What foods did your ancestors love? Aparna Pallavi

[@santisanti8386]

Beautiful speech, absolutely true. The situation is very bad. I hope we can reverse this.

[@李然-y3z]

yean

[@charlietube7165]

Get off gold digging first girl

[@antonholm114]

Very interesting. I'm saddened that the ancestors who could have taught me about a lifestyle dependant on local instead of distant ecosystems or industrial agriculture, were all dead long before I was born. I suspect this is the case for most people in heavily industrialized countries..

[@DeathnoteBB]

Same. I live in America and we’re basically all dependent on grocery stores.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Poetry Flynn I thought the potato famine was because the English purposefully made the crops fail so the Irish would be forced to go to England for help

[@DeathnoteBB]

Sandcastle • Did you not watch the video at all lol

[@vulcanfeline]

@@DeathnoteBB the irish basically grew only 1 potato variety and it was susceptible to the variety of rust that swept through the country and killed all the plants. therefore, potato famine

[@vulcanfeline]

@Sandcastle • gathering food is cheaper than buying it. and often wild plants are more nutritious than cultivated varieties

[@jaclynchetty5809]

Wow, this is fascinating. As an Indo-Fijian I have always been so puzzled about why diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease are so prevalent in my extended family despite the fact that their diets consisted of traditional Indian cuisine. As an offspring of indentured labor, I guess this is another example of how British colonization has tethered my roots to the Indian subcontinent and my ancestors’ diets. What an enlightening speech!

[@lacewinglml]

I grew up with a love of food, constantly finding things that where edible, my mother called the poison hotline so much cause of what I ate. Never met a flower, fruit, vegetable, tuber, mushroom or meat I didn't want to eat. Some of my favorites was grilled mushrooms with carmelized wild onions. Huckleberries, salmon berries, and thimble berries with a bit of whipped cream. Red clover with water crest and a few other greens that grew wild around the edges of our gardens. I grazed as a kid and seriously loved it. But in the places I use to pick mushrooms and acorns for flour or cattail roots, are fences or houses. All the land getting crowded with stuff and the things I loved to graze on harder to find. I miss it, and really miss that this love for interesting foods I am having a harder time giving to my daughter because we just can't go berry picking, or collecting nuts and other wild edibles like I could from my own back yard as a kid.

[@StartupFundingEventGlobal]

A lot of food culture is gone because of people wanting fast food. But I believe that the true foodies still appreciate the traditions of cooking.

[@cd1962]

I thoroughly disagree that Food culture is gone because of fast food some of the best food is fast food from a food truck. If you're trying to say that McDonald's and Wendy's has ruined food then your scope on food is very very tunneled. Actually I'm gonna say that you have just been willfully ignoring how food culture has evolved in the food truck industry and eclectic dining places.

[@MysticKenji2]

It's less about want and more about what's available. It's easier to get junk food and fast food, so it gets eaten more.

[@TheXioChan]

extremely insightful, beautiful and all around a good message.

[@jobukinben317]

What a nice name.

[@HapticGamerHD]

Moringa, peanut butter, cowpeas, red meats and the occasional roasted spicy grasshoppers 😋 I'm West African

[@-SrushtiBorkar]

We eat Moringa and Cowpeas in indian marathi food culture too. As a child I used to hate Moringa for it's astringent taste.

[@HapticGamerHD]

@@-SrushtiBorkar delicious wholesome foods 🙂 And so did I as a kid; the bitter taste takes some getting used to for some. Love it now.

[@mikerbikex6656]

Cornbread and beans, rabbits and a few squirrels, supplemented by apples from the tree and some things from the garden. There were hogs, some of which roamed the woods. For fun, sassafras tea and honey. Water from the spring. Okay, they bought coffee which they boiled on the wood fired kitchen stove. No one went hungry.

[@atomicdiamondx]

This is an amazing talk about socially acceptable foods and edible plants. Admittedly, after I bought a home two years ago, I hadn't made the time to really tend to our lawn (aside from cutting it) and gardens. One day, I noticed mock strawberries, hiding under some thicker foliage. And it got me wondering about all the so called "weeds" that I had let overtaken some of my gardens and found homes in any turned soil. So, I researched them by googling most of their leaf descriptions (with the word "weed," of course), and realized that there is so much waste of perfectly good, nutritious food, for the sake of barely useful grass! Next year, I can't wait to harvest some dandelions for their leaves, the heads to make some jelly (after the bees have had their early spring fill!) and the roots to roast and make a decaf coffee alternative. I'm also looking forward to growing some of my own food. Stay curious, and connect with nature!

[@PeterSIpeli]

i loved this talk so much ....

[@Jool005]

Wonderfully presented, valuable information. Thank you Aparna.

[@vulcanfeline]

i have no clue what my genetic ancestors ate, but the people who long ago lived where i live now ate deer, moose, fish, rabbit, bear, blueberries, bearberries, wild rice, used bullrush roots for flour, wild parsnips, lily bulbs, chewed spruce sap as gum, and had many utility and medicinal plants. i think there may be 2 people around that still know all the edible plants but they're very old :(

[@danielle2952]

Our foods and our bodies have been colonized as well as our land of course. Reconnecting is much needed beautiful talk 💜

[@chcknpie04]

Dang, I thought the title was, “what fools did your ancestors love?” And I thought it would be a video about killing your heroes

[@idonthaveagoddamnname2623]

Lol

[@weebywo6501]

omg i read exactly the same and wondering why she's talking about food lmaooooo

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

Would have been amazing ngl

[@evolvedcopper2205]

I saw fools too and got interested and first time ever was disappointed to see the word food in a title when i looked again

[@MysticKenji2]

i wanna see that now lol

[@michellezevenaar]

It would be fantastic if they made a book on all these foods and techniques of preparing and gathering them! The natives Americans have lost alot of their food culture so documenting the knowledge that is still available is extremely important!

[@lestranged]

Before all the new-world foods like potatoes were brought to europe, I think my ancestors ate whole-grain brown bread and porridge, barley, rye, beer, cheese, eggs, fish, beef , pork and venison, small game like rabbits, ducks, turnips ,onions, cabbage and wild greens, apples, cherries, walnuts

[@empresstarot21]

Beautiful lecture ..! Thank you ma’am ..!

[@carcass6924]

I’ve always wanted to know

[@cbryce9243]

Insects are very nutritious. Madagascar cockroaches are said to be as nourishing as salmon.

[@Red-jl5dq]

🤮

[@cbryce9243]

@@Red-jl5dq LOL!

[@idonthaveagoddamnname2623]

Crikey

[@anitalassiter4266]

They are as big as salmon. Lol!

[@enricogolini5376]

Only "as" ? I'd expect it to be higher

[@MarieGabriel]

it's remind me the kohlrabi in France, a lot of people don't know how to eat it... Fortunately my parents learn us how to eat it and love it

[@dreamer7412]

Utter TRUTH !!!

[@arungiduturi]

The reality is that this is not just happening with food in India. Same applies to languages, rituals, traditions, religions, beliefs and lot more. Sad.

[@idonthaveagoddamnname2623]

TED's getting back on track

[@idonthaveagoddamnname2623]

@@romanski5811 bull

[@idonthaveagoddamnname2623]

@@romanski5811 take for example, 'how women will lead us to (idk what the rest of the title was). It was sexist. TED has always looked at scientific breakthroughs and advancements in certain areas. It was interesting. We've recently had videos that are neither of these. I'm saying that TED is becoming interesting again

[@BernardSolomon]

This is so awesome! I have seen my grandparent's food disappear from my native state's cuisine.

[@Anna-tj7mp]

Oatmeal, whiskey and haggis.

[@Anna-tj7mp]

@Gia Pacella it will be waiting for you!

Minus the haggis during lent.

[@anon15169]

Never had haggis but the others I have regularly.

[@SweetGaBrownin]

Thanks for sharing! Food to me represents so many things, mostly importantly love, family and culture ♥

[@idonttireeasily]

Pretty sure my ancestors loved food that wasn’t poisonous.

[@MWhaleK]

Lots of food is slightly poisonous, such as beer, it's just not poisonous enough to matter. Another example is hot peppers, their heat comes from a natural toxin that their ancestors evolved to protect them selves and humans have breed increase how much of that each pepper has.

[@cd1962]

I mean, you're here, so.... the uncles and aunts that tried the berries first lost their branches? Lol

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

Excuse me, humans discovered wine via eating rotten fruit. And that is a discovery that has been repeated all over the world where fruit grows. Also, nobody is talking about eating something poisonous to humans. Please stop being ignorant of other people's cultures and actually look a bit beyond the squick reactions we are ingrained with

[@cd1962]

@@ShadaOfAllThings how about you stop being a complete and utter stick in the mud and go to therapy. You clearly need real world therapy for whatever chip you have on your shoulder. They only meant that they're here so whatever was eaten obviously wasn't poisonous and that's all they can confirm or deny. With only their current existence as proof. There is no excuse for the defensiveness you've displayed from a simple off the cuff response. You are not excused for your nonsense. Go get therapy.

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

@@cd1962 How about no? How about I'll keep calling people out when they parrot racists rhetoric without thought.

[@Sashi5000]

Thank you for sharing...

[@Martin-zr2tb]

Chana masala , Mediterranean soup , curry or turmeric or Indian spicy anything with veggies and rice , chilli Peppers and more peppers , habaneros , guacamole, jalapeños, jalapeños Salsa with corn And salty chips and chocolate covered raisins at the same time 🤤

[@ashitabisht8450]

Very true it has even changed the farming patterns. Like back in our grandparents time people grew linseed but now only rice and wheat.

[@karenkueter8975]

Very good points made here. I think the answer is to notice what is being done in the creative areas of food and foster that a bit more to incorporate these forgotten foods. You can’t just tell people to all of a sudden change back. Not when they want to go forward. So let them go forward by introducing them to “new” foods prepared in a different way. The argument should be that we all should be getting our nutrition from as many sources as we can because that’s how the body thrives.

[@sankaranarayanan2721]

Thanks a lot

[@karthikeyana7150]

Inspired with the explanation on FOOD and LOVE..

[@j-10k64]

I never would have thought what my ancestors favorite foods where...pretty interesting 🤔

[@paulhopper8156]

Wonderful 🙏

[@tanglaynheung]

wow so many big thanks for sharing.

[@scottblack7182]

Awesome .

[@random-code1]

In Brazil we have many fruits in a state which aren’t popular in other states. I hope they’ll never be forgotten.

[@melissarains1017]

Very interesting. Sometimes I listen and nothing is really said. This was very insightful and worth hearing! Well done.

[@markuswolf7884]

My grandpa was from Yugoslavia. One time when I was a kid at his house, I saw him eating head cheese (made from goat brain). When I told my dad about it later, he said, "Don't worry. That tradition will die with him." My wife would be eating horse meat. Neither of us are ready to reconnect with the lost food of our ancestors.

[@mhmoodali9819]

Hi Ted will I just wanted to thank you for all your efforts Thank you Ted

[@nikkiurs.mp4745]

Thank you for this. ✨💕

[@wildedibles819]

Better than McDonald We are learning and loving to forage bring back nutrition Many important food preparation and identifying is lost these days We foraged chanterelle mushrooms and they are worth $20/lb im glad they are a delicacy We need to learn more about foraging

[@johneli495]

Interesting 👍

[@Natasha-mj4uz]

why don't ted provide with summary or comprehensive guide blog on there website of speakers. Like the food names or other inside information of speakers knowledge.

[@buddy77587]

Fabulous 👍💯

[@DBTdad]

My southern American ancestors ate possum, rabbit, squirrel, shad fish, souse meat and organ meats not because it tasted good....but cause they were poor and starving. Black eyed peas and turnip greens were considered live stock feed by the Union Army and were not taken or burned after civil war battles and fed the defeated southerners. We still eat greens and black eyed peas each new years day per tradition.

[@karlchenmuller4059]

For Germany i can only think of eating the whole animal including intestines, eating way less animal products - and more seasonal vegetables which for sure came in a larger variety. E.g. More beets in winter time, local spices (i hope there are any...). But I am sure there must be things in the forests that are edible and basically no one knows it anymore. Any ideas?

[@lindasek1206]

Spices would be herbs and salt. As far as forests: lots of berries, mushrooms, plants and tree bark. Farm animals are expensive, you can easily make a twig trap, and catch rabbits, moles, weasels, hamsters and squirrels. If you learn to use a slingshot or a bola, you can catch birds. Fishing in streams can be accomplished via net or simple fishing rod (fish bone can be used as a hook). Survival skills are a popular past time for many now, so there's plenty of information for you to find if you are really interested in it.

[@athulk___]

Food is love. ♥️

[@Nobody_Not_Here]

I personally love mushrooms and cauliflower.

[@pablo199014]

Gosh, love that intro 😍

[@santwanagoswami4666]

The food that our enscestors loved was really healthy food.Now we should realize it.

[@harleyquinn5774]

Mead, beef, and bread.

[@cd1962]

Honey, dates, hummus, naan and I've often wondered when seeing the locusts issues in various places. Why they don't eat the grasshoppers, they're only locusts because there's so many. It's literally flying protien eating nutritionally useless corn. Like....eat them!!! You're hungry? Grasshopper flour is a thing in the west. Eat the flying protien ffs.

[@MuhammadAhmad-me2tb]

Wtf

[@gowthamudhay2836]

super

[@MP-wb5yd]

This is the same process everywhere in the world, when people get more wealthy they want to eat different food, more convenient, more tasty, etc This is a big trend/topic in most western countries as well

[@theonlyatoms]

Food that they earned.

[@experiencewithnandita]

Beautiful ma'am :)

[@romankryvolapov]

Could you please agree with the author of the "TED in Russian" channel about cooperation, his channel was the only opportunity to watch your wonderful conferences for the Russian-speaking audience.

[@wildedibles819]

Yes foods that grow easily without much work is great I just pulled out lots of mallows because they grow so well Im going to pickle the seeds but it takes a lot of work Lots of tiny preparation its hard when we work so hard but do we need to work all day?

[@wildedibles819]

That was beautiful:)

[@threwthelookingglass7194]

yes... fallow your cravings

[@Kasumi0cada]

I had no idea. It's weird to me because I envision a beautiful place like India as a paradise where food is everywhere. I'd much rather eat an old Indian diet than a modern American one. :(

[@jaisreeramprasad8047]

Mahua ki roti is yummy , we biharis are eating even today ...do try it really yummy

[@gigglessamy1734]

Yes taking bread and wine came with bible changed a lot of people to forget their traditional food style.

[@NMalteC]

As long as you don't go overboard and unleash vira on the world. Not all food is good for humankind

[@jobukinben317]

Yea no Bats...

[@abrilv2686]

I mean, we don’t eat bunnies anymore everywhere, but this problem isn’t really very known in Mexico. Corn, beans, what the country gives is transformed into delicious meals. It’s a shame that slowly all of this is disappearing.

[@GaasubaMeskhenet]

I've been only increasingly upset that I can't effectively forage my local area. I can only recognize wild carrots and pawpaws

[@genericusername4206]

recommended to me, recommended to you

[@CrazyDaisy6971]

Cinnamon spread on toast and FruitLoops. Only when i went to grandma and grandpas. They knew how to live!

[@carlacastiajo6272]

Well i never think, but that is true.

[@CrunchyNorbert]

The literal state of TED

[@idonthaveagoddamnname2623]

What? Shame? I'm confused

[@keshavjha3315]

Eye opening speech, being ashamed and having no ground knowledge of our own local resources whether food or house building material. we are ending up as slave in the name of development. How fast the business men and market policy infested inferiority complex in people's mind and getting advantage and growing their own business. It's really challenging our intellect. Ex: When I see packaged milk and products are bought in village, aashirvad aata, colgate and teeth brush, packaged oil, pickles,popcorn, spices, fishes from other state ,local fruits even wheat and rice as well etc. Omg It's quite disturbing and forcing me to think what kind of education are we getting even we can't differentiate what's will be good for us for longer run. People started giving up all those resources which were handy to the people back then and now looking at industries much distant from his place just in the name of having no enough time. Completely lie we get enough time to think but we think about which is not in our reach like political issue and all irrelevant information and talk. Thank you Madam for awakening !!!

[@MrTechnotrance98]

-RAW MEAT -RAW DAIRY -ORGANS -BLOOD Our real diet folks

[@SE-kh2tq]

This is the concept of Satmya in Ayurveda

[@dinhvannam346]

No pain no gain

[@TheSinkingGarage]

Haven't listened yet but I'm interested. I have a theory that it may be healthy to eat what your parents ate and what you ate growing up. In moderation of course.

[@Armotive]

We need subtitles

[@ligiasommers]

🙏🏻💖🌷

[@Noukz37]

Most people in the world, used to be impoverished in the previous century, or at least at the begining of it. Now when they can earn more money, they desire foods that weren't available to them, but only to the higher classes, and they shunt away the traditional foods. I've seen this in every single country that I've visited and lived at.

[@srijanvarma9406]

Maybe coz i am from mainstream india but i never felt ashamed of our food instead i thought everyone loved indian food

[@kaushikmalepati2495]

Same here, but it would be nice if younger millennials recognize this loss of ancestral food and rejuvenate it through means of social media and it's popularity.

[@RampinRabit]

Which food is she talking about?

[@aaronwright1621]

None of you are commenting on a moth larvea? A MOTH LARVEA!!!!!

[@trainablemonkey9912]

What if mahua was marketed as a "superfood" like acai?

[@invox9490]

Same as we do now: proteins and sugars. Just not in the quantities we do now.

[@Luuck3Fire]

i can't believe people watch this for real

[@grahammewburn]

Interesting Egyptian symbol hanging around your neck. Cheers Gray Australia

[@freethinking3469]

The Ankh

[@f_r_e_d]

I prefer smoked velociraptors tbh

[@MuhammadAhmad-me2tb]

No one Me: listens the video in 2X

[@gmlssns5859]

So what about bats? at least we're gonna have to run a test.

[@Thatguy-md5ve]

hello.

[@Jessinblackandwhite]

Reindeer, fish, berries, game and wild birds

[@SePiippolanVaari]

In here Finland it's sadhi bear... O deir me i'mean bier! Boos alholod's...) I'st not My cup of Tea

[@devajyotipanda5589]

I completely disagree with her.During early man days they used to subsist on anything they could find raw meat,raw vegetables right,but then they discovered fire and they found out the joy of cooked meat and everything changed,our palette carved for cooked food hence we evolved.Similarly during childhood we used to eat anything and everything, even dirt ,stone and we learnt hard way which could be eaten or not and as we grew up our tastes changed and we liked some kind of food better than others.Yes sometimes we go back to the food we ate during just for sentimentality reason but we can't eat them forever when there are much tasty,much colourful,better smelling food around the horizon.I want that satisfaction,and improved happy mood which I get from tasty food,and who says tasty food are not nutritious,don't equate refined food with junk.I mean to say that if the indigenous food which we used to eat could be made a 5 star dish I am all for it,but till them I don't want to destroy my pallette by eating foods which I have grown out of.

[@midei]

Some Chinese guy: “I’ll make a stew with this bat” Six months later: 600,000 deaths... and counting

[@marianeboyer7096]

Best hashtag for motivational sayings #quotes69 #viral69

[@ye3zs]

Grass

[@Ilendir]

Wheat is making our generation sick and most people don't want to acknowledge that...people are frowned upon if they dare to criticise how often wheat products are consumed nowadays while vegetables disappear (as stated here). And on the other hands, millets / rice are not nearly as problematic as wheat... On the other hand, I think there are probably good reasons why (wild)rats are not eaten anymore...as mice and rats are supposed to transmit diseases..

[@kakashisenpai2663]

Turtles, ants, rabbits, mollusks

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

*Claps between words* I WANT MY CANDIED INSECTS DAMN IT