@@harukrentz435a modern version of everything he mentioned is available in modern stores. They had a suprisingly modern food distribution system. What did you expect, I didn't say they had a Krogers and a mcdonalds, however a big mac is bread, meat, cheese, spices, and vegtables. Which they had.
Great vid, very thorough, thanks. One thing though : there’s no such thing as an electric moray eel. There’s no moray eel that is electric, some types of other eels can be electric.
@@superpepz Well, Spain was a very important part of the roman empire, so nothing new there. Why do think spanish is a latin language? Your comment seems a bit strange to me.
@@superpepz No, you're not an inconvenience. I didn't know that you guys ate fois gras and snails! I liked your comment. Idk what's up that other person's cheeks, but you did absolutely nothing wrong.
Yea, the original was more likely was more likely a cross between our ‘b’ and our ‘v’ than our ‘w.’ Latin may have sounded more like German than Italian as we know it.
I live in the deep south of Italy, and growing vegetables is still something almost everybody does around here. The majority of people here own a patch of land where they grow their own vegetables. Often there are olive trees as well
United States born and raised and my mom’s garden was always great. She’d always grow tomatoes, strawberries and peppers. On top of having fresh produce, she also just loves having a garden. She’d make tomato sauces and fried green tomatoes.
My father put in a very nice garden. We had strawberries, corn, peas, green beans, onions, carrots,peppers, grapes and a few fruit trees that didn’t produce much fruit, but they were young. My mother made delicious food, and she also froze a lot of vegetables, and made jam. We bought cherries, peaches, grapes, plums, pears, and apples in the fall from orchards. There were 6 of us kids, and my parents kept us well fed!!!
Roman soldiers RELIED on chick peas/gazebo beans: they travelled well (not heavy or easily spoiled) & reliably provided protein, fiber, energy .. My maternal grandmother was of direct ancient Roman descent - and, yes, taught her son (my dad) to rely on olives/olive oil, & keeping a garden (even in the city) for his own apple trees ...and especially tomatoes for sauces. I was NOT INTERESTED in gardening (after seeing the huge stinger on a hidden tomato worm!😲)..but I did bake many apple pies & sweet breads w raisins & almonds🤗
@@terenceflanagan1225 Maybe not so much! Garbanzo beans, like lentils, are legumes but with fewer carbohydrates than the other members of the bean family - more like grain. They can be digested as an important protein source even by those who cannot deal with ANY other type of "bean": white, black, red or green!😎
@@rmp7400 they invited the pizzoid...the pizza that walks like a man. Delivers it's self, but sometimes it never arrives. Eating peaple & it's self...😂😂😂😂
This is a very good video for anybody doing research on ancient foods. It is interesting to note that vinegar and olive oil is still used in salads today.
great job! My only critique though is that you left out Rosemary from the herb list! It's still a critical component of the cuisine local to modern Rome today!
I can't remember where I read or watched it, but there's supposed to be some botanists that think the ancient Silphium was a cross between 2 plants that grew near each other and think they are close to reproducing it...
HOLD UP! What am I reading here? You are telling me that, watching a video containing various types of foods is triggering a response in your body that makes it crave FOOD?! Not only could I never imagine ANYONE relating to this comment, but I (don't think I am being irrational making this statement) would even go so far to say that you are mentally unstable and need to seek help as this is by definition, unusual.
I dont know how recent this Video is BUT There is an archeologist who has been searching for the plant Sylphium! In ancient times, there was a Greek city that used to grow the plant. It's quite possible that he may have found it growing wild in mountains type region. The Romans tried to grow and cultivate it. It never grew. Its an interesting subject..thats why i know about it, Garum also.😅
Yes, it was the Greek city of Cyrene, located in modern Libya. This is why the Romans called it Silphium Cyrenaicum. However, it has been extinct for 2,000 years now.
They do now, and Italy has the most delicious pizzas! Back during the Roman Empire, they had not yet come up with it. They did have many flatbreads that they put foods on, and also used to carry food into their mouths. Back then, they did have fresh cheeses, curd cheeses, and cured cheeses, but they weren't meltable. 🤷Ultimately the most "meltable" of the curd cheeses was achieved in the 1600s when they began to knead the cheese, and one type ended up called mozzarella. Mozza means to pull or knead, I think?
That Roman food looks highly appropriate for Diabetic IIs and Is. That's exactly the kind of food that the doctors struggle to convince diabetics to limit themselves.
Our diets are not very different from those of the Romans, but the way of preparing the same grains, vegetables and products of animal origin (milk and its derivatives, eggs and meat) are different. But the Romans were probably healthier because they didn't eat foods grown with carcinogenic poisons, processed on an industrial scale containing preservatives, harmful chemical residues and even microplastics. The Romans had a grain goddess, to whom they made offerings. But Ceres would reject offerings made by modern men, because they would be full of infernal taints.
It's a trade off for having antibiotics, vaccines, survivable surgery practices, medications instead of just herbs, and everything else we enjoy in our modern world.
@@change691just because we have vaccines and penicillin doesn't mean we need to be spraying carcinogenic toxins on our crops. Apples and oranges my friend
Petronius Satyricon has lots of references to the food. It describes a banquet attended by several immensely wealthy freedmen. These were former slaves who were freed, became part of the familia of their former masters, and basically were the technocrats of Rome.
3:17 This i a highly idealized version of a roman kitchen. In earlier times Furniture, Cutlery and everything that needed time to produce and was expensive was build and used for generations. So i would guess, it was not all nice and new and clean but most of everything looked and was like 100 years in use, with lots of wear and a patina from decades of wood smoke, oils and greese.
That is a good question. I suppose they used a lot of force to restrain it. The amount of milk it would produce would also be very minimal. Rabbit milk in general was rare, though, and mostly mentioned as an ingredient in ''patrician'' recipes.
LOL, I too was a Rabbit Raiser in the FFA. I’m sure you could milk a bunny if it was lactating. You’d have to grab that mama wabbit and hold her tight! Then start milking them bunny nips!
i just thought of a good book--"the Famous Roman Cook!" what a story of the star cooks you said populated rome, that would be fascinating to read . . .
It’s a shame the dinner photo showed “baby carrots”. That is an extremely modern food. It is a food one may want to avoid as well. The carrots with flaws bought by these companies and are ground down to this shape and you the consumer pay more for them. I appreciate your efforts to make this well researched video though.
Sorry to be pedantic, but those baby carrots at 2:35 are really sticking out like a sore thumb lol. During ancient Roman times, carrots were more often purple or white, and obviously never shaped like that. The research, composition, presentation and lighting that went into these photos weren't bad, I'm just baffled as to why they settled for peeled baby carrots. Maybe that was the only kind they had at the supermarket that day?
Most of the photos depicting ancient Roman foods in this video (including that one you pointed out) are from a project in Germany where they cooked recipes from Apicius' book, 'De Re Coquinaria.' I suppose they made some changes to make the dishes more appetizing (because they were actually going to eat them) or you might be right that it was the only kind available at the supermarket that day.
The Video is excacly what I want to see in these Videos. Pictures, especially from the food, to have something that I can imagine with instead of some guy talking for 25 minutes straight into the camera holding a book
Im eating my instant chow mein noodles 🍜 while watching this.🤔 Romans like gathering and partying it was customized wine mix with water or like eating drinking and puking and eating and drink all the more in histories and them. You forget strawberry 🍓 for it earliest cultavators of it also or strawberries is roman too lol.
They tried standing up but got tired m lol ...im teasing. At best you had stools. Chairs weren't A THING for real. A type of lounge/ sofa like thing was used by upper clases LATER
So is Roman Meal bread from the supermarket legit or not? And sounds like Garum breath could drop a horse at 50 feet. Kind of feel sorry for the Romans, no chocolate, no tomatoes, no Clorets, Certs or Mentos.
@@Mfields4517 You can literally buy ANY of the foods mentioned here in the west on public assistance. Anybody with a job has access to much more food variety YEAR ROUND, whereas no matter how wealthy you were, food was seasonal in rome for the simple fact over half the world was not accessible. Additionally, the crude observation of spices, i.e. Ketchup by a previous commenter is typical of modern humanity. Sugar, Cinnamon, garlic, onions, dairy, virtually all condiments, were luxury goods, whereas today they are cheap products of developing nations, added to nearly all foods we consume. Your opinion that we eat goyslop is ridiculous, uncritical, and entirely undeserving of a thought out response. You have an entitlement that youre obviously oblivious to.
Actually tomatoes were brought to Europe from South America by the Spaniards in about 1521. At first they were thought to be poisonous because the plant is inedible, and the acidity of the fruit when in contact with pewter plates, common in the day. Italians didn’t accept the fruit as a food source until the 1550’s.
As I mentioned in replies to other comments addressing the baby carrots, most of the photos depicting ancient Roman foods in this video are from a project in Germany where they cooked recipes from Apicius' book, 'De Re Coquinaria.' I do not know why they used baby carrots for a meal, but I am still extremely grateful to them. If not for that project, this video would have very poor imagery due to the lack of commercial-free photos concerning Roman food.
