The Tragic Story of Abraham Lincoln's Last Meal

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@DogEatingHotDog 2 ай бұрын

Great video and like the new channel! One suggestion: Maybe consider dropping your recipes into the description. Looks delicious.

@Space_Lover4 6 ай бұрын

You two are so perfect for each other! What an amazing couple ❤ Thank you Ryan for sharing this with us. I LOVE this episode!

@EATSHISTORY 6 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

@maxivisionvermont1333 6 ай бұрын

Great new channel

@mar4kl 6 ай бұрын

"Fowl" is really just a synonym for "bird", although in modern-day English, it usually refers to types of birds raised for food. So, absent other information to clarify, "roast Virginia fowl" was most likely chicken, duck or goose. Possibly turkey, although at the time, turkey might not have been considered suitable for fine presidential dining in The White House. Your wife did say something about the meal being basically chicken and potatoes. I was really intrigued by the yams, though. In the USA, yams are synonymous with sweet potatoes. But while I knew there is supposed to be a difference between them, I had never seen the vegetable that your very wise wife was slicing, so I had to look this up. What I learned is that true yams don't grow in the USA, and never have. They're native to the tropical parts of Asia and Africa, so if Abraham Lincoln was eating those, they would have needed to be imported. That wasn't common at the time, so it seems unlikely to me that even The White House chefs would have served real yams. But if Lincoln's yams weren't the real thing, then what were they? A little more searching turned up a Library of Congress article that might just provide the answer while also positing the most plausible theory I've ever read as to why, in America, there are sweet potatoes masquerading as yams. According to that article, the first sweet potatoes grown commercially were harder and more potato-like than what we usually see in stores. A softer, more tubular-shaped variety came along later, and, to tell them apart, plantation slaves, who came from Africa and were familiar with yams, began calling these softer sweet potatoes "yams" to distinguish them from the harder, rounder sweet potatoes. So... my guess is that the yams that Abraham Lincoln was served at his last meal were actually soft, tubular, American sweet potatoes, not real yams. And now you not only have me craving sweet potatoes, but now that I know what a real yam looks like and have an idea of where to find one, I have an urge to procure one so that I can attempt to recreate Mrs. Socach's yummy-looking preparation! Thank you for making this video -- I think we both learned something.

@EATSHISTORY 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for your research! Flow are considered not common but known food in Europe and in fact it is a type oh chicken.Yams however are totally hard to get. Although I did come across the “yellow” sweet potato so you might be on to something 🧐All the best! Mrs S.

@lawrencecalfee3769 6 ай бұрын

Keep the new concepts coming. I dig em.

@EATSHISTORY 6 ай бұрын

More is coming!

@joseroeder5492 6 ай бұрын

Great video. As someone from the Caribbean. Yam is generally boiled or fried as but not baked. Interesting that they cooked it.

@EATSHISTORY 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@jeromewilliams1129 4 ай бұрын

That looked like cassava root instead of yam

@LTHanlon 5 ай бұрын

Yum! I'm coming to your home for dinner!

@maxivisionvermont1333 6 ай бұрын

I think i was subscribers 71 cool new channel

@EATSHISTORY 6 ай бұрын

You’re in a unique situation as one of the “original 100” - if the channel gets big you can Unsub to make a statement about how we sold out 😂. Thanks for your support ! - Ryan

@RetroEli82 6 ай бұрын

Yum yummy

@Nderak 6 ай бұрын

802nd subscriber

@jayofthenorth3364 6 ай бұрын

Yam is more elegant then sweet potatoes? what??? someone please help me

@meteorfive6 5 ай бұрын

How dare you bring in Biden in comparison to Honest Abe ?!?

@trikstari7687 3 ай бұрын

They're both equally corrupt. Lincoln was not the great man that history has misremembered him as. He was a scoundrel and a tyrant that conquered his own people just to create his own empire. He's the entire reason we have the insanely overpowered and corrupt federal government we have today.

@jacksonguillory8114 Ай бұрын

You should not make fun of people for being challenged in terms of intelligence (have my like)

@jayofthenorth3364 6 ай бұрын

i do love the way you showed the food being made by i’m assuming your girlfriend is will subscribe 😍