All your videos are great, but this one is something really special. Love it!

Spice was never used to cover the taste of rotten meat. That myth comes from Jack Drummond's book "The Englishman's Food: Five Centuries of English Diet" published in 1939. Sources as far back as the 10th Century clearly indicate medieval people understood the issues that arise from eating tainted meat, and is clearly spelled out in Le Ménagier de Paris, to name one medieval source. A bit of common sense would lead you to realize that the people who might have been forced to eat spoiled meat would certainly not have been able to afford any type of spice, let alone one capable of covering the taste of rancid flesh. Wikipedia is not a good source for information, and your use of it to justify your clearly nonsensical statement about something so easily debunked undermines the rest of the facts presented in your video, which is very disappointing.

You're lucky they didn't eat you.

The world needs to know you. This is great. I didn't think I could dedicate almost two hours of my life to learn about Nutmegs and the history behind them. Yet, here I am, and I think that was a good use of my time. My deck of absolutely and ridiculously specific topics to be brought up in random conversations just gained a very strong card (many others come from your channel).

And the winner of the documentary format nominations goes to Weird Explorer! 🎉😮 Brilliant. Well done. Thank you.

The number of long-debunked old wives' tales and "just so stories" which you presented as "facts" in the "why were spices so valuable" section was depressing. Work on your research because this was a sad effort and people are going to have come away from it believing a bunch of bullshit.

dear lord I nearly had an episode when you ate that cucumber..... do a show on misophonia next and you will understand. nearly scratched my eyes out lol, carry on :)

What the actual? This is how to do documentaries. Balls up the best Molluccas doc I've seen. I was obsessed with the Spice Islands of the East. It took forever to find out what they actually were. I finally went and spent months there. I also took a boat from Ambon to Neira. Way overcrowded. Pelni, like you said. It wasn't a speed boat. It was a long leisurely overnight boat with the same waves as you filmed!! Whales, flying fish and pirates. A storm, rainbows, lightning. And those same waves! I thought we were going overboard. Staying on Ai was the best. Walking in the jungle through the nutmeg groves and cinnamon trees, I was in paradise. The history is ominous, and horrific.I stayed in a homestay on Ai, and the villagers brought me papayas from their trees. Magic. I Stayed months.

lol “the flavor is” Thanks for making me laugh! I also put way more things into my mouth that others couldn’t imagine. Just because I want to know what that smell tastes like. Definitely a labor of love but absolutely beautiful with a the color that already stimulates my nose and brain thinking I already smell it before lighting it

Nutmeg looks like a Buckeye at first glance,

NEW HERE and WOW! Nice pacing, great video, appropriate narration while personalizing without too much you. Fascinating topic, dox are a fave, thank you for enliughtening me to the stuff in my spice drawer.

I want to see a collab with NileRed on this

I think my love for Nutmeg has grown to appreciation as well. I use nutmeg in savory and sweet cooking. I also do love it in coffee, but I control the strength. I always have a nutmegs not with me, stored in a portable grater. Thank you for this video and your very hard work to teach us about this.

You have the best job since Hamilton explored the offerings of the world. I live in an area that has many latin grocers, so I often see fruit I am unfamiliar and often don't know how it should be prepared. I wish you safe travels and pleasant surprises.

Direct translation for Gunung Api is Mountain Fire.

Cute kitty😽…..and 👍report on the Volcano Pepper ~ tho’ milder than I would’ve thought😉.

what a fantastic documentary. I seriously hope they get their apology from the Dutch and Indonesian governments.

Wow, didn't expect an actual documentary. Your work is amazing.

This was a completely surprising trip down a rabbithole that was so eyeopening! So much of our history has been hidden from us. When my husband and I lived in S. America, we began to realize how destructive the colonizers really were, leaving the indigenous people to struggle for survival as well as live at the bottom of a European class system. Thank you so much for taking this journey as far as it needed to go to tell the real story.🙌🏼🥰🖖🏼

A family member of mine moved into a house with a Maypop plant and I'd never heard of them before but glad I now have reliable seasonal access to them

I don't know what I expected when I clicked on a 2-hour documentary on nutmeg, but this was not it. This far exceeded anything I could have expected. Such a dark story, told with sincerity. I was really happy for the final twist where you got to visit descendants of the original people. This was an absolutely incredible documentary.

Ugh. The white guilt from this guy.

what in the the Breath of the Wild is a Volcano Pepper

when I worked in West Papua, i Used to make nutmeg jam on a regular basis and used in desserts, drinks to even BBQ sauce for fish and chicken..yum

58:40 a lot of friendships with people from other cultures started with randomly meeting people by chance.

This documentary was so informative and being from enslaved people my heart was broken to learn how these colonizers killed these sweet people for their own gain thank you for your time and energy now I pray we can heal our hearts and move on God bless the people in this story❤🙏

Hey! A nickel back in the day could pay rent for a year! Appreciate that

Speaking of "nutmeg" there's a very rare hickory called "nutmeg hickory" (Carya myristiciformis) which produces edible nuts and is named for the shape of the seed and husk, not the flavor. May be a side-quest worth trying if you ever run into this species in the U.S. South.

While I'm interested in the content there is no way that I expose myself to 1 3/4 hours of background racket. Have you all lost your minds?

This may be the first time in almost 30 years where I’m inner conflicted over having a latex allergy… caramel fruit? 😩🤣

5:40 I mean, personally I can’t even do the earthy infusion of Nutmeg nor do I have a sliver of understanding as to how I got here 😅 algorithm is algorithm-ing for you my friend 😂😂😂

connect with "all the fruit "..

3:20 🤣

I always wondered how our ancestors made these bayberry candles.

North Dakota has silver buffaloberry (Shepherdia argentea). I can't remember if you tried it yet.

Dude! I love needing out to your videos on Sunday mornings. History, food , and travel all rolled up in your quirky vids. Your awesome

Wow! Wow! Wow! I spend close to 2 hours watching a story about the Nutmeg. Most "Coloured" South Africans will appreciate this video. And to Americans "Coloured" in South Africa, is not a negative word. We have people in South Africa specifically called the Cape Malay, and do not let the "Malay" fool you into thinking they are from Malaysia. After watching this I think I can claim that this is where they originate.

I first had macadamia with their shells, have not found that since. opened them with a pipe wrench, which cleanly split the shell in two while keeping the core (the edible nut) intact, really looked cool, the shells being half black and half white for some reason

A few notes on the historical background: 1, it is a myth long debunked by historians that spices were used to mask the flavor of rotting meat. The only source for this is The Englishman's Food: Five Centuries of English Diet written by Jack Cecil Drummond and first published in 1939. Anyone who has ever eaten rotten meat knows that the smell cannot be masked with spices. 2, Spice prices are an interesting topic. While medieval recipes are full of spices, individual sources often speak of relatively high prices for them. This contradiction arises from the fact that spice prices underwent huge fluctuations depending on the region, season, period and spice. The price examples you have selected are therefore certainly true, but cannot be generalized. According to sources, it can certainly be assumed that the spice racks of city dwellers in the late Middle Ages were well stocked. Nevertheless, some spices such as the pepper mentioned were more widely available than nutmeg, for example, and the equally important mace, which was also used in many medieval recipes. 3, Although you are right that, of course, less bathing was done, the pomander is simply a convenient way to distinguish oneself, according to sources. Nowadays we also use perfume, although the frequency of bathing is probably greater. And here it was often also used as jewelry. Regarding the frequency of bathing: contrary to popular belief, public bathhouses were widespread in the Middle Ages. It was only during the early modern period that the frequency of bathing fell sharply.

I'm an avid fan of Townsends, and the frequent use of nutmeg in recipes featured there has been not only a long-running joke but also something that I've come to truly enjoy doing in my own life as well. As time has gone on, I've become more and more curious about the history of this particular spice, since unlike many others that were used it was the only one that I couldn't directly tell came from mainland Asia/India. This film has brought to light not only the vastness of the world hundreds of years ago, but also the bloody, dirty history that has paved the way for our modern, urban lifestyle in the west. For better or for worse, we won't know, but I am happier to go about my life knowing that the Bandanese people maintain their sovereignty and that they still grow nutmeg to this day. Thank you for educating, for journeying, for archiving their history for future generations. I would have never known if you had not done the work.

incorrect information about the uses of spices in the 12-1300s, about hygeine and so on

I was not expecting to learn this much from a fruit, about a forgotten people who lost their home to colonial greed and now slowly losing their culture and language. This story is sadly too common. Subscribed and thank you for putting together this sincere documentary, please keep making more.

appreciated the last part! best one yeah current world is rooted in g sides.

Technically speaking any wax is labor-intensive (or more precisely, energy-intensive). Plants do the work, then either bees refine it with their glands (beeswax) or mother nature cooks the plant underground (paraffin wax), keeping all the carbon-carbon bonds and stripping away water, volatiles etc. Catenating carbon leads to oils, waxes and ultimately plastics.

What a wonderful documentary! Thank you so much for revealing this unknown and surprising history. I agree with a previous commenter. There must be some sort of award for you.

i prefer to eat lemonade fruit while they are green skinned i think the flavour is better

I didn't even know I wanted to be bone art.