, so they opted for death, instead). There were, of course, restrictions and punishments in England and in continental Europe across all time periods regulating exactly who could enter a certain piece of land and what they were allowed to do there, but the law would not see you hang for collecting berries or killing a rabbit to feed your family. After all, you and your family also belonged to the noble and dead peasants cannot be put to work. Yes, if you were a particularly pesky and frequent offender, death or transportation to the penal colonies would be your punishment, but that largely came after the end of the Medieval period.
In the english case thats true. But in other regions like here in former swabia germany, hunting anything as a peasant could indeed very well introduce you to the dungeon or even the gallows of your local castle. Greets from Germany
"Butter had yet to be invented" um, no. Just no. Butter had been around for thousands of years. It existed in the middle ages. I was really enjoying this until that bit of ignorance and now I doubt all the rest of the information.
yes, this entire video is riddled with inaccuracies and downright falsehoods. It's not up to the normal standards for Timeline. Given the weird voiceover actor, I think they purchased it from abroad rather than researching and creating it themselves.
@Punk Rock Piper Um...what? For the first thousand years of Church history, there was only one Church, the Catholic Church. After that, there were two Churches, the Catholic Chuch, and the orthodox church. It wasn't until the 16th century when Martin Luther invented protestantism. Catholics are Christians.
Where did that weird butter "factoid" come from? Utterly preposterous. Butter was an invention of the Neolithic. Pots have been found in bogs dating to that time and later containing residue, as well as whole slabs of the stuff. The ancient Romans had strong opinions about butter, considering it a barbaric food, but valuing it instead for cosmetic purposes. Geez. What else did they get wrong in this piece?
Absolutely. Butter was most commonly eaten in the north, by the Celts, Balts, Slavs, and the Norse Vikings who melted it down and used to fry already boiled oatmeal and barley porridge and then have boiled-down salted fish and beer added to it to make savory breakfast gruel which was the most common food of the day and so popular it was even the favorite food of several of the gods in the Viking religion. Melted butter was stated by many early Islamic and Christian chroniclers like Ibn Fadlan and Adam of Bremen to be a sacred food of the Viking and Slavic gods and was rubbed into the wooden idols. Same story in India with the Hindu religion and how clarified ghee butter has been used and consumed over there for centuries both for faith-based reasons and as a regular frying oil.
There are other mistakes. The French academic speaking of bread incorrectly states that inferior bread had more chaff in it. He means bran -- not chaff.
It's also a regional thing. During certain periods, potatoes, for example, were widely consumed in some regions but were considered little more than pig slop or animal fodder in others. Tomatoes were assumed to be highly poisonous because they came from the nightshade family of plants, so for a long time, nobody cultivated or ate tomatoes.
Yes, they're native to South America. I believe Europe got its tomatoes from Spain initially, who got them from South America. Europe didn't start widely consuming tomatoes until the 1600s or so, I think. To clarify, people in parts of Europe thought tomatoes were toxic. People elsewhere had been consuming them for generations.
The whole view of fish reserved for the rich possibly! I have heard conflicting sources saying that in some regions, fish was commonly eaten by peasants and was, in fact, a common lunch meal.
I think there is some dispute over the translation of butter from Middle Eastern texts however, there is a suggestion that butter was known in Northern Europe during Roman times.
we have evidence of butter production from bogs that well and good predate roman occupation X''D i would certainly hope people are suggesting it was known
While I enjoyed the documentary, there are a few things that struck me as odd; this butter reference was one of them, the other being the reference to medieval meat being "too fresh" for our palates, and "not cured enough". Say whaaat... the best meat I've ever had was fried pork from a pig killed an hour before... Don't think it gets much fresher than that.
I love when people study food history! My grandfather cooked a duck pie twice and my mother ate both of them... ( He kept the duck hanging for two weeks)
Pink bunny but atleast you ate it cuz you were in her tummy silly. I got hungry watching this documentary and it's 4 am here. So I came to a restaurant. 😂😂😂
Pink bunny/// good food, good friends and plenty of wine now that's love. I love cooking, and French is in my blood, I've never had a single complaint of my culinary art...this is where one can see how vain I can be, however who cares when their mouths are full and beg for more LOL!!!
During the winter months the peasants ate pease porridge and salt cod. Everything was thrown into the cauldron over the fire day after day, added ingredients as came in on a daily basis with the pot seldom being cleaned out. Thus the nursery rhyme--"Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot nine days old."
Moechammad Albarr,hahahaha!!! Omg amazing dude!! I diden't watch it with this eagle vision as you have!! Hahaha.it was a peugeot!! So at least it was a French car;) hahaha.i will go to bed with a smile...thanx ;) !!
The Romans used Butter, so did the Egyptians. It was very well known to the ancient world, but since it wasn’t known to middle age Europe until post crusades doesn’t mean it “wasn’t invented yet”.... c’mon guys.
Agusta Sister yes, of course they did. That was my entire point. The entirety of the Middle Ages was Europe rediscovering knowledge that the Romans had prior to collapse.
The English knew about butter. Perhaps the French did not. This is definitely a "Timeline" about medieval French/Italian cuisine; hence, the focus on wine rather than ale. While the video says that little fish was consumed, that was not true of the English. The ordinary people ate sea fish. Freshwater fish were reserved for the lords and monasteries that owned the rights to the lakes, rivers, and artificial ponds.
Butter had been around since the domestication of cattle and sheep. As milk/butter was a side food staple from lactating animals which was bagged and carried in the side of the animal as they were herded, butter would form. Of course todays' 'cowboys' think that milk cheese and butter all come from the 7-11. Morons that they are. 'But hey, I line dance.'. Uh, huck.
There is a lot of misinformation in this video. At 13:30, for instance, Allen Grieco states that people of lesser status consumed bread with "chaff" in it. This incorrect: chaff is inedible, and in fact the whole point of _threshing_ and _winnowing_ grain is to remove the inedible chaff from the grains themselves. He means "bran" -- not chaff. The inclusion of bran -- that is, the whole grain -- is what gives brown bread, which is what medieval peasants ate, its darker color. Refined grains, such as those used to make white bread, are processed to have the bran removed.
Have you done research or are you just guessing? I can totally see chaff being added to stretch the bread further. Why wouldn't whole grain be refined?
One thing that keeps bugging me is everybody keeps eating with their left hand. You would NEVER eat with your left hand. >.< That's the hand you wipe your ass with.
18:55-19:00 - Most of the higher clergy, then as now, hardly ever abstained let alone fasted...the strict application of such quaint practices were meant for the sheep - not the pastors. Throughout the Middle Ages, monastics and bishops, in particular, were renowned for their rotundness...
"Salmon was food for the nobility". Uh no. Salmon and freshwater fish were easy/plentiful to catch, and therefore, food of the peasantry. This documentary seems woefully under-researched.
More probably it's based on narrow research, from sources concerned with specific times and places. What was true in one area and in one era may be drastically different in another.
This makes me appreciate the fact that I bake my own bread. I haven’t bought bread in almost 9 months, and we always have bread in our home..home made is always best..
i made a killer 16th-17th Spanish paella i choose the north of spain soo i used smoked chorizo and chicken broth rather than south of spain ''sea side'' that use fish or squid ink broth and shrimp. made my own seasoning with the moor inspired saffron, turmeric and smoked paprika spice! i though i was the only person that liked to relive history with food! untill i saw this!
array s are you referring to the thing going on in Iran? Even in America, the Evangelicals preachers, they have private jets and live in huge mansions, and all they do is open their mouths. And this was supposed to be the church of the puritans that broke away from the Catholic Church due to their excesses. Some things never change, huh? In the end they are only humans, just humans.
OMG thanks so much for posting this! I've been scouring the internet for this series. I hope you all post more from this series *fingers crossed** all I can find is the Roman one and a clip on the 18th-century one. Excellent channel!
Did they just claim that people today wouldn't eat the meat in this time because it was too fresh and hadn't aged? I'm fully aware the they didn't eat rotten or spoiled meat; that's just an old wife's tale, but... Look, I don't know about you, but I prefer my meat fresh. I have eaten meat that was fresh killed. It's better. A lot better than meat that has sat frozen for a few weeks.
AkodoAkira1 sushi meat is “aged” two days to achieve its peak flavor. Fresh tuna meat tastes bland so they leave it to age for two days before deeming it ready for consumption.
I do like Aged steak, but that's expensive and I prefer it with certain kinds of meat, not all meat should be aged or let to sit. This show seems to suggest that no one today would ever consider eating freshly killed meat. That's just silly.
Sushi meat is not always aged. It really depends on the fish. Typically it is flash frozen on the boat and then transported back to the market. From there, again depending on the fish in question, it is either aged a day or so, served immediately, brined, or else smoked. It really depends on what qualities the sushi chef is trying to bring out from the fish and what the nature of the fish itself has. Most shell fish is not helped by aging for example. Regardless, this initial comment was more to "meat" and not "fish," a subtle distinction. The Docu seemed to imply that modern consumers do not like the taste of animals (pork, beef, chicken) that has been recently killed and prefer meat that has sat for a day or so in the cooler. This is just not true, most meat DOES sit in the cooler or hang in the meat truck, but we really do eat most of the meat within 3-4 days of killing. This is not enough time for the aging process to really break down the meat like with an aged steak. Plus, depending on how the meat is stored (frozen, extremely low temps, vacuum sealed, etc) it also impairs or slows the aging process. It's not like you cut a pork chop off the pig and immediately eat it that it will be foul, nor that if you take that same chop and shove it in a fridge for three days it will be ten times better. I just find this documentary to be rather full of terrible information.
Medieval Gordon Ramsay the squire. "Dost thou knowest that thine chicken is so raw the last squire that tried serving it is still rotting in the bloody dungeon!!????"
A lot of the concepts behind medieval cookery (including periodic vegetarianism and the use of herbs and other ingredients as medicine rather than simply for flavour) resemble those of Aruvedic medicine, no doubt because of contact with India via the Silk Road. It is interesting that these concepts are starting to come into their own again! Also, George R.R. Martin uses an extensive knowledge of medieval cookery in his Song of Ice and Fire books.
Later, they will probably think that those modern foods you listed were cursed by Satan because it will bring them diseases that modern chemical foods invented. These diseases were not seen in medieval times because they were invented by modern chemical ingredients and they will add more to the demonic mystique of these modern foods. LOL!! 🤣🤣🤣
I find it funny that they considered the white bread to be the best; granted there's not chaff. These days we're looking for the coolest grains; spelt, wheat, rye and a whole slew of others for our bread. I wonder what they would think of what we eat now.
ColoradoLady72/// their white bread was nothing like ours today. With nothing removed from the grain, exempt the husks they had natural unrefined flours, all prepared with stone mills. Our foods are so over processed today, they'd say it has no taste, and most unsatisfying.
Actually, it was the best because the bran was removed-the part most likely to go rancid. Today we get fresh grain quickly and can store it in optimum conditions-back then, you ate nasty tasting bread if that was what you had.
H Yeah, depends how it was stored. Temperature, humidity and storage method affect it. Best to keep it in a freezer but of course they didn't have that. When I first started making whole wheat bread I just kept my flour in a big jar and it turned bad within a month, even though it was in a cool, dry space.
Ku dos to all the sharp eyed viewers for the great little detail spotted @20:20 on far left hand side of screen. Apparently one of the devout medieval peasants, featured in this fine, costumed and faithfully reenacted documentary, decided to shorten up the whole business of pilgrimage considerably, by just hopping in the handy middle ages family car !! Parking seems to have been a breeze in the medieval era, as he apparently got a spot right up front. No doubt this would be due to the lack of opposing traffic back then and assisted by the lane lines and directional arrows helpfully adorning the portico ! Well, you really do learn something new from these documentaries don't you !! 😄🤣😁😅😂👏👌👍 My thanks again to all of you that called this out.... still laughing !!
I´d go with pasta in middle ages. Flour, eggs and water were avalible at the era, as well as cheese, and it goes well with anything, meat, vegetables, fish, mushroom...
THANK YOU for using "A.D." correctly!!!!! You began narrartion with, "It is the year of our Lord, 1427....." (You didnt say, " It is 1427 AD.....) Applause. Bravo. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Salmon was amongst the most common fish in the middle ages. Actually there were times when salmon was considered a "poor man's fish", mainly used to feed servants...
Try Time Team, where a little nugget of information was that you couldn't force your servants to eat salmon more than three times a week. They backed this up with factual, period written text though I can't find the exact episode at present - still looking. Who didn't do their research on this documentary?
I didnt know Gordon Ramsey's ancestors were French. Did you listen to the language being spoken by the actors in this documentary and the place names, you effen donut?
and so in 43C heat I ventured out for Ginger and Cinnamon. And some honey. And I made that wine brew mentioned, and yep it's good OK. Probably better in front of a log fire though.. But I'll keep at it to get the taste perfect. More Ginger oddly, much more
Fish for the wealthy and the church were kept in stews the others had highly salted and fresh fish from the Hansa and lakes/river baskets as in the Thames.
Where does the idea come from that 'the poor' (ie: everyone beside the aristocracy) ate largely cereals? Don't these people know that growing cereals is a labourintensive and unpredictable business? If a person is relying on cereals for 90 percent of their calories (and they needed a lot of calories with physical labour and all), do they even know how much wheat and barley they needed to grow for a family of five?! Do they know how much LAND this takes?!! And what if a wheat or barley crop failed, and if the people were relying for 90 percent of these crops, this would mean that two bad harvest in a row would decimate, nay, eridicate a population. Rubbish! We know that cereals were important because you can STORE cereals. This meant that you could eat it in the winter when nothing else was growing. Fish and meat could be dried and salted (and they did). During the 'green' season, they ate a lot of vegetables. Really, these 'experts' are insane. Claiming that a population depended for 90 percent on one food for five, six centuries while the Irish nearly all died after relying on potatoes for 90 percent of their food for a couple of decades... Stupidity squared! If they had goats, they had milk and cheese. We historians KNOW that they had dried and salted fish. They had pigs for meat, chickens for eggs. Vegetables in the garden and 'wild food' on common land. And yes, they had cereals, and they, like the dried fish and salted meat, were important because these were the things that could be eaten during the entire year and did not rely on the season, which is handy if you don't have a freezer, fridge, canning jars and canner or airplanes and ships that bring you food from accross the world. You could only eat what you grew and raised yourself and a few things that were traded, such as dried and salted fish from the coast. Besides... not every 'poor person' was a penniless, downtrodden serf! There were many, many layers in medieval society. Some were the poorest of the poor and some had handsome houses, servants, land and animals, fine pewter and stoneware and richtly coloured clothes. And lots and varied food.
@@galesal1109 I mean which is it??? They gave the reason on here for salmon not being freely available is that the rivers were owned by the landholders, and therefore prohibited the peasants from fishing in them...but we know that either way, at least some of them were doing it, under penalty of death (?)...
"Poor did not eat fish", every seatown or fishing village during middle age are like = "Am I a joke to you?" "Butter not invented yet", all those ironage people sacrefising butter to the gods by throwing big lumps of it in to a bog are like = "Am I a joke to you?"
Stopped watching at 'butter had yet to be invented' this is poorly researched bs Butter has been around for thousands of years, it was very much known in the medieval period and not uncommon in many parts of europe
@WAFFEN COLLIDER i was about to tsay the same thing, i think some examples of bog butter dates back to Roman times. Butter has been around since we first domesticated goats and sheep making it thousands of years old.
The finding of science of what the peasants and not nobles ate. stews (or pottages) of meat (beef and mutton) and vegetables such as cabbage and leek, were the mainstay of the medieval peasant diet. The research also showed that dairy products, likely the ‘green cheeses’ known to be eaten by the peasantry, also played an important role in their diet. Often they relied on what they grew on their harvests. This is what Scientist discovered a few years ago and used a chemical and isotopic techniques to identify lipids, the fats, oils and natural waxes of the natural world, from the ceramics found at West Cotton in Northamptonshire.
I love how everybody in the household pitched in and helped in the cooking and not force all the cooking on one person/woman. It's nice watching families work together like that 🙂
The section about steam rooms makes me think of Scandinavian saunas, but from what I have seen in a video of someone living in Finland, while nudity in sauna settings is very casual, casual touching is almost totally avoided in all situations. I wonder at what point in history that came about, and was the no-touch culture a thing caused by religious chastity ideals?
Saunas in Finland (and in Scandinavia) have always had a purifying concept, where there is a certain etiquette that should be followed. They're very similar in concept with Native American sweat lodges, though those are usually focused on the spiritual side rather than physical.
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Your ancestors did nothing. You should wish they copied middle-eastern cooking. That way you could have falafals every day.
As a chef, I sometimes feel burdened by cooking. Food history rein-stills how grateful and privileged I am to run a kitchen, create and prepare food daily . It is a beautifully intimate and humble art that will forever define who I am.
culinary is a dead end. dont listen to this. unless you own the restaurant youre someones slave, if you do own the restaurant youre the restaurants slave. dont pursue this field, eventually you will just end up in a management position and there are way easier management positions that pay more. dont go to culinary school, cooking is just a step on your journey; use it but dont let it use you. if you disagree you arent in the industry, youre new to the industry, or you haven't realized the truth
I went into food sales, Monarch, PYA, then Nestle. Hade to get out of that hot kitchen, use you knowledge not your back.
James plus you get to do Coke and bang wait staff and live in a big house with your buddies.
digtime16bit Sooo true! You really know what your'e talking about!👏👍
+James No one understands what you said. They sound like MBA students, absolutely certain that you should do like them. Not all people are motivated by the same things, for which I am thankful. The blind belief that getting rich is the only important thing, the only judge of a person, is the result a most unfortunate narcissistic mind set .
*We take it for granted today, but a single Dorito has more extreme nacho flavor than a peasant in the 1300s would get in his whole lifetime.*
Tom Bombadil/// well Tom just think if it wouldn't be for those spices from the Orient and India back in the days...your Dorito would be tasteless LOL
Tom Bombadil says:
"We take it for granted today, but a single Dorito has more extreme nacho flavor than a peasant in the 1300s would get in his whole lifetime."
==
Invention of MSG.
Doritos don't contain any spices from the Orient and India...they're made from corn (native to the Americas) and the flavours are all artificial.
They were probably a lot healthier though
my ancestors had better food cuz they weren't from europe.
Today we all eat like only kings did back in the day. We actually eat better because we have access to more things from all over the world in all seasons.I like these documentaries because it helps to appreciate the luxuries we take for granted today.
You don't even need to go back that far in history, only 100 years or so. Even if you were a Rockefeller or Vanderbilt you wouldn't have fresh fruits/vegetables all year. Overall food selection at grocery stores wasn't even 10% of what it is now, no matter how much money you had to spend. I read that Rockefeller loved apples and paid the equivalent of about $15k in today's money every week to make sure he had them. They also wouldn't have had central heating and air conditioning.... the nice cars we have.... the communication ability.
We are quite lucky. But I wonder, in 100 years, what will people say we lacked in this time? They'll probably talk about how much we spent on fossil fuels. How much of the world was still mired in poverty. How bad pollution was.
In addition to being able to access nearly every food available on earth there is now preservation methods such as refrigeration and canning, smoking, curing - the American's diet I can speak for because I am here on this continent...has above adequate macro-nutrients and micro nutrients...there is clean water, no need for drinking fermented beverages yet one can if they wish and it will most likely be safe...unlike in times past. There is much for which to be grateful.
Well, i like these documentaries because it show us how decadente and out of morals and values we are compared to what the people had in those days. And in a modern time in wich activists and utopian vegans and wilderness lovers whant to go live a simpler life ( in many cases in less condicions that the folks back then ) it makes me respect the middle age more and more and look at the ridiculessness of the peopple of today.
Grateful for clean water, indoor plumbing and my oven.
Also grateful for toilet paper.
This documentary: "Salmon was a luxury."
Other documentary: "No it wasn't."
Adam B Seafood in general was considered a luxury of the elite classes.Bread and pulses
being the relevant norm of the lower i.e. working classes throughout much of europe,and gosh golly gee whiz,in Switzerland too;)))
is common in some place in medieval times and not other places.
Fish is free...especially river or lake fish, river/lake fish isn’t a luxury
Lol, oh right I forgot...must’ve fit somewhere between paying to receive forgiveness and requesting permission to breathe
unlike the other commenters, who obviously haven't seen that episode of Modern History TV. I too was puzzled by that statement.
People also did not die at 40 in the Middle Ages!!! That number is low due to high infant/child mortality.
many people lived into their seventies, but that was definitely not the norm. Pretty much, if you survived childhood, you were likely to live to old age (unless you were a woman; then if you made it to menopause,you were good).
Are infants and children somehow not *people*? Why do you not want to take them into account?
What the narrator said is men in the middle ages died at average age 40
You have to factor in the lack of medicines and health services that added up to the rate.
What was the average life expectancy?
The poor did eat a lot of fish: salted or dried saltwater fish was a medieval staple.
Yes that seems to be true, but current research seems to show that stockfish (salted cod) only started to become common in diets in Britain in the late Saxon period (9th-11th centuries AD), presumably due to advances in boat and fishing technology. Salt fish is still a big thing in Caribbean cooking. Mmmm - saltfish and ackee!
Salted and fresh fish were more common they what is said in the video. While fish like salmon were were eaten mainly by the rich in the middle ages cheaper more abundant fish like cod were more commonly eaten by the poor. Fish in ponds and lakes were the lord's but fish in streams and rivers that were not directly on the lord's manor house area were usually fished by the poor because of the many deaths due to the black plague there were areas where there not highly populated so small hamlets in more rural areas would have places were the poor could fish and not get caught doing it. It's a lot harder to poach an animal in a lord's forest opposed to catching a few small fish in a river that's far from anyone else.
@@Swan_Queen1177 But Salmon were freely available in rivers and considered common food.
Fresh water eel was also a thing.
i think he meant salmon in gen
Butter is derived from the Ancient Greek “boutyron” - literally, “bovine (cow’s) cheese”; it was certainly widely available in the Classical world, and there is good evidence to suppose that it was introduced at least as far back as the Old Kingdom of Egypt, perhaps even earlier (before the middle of the fourth millennium BCE) in Mesopotamia, and farther afield in the Indus Valley civilizations centred at Harappa and Mohenjo Daro. Keep in mind that these dates are only indicative of the earliest records we have for the preparation of dairy products akin to butter. In my estimation, it is very plausible that butter had already been known for millennia before that among nomadic pastoralists and cattle-herders.
And why aren't you a professor of ancient and historical food stuffs?
@@jasonbailey1951 - I’m an Egyptologist and Classical archaeologist. I’m not a professor because I have not yet completed my doctoral dissertation though I have taught university courses in ancient history, archaeology, and ancient languages. My PhD thesis has to do with ancient foodstuffs and other organics studied mainly through ceramic residue analysis.
@@dorianphilotheates3769 that’s still relevant, kool and interesting! 👍
@@laceylewis3197 - Thanks, I’m glad you found it so. 🙂
My Scots Irish American Family we're cattle and Dairymen going back to ancient times. Ran out of Scotland and replaced by sheepherders, wool more valuable to the English Lords. Cattle and Dairy Farmers of America. My town was known as cowtown USA. The land of milk and honey in what once was California.
Has anyone noticed at 15:23 the guy eating soup has a spoon piercing through his green hat? 😂😂😂 I really thought he was going to use that spoon to eat his soup
Even I thought that was down right weird
It's better than a medieval car parked by a church at 20:21
Brilliant 😂 🥄
What's the story behind that? A hat with a spoon.
8:40
That is not exactly true. Peasants were generally allowed to hunt/trap smaller animals. Only certain (larger) game was reserved for the Nobility.
Hunting a Rabbit was perfectly legal virtually everywhere, at the very least if it ventured near the fields.
ok
Sir Castic so they didn’t get sent to the gallows for having meat in their stew? That’s good if they didn’t. That’s a petty thing to be killed for. I thought that was really harsh. Even for those times :(
@@MegumiCiBear on the British Isles, sending to the gallows for poaching or even encroaching on a landowner's territory was at it's peak in the mid-1800s, with the Victorian love of the home and personal property, and yes, death would be the sentence for serious and very petty crimes, alike. For example, stealing a tea set would get you sent to Australia, which was a voluntary alternative to hanging (and not everybody was brave enough to travel, so they opted for death, instead). There were, of course, restrictions and punishments in England and in continental Europe across all time periods regulating exactly who could enter a certain piece of land and what they were allowed to do there, but the law would not see you hang for collecting berries or killing a rabbit to feed your family. After all, you and your family also belonged to the noble and dead peasants cannot be put to work. Yes, if you were a particularly pesky and frequent offender, death or transportation to the penal colonies would be your punishment, but that largely came after the end of the Medieval period.
@@Opalie pipe down 🤫
In the english case thats true.
But in other regions like here in former swabia germany, hunting anything as a peasant could indeed very well introduce you to the dungeon or even the gallows of your local castle.
Greets from Germany
"Butter had yet to be invented" um, no. Just no. Butter had been around for thousands of years. It existed in the middle ages. I was really enjoying this until that bit of ignorance and now I doubt all the rest of the information.
yes, this entire video is riddled with inaccuracies and downright falsehoods. It's not up to the normal standards for Timeline. Given the weird voiceover actor, I think they purchased it from abroad rather than researching and creating it themselves.
As long as there has been cows there has been milk, butter cheese and cream🐮
I laughed too. They found a butter recipe on a tablet over 4k years old. Butter was around.
@Punk Rock Piper hahahahahahaaa 😂😂
@Punk Rock Piper Um...what? For the first thousand years of Church history, there was only one Church, the Catholic Church. After that, there were two Churches, the Catholic Chuch, and the orthodox church. It wasn't until the 16th century when Martin Luther invented protestantism. Catholics are Christians.
Where did that weird butter "factoid" come from? Utterly preposterous. Butter was an invention of the Neolithic. Pots have been found in bogs dating to that time and later containing residue, as well as whole slabs of the stuff. The ancient Romans had strong opinions about butter, considering it a barbaric food, but valuing it instead for cosmetic purposes. Geez. What else did they get wrong in this piece?
Absolutely. Butter was most commonly eaten in the north, by the Celts, Balts, Slavs, and the Norse Vikings who melted it down and used to fry already boiled oatmeal and barley porridge and then have boiled-down salted fish and beer added to it to make savory breakfast gruel which was the most common food of the day and so popular it was even the favorite food of several of the gods in the Viking religion. Melted butter was stated by many early Islamic and Christian chroniclers like Ibn Fadlan and Adam of Bremen to be a sacred food of the Viking and Slavic gods and was rubbed into the wooden idols. Same story in India with the Hindu religion and how clarified ghee butter has been used and consumed over there for centuries both for faith-based reasons and as a regular frying oil.
There are other mistakes. The French academic speaking of bread incorrectly states that inferior bread had more chaff in it. He means bran -- not chaff.
It's also a regional thing. During certain periods, potatoes, for example, were widely consumed in some regions but were considered little more than pig slop or animal fodder in others. Tomatoes were assumed to be highly poisonous because they came from the nightshade family of plants, so for a long time, nobody cultivated or ate tomatoes.
Yes, they're native to South America. I believe Europe got its tomatoes from Spain initially, who got them from South America. Europe didn't start widely consuming tomatoes until the 1600s or so, I think.
To clarify, people in parts of Europe thought tomatoes were toxic. People elsewhere had been consuming them for generations.
The whole view of fish reserved for the rich possibly! I have heard conflicting sources saying that in some regions, fish was commonly eaten by peasants and was, in fact, a common lunch meal.
Butter had yet to be invented 19:36?Butter had been around for 3000 years in Europe before the middle ages.
I think there is some dispute over the translation of butter from Middle Eastern texts however, there is a suggestion that butter was known in Northern Europe during Roman times.
we have evidence of butter production from bogs that well and good predate roman occupation X''D i would certainly hope people are suggesting it was known
Oh good. Exactly what I thought.
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While I enjoyed the documentary, there are a few things that struck me as odd; this butter reference was one of them, the other being the reference to medieval meat being "too fresh" for our palates, and "not cured enough". Say whaaat... the best meat I've ever had was fried pork from a pig killed an hour before... Don't think it gets much fresher than that.
I've been looking for this video for months. I don't know where I saw it the first time, but I'm glad I finally found it!
Everything cooked with charcoal, even the bread. Food must have tasted amazing!
It was actually quite bland compared to todays standards, since there was no artificial flavoring and limited spices.
My stepfather cooks like that in Puerto Rico.
I love when people study food history! My grandfather cooked a duck pie twice and my mother ate both of them... ( He kept the duck hanging for two weeks)
I wanna eat too.
Well, I do too. She ate before I was born
Pink bunny but atleast you ate it cuz you were in her tummy silly. I got hungry watching this documentary and it's 4 am here. So I came to a restaurant. 😂😂😂
I've heard this from my relatives. The stink of meat was valued, I don't know why.
Pink bunny/// good food, good friends and plenty of wine now that's love. I love cooking, and French is in my blood, I've never had a single complaint of my culinary art...this is where one can see how vain I can be, however who cares when their mouths are full and beg for more LOL!!!
During the winter months the peasants ate pease porridge and salt cod. Everything was thrown into the cauldron over the fire day after day, added ingredients as came in on a daily basis with the pot seldom being cleaned out. Thus the nursery rhyme--"Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot nine days old."
When I was a kid I thought they were talking about split pea soup 😂
I think I'm addicted to food. I have to some at least 2-3 times a day.
Jimmy try 6 smaller ones daily it's better for you, and more enjoyable. I make it into a daily rituals of gastronomy. LOL
Nooo. 6 smaller meals is definitely not better!
chikennadobo/// no? well then try seven LOL
@@cherisunday What, are you hobbit?
It's a very devastating disease at best. One bite and you're hooked for life.
hahahaha 20:19
Hold up boys, my uber just arrived i'll be back later for evening prayer
20:20 i thought in the medieval era there was no car but i was wrong.
Moechammad Albarr well it's either oops or this is a recreation of medieval life.
Ha!
It was Doc Brown and Marty McFly
Moechammad Albarr,hahahaha!!! Omg amazing dude!! I diden't watch it with this eagle vision as you have!! Hahaha.it was a peugeot!! So at least it was a French car;) hahaha.i will go to bed with a smile...thanx ;) !!
Moechammad Albarr lol
19:36 "Butter had yet to be invented."
Really?
I was thinking the same thing. Butter has been around since the domestification of cattle.
BS, Butter is mentioned in the Old Testament and existed prior to it. Where there is cattle, expect there to be butter.
Rozni Yusof : Air wasn’t invented yet, either.....
20:20 "Evidently the Automobile was." O.o
@ Will Zadick - I though it was Hilarious! It took me right out of the reenactment. :(
This documentary clarified a lot of misconceptions I had on food during the middle ages.
Didn't realize that car was already there in medieval times 😂 20:21
The Romans used Butter, so did the Egyptians. It was very well known to the ancient world, but since it wasn’t known to middle age Europe until post crusades doesn’t mean it “wasn’t invented yet”.... c’mon guys.
Joe's Technology, News, and Life fot new for u...they knew about butter and cheese
Agusta Sister yes, of course they did. That was my entire point. The entirety of the Middle Ages was Europe rediscovering knowledge that the Romans had prior to collapse.
Joe's Technology, News, and Life they invented it because those were remote alien cultures.
Coretta Hattereaux I hope that’s sarcastic
The English knew about butter. Perhaps the French did not. This is definitely a "Timeline" about medieval French/Italian cuisine; hence, the focus on wine rather than ale. While the video says that little fish was consumed, that was not true of the English. The ordinary people ate sea fish. Freshwater fish were reserved for the lords and monasteries that owned the rights to the lakes, rivers, and artificial ponds.
Butter wasn't envented yet?....the Romans spoke of the German tribes using butter and how inferior butter was to olive oil...
Romans have no idea how wrong they were about butter for cooking
Butter had been around since the domestication of cattle and sheep. As milk/butter was a side food staple from lactating animals which was bagged and carried in the side of the animal as they were herded, butter would form. Of course todays' 'cowboys' think that milk cheese and butter all come from the 7-11. Morons that they are. 'But hey, I line dance.'. Uh, huck.
YES
Fascinating journey into the world of medieval cookery.
This makes thankful about living in the 21st century.
There is a lot of misinformation in this video. At 13:30, for instance, Allen Grieco states that people of lesser status consumed bread with "chaff" in it. This incorrect: chaff is inedible, and in fact the whole point of _threshing_ and _winnowing_ grain is to remove the inedible chaff from the grains themselves. He means "bran" -- not chaff. The inclusion of bran -- that is, the whole grain -- is what gives brown bread, which is what medieval peasants ate, its darker color. Refined grains, such as those used to make white bread, are processed to have the bran removed.
Have you done research or are you just guessing? I can totally see chaff being added to stretch the bread further. Why wouldn't whole grain be refined?
True the chaff became food for livestock since it was inedible for humans entirely.
One thing that keeps bugging me is everybody keeps eating with their left hand. You would NEVER eat with your left hand. >.< That's the hand you wipe your ass with.
@@peacefulinvasionI'm guessing washing hands with soap or other equivalents with soap did not exist back then?
Stone age "bog butter" was found in Irish peet bogs, so butter has been around for a long time.
Isn't it "peat bogs"...?
37:57 mixing of spices
18:55-19:00 - Most of the higher clergy, then as now, hardly ever abstained let alone fasted...the strict application of such quaint practices were meant for the sheep - not the pastors. Throughout the Middle Ages, monastics and bishops, in particular, were renowned for their rotundness...
Loved the Video!!Awesome Info about,Our World History!
Very interesting series but the costant interruptions for the ads is very annoying.
Looks good to me, I'll bring a bottle of wine.
Jeff Lebowski no White Russians?
"Salmon was food for the nobility". Uh no. Salmon and freshwater fish were easy/plentiful to catch, and therefore, food of the peasantry. This documentary seems woefully under-researched.
More probably it's based on narrow research, from sources concerned with specific times and places. What was true in one area and in one era may be drastically different in another.
they had crazy good cameras back then
This makes me appreciate the fact that I bake my own bread. I haven’t bought bread in almost 9 months, and we always have bread in our home..home made is always best..
i made a killer 16th-17th Spanish paella i choose the north of spain soo i used smoked chorizo and chicken broth rather than south of spain ''sea side'' that use fish or squid ink broth and shrimp. made my own seasoning with the moor inspired saffron, turmeric and smoked paprika spice! i though i was the only person that liked to relive history with food! untill i saw this!
This looks like it's part of a series. I wish the rest would be posted.
Amethyst Poulton-Harvey go to timeline
Amethyst Poulton-Harvey You don’t really know how TH-cam channels work, do ya? :p
If you search TH-cam for "food and the history of cooking, lots of videos come up. Bon appetite!
th-cam.com/video/1eaMix9x4HE/w-d-xo.html there's the beginning of a playlist of all the medieval videos.
White Man's Burden Thankyou much appreciated. 😄
How ironic that monks and priests, who were supposed to be the holiest, were the one who ate most meat and lived in comfort.
feralbear3615 Ok I wasn't the only one that noticed that too.
array s are you referring to the thing going on in Iran? Even in America, the Evangelicals preachers, they have private jets and live in huge mansions, and all they do is open their mouths. And this was supposed to be the church of the puritans that broke away from the Catholic Church due to their excesses. Some things never change, huh? In the end they are only humans, just humans.
What’s new? Its been that way since the dawn of civilisation.
feralbear3615/// do you think this has changed? I can assure you it has not. You should see what the clergy eats every day of the week LOL
feralbear3615 how strange that people equate privation and holiness. God hates you and wants you to have nada.
OMG thanks so much for posting this! I've been scouring the internet for this series. I hope you all post more from this series *fingers crossed** all I can find is the Roman one and a clip on the 18th-century one. Excellent channel!
You’re welcome. They’ll be episodes from that series released each week. Enjoy.
This is nice to watch whilst you're hungry... mmm!
Did they just claim that people today wouldn't eat the meat in this time because it was too fresh and hadn't aged? I'm fully aware the they didn't eat rotten or spoiled meat; that's just an old wife's tale, but...
Look, I don't know about you, but I prefer my meat fresh. I have eaten meat that was fresh killed. It's better. A lot better than meat that has sat frozen for a few weeks.
AkodoAkira1 sushi meat is “aged” two days to achieve its peak flavor. Fresh tuna meat tastes bland so they leave it to age for two days before deeming it ready for consumption.
I do like Aged steak, but that's expensive and I prefer it with certain kinds of meat, not all meat should be aged or let to sit. This show seems to suggest that no one today would ever consider eating freshly killed meat. That's just silly.
Sushi meat is not always aged. It really depends on the fish. Typically it is flash frozen on the boat and then transported back to the market. From there, again depending on the fish in question, it is either aged a day or so, served immediately, brined, or else smoked.
It really depends on what qualities the sushi chef is trying to bring out from the fish and what the nature of the fish itself has.
Most shell fish is not helped by aging for example.
Regardless, this initial comment was more to "meat" and not "fish," a subtle distinction. The Docu seemed to imply that modern consumers do not like the taste of animals (pork, beef, chicken) that has been recently killed and prefer meat that has sat for a day or so in the cooler. This is just not true, most meat DOES sit in the cooler or hang in the meat truck, but we really do eat most of the meat within 3-4 days of killing. This is not enough time for the aging process to really break down the meat like with an aged steak. Plus, depending on how the meat is stored (frozen, extremely low temps, vacuum sealed, etc) it also impairs or slows the aging process.
It's not like you cut a pork chop off the pig and immediately eat it that it will be foul, nor that if you take that same chop and shove it in a fridge for three days it will be ten times better. I just find this documentary to be rather full of terrible information.
AkodoAkira1 steak houses dry age the meat. It’s widely accepted as superior in quality, flavor, and tenderness if it’s been aged.
Coretta Hattereaux I know that. Aged is not spoiled.
Medieval Gordon Ramsay the squire.
"Dost thou knowest that thine chicken is so raw the last squire that tried serving it is still rotting in the bloody dungeon!!????"
A lot of the concepts behind medieval cookery (including periodic vegetarianism and the use of herbs and other ingredients as medicine rather than simply for flavour) resemble those of Aruvedic medicine, no doubt because of contact with India via the Silk Road. It is interesting that these concepts are starting to come into their own again! Also, George R.R. Martin uses an extensive knowledge of medieval cookery in his Song of Ice and Fire books.
Probably the Eastern Byzantine empire, the silk road become only open to Western Europe after the late Crusades to the early Renaissance.
Great details. Fantastic documentary (except for the butter reference 🍴)
can you imagine turning up there via a time machine with a few bacon cheeseburgers, large fries, coke and some chicken nuggets for them to try ?!
What the medieval peasants ate were healthy because they were real natural foods and not like fast food and other chemical trash we have today. LOL!!!
Later, they will probably think that those modern foods you listed were cursed by Satan because it will bring them diseases that modern chemical foods invented. These diseases were not seen in medieval times because they were invented by modern chemical ingredients and they will add more to the demonic mystique of these modern foods. LOL!! 🤣🤣🤣
Just pass me the mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli, and hamburger helper.....LOL
I find it funny that they considered the white bread to be the best; granted there's not chaff. These days we're looking for the coolest grains; spelt, wheat, rye and a whole slew of others for our bread. I wonder what they would think of what we eat now.
ColoradoLady72/// their white bread was nothing like ours today. With nothing removed from the grain, exempt the husks they had natural unrefined flours, all prepared with stone mills. Our foods are so over processed today, they'd say it has no taste, and most unsatisfying.
Actually, it was the best because the bran was removed-the part most likely to go rancid. Today we get fresh grain quickly and can store it in optimum conditions-back then, you ate nasty tasting bread if that was what you had.
i think (apart from the diferent tastes they might have had) they would think our food is too sweet, too salty... overall too intense.
Pretentious
H Yeah, depends how it was stored. Temperature, humidity and storage method affect it. Best to keep it in a freezer but of course they didn't have that. When I first started making whole wheat bread I just kept my flour in a big jar and it turned bad within a month, even though it was in a cool, dry space.
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dos to all the sharp eyed viewers for the great little detail spotted @20:20 on far left hand side of screen. Apparently one of the devout medieval peasants, featured in this fine, costumed and faithfully reenacted documentary, decided to shorten up the whole business of pilgrimage considerably, by just hopping in the handy middle ages family car !! Parking seems to have been a breeze in the medieval era, as he apparently got a spot right up front. No doubt this would be due to the lack of opposing traffic back then and assisted by the lane lines and directional arrows helpfully adorning the portico ! Well, you really do learn something new from these documentaries don't you !!
😄🤣😁😅😂👏👌👍 My thanks again to
all of you that called this out.... still laughing !!
Did she say butter wasn't invented in the MA?
I´d go with pasta in middle ages. Flour, eggs and water were avalible at the era, as well as cheese, and it goes well with anything, meat, vegetables, fish, mushroom...
they got a bunch of facts wrong
a bunch ? Maybe all of them.
Influenced by Islamic cooking = roasted whole pig. Ummmmm, no.
I love all of this and now I’m hungry
THANK YOU for using "A.D." correctly!!!!! You began narrartion with, "It is the year of our Lord, 1427....." (You didnt say, " It is 1427 AD.....)
Applause. Bravo. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
That is what AD means it's Latin and literally means in the year of our lord. Lol
Really interesting and well filmed doc.
WTF "butter was not invented yet"? Butter has been around for 1000s of years.
I eat Chinese food for breakfast, cotton candy for lunch, and bread with mustard for dinner.
Yum! I hope you are well
Salmon was amongst the most common fish in the middle ages. Actually there were times when salmon was considered a "poor man's fish", mainly used to feed servants...
same with lobster if i remember
Really enjoyed this thanks.
15:09 how did that peasant afford a gold ring? Must of stolen it from a lord, to the gallows
'must have' ffs.
what historical park are in and they talking about at 10:07 ? i can't understand the name....but it looks nice
Butter was yet to be invented? They got that wrong. Butter has been around for 4500 years.
Terrific video. Amazing picturization.
...peasants ate salmon too, buddy. i wanna see the sources cited here.
Try Time Team, where a little nugget of information was that you couldn't force your servants to eat salmon more than three times a week. They backed this up with factual, period written text though I can't find the exact episode at present - still looking. Who didn't do their research on this documentary?
I had a little chuckle at the aluminium pots shown....They had Iron, Bronze and Copper pots and some with Lead sealed joints.
I thought salmon was considered peasant food in medieval times?
Yep that’s what Ive read as well
My wife is Mexican and she uses a clay cooking pot just like the people in this film. Great beans are cooked this way.
Gordon Ramsey's ancestors
True
😁
I didnt know Gordon Ramsey's ancestors were French. Did you listen to the language being spoken by the actors in this documentary and the place names, you effen donut?
@@jimpark1721 It's a joke
Lmao
and so in 43C heat I ventured out for Ginger and Cinnamon. And some honey. And I made that wine brew mentioned, and yep it's good OK. Probably better in front of a log fire though.. But I'll keep at it to get the taste perfect. More Ginger oddly, much more
That sounded good.
20:20 awww, the history is wrong! the car did exist back in this days.
"Butter had yet to be invented."
John Cena: Art thou certain about that?
Fish for the wealthy and the church were kept in stews the others had highly salted and fresh fish from the Hansa and lakes/river baskets as in the Thames.
I find this stuff fascinating.
There was a car at 20:20 time traveler?
2:00 ALL, literally all, medieval documentarys beginn with this music.
Where does the idea come from that 'the poor' (ie: everyone beside the aristocracy) ate largely cereals? Don't these people know that growing cereals is a labourintensive and unpredictable business? If a person is relying on cereals for 90 percent of their calories (and they needed a lot of calories with physical labour and all), do they even know how much wheat and barley they needed to grow for a family of five?! Do they know how much LAND this takes?!! And what if a wheat or barley crop failed, and if the people were relying for 90 percent of these crops, this would mean that two bad harvest in a row would decimate, nay, eridicate a population.
Rubbish! We know that cereals were important because you can STORE cereals. This meant that you could eat it in the winter when nothing else was growing. Fish and meat could be dried and salted (and they did). During the 'green' season, they ate a lot of vegetables. Really, these 'experts' are insane. Claiming that a population depended for 90 percent on one food for five, six centuries while the Irish nearly all died after relying on potatoes for 90 percent of their food for a couple of decades... Stupidity squared!
If they had goats, they had milk and cheese. We historians KNOW that they had dried and salted fish. They had pigs for meat, chickens for eggs. Vegetables in the garden and 'wild food' on common land. And yes, they had cereals, and they, like the dried fish and salted meat, were important because these were the things that could be eaten during the entire year and did not rely on the season, which is handy if you don't have a freezer, fridge, canning jars and canner or airplanes and ships that bring you food from accross the world. You could only eat what you grew and raised yourself and a few things that were traded, such as dried and salted fish from the coast.
Besides... not every 'poor person' was a penniless, downtrodden serf! There were many, many layers in medieval society. Some were the poorest of the poor and some had handsome houses, servants, land and animals, fine pewter and stoneware and richtly coloured clothes. And lots and varied food.
20:22 that's my car at the left
You must have been the knight with the most horsepower.
I just watched another show that said peasants often ate salmon because it was caught in the wild...
I saw that video too. I think it might be bc that one was about England and this one is about France.
It is true though that salmon was very available to medieval peasants.
The Middle Ages were magic!
Hmm.. Modern History channel talked about this n said that salmon was a common food of the peasants and freely available in rivers...
yep, I stop watching after they incorrectly said that salmon wasn't a common food for the peasants.
@@galesal1109 I mean which is it??? They gave the reason on here for salmon not being freely available is that the rivers were owned by the landholders, and therefore prohibited the peasants from fishing in them...but we know that either way, at least some of them were doing it, under penalty of death (?)...
We still use vert jus which is from The Young grapes. Mainly we use lemon in line but we still use some things from back then.
fish was common!
"Poor did not eat fish", every seatown or fishing village during middle age are like = "Am I a joke to you?"
"Butter not invented yet", all those ironage people sacrefising butter to the gods by throwing big lumps of it in to a bog are like = "Am I a joke to you?"
Isn’t it weird that the only challenge we have now is NOT to eat (in excess) !
That soup looks gnarly @ 52:41
Stopped watching at 'butter had yet to be invented' this is poorly researched bs
Butter has been around for thousands of years, it was very much known in the medieval period and not uncommon in many parts of europe
GOod thing you stuck around after you stopped watching, long enough to fill us all in on this factoid. Whew...
@WAFFEN COLLIDER i was about to tsay the same thing, i think some examples of bog butter dates back to Roman times. Butter has been around since we first domesticated goats and sheep making it thousands of years old.
That is not necessarily the case.
Yes, Julius Caesar's armies, used to dipping bread in olive oil, were sort of appalled by the Gauls' use of butter.
@WAFFEN COLLIDER Bog butter is not butter. Its more similar to a kind of cheese. I'm talking about actual butter, which has a very ancient history
1:55
Squire Martin: Yippee ti yi yo! Get along little gooses!
sanitation issues would make me hate this time.. the flies were rampant!
Its amazing how far civilization has come..
Holyshit the falsehoods in this documentary, I had to stop it at salmon was a luxury. Salmon was peasant food
6:15,wouldn't they have had something to help hold up the pans?,seems it would be the easiest thing to install an adjustable bar in front of the fire.
if nobody mentioned 38:00, then nobody watched it as far as I did...
"Stimulates the knights"
John Smith spicy drugs
John Smith k
My knight is stimulated now
Came here to comment on those ripe melons.
The finding of science of what the peasants and not nobles ate. stews (or pottages) of meat (beef and mutton) and vegetables such as cabbage and leek, were the mainstay of the medieval peasant diet. The research also showed that dairy products, likely the ‘green cheeses’ known to be eaten by the peasantry, also played an important role in their diet. Often they relied on what they grew on their harvests. This is what Scientist discovered a few years ago and used a chemical and isotopic techniques to identify lipids, the fats, oils and natural waxes of the natural world, from the ceramics found at West Cotton in Northamptonshire.
This has a lot of inaccuracies.
You are correct. They have to re-due on this vid on facts regarding butter, kitchens, and stone castles
I love how everybody in the household pitched in and helped in the cooking and not force all the cooking on one person/woman. It's nice watching families work together like that 🙂
I'm melting cheese on a tortilla
20:20 a car always handy 😅
The section about steam rooms makes me think of Scandinavian saunas, but from what I have seen in a video of someone living in Finland, while nudity in sauna settings is very casual, casual touching is almost totally avoided in all situations. I wonder at what point in history that came about, and was the no-touch culture a thing caused by religious chastity ideals?
Saunas in Finland (and in Scandinavia) have always had a purifying concept, where there is a certain etiquette that should be followed. They're very similar in concept with Native American sweat lodges, though those are usually focused on the spiritual side rather than physical.
I’m really happy with how I am in the modern age. I wouldn’t want to be even a king back then.