The Science Behind A Renaissance Feast | Absolute History

[@Godisgreater123]

this video has really blown me away..it explains why my almost 89 year old dad, born and raised in Northern Italy, always cooks each night with such care..he follows intricate recipes and is the best chef that I know...it's in his genes!

[@SpectatorAlius]

Since it is the Medicis who introduced the idea, I can't help but wonder if the real reason for having guests eat off of separate plates was to make it easier to poison only one victim at a time!

[@mellymel8474]

No buffets for u...... :)

[@katiekat4457]

Well now that's what I wondering too now that you pointed that out.

[@ritaree123]

Wow. 😱

[@birgittabirgersdatter8082]

Confusing them with the Borgias?

[@blancasusanamariles9891]

2020: The Dinner plates were influenced by a Russian traditional. Namely, to serve everyone seated, at same time on one PLATE positioned by a waiter!

[@heronimousbrapson863]

22:50: the greater world was slowly being seen as round. The earth was, in fact, known to be round since the time of the ancient Greeks.

[@magellanicraincloud]

Ugh that is a painful myth eh. And Columbus thought the earth was half the size it actually is.

[@chelebelle2223]

The later Renaissance crew must have been late to get the news, though. 😁

[@magellanicraincloud]

@UFB-NFW X you're in a teeny tiny minority.

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Very true; as I said in an earlier comment, the historical research for this episode is very shoddy...

[@danix3638]

Renee sauce

[@ytyt3922]

Dani X lol I HATE how the British pronounce “renaissance”

[@danix3638]

@@ytyt3922 haha, i personally don't hate it, i just never heard Renaissance be pronounced like that. It's funny.

[@footsoldier857]

You should consult a doctor regarding your hearing.

[@aishaandathena]

Lmao

[@reneereb6499]

Hahaaaaha, I have a homemade dipping sauce for fries and veggies. I am now going to call it this.

[@kck9742]

Thank you for uploading this, but I do have a couple of criticisms: the first is how the narrator mentions that the "Renaissance" (really the Late Medieval period to professional historians) "civilized" eating habits. Right up there with Victorian women dying from corsets is the myth that earlier medieval people ate like pigs -- not true. They were expected to follow etiquette such as washing their hands before meals, not burping at the table or speaking with food in their mouths, and using utensils (yes, some food WAS eaten with the hands, but spoons and knives were in use). Re the fork: my understanding is that the fork was really used more for holding the food in place while cutting it, and not so much for bringing the food to the mouth (these two pronged forks were sharp).

[@shakiMiki]

I'm wondering when it was actually made. It's incredibly dated in many ways. There's no awareness of human cost for example of provision of sugar for example.

[@ritchee7921]

different ettiquettes were accepted and evolved into todays standards. if you look into it you would see that many are quite different than what you would expect from your region. Even what might be plated as the main course. washing hands is commonplace in many regions...burping or slurping, however odd you might find it from your culture, can be seen as a great compliment. from todays standards the spoon was invented before the fork. (my arse) but that is what history tells us.

[@kck9742]

@@ritchee7921 What are you on about? I'm writing specifically about the late European Medieval period, which is the subject of this video. Yes, I think everyone is aware that etiquette changes over time and with different cultures.

[@MalteseKat]

@@ritchee7921 sorry the burping was never a compliment

[@dimityrpetrov6858]

KCK very intersting

[@kck9742]

Also, another myth: that earlier Medieval people didn't eat vegetables. This is nonsense, probably springing from the lack of vegetables mentioned in earlier Medieval recipes. But this is likely because it was taken for granted that you'd have vegetables growing and didn't need to mention throwing them in the pot (with so many days being fast days, and the scarcity of fresh meat for most people, Medieval people's diets were actually mostly vegetables and fish -- what do the people who wrote this think Medieval people put in their pottage if not veggies?

[@nordiskkatt]

There are plenty of sources indicating that the upper classes tended to try to avoid fresh produce. Their diets were primarily meat and bread. They considered eating fish to count as fasting, too - a lot of people assume that religious fasting equalled not eating anything, or not eating anything but vegetables - but no, they merely swapped their meat for fish!

[@tonyvillamotte4339]

@@nordiskkatt Carp was big business in the middle ages; a fish consumed in large quantities by the nobility and wealthy bourgeoisie. What most people don't realize was that the peak of Bohemian power under the Luxembourg dynasty was derived from three sources; rock salt from Silesia, silver mines and large-scale fish farms selling carp all the way to France. Large tracts of land were under water to produce as many of the pricey fresh fish as possible, since they could travel longer distances in barrels of fresh water that could be changed during shipping across land unlike fresh fish from the sea that could only go so far from the coast before they went belly up when the salt water became polluted and couldn't be replenished (just throwing salt into clean fresh water doesn't do the trick for extending the life of seafood once it's caught). Bohemian fortunes went downhill after the reign of King and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV for various reasons, but one of them was that the Germans and other areas learned how to farm carp, thus undercutting the Bohemian fish farms.

[@SiiriCressey]

@@nordiskkatt Fish Fridays are still a thing among Catholic-influenced cultures.

[@whitealliance9540]

@@nordiskkatt cain tried to give god some little veggies as a sacrifice. You see where that got him.

[@katj3443]

Your right the lower class ironically had the best diet, where as the wealthy feasted excessively on meat.

[@51samurai]

I wish to remind to the young and nice french historian that Martino de Rossi o Martino de Rubeis (latin for red), was born in Como Italy in 1420. His book: De arte coquinaria was written not in latin but in italian (volgare).

[@DexterBachman]

Fucina is the Italian word for a forge. Italian for the eating utensil called in English a fork is a forchetta which has a similar pronunciation which is close to for-keht-tah

[@MalteseKat]

kucharina =spoon

[@iwd1856]

@@MalteseKat spoon is "cucchiaio" in Italian. I think that you meant "cuchara" (spoon in Spanish).

[@Lostouille]

In French we say fourchette for fork and cuillère for spoon ,we still share the same branch of words.

[@wendyjones6077]

Foods that came from the new world: Potatoes, tomatoes, chocolate, vanilla, corn, pecans, peanuts, yams/sweet potatoes, pinto beans, turkey, zucchini, squash, pumpkins, bell peppers, sunflower seeds, artichoke, blueberries, cranberries, etc. I can't imagine life without any of these wonderful things!

[@mellymel8474]

All the good stuff!!!

[@51samurai]

From Europe to America: Chicken, Wheat, pork, Apple, pears, horses, donckey, cows, figues, olive trees, rabbit, dogs, cats, goats, sheeps and so on.

[@wendyjones6077]

@@51samurai I didn't mean to make it a competition or imply that the Americas are superior. I only meant to point out that many of the world's favorite foods were completely unknown outside the Americas until the 1500's. Tomato sauce, potatoes and chocolate being things I can't imagine living without. :-)

[@51samurai]

Yes, colons brought with them all they needed from europe to survive or live a better life ( that was very hard) in the new world for at least two centuries .

[@kaisersose5549]

Ummm... I'll kindly remind you that the bilberry and lignonberry are old world fruits, and are virtually indistinguishable from their new world counterparts, the blueberry and cranberry. Curcubits (squash and melons) from Africa were already found in Europe by that time as well. Nightshades, however, were something new. The few that natively existed in Europe were thought to be poisonous, and this attitude persisted when chiles, tomatoes and potatoes were first introduced.

[@Rachel-yr7ch]

So glad they didnt just put the translations in text, they had someone speak it. I listen to these at work and I cant stop to read the translations

[@Nicciolai]

23:00 No wonder the Sunday roast has been such an important part of European culture! Being of an age when I can eat what I like when I like, I can't imagine not being able to eat a food because it 'belonged' to a wealthy class.

[@Nicciolai]

@Stella H I shop where ever. There is definitely privilege, and the gap between the poor and the rich is increasing. But there are currently no laws that say you can't eat a food because you are in the wrong social class or because a King says that a certain bird belongs to them, such as the swan was historically.

[@Nicciolai]

@Stella H I hear you Stella.

[@marybourgeois4408]

Stella H you’re concerned about the global food chain. Are you familiar with locusts being ground into protein powder to supplement flour and animal feeds?

[@izqaa1141]

It's really up to how much money you have.. Same as now you'd get normal beef instead of cobe. At least we don't need to rent out a pineapple like victorian society did

[@johnnunya5428]

20:03 "Initially pasta was made from corn flour." 2 minutes later: Then corn was discovered in Americas. Holup

[@LadyMarieA1]

Corn meant anything that grew from a head.The corn we know is considered MAIZE

[@giacomomatteoro7614]

before maize, corn means wheat

[@johnnunya5428]

@@giacomomatteoro7614 Cool. Why did they not mention this in the documentary though? And what else in here doesn't mean what it means today? Do you happen to have a code book for me to decipher the true meanings of all the words used in this series?

[@giacomomatteoro7614]

@@johnnunya5428 I am a historical researcher of the late Middle Ages in the area of ​​Venice and Treviso. I read, photographer and archive documents in "vulgar" (ie the local language spoken, ancient dialect) and Latin indicatively from 1300 to 1600, mainly notarial acts. The pasta is made with wheat flour, very simple. Corn = Wheal. I'm not following this series, I stumbled upon it by chance, however it would be interesting to be able to answer you. I also publish books containing notarial acts regesta, translated into current Italian, and inside I usually add a very large historical and legal glossary, because some terms cannot be translated into the current language and because I want to offer to everyone the opportunity to understand the meaning of unknown or misleading terms. In my personal experience, I can tell you that some terms change their meaning over the centuries, in Italian and I'm pretty sure in English as well. However I find these documentaries beautiful - in English there are many more than Italian - but often they present some inaccuracies or they tell the story in an incorrect or too simplified vision, as happens in the history books of schools. I can tell you that the true history is that which is learned from original documents, not from history books.

[@justinjanecka3203]

@@giacomomatteoro7614 can you provide links to your publications? I'm actually quite interested.

[@MrTomtomtest]

"He dreamnt of discovering a new world" What ?? Columbus was going for India he never "dreamnt of discovering a new world"

[@YurimoHikashi]

Probably an American made documentary ... They still have Columbus day

[@MrWombatty]

Plus they already knew the world was round as far back as the classical Greek period! Columbus was just a bit out when calculating it's circumference!

[@LACEDONLINE]

No Need say it louder for the people in the back 🙌🏽🙌🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@mikeskelly2356]

@@msmltvcktl While the Vikings are proven to have visited northern Canada, Amerigo never made it further than South America, his first voyage coming 5 years after Columbus', he created the map of the 'New World' with his own name prominently displayed, causing many people to call this new land 'Amirigo', soon corrupted to America...

[@mikeskelly2356]

@@YurimoHikashi A.H. is a British production. The narrators are seldom historians or scientists and are hired for their voice, they read what is provided them and it's not always 100% accurate...

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

16:40 - “Protestant Christians helped bring cabbages and onions to Southern European kitchens...” - Whaaat?! Onions and cabbages (and a plethora of other vegetables) have been available in Southern Europe, the Mediterranean and far beyond, since at least Greek and Roman times. Where do they find the “researchers” for these shows?

[@rosellaaalm-ahearn1760]

Re: Americo Vespucci - So delighted that whomever named them, named the Americas, after Vespucci's first name rather than his last name.

[@albertogoverno9281]

Amerigo** :)

[@i-never-look-at-replies-lol]

United States of Vespucci

[@PRDreams]

@@albertogoverno9281 depends on the translation. To me he has always been Américo Vespúcio.

[@clevername8832]

🤣🤣

[@Fetrovsky]

This is another myth. The continent was not named "The Americas". It was named "America". And "The Americas" is a phrase originally coined to talk about the different colonies: the Spanish America, the English America, and so on.

[@orchardlea]

About halfway through this programme, I realised that watching this programme on a day of fasting was probably not the brightest idea... :/

[@MsDieynaba]

Fasting right now. Thanks for the heads up 😅

[@gailhandschuh1138]

Dairy and vegetables were relatively cheap to grow and preserve for winter meals. Some meats were smoked, salted or dried for winter meals. Pottage was an old staple but could be more flavorful when vegetables were added , which also added nutritional value to the bland pottage. It’s a bit surprising that chicken took so long to catch on. They are cheap to raise and only lay eggs for a few years and can be replaced with new chicks all year round. Pasta and bread are labor intensive yet the pasta can be dried in a dry place and will remain good for months.

[@Tina06019]

Sitting here, having eaten bread, cheese, meat and oats today, and wishing there were an Italian chef with a few novel fruit and vegetable dishes to set before me. (I am lazy, have no talent in cooking, and my palate is jaded.) Mais Bravo! Bravo pour Le Bon Roi Henri IV!

[@ironlion45]

I can't get over the chef just shoving the skewer through a freshly-plucked chicken that hasn't even been cleaned yet. Legs and head just flopping wherever. No, guys, they didn't do it that way. Not ever.

[@TheTjoy910]

Yeah, when they got the close-up of her plucking the bird she was just tossing the feathers around in her lap.

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

@@TheTjoy910 When fowl were plucked the feathers were VALUABLE for various things!

[@paavobergmann4920]

from imagery, it wasn´t uncommon to serve fowl with the heads still attached.

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

@@paavobergmann4920 Also pigs, too. Actually, with pheasants, they even put the feathers back on when serving the entire bird.

[@Trid2bnrml1]

perhaps in the caveman days...

[@mlast6145]

Is no one going to comment on the three star chef tasting his saffron risotto and then just..tapping what was left on the spoon back into the pot? (46:04-46:07)

[@miaholloway8526]

also the gold leaf looks unappealing in my opinion

[@reikoviolin]

14:45 who else enjoyed the angry Italian chef scene

[@alexandrashands]

😂😂

[@Scriptorsilentum]

the actors costumes are splendid... and amazingly clean, no sign of wear. Cute.

[@guymorris1963]

How about the costumes of the actresses ?

[@fucku3460]

@@guymorris1963 I dunno, why don't you axe the non binary chicken extras?

[@sebeckley]

This video implies that the food rules were a major factor in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. The massacre had a long history building up to it and the marriage of a Protestant royal to a Catholic royal where the 3,000 Protestants in Paris were slaughtered a few days after the wedding. The huge feast was a sticking point, but hardly the hinge of the whole event.

[@ZiggyWhiskerz]

"fowl... Is still considered a noble dish" Me, a pleb, eating chicken almost everyday.... "Wat?"

[@hiimryan2388]

Ericat u r a noble

[@ZiggyWhiskerz]

@@hiimryan2388 I am??? How?

[@RomaZeal]

@@hiimryan2388 stop simpin

[@asdf9890]

I was assuming they meant duck, goose, cornish hens, etc. Back then, I don't think most people ate chicken either.

[@stevyd]

@@asdf9890 The Romans ate chicken. The bird was domesticated in South East Asia, became common in India, and moved on into Middle Eastern cuisine before becoming one of the foods of the Romans. Chicken ain't no spring chick.

[@gailhandschuh1138]

Amazing , it took until the 15 th century for European nobles to discover vegetables !! What did they think the poor were eating all this time?? Without vegetables and fruits from the forests , the poor would have starved.

[@franceszimmerman6047]

boo boo She never said that.

[@angelleholy8515]

Like the doc! It's good to know abt history. Also like the voice of the narrator, who has a pleasant voice wanting to listen until the end.

[@madmammadmad]

At 14:42 who else thought of Gordon Ramsay? 😂😂😂

[@applemauzel]

3:00 Anyone else heard it as "Happiness is to be found where one finds good loin?"

[@moonteller2989]

lol

[@chelebelle2223]

@ 4:57__Yummm! Spit Roasted "Chicken-a-la-feathers" LOLOL 🤣

[@TheTjoy910]

@04:48 wait, she's just tossing feathers around in her lap lol, not plucking them off. Bad time to get a close-up if you're trying to make this look real, lolol.

[@iulianaa2079]

Cook books did exist during the Roman period...

[@missingchannel]

"Shifting their body on a chair or balancing from one buttock to another is clearly the attitude of someone who wishes to release wind..." lmao So that's where that gesture came from. 🤣

[@dionf3858]

The fork was introduced to Italy in Venice by a Byzantine princess

[@iwd1856]

"Collazione" means breakfast, not cold dishes.

[@fidelrivera2887]

14:28 The Gordon Ramsey of the Renaissance. 😂

[@chelebelle2223]

LOL 😂

[@caitlinallen8400]

I'm pretty sure they legit stole Gandalf from Lord of the rings and were like, "here, he can low key play Leonard da Vinci in our documentary" 😂

[@SiiriCressey]

32:00 Is no-one else going to mention the dog on the table?

[@markcraven8386]

14:45 timestamp Gordon Ramsey's great,great predesesor. "One of you will be going home today".

[@myragroenewegen5426]

I kinda wish I'd been brought up with this practice and idea of mealtime as purification --or maybe I don't, but that woman sure casts it as beautiful (36:11). The way we talk about enjoying food now tends to make it feel like a contaminating thing - maybe because we know and care so much about health, but also have so much access to more food than is healthy, and food that's not the healthiest, but delivers a lot of immediate wow factor. Of course, here you also see the push and pull between indulgence and resisting improper ways of eating.

[@myrnaleon8464]

Love this great video on the history of cooking !!! Thanks a lot. 👌👌👌❤️😘😇

[@deniaridley]

The "Closed Captioning" is quite hilarious and has nothing to do with anything at all.😂

[@priyankaupadhyay8891]

That's true! I'm trying to get the names from the documentary but I am new to the accent so having no luck with the 'Closed Captioning' 😂

[@reginaromsey]

American Corn is called Maise in Europe. The Europeans called grains including wheat, barley, and rye all Corn.

[@whisperingsage]

There's a book called Sugar Blues written in the 70s that tells about sugar causing diabetes and brain fog being the downfall of the Moor dominance of southern europe.

[@sage0925]

Being the consummate foodie, I really love these videos on historical foods/eating habits. I'd bet a really good chef could make some money back then. Although, how they managed without either burning the crap out of everything, or food being under cooked, I do not know. And cooking for large groups without modern appliances? I don't even want to think about it. My hat is off to the chefs of history. More please. Some recipes would be nice.

[@sage0925]

@Paper St. Where did I say I was a chef? And seems to me that not having temperature controls with a fire would make it harder to cook anything perfectly. You're reading more into this than was intended.

[@sage0925]

@Paper St. You completely missed the point I was trying to make about temperature controls,

[@sage0925]

@Paper St. Dearest gods, really? How does consummate foodie=really good chef? Again, you miss my point. I was just trying to give a kudos to the chefs of the past, and you decided to turn it into a food fight.

[@wildflower4795]

@Paper St. Soap Co.Hmmmm.. That's a really dumb comment🤔

[@dawsie]

Temperature control was done by moving the pan/pot closer for hotter and moved it away from the heat of the flame for cooler the fire is always in the Center of the fire place and off to the sides are stone shelves for keeping food warm.the sides of the fire would have the charcoal which would always be a set temperature and that’s how they were able to control the heat for cooking. I cook on an open fire, pot placed in the Center to bring the pot to boil and then moved to the side for simmering. All frying done in a frying pan and once fried up would then be placed in the pot to simmer. Then place water in the frying pan to deglaze it and remove all the flavours from the pan and then placed into the simmering pot.

[@stephanielong8086]

You just made my favorite. Thank you ever so much.

[@larryyoung7288]

Several references to corn were vastly inaccurate. Corn was not know during the Renaissance until years after 1620. Corn is actually known as maize. The latin word corn meant 'local grown produce. American maize became known as corn as it was the local produce of the Americas. References to corn at 20:04 and 23:14 are

[@gloriamontgomery6900]

It is a British usage to refer to grain as corn. They call what Americans call corn “maize”

[@rviolinfiddle55]

It's amusing to speculate how historians will look at 21st century American eating habits. "Their diet consisted of primarily lard and other forms of fats, in various arrangements, with bits of meat and starches occasionally added."

[@mariekatherine5238]

rviolinfiddle55 School children learn the Four Fast Food Groups; sugar, fat, salt, and caffeine.

[@ytyt3922]

Wonder what they’ll say about cans of Coke containing 40 grams of sugar

[@rviolinfiddle55]

@@ytyt3922 Indeed "They also drank several desserts per meal"

[@b33lze6u6]

this thread has an extremely high boomer energy

[@deborahdean8867]

It will be seen as the advent of processed, artificial foods, the industrialization of food with chemicals and chemically altered. Plastic and pesticide contamination of food will be widely discussed.

[@TheCaptainLulz]

3:11 - Wow, a great painting...but he got the scale wrong, the mona lisa isnt that big, so the canvas portrayed is oversized.

[@1964_AMU]

Henry IV's boiled fowl was not any type of chicken or turkey. It used to be a French South West black chicken. A variety that came from Asia. There are only a few farmers breeding this black chicken in South West. I you go to Périgueux, try to eat "poulet noir du Périgor". Better than "poulet de Bresse".

[@1stPrivateAccount]

Medieval table manners were extremely strict. This is a trope

[@janicesnyder9305]

Who would have thought that one of Gutenberg's greatest accomplishments would be the lowly cookbook.

[@chelebelle2223]

Little known fact: that was the REAL reason he invented the printing press, for cookbooks! LOL....................juuuust joking 😄

[@Tina06019]

Nothing lowly about it!

[@janicesnyder9305]

@@Tina06019 Well, maybe not lowly, but in a time when only the wealthy could read, most cooks couldn't.

[@vasp99]

You can't discuss the renaissance without mentioning that it was sparked by the end of the Roman Empire in 1453. The fall of Constantinople resulted in a flood of Greek chefs with the thousand year traditions of food preparation that the eastern empire had amassed. Those Greeks brought forks as well as the recipes and techniques cited in this film. Shame on the film's producers for slighting the Romans whom their ungrateful European heirs slur as " Byzantines".

[@vasp99]

@Trails & Travel calm down Mary.

[@JustinSteereMusic]

Voices that don't fit the face - that moment when the guy started singing.

[@Mindfulbanterofficial]

It's funny there's no account of the Moors being the ones who actually taught the "sophisticated" people of the victoriana era. They also brought lovely cloths and silks used at the table, settings etc. Even down to the spicing, techniques etc was brought to italians by the moors and adopted across Europe.

[@savahna9615]

@ 17:15 Talking about the introduction of Thistles to food yet referring to a painting which represents very clearly an Artichoke?

[@jpp9876]

In the usa corn is corn.in England and possibly all of western Europe corn is grain and what Americans call corn is called maze. I believe this documentary stated pastas were originally made with corn. I believe corn brought over from the Americas arrived much later than pasta became a popular food in Italy.

[@carinfonk1695]

Wait is the concept of macaroni as desert truly this old?! I thought it was just a weird thing my family did. Leftover Macaroni is boiled in milk with cinnamon and sugar, and it's actually really good!

[@5eA5]

Pasta for 2 hrs?! I need to test this...

[@Anawan787]

I learned alot from this series lots of love from Pakistan

[@Lostouille]

5:29 the face of faith

[@davidmgooden8320]

This is AMAZING!

[@House-Of-Dagda]

My question is: Where are these books mentioned and are they available in English??

[@carlderome9977]

A huge commission, in this thoroughly enjoyable vid-clip, is the non-mentioning of increased (teeth) cavities by the ruling class who *now* loved sugar, Am I right?

[@morganseppy5180]

Perhaps because they had a whole episode on that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGnNY2qBhdeZeLc

[@ahippy8972]

Yes.

[@Pepperminge_Mononoke]

Hol up... new delicacy that has crossed the alps... pasta 19:32 So one of they're signature foods was taken from another culture? /s It happens all the time and yet alot of people try to use different cultural points in a divisive manner. Humans use other human's ideas to build off of and grow.

[@jlaurence3519]

For those who don't know, when he refers to zuchini. that's what are called courgettes in English.

[@davidweihe6052]

"Courgettes" in England, maybe, but they were zucchini in my mother's garden or the store. Referring to them as anything but pernicious weeds that you spend more time giving away than growing shows that the narrator has no familiarity with them. And yes, I don't like them, at least cooked. Raw, they are like cucumber. But still, we had to give the damned things away every year.

[@88spolen]

@@davidweihe6052 also courgettes is a french word

[@budmeister]

@JLaurence You mean that's what are called courgettes in French.

[@Tina06019]

I really hate zucchini. I will eat them only if there is no other vegetable to had.

[@SmartStart24]

So chefs yelled at everybody back then too huh?

[@luvLins]

The way the pronounced “Borgia” really threw me

[@EduardQualls]

It's pretty typical, in how speakers of BBC/Oxbridge English "Englandic" self-assuredly make up pronunciation or accentuation of words they've never or rarely seen before. Many seem to assume that, if a word looks even remotely Italian, it _must_ have its accent on the next-to-last syllable (like his "Borgia"), that every "ei" in a foreign word makes it German, or that all vowels must be pronounced distinctly (like their hideous "jaguar"). Of course, this isn't as bad as the affectation/speech impediment that causes some to say "sickth" instead of "sixth": _fifth, sixth, seventh_ replaced with _health, sickth, death_

[@davidweihe6052]

@@EduardQualls I also cannot stand his using the affected French pronunciation of Renaissance when referring to the Italian period, which is when France was as much a primitive backwater as when Eleanor of Aquitaine tried to leave her French king husband and stay in Antioch.

[@9grand]

@@davidweihe6052 . Because 'Renaissance' it is a french word , simple as this

[@9grand]

@@davidweihe6052 Renaissance did not stop in Italy , you should know this . Leonardo died in France .

[@anastasia10017]

10:27 is that woman wearing a tiara ???

[@morganbooker836]

Yep. Fantastic. I love it.

[@gloriamontgomery6900]

Yes. Not sure why. “I’m going to be in a documentary. Guess I’d better wear my tiara”

[@cherylcrawford3581]

Does anyone know if this was filmed in Hampton Court? It kind of looks Like what I remember Hampton Court looking like but I’ve only been there once and it was a little while ago.

[@24get24give]

does anyone know who provides the CC here on YT? they're awful in general, for instance in this one Renaissance table becomes renee's horse table,and longer, becomes blanca, but my fsvorite is fucina (Italian for fork), which becomes both foo China and foo gina (i can't decide which is funnier!) the mistakes are often funny like that, but are clearly not accurate, not a big deal in this type of video,but it is in the more serious historical or biographic ones

[@chyiannewaters8910]

Its automatic and im assuming any sort of accent might cause the mistranslation of captions

[@rosemcguinn5301]

This is really presented badly. To prepare birds for spit roasting, one has to remove not only the feathers, but the innards as well.

[@ahippy8972]

They didn’t in ancient times.

[@irinam8709]

And you really NEED to tie bird's legs to it's body, othewise they'll burn in the open fire.

[@rosemcguinn5301]

@@ahippy8972 it would have poisoned their food to have left the intestines (complete with fecal matter) inside the body cavity during roasting. Ancient ppl knew better.

[@allissonjacobisaacson6190]

@@rosemcguinn5301 thats called bonus food

[@rosemcguinn5301]

@@allissonjacobisaacson6190 No it's called poison.

[@worldtraveler930]

The level of commercials in this video is making it borderline Unwatchable.

[@88spolen]

get an ad-blocker then

[@bcgrote]

Walter Raleigh brought potatoes to Ireland in 1589, so I don't know what "almost two centuries after the Renaissance" is implied here...

[@bishoukun]

It's highly alarming that something uploaded in the TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY attributes Columbus with discovery of any kind. He did not, in fact, discover anything whatsoever. Lief Erikson was the head of the Viking ship that connected the hemispheres for the first time. Note that I don't say he discovered the Americas - as people ALREADY LIVED HERE.

[@JGJGAGSG]

🙄🙄

[@marialiyubman]

No Ruth Goodwin, no appetizing meals. 😭❤️

[@budmeister]

Because, she's a woman right? Is that the reason?

[@beachpeopleweddingsNCSC]

From Venice? The Venitians?! The seat of the 13 Families?! Anyone else putting 2 and 2 together here?!

[@keawhitmore3842]

So... "they" are still debating where the fork came from. I don't find anything absolute about that. Thank you, everyone for the discussion. I don't know if we can truly believe any account of history. The manipulation of events throughout history makes history itself a shadow of the past, that we can only guess and marvel at.

[@paulstovall3777]

Actually, there are records that show that the fork was first invented and used in China.

[@davidweihe6052]

I thought that the fork was a Byzantine invention, brought to Paris by a Byzantine Princess, who was castigated for the sin of gluttony for paying excessive attention to her food. Byzantine being code for Greek-speaking Romans, of course, as I know that they were not called that until they fell to the Ottomans.

[@paulstovall3777]

@@davidweihe6052 Lol. I find it odd that the Chinese could be held responsible for the misuse of the 'fork'. Still, evidence shows that they invented it. Most likely more as a meat fork. The entirety of Chinese cuisine was designed around the ease of a guest to take food from the table to mouth with the least possible effort. Hence, the 'chop stick' (roughly 'Faai-zi' in Cantonese). Pretty much everything consumed was of bite sized proportion. Thus, the use of forks and knives and they're use for over manipulation of food (as per European culinary habits) was considered to be rude.

[@keawhitmore3842]

@Johanna Elves Good question. I personally think people around the world can create similar tools for a myriad of reasons. We know in todays society all kinds of things are created for one purpose and repurposed.

[@bookmouse2719]

Sugar, and so tooth decay and death abounds.

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

Yes, it is not really mentioned in this video.

[@glitterboy2098]

Pasta existed long before Marco Polo. (we literally have recipes for pasta from *the roman republic* nearly two millennia before Marco Polo.) "Marco Polo bringing back pasta" is a myth.

[@glitterboy2098]

Also it had been known that the world was round for nearly three thousand years before this point, so no the world was not "increasingly being seen as round". it had been common knowledge in europe for basically ever at that point. what was changing was that with sea transport making it easier to trade with the east (being faster and larger in volume than the silk road across central asia) people actually had reason to think about far off lands more in terms of trade, and many spices which previously had been only affordable by kings and high nobility could be obtained at more affordable prices even by the lesser nobles and upper working class.

[@gloriamontgomery6900]

Thank you!

[@bcgrote]

LOL, Cheddar cheeses have been made in Britain since the 12th century. Simply Medieval of them!

[@letyzertuche6310]

Excelent information!!!

[@daphne4983]

That kitchen maid has a red dress, that particular red didn't exist back then. Looks like artificial dye.

[@davidweihe6052]

You assume perfect fidelity in the color of the image, unlikely at best and certainly not if the compression algorithm crushes colors, as does the JPEG algorithm. That being said, you are probably correct, because coal tar dyes are so much better than what was available before.

[@Vlad2319]

@@davidweihe6052 there is still argument to be made that when the color of the dress was new that it was that vibrant. Most historical reenactment does show that some fresh natural dyes where these colors.

[@Cantetinza17]

The Venison Stew looked Delicious!

[@caffinnascreations6948]

My Italian husband, God rest his soul, always said, Italians created French cuisine! He was right!

[@hadelidell4285]

Oh quelle connerie...

[@BlankMcBlankyface]

Pasta has been around in Europe since the ancient Roman Empire (at least). We have texts as well as various artworks that are evidence of that. It wasn’t “imported” from Arabs or by Marco Polo. Pasta has been invented (in and of itself) by a great many cultures all over the world; a type of culinary convergent evolution. Which makes sense, since to cook pasta you only need a small amount of fuel for a fire and a singular cooking vessel (a pot) which every civilization has used for cookery for millennia. Most people didn’t have ovens unless they were of the nobility, clergy or very wealthy - they were expensive to fuel, since a lot of wood and kindling had to be used in order to heat them enough to cook with (which is why most townspeople and city dwellers relied on bakers). You can also dry pasta and store it for far longer than flour or even various whole grains. I like this series, but there are some glaring historical errors.

[@cindygr8ce]

The obsession with Sugar cane was 1/3 of the slave trade triangle I wonder how different history would have been withlht it? Im sure slavery would still have happened but mayb not on such a massive scale. I realize in the us it was cotton later on but if slavery hadnt have been so prevalent would something have been different

[@howardwayne3974]

Just a note , I started picking cotton at 8 years old in Texas along with all my relatives . we picked for 5 cents a pound .

[@carolineobrien6301]

The Vikings had slaves from England and Ireland wayyyyyyyy back. Cindygr8ce.

[@cindygr8ce]

@@carolineobrien6301 what does that have to do with the triangle I was speaking about. I meant specifically the specific situation mentioned in my comment. Specifically in regards to the Americas and the Africans forced into slavery and brought here and how that relates to sugar cane. I do realize white people inslaved white people in the past but we aren't talking about the vikings the video is about sugar cane which wasn't introduced in Europe during the Viking age. Guess what Viking didn't invent slavery either, shocker!!!!

[@carolineobrien6301]

@@cindygr8ce I was stating that slavery wasn’t just about sugar et al. Hence the Vikings, the Egyptians and many other peoples past and present, specifically.

[@cindygr8ce]

@@carolineobrien6301 yes but my point was specifically that maybe slavery with regards to Africans during the Triangle wouldn't have been so prevalent it at all if it was for European NEED for sugar cane. This specific slave trade was the most prevalent and pervasive

[@nadjaandersson3013]

Leonardo da Vinci was a vegetarian, he himself wrote about it being repulsed by barbarity of slaughtering...

[@snailsaredumb9412]

"God is only concerned by how to treat his wishes, not how you eat and sleep" is the most sensible thing in religion people said back then

[@whywherewhenhow]

"Pasta was considered a luxury dish" Aha. Sure.

[@insertlamenamehere3522]

Felt first baby kick while watching this.

[@polsiaspadaro8820]

When you are fluent in both Italian and English. And the translation made is the most far thing you have ever heard... wow

[@josephsofaer841]

When “is the most far thing you ever heard” makes no sense and shows that you really aren’t fluent at all in English...wow.

[@BenM]

@@josephsofaer841 you fluent not english in. Very english bad. Learn please english time other

[@josephsofaer841]

@@BenM Lmfao ok buddy 🤡

[@nounnone5105]

Can we all ask that one question Because I don’t know the answer ... where the heck they film all these novels and we’re the heck they get all these actors lol it’s just soooo damm Cute

[@cynthiadonahey9989]

You do know Columbus was caught going thru The Straits of Gibraltor with a load for the Medicis. Spain was basically unified at this time and stories had been going around for years. Columbus took three trips for Spain, was literally abandoned after the third trip after Spain gave enough of their men their bearings.. Temperate zone wood torn off by lightning, north american tree sugars, humming bird pelts, blue racer skins etc. The Medicis lands eventually passed to the French in the form of a dowry.

[@unicorn1221]

Lol gotta love that chef 14:45

[@MDeLorien]

Medieval Gordon Ramsay 😁

[@tlst9999]

34:38 People ate with their fingers, but of the right hand. 5 seconds later: Rebel eats using his left hand.

[@jadedrealist]

You lost me at "Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America".

[@inmemory8161]

he literally did

[@stuartcole4845]

Adrian Valdes I think you’ll find that the ancestors of the native Americans made that discovery

[@stuartcole4845]

Lord Farquaad the Norse (vikings) might beg to differ, as they had contact with the Arctic areas of Canada up to 500 years before Columbus. Besides the original statement was not qualified as “European discovery” and so was wrong.

[@philiphicks1273]

Lord Farquaad There are remains of Norse settlements in Newfoundland that disagree with your position. Vikings lived in Canada.

[@scasey1960]

Yes - it should be stated that Columbus discovered a Stone Age people without a written language, the wheel, domesticated animals, naval technologies, and a limited understanding of metallurgy.

[@flowerpetals1396]

The English captions are hilarious - the Duke De Guise:-.....Duke Diggy's.

[@9grand]

I think the narrator is a french Canadian .

[@Fetrovsky]

Who's that Renay Sans they keep talking about?

[@ledinhdong7743]

UNESCO declares French cuisine the world's intangible heritage. Great documentary film!

[@staresce]

Did I miss something or did they not ever mention cooking with salt?