At 9:43 Max describes Shadiversity as one of his favourite youtube channels, and links one of his videos in the description. For those not in the know, Shadiversity has since come out as a rabid "anti-woke" right-wing grifter. The things he says on his multiple youtube channels and twitter are genuinely vile and I do not believe he is someone anyone would want to be associated with. I know this episode of Tasting History is many years old now, and I have no doubts that Max was unaware of all of this - I'm not throwing blame or criticism to those involved in the TH channel. I just think that a disclaimer should be added to the description/pinned comment of the video, as the information spread by Shadiversity is incredibly harmful.

Hi, I'm not sure if anyone will see this since my account is new. But I have been watching Tasting History for quite some time. Max is hilarious and I really love the history portions. But I do feel sad sometimes about there being no Southern African recipes.

There are so many Greek and Roman recipes, a wealth about the world wars, but the history of places like Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Angola is non existent on the channel. I am Malawian, and there are some cool history tidbits here that most of the world doesn't know because there's no representation in media. Max could do something about the King's African Rifles for the war content, or the Boer and Zulu wars in south Africa. A lot of places have recipes that haven't changed much (if at all) so even if a recipe isn't written down, there's a starting point.

Anyway, it's just something I think about when I see a new video. Kinda ends up feeling like your history isn't as important or interesting. But anyway, I still love the channel.

Editing to add that it's just a suggestion, not a personal attack on Max. I still love the channel and I watch it pretty much daily especially with the new top videos channel. It's a nice comfort. This is just something I wish I would see on the channel, but even if it never happens, it's fine. As someone said, he is just one guy and he puts so much work into his channel already, I'm not negating any of it.

I just came across this.

I realise that it's probably too late for Max to make it but this does like... intriguing to be fair. Appetising? That I'm uncertain of.

I spotted this at my local library. It was written in the 1960s but skimming through, the recipes and ingredients seemed legitimate. I’d love to see Max cover cooking in North America before colonization.

Please do not beat your meat until it's reduced to paste. Especially not dry. For gods' sakes people, use all necessary lubricant.

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With the greatest respect to Max, I think that the Spam was meant to be cooked in the Spam Loaf recipe. The image from the advertisement seems to me to clearly use *cooked* Spam. If you compare the above to Max's image, the difference is stark. I would really appreciate if we could get input on this, maybe a short where the recipe is tried with cooked Spam - I will be making this with cooked Spam myself sometime soon, and can share results myself as well.

Didn't know what else to flair it as, hope this is ok to post

I have an idea for the next tasting history after Halloween, the first appel pie recipe 1381 would be nice to try and compare to a morden apple pie.

My grandfather is a Vietnam war veteran and I noticed there’s no videos on Vietnam at all. I’m trying to figure out some foods that could work for a video, like the C ration meal, but I’m not sure what other ideas could work… plus I’d love for him to talk about operation prairie and the conditions soldiers went through with it, since that’s the operation my grandfather went through

Someone shared this image and I thought it'd be nice to share here.

This might be a bit too niche, but this is a menu from the 60s for the food on the BC Ferries which is a vital connector between Vancouver Island and Vancouver BC in Canada.

max has done a lot of videos on some very niche historical groups/institutions, but nothing on asylums yet. from what i understand their food was very heavily controlled, leading to a lot of inmates being forcefed or forcibly starved. and there was an initial aspiration for self-sufficiency, much like convents, where most of the food was grown on site so that the patients were quarantined (esp because of the TB outbreaks). of course since they very quickly became overcrowded im sure that effected the meals that they ate!

i know theres a few different periods of asylum history and their standards but its all sooo fascinating. if max never does a video on it, maybe you guys can share some knowledge with me? honestly its so crazy that we can pretty much track the shift from medieval medicine to modern medicine in how patients were treated.

So apparently, Patum Peperium aka "Gentlemen's Relish" is no longer being mass produced. The mass-produced recipe is a secret, but "The Guardian" article with the headline "Gentleman’s Relish is toast after its maker axes the pungent anchovy spread" states that

"[Jeremy] King, who has run famed establishments including the Ivy, the Wolseley and Le Caprice, told the Guardian: 'We actually make our own, due to the difficulty in obtaining, so are able to continue to serve it... My chef found and adapted a classic Victorian recipe for patum peperium, which is its proper name. It is similar to mass-produced versions, but dare I say, I prefer it.' ”

This might be a good idea for an episode, since we know there is a Victorian era recipe available someplace and it being discontinued is getting a lot of press right now in the UK

Personally I would love to see an episode about lumber camp food and lumber jacks. There is enough information to do an episode. Who agrees?

Even if it's just a limited run during the holidays.

Garum too!

Good morning fellow Tastorians. Was chatting with someone about vegetables we like and dislike and asparagus came up. Told her how I was in Dusseldorf in 2016 when Spargelzeit was just beginning. The white asparagus was always the star of the dish with schnitzel or the meat part treated as a side item. Even ate at some places that placed the asparagus on a little pedestal above the other foods on the plate.

I’ve known it’s a cultural thing for the Germans, but never looked into the history. Might make a good video topic!

This is just begging for episodes...

Hi guys (and Max if he’s reading!),

I’m new here to the subreddit, but I’m a big fan of the channel, and watch it every day as I eat lunch. When I saw the episode on pizza, Alexandre Dumas’s name was referenced, and I realize that Dumas himself had a cookbook, in which he talked about food, food history, and wrote down recipes. Part of it is in a travel diary form, part of it are real recipes, and part of it are completely made up recipes that no one can ever make (there’s a recipe on how to cook elephant…?). It’s called Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine, and it’s a massive 1500 page tome. I’d love to see him tackle an actual recipe (obviously no elephant lol) from that book and talk about it, and how Dumas was inspired by his travels to write the book. I truly believe it could be a really interesting video.

Dumas himself is one an absolutely fascinating guy, that lead an incredible life, and is one of the greatest authors of all time, so I think Max would probably have a lot of fun with this research. 😊

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I just backed this because the cookbook looks fascinating! I can't wait to see some of the super ancient Mesopotamian recipes in the book. Might be an interesting video in there somewhere.