Al Capone's Soup Kitchen 

eggs.

@@BradyAlley Bacon.

Can't wait to serve it forth!

I'm so excited to see what the final copy will look like

Filipino food.

Damn!!! Didn't know he coined that term.

@Lucinae Spend a little less time off of videogames/comic books, kid. Silencing your enemies back then in the real world was a little more Complex than “confronting an adversary” in person. You go around getting your hands dirty and next thing you know, you are arrested for murder. It’s called avoiding leaving a trail. You can’t just go around confronting all your enemies in person. >.>

Delete *both of your* comments ^^ - this quote was recreated by historians on recording - to mimic Alphonse Capone’s voice

@@domanskikid stay off the green text kid, Al Capone confronted the back of his adversaries heads with a baseball-bat. Do you learn nothing nowadays?

To me one of the greatest quotes ever is when Zelenskyy said; i need ammo, not a ride.

But always pay your taxes

@@TastingHistory 'Cause the IRS doesn't take soup in lieu of dollars.

Interesting that you mention Guys and Dolls, which musical features a considerable mention of one of the towns in which I grew up: Havre de Grace, aka 'The Graw' (from the French pronunciation of 'Grace.'). Meyer Lansky featured heavily in the gambling activities there, and some of the old timers remembered him and his peers. The National Guard Armory is placed on the old race track grounds, and remnants of the racing, gambling, and criminal heyday still linger; the rail line that brought New York City gamblers in and out of town still lies under Juniata Street, and my neighbors across the road had and used one of the race track's old stables - relocated entirely and intact - from after when the track closed. A VERY fine stable it is, too. Havre de Grace is a small town, but it's crazy how it connects to a much larger (and criminal) world.

It’s honestly brilliant. That PR campaign tho.

Sounds like the Democratic Party today

Or he had his wife’s mothers horrible cooking and remembered a better soup 🍲

going to a soup kitchen and complaining that you got better soup at a different soup kitchen definitely seems like the kind of attitude that would do that to you

That still happens to people today

That's what I thought too.

To be fair most of them probably weren't homeless. They were just broke so looking for a free meal.

I thought it was like a secondary instruction, like, you'll know they're done when they're delicious.

Good for him. Drinking milk that you don't know is bad is a way to have terrible indigestion. (I speak from experience)

"I may have killed a lot of people but I can't STAND the idea of children getting sick by bad milk!"- al capone, probably

@@sarafontanini7051 I'm convinced Al Capone didn't kill 'a lot of people.' Sure, he bumped off other gangsters who became too competitive with his organization but if he had really killed 'a lot of people,' why could they only indite him on tax fraud? Meanwhile, legal business, the train companies, hired nazi scum murder guards to shoot and kill hobos. Hobos were not just homeless drunks, they were also regular men and women (probably kids also) who hopped on slow moving trains to hitch a free ride because they were too poor to afford a ticket. They must have killed hundreds, thousands even. But they had the law on their side. Tresspassing on my trains? A few bullets or buck shot would make sure you never did that again.

I thought his brother died from bad milk when he was young?

I don't like milk, so don't drink it. But you can tell when milk is bad just from smelling it..... How did they not know!? But, still..... Good on capone for helping with that. 👍👍.

Aww what a sweet murdering gangster! So nice that he bought up those crocodile tears for vanity clothes while people were starving on the street

​@@smellypatel5272 r/choosingbeggars called, asked to use your comment as content.

@@nicoleb695 imagine being so dumb that you're grateful to a murderer, extortionist and overall terrible human being. And all for what? A paltry sum of money or food as he continues to terrorize thousands of people.

@@smellypatel5272 Well they wouldn’t have starved if they had gone to his soup kitchen.

@@NumPad 😂😂

Just cooked it today, it was absolutely stupendously bussing

What's the ratio for using dried herbs?

You beautiful person, thank you so much

@@evandeverix8445 Np, let me know how it went.

@@celesteschroeder5924 not too sure, you could google the fresh herbs and convert maybe ? These are all fresh herbs you can grow/find in local supermarket pretty easily, no ?

Even the worst people can sometimes do some good

Is there anyway to read the interview? I’m enthralled by such a tale

Was the cabbage soup the soup served in the Al Capone soup kitchens? Not the luxurious soup shown in the video?

I'm glad you're alive and well now

The coal collecting is called "gloaming". John Biggers painted several pieces depicting the act. edit: I've recycled the word for collecting bottles and cans for cash.

what a strange guy, he will happily kill people to make a buck but will turn around and care for the poor and for kids.

I believe he had a niece or similar almost die from bad milk.

I hated the smell of the school milk shelf

This is a myth and some weirdo on RU-vid claiming his grandmother was there on something that never happened

So how do you know what is the truth ? Were you there ?

LOL, Al did this in the early 30's for PR when on trial. That's it. This is the 2020 = of cooperations posting BLM stuff.

​@@BudsCartoonhuh

@@M50A1 huh huh

@@BudsCartoon Funding and organising a bunch of soup kitchens is a lot more work than having your social media team spout empty platitudes on twitter.

​@@BudsCartoon I'd probably like BLM better if they did soup kitchens tbh...

And I laugh every. single. time.

Clack clack

It was definitely a watershed moment for him. Ever since, he's been less finicky about changing absurd quantities of ingredients or cooking steps in his presentations.

It's his superpower.

It cracks me up how many times he can slip that clip in...... And it never gets old... Long live the hard tack clip!

My grandmother was not friends with Capone, but certainly, talking bad about him was forbidden. He was upstanding, except for all the times he was not.

This same line of thought is what has doomed my beloved Mexico. Sure, the narcos fix roads, but the money they used is washed crimson with the blood of many, many innocents.

Capone was in the league of guys who lived the old code. "Never EVER sh*t where you eat." as one older mentor of mine used to say it. Meaning, he knew when to get tough, and other than when he had to... He largely wasn't. He could talk smack with the best og he guys in places where that was appropriate, but outside... in mixed company... He was as fine a gent' as you'd find around town. I've known quite a few among his family, descendants, and even a couple old timers who knew him before they passed. Everybody who met him said the same things. You'd never know the "Scarface" Al Capone that the public hears about now is the same guy they knew... It just couldn't be so. He was probably in Florida "on purpose"... BUT it's still kind of difficult to fully "buy" the idea that he was committed to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre... and yeah... I know better... BUT to have sat with them and hear THEM talk about him as they knew him... It's not so easy. He wasn't the only one who wanted something to happen... He was just the biggest name on the list of those who wanted something to happen... ;o)

My dad worked for Al Capone and said he was a goo guy.

Andrew Tate's fans see him as a Saint too.

Tell that to Joe Howard.

Nice addition to the recipe and the history lesson. I learned that the measurement "spray" extists and a viewer actually can contribute an explanation of it. That makes the channel even greater.Thanks for your contribution.

The right touch of rosemary can totally change dishes

Sounds familiar to the "mazzetto" used sometime in Italian. Could be of flowers, could be the free handful of fresh spices you ask at the local market along with the paid vegetables ("un mazzetto di odori").

@@basileerla a breath of dill makes a great taste with the right hot sauce

Two sprigs in a spray. That's easy enough to remember.

I mean even back then seasoning was a way to preserve perishables (still today), flavor was an extra. Usually recipes would call for other things like herbs, like mint in this soup, not necessarily salt. that's more of a recent thing.

Oh yeah right, the Italians made their own canned tomato sauce and it's called "Passata" (?)...

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Yes passata..but never salt or pepper..Just basil.. but in this case he used tomatoes.. the home made tomatoes are called "pelati" and its usually in jars..again not seasoned.

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Passata is a puree. Not diced or whole tomatoes. But at the time the can would normally contain both salt and sugar. But not pepper or capiscums.

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Whenever our family has a garden we always canned our own veggies, and they always used a bit of salt in the tomatoes (and other veggies) to help preserve them. Thus whenever those 'canned' (in glass Mason Jars) tomatoes were used for a recipe, the added salt called for was left out.

everyone in Chicago has a fake "my grandpa and Al" story. It's a common fool's lie.

Same, best line! 😂

Reminds me of in Chainsaw Man when Samurai Sword was saying all that "my grandpa was a heroic yakuza. He didn't kill that many women and children" stuff 🤣

I mean, he murdered other gangsters. It was bad guys killing each other

No you didn't.

​@@JishinimaTidehoshiHe also killed a lot of those related to his rivals, and also threatened people and used violence to ensure he got his money, and many of those people were part of the downtrodden and needy communities that turned to crime Nad illegal activity in order to support themselves. He and his gang killed other gangsters, but also abused and killed prostitutes, a lot of which were often underage girls, both that were under his gang and that of other gangs. Not to mention that one of the most common sources of income for gangs, protection rackets, are literally schemes designed around threatening people and hurting them so that they give you money to not hurt and threaten them. I also don't think al or any of his underlings were usually sympathetic when someone under them couldn't pay their dues, regardless of their reasoning of it. He and his gang did kill other gangsters, but the reason they did that is so they could muscle in on their territory and use it for their rackets to get more money, and those rackets mainly got their money from the poor and downtrodden, since they were the least able to protect themselves or be helped by the government, which was also because Capone threatened, blackmail, and bribed government officials so that they would turn a blind eye and allow him to continue his illegal activity against people that weren't cared for which allowed him to rake in even more blood money and exercise his power as he liked.

It's called a "Transatlantic accent" and was a deliberate affectation of the period. Look it up, it's really interesting!

@@thatcanuck5670 will do, thanks! I honestly thought it was an accent of the time.

There's a native American chef with an authentic restaurant. He gets techniques from elders, but then turned to botanists & biologists for what would have been in the area pre whites & creates from there. Can't remember his name he was on NPR.

Ute cuisine would also be neat, the uto-aztecan families of our tribes got some neat foods, parched corns and grasshoppers

You can always contact the tribal elders with such a request. Recipes are handed down in cultures, from mother to daughter, until somebody writes them down.

I agree I'd like to see some navajo food.

I made a bucket list of native foods a while back. I should add to that list the Jerusalem Artichoke, which despite its name isn't an artichoke or associated in any way with the Holy Land. Rather it is a species of sunflower originally native to the Great Plains, sporting edible root tubers, that were extensively exported to both coasts of North America and widely eaten by precontact nations. It was labeled an artichoke by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain after eating them at a Wampanoag village in Massachusetts Bay, using the closest taste comparison he could think of. The "artichokes" were later exported to Western Europe, where they proliferated widely, and obtained the other half of their name from the corrupting of the Italian word girasole (sunflower). Edit: Add to the list Canadian Bannock Bread (so called because it is cooked in a skillet like actual Bannock, but was traditionally made from cornmeal for centuries before European contact), and California Manzanita Berry Cider (soft cider).

That’s kinda cool.

When I was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the early 1980s I was pleased to learn that it was illegal to use margarine in a restaurant. No matter how basic the meal, the bread was always served with real Wisconsin butter.

@@rosezingleman5007 It's an unspoken law even in our house today! Always served with butter. Cheers

@@rosezingleman5007 people with dairy allergies can go to Hell, MI

Raw milk is great for a woman's hormones though. Some say it's the best way to increase bust Size without surgery!

I was going to say I thought at first the meat was going to be Italian pork sausage based!

🤣

as long as he isnt a soup na zi 😂

Today on tasting history -Soup kitchen edition, I’m going to be making Pope Clement V “heretic stew” First you’ll need to burn 2 heretics, one male, and one female at the stake. Now from the blackened remains collect from each 2 Heresies of meat 🍖 Now I’m not sure how much a Heresy is, but given the amount of water and other ingredients I’d estimate it to be 1/2 a kill-o Now since we obviously can’t murder somebody for an authentic recipe I’m going to be substituting pork as another name for human meat is “Long pig”…

@@beepboop204 no soup for you

@@TastingHistory al capones grandmother on his father's side was a amazing chef

My story isn't quite as cool but i took care of a Ford Supermodel in a nursing home. She had a ton of photos too. It is amazing what you'll learn just talking to our elders

Not an Al Capone story but my mothers uncle owned a bar in the Boston area that was frequented by a few gangsters. She met Whitey Bulger there in the 60's or 70's and said he was such a nice guy, but I'm sure most of us know how he turned out. She said the bars that the gangsters hung out in where the safest places for girls to go. If they went to other bars they had to be careful to watch their drinks. The gangsters might be bad, they might be killers, but they took care of their neighborhoods. I think we could use some of them today.

@@thedullohanvids My father said something similar, that our Chicago neighborhood was safe because of an alleged gangster down the street. I never asked him how he knew... it's an early memory, so I suppose it's possible he meant his own Depression Boston childhood and I was confused.

@@thedullohanvids That’s the difference between white Catholic ones of yesteryear, and the ones we have today. Gotta love diversity! 🙄

@@mindstalk Every city went to shite when it changed colors. It’s really sad to see what became of everything that was once nice and white.

You guys and your "my grandpa and Al" stories are hilarious. Al never had a "hideout in Fontana." The times he came to LA he was met by the police. What the fuck would he be doing in Fontana hiding out? So this is now his 20,000th hideout across the country. LOL

​@@BudsCartoonfacts 😂😂😂

Why would they have a tommy gun for a dentist lol

@@tear728 all I can tell you is that is the family legend. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@@tear728 The truth is, when Capone was boss, anytime he was in Los Angeles or California, the police would either greet him at the train station and send him back, one time resulting in his first gun charge, other times they would follow him around.

Wiener schnitzel is claimed by the people of Milan, it would make a good episode indeed 👍

Rada rada

schnitzel??? As in hotdog pr sausage?

@@jonathanbair523 Its a piece of meat that is pounded thin and pan fried, usually served with lemon or a sauce.

@@TheKingOfBeans my understanding is that the basic form of pounded breaded fried meat is referenced all the way back in the Roman Empire by Apicius. It's an ancient dish and anyone really trying to claim discovery or the originality of it, rather than a specific form of it, is as silly as someone claiming a specific region invented boats. I'd just be really interested to see what a good historical dive into the history and early recipes of it manage to bring up, like is the Apicius version cookable? What is the earliest published actual Wiener schnitzel recipe? Or for that matter cotoletta alla millianese?

I wonder if he could make a run of word bubble stickers..

Sounds a lot like a bouquet garni

​@@octochan Probably it's the same or at least nearly. I think, bouquet garni contains specific herbs. Kräutersträußl can contain any herb.

Capone was generally always a sweetheart. Its laws that make a person evil. not the person. Gangs were created to protect themselves from the government and people who tried to kill you cuz, racism. Everyone sells liquor here in Chicago now.

Was there a reason he did that? I mean milk DEFINTELY needed that considering how fast milk rots. but was it because it was too hard to sell it or something?

What’s the reason he lobbied for it do you know? I imagine it’s not just because of his good heart 😂

​@@kaiserlowa His mother died from spoilt milk.

@@kaiserlowa It's not clear that he actually did; as with much stuff associated with gangsters, there's little evidence regarding it. The legend is that it was a family member or associate that bought or used or perhaps just had spoiled milk around.

Did your ma use lentils? I could see peas in there for sure or cannellini beans like in Pasta Fagioli

And instead of grated romano cheese you used cubed feta. And tomatoes are too acidic so you left them out. And instead of pasta you used bread. And instead of boiling it you baked it in the oven.

@@hypotheticaltapeworm Plan to make myself another pot this weekend

@@hypotheticaltapeworm Sounds my recipe. Instead of stewing beef, I used ground beef, formed into patties. Instead of canned tomatoes, I used a single slice and used the rest for a ketchup. Instead of pasta, I used the flour to make buns. Instead of of stewing it, I used a grill. Instead of grated cheese, I used a slice of cheddar. With just these simple modifications, I improved this soup a lot.

$50 in 1920 was like $740 in today's money!

@@CathrynAnn98 dear God that inflation

I’m gonna have to try that, I love mint and Italian food even more!

Look tasty

I know they're not the same in menthol content but peppermints actually help a lot with getting rid of gas so that actually seems practical as well as unique.

Here in Spain (or specifically the Canray Islands, Idk if it applies to all of Spain) they put a sprig of mint in their chicken noodle soup. It's a bit weird at first but fits the dish nicely

I put cinnamon in mine. Just a dash but it really turns out pretty good if making a meat sauce.

Thanks! I have dabbled a bit in past

I grew up in Chicago. Remember hearing stories about his soup kitchen years after it closed. People remembered going with pots and getting soup to feed their family.

Thanks Jodi

Well, technically government is bunch of thugs in charge of certain territory.

This is an underrated comment.

You'd not be saying that if you were starving in 1930s

@Harley Quinn mafia is a criminal organisation, not evil. Though they did kill people

@Three Strands Ministry - Any names, dates, or figures you met that anyone would actually know? What about the restaurant, does it still exist? If so, is it under the same ownership? Additionally, I noticed you wrote “mum”, you in the UK? That’s not a common term for mother in the US, hence the question. 😜

Yes because in America we all spell mom with a u...

@@alexyoungberg5232 oh damn you’re right. It’s not like the U.S. is filled with immigrants or anything. Ya clown 🤡

@@alexyoungberg5232 Good catch! I only ever went to visit Al Capone's house in Cuba. I'm Canadian. It was February 1989 before the end of the Soviet Union so there were lots of fat Russians on the beach at Varedero.

@@LaDivinaLover there are so many ministries and mums in Chicago ya clown! Always believe everything you see! 🤡

Wise words Kim! 👍

It's my favourite as well

Try tortiglioni or edicoladi..they are good aswell with meat sause..rigatoni are the best with pasta al forno or ragù.

🤣 love her

She didn't know what a week-end was and probably never heard of Al Capone; for an "Edwardian" woman going around with French and Russian aristocrats, Lady Olivia had a lot to learn.

@@barrymalkin4404 Haha

@@barrymalkin4404 her name was Violet.

I’d watch it

I love that Snorky was his PREFERRED nickname 😂

"*Big* Snorky"

I'm just a half Italian American who buys his pasta from the store, but I'm very very familiar with that kind of pasta.... Granted, half the time it's sold by Kraft... but that's how life is.

Not a fun fact

Where was vacation?

@@TastingHistory England! not super exciting, I know, but it is in the Fens on the east coast where King John's caravan was famously lost taking a shortcut through the marshes!

@@firebert123 it’s one of my favorite areas in the world! I think Ely is my favorite cathedral and I love the story of the outlaws who fought William the Conqueror in the Fens.

@@TastingHistory I didn't get to this time, but I always try to visit Wales as well. North Wales specifically, the Snowdonia region. Supposedly where King Arthur's legend happened, and the mountains that were the insparation for Tolkien's Misty Mountains, AND the mountains Edmund Hillary practiced on for his Everest trek!

You should try emailing Max Miller instead of leaving a comment, especially if you find the recipe! I'm sure he'd be really interested it's probably just hard to get through all these comments.

When Max said he looked up tomato cans from the 1920s and '30s, I was expecting him to have found a bunch of losing boxers.

Its been raining/snowing for the last three days. It is time for soup.

Soup is definitely our favorite in this house. Got an instapot a few years ago for christmas and since it's snowing that means soup every other day. Never get tired of it!

Lol thousand of grandmas and grandpas knew al Capone In here.

@@oldironsides4107it shows how effective his winning of hearts and minds was, to have such high regard for him longer after his death.

Yes this is true as I live in N. WIS. He or staff bought food from local farmers and there was a small lake on the property where a seaplane could bring in liquor from Canada about 6 hours North. There were stone walls with areas for the guards to sit with guns. It used to be open for tours and had a cafe. The Lac Courte Orielles tribe now owns the property now and is exploring what to develop it into such as a camp ground. It is run down. His bookkeeper alledgly was Radio Joe who ran a bar /restaurant in Hayward, WI. He was said to have donated money to a local Priest who walked to his residence but was told that was the last donation so don't return.

I would totally watch that.

I agree! Living in Vegas and worked in a restaurant that’s from Chicago’s old days I both hear stories from the GM and how some recipes came to be “influenced” by mobsters back in the day and still today.

Hell yes!

Joe Biden loves his pudding cups.

Tony Soprano's gabagool.

What kind of monster does not add pasta? food can never be too starchy.

@@gatocles99 please, I'm italian, I know what I'm talking about. Pasta just doesn't add anything to this recipe (apart from heaviness), trust me (plus you can save it for another future dish)

@@simonecasi9753 I get that your eating disorder causes you to fear carbohydrates. But the rest of us are not mentally ill. And we don't mind noodles in our soup. Calories are necessary to be healthy.

@@gatocles99 Oh, what a mature and not at all childish answer. Guess it's clear who won the argument ;)

@@simonecasi9753 An irrational fear of carbohydrates is a serious mental illness. Instead of being smug, get help.

My friend made that for me once, when I was an undergrad in England. It's actually incredible when you're ill, should be a more widely published thing!

Well, the bad news is the pasta mostly got overcooked when it crossed the ocean and people forgot to salt the water. A simple cheese sauce was bastardized into weirdly alfredo. The good news is thanks to the internet, Italian recipe sites with actual Italian recipes can be easily found, and ingredients are generally available in most cities. If you speak Spanish which many Americans do, you can read Italian and at least get the basic understanding with how similar the languages are

@@LittleEmoDancer In other words, Americans made it taste better which is why the best Italian food is found in America.

@@gatocles99 Sounds like someone who thinks Italian food is Ragu and thinks Olive Garden is fine dining. LOL!

@@thedullohanvids Yes, verbal abuse and insults are a sign of narcissism.... also a mental illness.

@@gatocles99 I was just joking around. I'm sorry if you took it as an actual insult

Hope the next ones are better *crossfingers

@@TastingHistory Your friendly, interesting, entertaining videos are a go-to for anyone having no bad day. I'm currently exhausted and so stressed I threw up my dinner. Your video, like always, give me a pleasant break. I imagine it's like having a grandma cook you dinner, except I never knew my grandmas. You might never see this, but thanks for your work.

@@machematixSending good vibes. Hope you get through it soon. Lots of love

Were the next few weeks better bud?

Also I highly recommend you guys come to Hoonah, see the zip line, hear łingit tales, see the greatest place in the icy straits

That does sound interesting

How was it?