Really hungry passenger on the Orient Express: "I'd kill for some dinner right about now!" Agatha Christie: 👀

@furiousdestroyer2.050

Ай бұрын

lol

@TastingHistory

Ай бұрын

😂

@SweetMamaG

Ай бұрын

Hah!

@carrierussell9224

Ай бұрын

Beautiful!

@LuzMaria95

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

The luxury of travel may have been the Orient Express, but the luxury of KZread is Tasting History with Max Miller.

@furiousdestroyer2.050

Ай бұрын

Real

@TastingHistory

Ай бұрын

Awww thanks ☺️

@TheOccupants

Ай бұрын

@@TastingHistory I love your videos. I remember when you said you were leaving Disney to pursue this further and my wife and I were so happy for you. On another note, what would be the best way to get in touch with you about a shirt design?

@TastingHistory

Ай бұрын

@@TheOccupants email me. Tastinghistorycontact@gmail.com I may take a while to respond but know that I will.

@TheOccupants

Ай бұрын

​@@TastingHistory 👍👍

As young child, I rode the Orient Express from Istanbul to Paris with my father and little brother. I think it was in 1968 or 1969. This was a multiple day journey.Unbeknownst to my father, the dining car was uncoupled somewhere in Turkey. We had NO dining car for the rest of the trip! As a result, my father would hop off the train, try to exchange money in whatever country we were in and buy a sandwich, or whatever he could get, and run, with us screaming encouragement, to hop on as the train was starting to pull away from the platform. He did it multiple times. Go daddy! We also were lucky enough to have other passengers share food with us. Still, it was a hungry trip.

@ffwast

Ай бұрын

None at all?! What a travesty!

@monyx2926

Ай бұрын

@@ffwast It was a crazy journey. Yes, no food at all.

@radenakbar

Ай бұрын

​@@monyx2926would you mind to explain more of your journey in detail? Like the great things and strange occurrences that happen along the journey to the West?

@jakekeish

Ай бұрын

Awesome story, a solid core memory ❤

@KTCC13

29 күн бұрын

Why the hell would they remove the dining car! How cruel but lucky your dad was there to literally run for food

Max: I am going to be classy and eat the potatoes with a fork. Also Max: Eats lamb cutlet like a caveman.

It was max, in the food cart, with poisoned potatoes. Clue trained me

@TastingHistory

Ай бұрын

😂

@weldonwin

Ай бұрын

Zat is where you are wrong...

@AnaxErik4ever

Ай бұрын

Very funny.

@Cottinmouth

Ай бұрын

It was actually with the hard tack

@jerseygirlinatl7701

Ай бұрын

@@Cottinmouth 'clack clack'

One of the funniest stories from the Orient Express is the story of Paul Deschanel one time President of France. It happened on June 23, 1920. Somehow he fell out of the train and escaped injury. He was found by a night watchman who assumed him to be drunk or a lunatic. When asked who he was, Deschanel truthfully said he was the president of France. The watchman’s reply is recorded as “Oh yeah, and I’m the Emperor Napoleon.”

@markrossow6303

Ай бұрын

《nice》

@tanikokishimoto1604

Ай бұрын

I want the story as to how come he fell off the train...

@heidimisfeldt5685

Ай бұрын

😁

@TroubleToby3040

Ай бұрын

The stories BIG finale? They were BOTH telling the truth!! No. No, that doesn't make sense, that doesn't make sense, at all. 🤷‍♂😁

@ejl1221

Ай бұрын

@@TroubleToby3040 Don't let that ruin a good story.

I love the idea of the menu constantly changing based on which country you are currently in. That was a stroke of genius. It allowed the passengers to to be culinary tourists without getting off the train.

I travelled on the Orient Express, though not in its heyday, unfortunately. My mother took me and my three brothers from London to Istanbul, to visit my father. We were only in second class, but I do remember that the food was appropriate for the location - some lovely waiters taught my brothers (aged 5 to 9) to twirl spaghetti in Italy. And I partiularly recall the dining car used in Yugoslavia - it was a beautiful period piece with a polished brass plaque stating that it was made in Swindon in 1912.

@ejl1221

Ай бұрын

Heyday or not, very cool.

@j.rosadahlia3960

28 күн бұрын

That was cool! How everything about Orient Express in this video sounds exquisite and I could only dream to experience it.

Max has mentioned Escoffier so many times by now that I recognize the man by sight and can guess when he will appear.

@alexfarkas3881

Ай бұрын

Same!!! I was gearing up for it! I was like, okay, French, correct time period, fancy dining establishment - Escoffier mention imminent in three, two, one... there it iiiiiiis.

@RockNRollHorrorshow

Ай бұрын

Escoffier is really the equivilant to Michael Eisner for Defunctland, but it makes sense.

@alexfarkas3881

Ай бұрын

​@@RockNRollHorrorshow that comparison made me burst out laughing, but you are SO right 😀

@melissalambert7615

Ай бұрын

In all fairness, Escoffier was all that back in the day. Most high-end restaurants made his dishes. Some still do. He is bound to pop up every once in a while.

@Nuttyirishman85

Ай бұрын

@@melissalambert7615That’s who’s dishes you learn in culinary school.

You know the food was good because nobody died

@christinesteckel3390

Ай бұрын

😏

@XBadger1

Ай бұрын

Well there was that murder on the orient express ;)

@wolfranga8477

Ай бұрын

​@XBadger1 Well, the victim was a criminal so its fine

@DigiRangerScott

Ай бұрын

@@XBadger1 Yes but the murderer didn’t prepare it poorly or do some ghastly combination of foods

@matszz

Ай бұрын

The vegans have entered the chat.

My parents traveled on the Orient Express back in the early 90's, I believe. They started in Paris and ended in Istanbul. It was one of the highlights of their lives together. Before my mother retired from dancing, she specialized in Middle Eastern dance and performed on the train in one of the cars for all of the absolutely flabbergasted passengers. It was an evening to be remembered forever.

It's a bucket list item to ride the restored Orient Express, which runs once a year and takes about five days. You are assigned a butler, have to dress formally for dinner, etc. But the cost! Last I checked it was around $7,000.

@jonesnori

Ай бұрын

Eep! That's a lot of dough.

@tanikokishimoto1604

Ай бұрын

Ack!!!

@democracydignityhumanrights

Ай бұрын

Dude I want to do this so bad. Is that open yet? I was just reading about a restored train and what I read said 2025 it would start running from Paris to Istanbul, it’ll be ran by Accor. I’m guessing another company has done the same?

@bennett8535

Ай бұрын

@@democracydignityhumanrights Yeah, I think it's a different company. The one I referred to has been running the route once a year for a decade or two. If I recall correctly, as the last I looked it up was BC (Before Covid).

Max: The company really relied on… Me: Don’t say it, don’t say it! Max: Escoffier’s recipes. Me: The mad man, he has done it again.

@Dabednego

Ай бұрын

European Travel companies couldn’t get enough of that short king

@alexfarkas3881

Ай бұрын

That guy is behind everything, I swear. Max: (pulling mask off of a bedsheet ghost tied to a chair) Auguste Escoffier?! Culinary genius Auguste Escoffier: And I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling KZreadrs!

@fuzzyhead878

Ай бұрын

I swear it's like he's the Henry Clay of fine dining.

@Freezair

Ай бұрын

Is there a Tasting History drinking game yet? "Escoffier mentioned; take a sip of sparkling wine!"

@mirandarensberger6919

Ай бұрын

​@@FreezairHardtack mentioned [clack clack]; take a nip of grog. Now if Max can manage to work Escoffier and hardtack into the same video, I will be truly impressed.

Ferdinand I of Bulgaria was actually a huge train nerd and it is often said that he personally steered the orient express through Bulgaria despite never possessing a proper lincence. It is also said that often times the passengers, not knowing who was steering the train, complained because of the abrupt breaking maneuvers He was also the first monarch to ever fly in a plane which is also quite cool i think

@henriquesalvatti544

Ай бұрын

The tsar of Bulgaria had so many train related miscellaneous adventures, i read one time that he was travelling with other heads of states and got into a misunderstanding with the austrian dignataries, so he blocked the austrians from passing through his train cart to access the dinning cart, denying them from dinning privileges for the rest of the trip.

@mhrgall

Ай бұрын

😄Im listening to Franz Ferdinand right now! (spoooooooky!!)

@skyhawk_4526

Ай бұрын

I thought it was the tracks that steered the train. 😉

@naamadossantossilva4736

Ай бұрын

What a weird guy.

@trustytrest

Ай бұрын

@@skyhawk_4526 Considering the complaints were about braking, one might imagine he was trying to pull the world's first train drifting.

I can attest to what an amazing experience the Orient Express is. I travelled from London to Venice on this equisite train in the mid 1980s. Everyone was required to change for every meal into a glamorous outfit. It was early March with mist-laden wintery landscapes rushing past as my family and I sat down to splendid meal after splendid meal. One could easily imagine a little, rotund Belgian detective lurking behind an aspidistra scratching his little grey cells. Thank you for bringing back these memories Max in another fab episode. 🥂

@lawriefoster5587

Ай бұрын

Brava!!

@bonnienichalson5151

Ай бұрын

What a wonderful experience:) That was the new Orient Express I was at the train station in Baden-Baden waiting for a train to Switzerland when the Orient Express Arrived at the train station on its way to Vienna! Always wanted to take that train 🚆 Saddly it doesn't go through Baden-Baden any long :( You can still take the Orient Express its not the Same route:) its still the Coolest train in Europe 🇪🇺

My grandson introduced me to your series "Tasting History". I have enjoyed all the videos, thank you for your work and sharing. We made the hard tack, and actually enjoyed it! I do believe this "menu" will be another well worth testing out in my kitchen. Love the history behind the dishes you make.

@ffwast

Ай бұрын

*[clack clack]*

I'm glad Max chose this menu instead of dish's best served cold revenge.

@TastingHistory

Ай бұрын

😂

@kathleenhensley5951

Ай бұрын

He's not a Klingon. (nor an Italian!)

@fariesz6786

Ай бұрын

you cannot fully appreciate Tasting History until you watch it in the original Klingon

@achanwahn

Ай бұрын

With pinto beans and muffins... (Sad because no one will get the quote, but I'll still post)

@audiooddities9982

Ай бұрын

​@kathleenhensley5951 as someone who had a full blood Italian mother, I approve this message.

When you mentioned King Leo I was like "Oh boy I wonder if he knows how fantastically evil that guy was" and then you were like "And he was insanely evil" and I'm like ok cool I'm glad that memo has made it to the cooking community too.

@ThinWhiteAxe

Ай бұрын

This is also a history channel

@CyFed_Republic_of_Kaltovar

Ай бұрын

​@@ThinWhiteAxe Yes I know. I have watched the channel for years. His primary focus is not geopolitics and consequently it was not presumptive he would know about the many hideous villainies of King Leopold II. Most important, my comment would not be as amusing if I wrote it like "I'm glad that memo has made it to the cooking historian community too."

@RobertR3750

Ай бұрын

Hearing about how evil King Leopold was makes me wonder if the character of Crown Prince Leopold in The Illusionist was based on him, since he was so evil, although IMDB says he was broadly based on the historical Crown Prince Rudolf.

@originaluddite

Ай бұрын

I gather that the memo got around even at the time.

The idea of lemon butter with lamb chops is genius. A perfect compliment to the richness of the meat. A typical Escoffier move, I think. Nice one Max! 🌟👍

@user-qy4ov8dp5y

Ай бұрын

В Гърция ядох ястие с печено агнешко месо, като сосът беше с лимони. Това олекотява мазнината от месото.

Max should definitely ride on the current iteration of the Orient Express, have a fine dinner and make an episode of it for Tasting History.

@deniaridley

7 күн бұрын

Yes!

"He had contacts." Oh nice. "He was family friend with King Leopold the Second." Oh no...

Duchess potato tips! Use the ricer before the strainer. You don't have to choose one or the other and it will make your life easier w/o sacrificing potato silkiness. Pat your potato mixture into buttered food-safe molds and turn them out onto your baking tray. They will be prettier, the portions will be consistent, most shapes will prevent burning while promoting even cooking, yadda yadda.

@1firstchef

Ай бұрын

also, please don't over cook the lamb. Thank you.

My grandfather put himself through college in the late 1930s as a train-board chef. He loved cooking the rest of his life thanks to it, and often spoke of how difficult but fun train cooking was - and how small the kitchen space was! This was a really nice reminder of him, so thank you from my sentimental self. Also, someday I would LOVE to take a first-class trip on the Orient Express!

@DelGuy03

Ай бұрын

One of Dick Francis's murder mysteries, The Edge, takes place primarily on a trans-Canada train for racehorse owners and racing enthusiasts, with a group of actors on board performing a mystery in a series of scenes over the course of the journey. The detective goes under cover as a dining room attendant (who also has to help out in the kitchen with things like dishwashing). It's a lot of fun, as the Francis books generally are.

@JanetCowan

Ай бұрын

Oooh, thanks! Adding that to my TBR!

@chillinginthefrozennorth6958

24 күн бұрын

I hope you enjoy your trip. Nosy questions: Where did your grandfather serve as a chef? Did he elaborate at all on who and how he was trained? (edit) Did he mention which railroads he worked on?

@JanetCowan

24 күн бұрын

I’ll have to ask my parents - he passed away about 11 years ago, but they might know!

Great video Max. Just a little correction. Hitler did not have the car blown up he had it taken back to Berlin and put in a Museum, it was the war memorial that he had blown up. We blew up the dining car during a bombing raid in 1944.

Honestly, I want to see Dress History KZreadrs, Max and Jose (among a few other KZreadrs) to go on the refurbished Orient Express.

@TastingHistory

Ай бұрын

Starting a gofundme 😂

@PokhrajRoy.

Ай бұрын

@@TastingHistoryPatrons, start your contributions

@authentikata5535

Ай бұрын

Dress History?? Tell me more!

@PokhrajRoy.

Ай бұрын

@@authentikata5535 You know, like Costuming Drama and Abby Cox, Bernadette and Karolina

@ThinWhiteAxe

Ай бұрын

​@@authentikata5535check out Bernadette Banner

At least one of the movie versions of "Murder on the Orient Express" begins with people having dinner at a hotel in Istanbul. I didn't know why when I watched it so thanks for the education.

@resulc8693

Ай бұрын

Because Istanbul. Have you tried the food there? It was (and arguably still is) the most well connected city in the world to bring together all sorts of ingredients, spices, techniques and people, so I doubt that even the rich people on the Orient Express would have chosen to skip a Turkish (Ottoman) dinner and dine on the train.

@allgirlreview433

Ай бұрын

@@resulc8693 I lived in Turkey for four years, but only got to Istanbul once. It is a lovely country with amazing food.

@user-qy4ov8dp5y

Ай бұрын

@@resulc8693 Добрата храна в Истанбул не обяснява защо вагона с кухнята е бил прикачван към влака чак на българска територия. Любопитно ми е. А дали е бил откачван пак в България преди влакът да влезе в Турция?

@peterbernhardt5169

Ай бұрын

@@resulc8693 You're right but, have you seen the 1974 film version? Poirot complains to his friend about the poor quality of his dinner and shows further disdain when the hotel orchestra serenades diners with their rendition of "On The Good Ship Lollipop."

@VictoriaHill-vv3qb

Ай бұрын

In the book, Poirot has dinner at the Tokatlian Hotel before getting on the train-he initially means to stay for a few days after working in Damascus, but gets an urgent telegram calling him back to London and decides to return that night.

I worked as a Chef on the Hood River Railroad. We had hotel pans w baffle holes to stop the sloshing of liquids. 140 poached eggs for Egg Benedict every Sunday Brunch.

My wife and I used to take the Orient Express every year on our anniversary. She died of typhus in 1905. RIP Marguerite. Love you babe.

For the curious, there's a set of "Behind the Bastards" podcast episodes dedicated to King Leopold II, and to call him one of history's greatest monsters is almost an understatement.

@caesarsushi3238

Ай бұрын

He actually wasn't at all directly involved, it was the local (Belgian) government that did everything on their own, don't get me wrong though he was a complete piece of shit that not only allowed everything to happen but actively stopped others from ending the practice I just want to clarify that he's not some unique monster just one of many that is often scapegoated so everyone else involved can wash their hands clean

@sandrastreifel6452

Ай бұрын

But he was a ROYAL bastard!

@gwennorthcutt421

Ай бұрын

because one episode is not enough! seriously im not surprised he has several dedicated to him

@sandrastreifel6452

Ай бұрын

Thanks, I spent a pleasant afternoon knitting and listening to this podcast about this horrifying monster.

@GodlessHeathen

Ай бұрын

Came here for this, didn't want to be the only one mentioning BTB, but it's not often my "awful people" podcast and my "really nice guy who makes food" entertainment collide.

Interesting but somewhat unrelated anecdote: my Opa worked his way from Montreal to Edmonton working as a breakfast cook on the CNR. Now here's the crazy part: Opa had no idea how to cook, knew next to no English and had to learn both on a train. By the time he got to Edminton, he was a couple hundred dollars richer, knew enough English to find a laborer's job and made the best damned bacon & egg breakfast you'd ever have. To this day I still crave his bacon fat basted sunny side up eggs, and even though he taught me exactly how to do it, I have never nailed it. Thanks for bringing some fond memories of my Opa back to the front of my mind, Max!

@fuzzyhead878

Ай бұрын

That's an awesome story. Kind of reminds me of my dad, though he was in defense engineering. No English at the time, but he was one of the best employees at his company. I'm guessing CNR is Canadian National?

@Nunofurdambiznez

Ай бұрын

What the H*LL is an "opa"?

@DebatingWombat

Ай бұрын

@@Nunofurdambiznez “Grandfather” (in German).

@johnransom1146

Ай бұрын

I took the old CPR train from Toronto to Calgary. Then in 2001 VIA Rail Toronto to Vancouver. The food was great on both. VIA had alot of game and northern fish like arctic char on the menu. Pacific salmon, bison, venison etc

@fariesz6786

Ай бұрын

that's adorable 🤍

I love how Max was like "Make sure to eat before getting on the train" like any of us was ever going to ride it 🤣

The British actor who played Poirot on the BBC all those years, David Suchet, took a trip on the Orient Express. It was a documentary on PBS. Totally delightful. I would have loved to have taken that trip.

@GeeEee75

10 күн бұрын

Yes. It's on KZread. kzread.info/dash/bejne/n3emlLKgYpy8k9I.htmlsi=wun3ptQQpU_p9t1U

The Orient Express is the only real train that has its own roleplaying game campaign set. Horror on the Orient Express is for Call of Cthulu, and that RPG uses the 1920s and 30s as the main setting, which is why the Orient Express got used as the basis in the first place.

@trustytrest

Ай бұрын

ok

@p0kevet13

Ай бұрын

Isn’t that still running a kickstarter for the board game adaptation?

@alexfarkas3881

Ай бұрын

@tipulsar85 Ooooh, adding that to my list of things to play. Thank you!

@39401JLB

Ай бұрын

@@alexfarkas3881 Call of Cthulu is more popular around the world than D&D. Unlike D&D it is skill-based, with a percentile task resolution mechanic. Beware, though -- 1} combat in CoC is quite deadly and there is no fast healing, and 2} the setting is deliberately dark, with many no-win scenarios available if the players are foolish, hasty, needlessly bloodthirsty, or power-hungry. Probably the most important skill on the character sheet is 'Library use'. It is a real blast to play, though. The group I am in has been playing through Horror On The Orient Express, and (after more than a year) we are finally in Constantinople -- our group of five has seen two deaths, and three characters retired (one for losing an arm, the other two forever insane), and we have gotten very lucky. This same GM has failed to finish their last two attempts at this campaign because the entire party died in a single encounter in both.

@thiamay7927

Ай бұрын

There is also a great board game called Murder Express that is like clue on the Orient Express

Delightful as always! One more popular culture footnote: After Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express” was published, a second British master of suspense - director Alfred Hitchcock - set his delightful and thrilling "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) aboard the train.

A similar fate has befallen two long train routes in Australia - the Indian-Pacific from Perth to Sydney and the Ghan from Adelaide to Darwin. The airlines drove them out of business as a practical means of travel, but they have been kept on the rails as indulgent gourmet rail-cruises.

Another awesome episode! I loved Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express book. The best adaptation is from the Hercule Poirot series from David Suchet. So, this is a cool topic for this episode. A lot of thought goes into travel menus. If possible, I would love to see an episode with menus from Agatha Christie's works!

@kramermariav

Ай бұрын

David Suchet is the only Poirot in my book, lol

@idalily3810

Ай бұрын

I am partial to the movie with Albert Finney, myself. Christie herself said it was fantastic.

@michaelwarenycia7588

Ай бұрын

​@@kramermariavagreed. Suchet all the way.

You could say the chefs who oversaw that dish back then were... well trained.

@ellaisplotting

10 күн бұрын

*loud audible groan, extremely reluctant applause*

@aaronhurst4379

10 күн бұрын

@@ellaisplotting Thank you, I'm here all night 😜

I remember missing school because I read the book throughout the night. Agatha is truly a queen!

@anndownsouth5070

Ай бұрын

Her books did have that effect on one. I myself have lost many hours of sleep to her writings.

@kathleenhensley5951

Ай бұрын

I enjoyed her novels, really did. Easy reading and just plain fun.

@sandrastreifel6452

Ай бұрын

Great for kids, as Kathleen said. She was my favourite author, when I was a girl.

@excession3076

Ай бұрын

Easy to read yet deceptively good. I think we have all had an all nighter reading AC. Also 1) I can never work out "who dunnit" 2) You pick one of her books years after you have finished it for a reread, and you can't remember "who dunnit" 3) Unless they all "did it" and that's cheating.

@jacobshelt01

Ай бұрын

Good for you hercule poirot was one of my favorite detectives 🕵️

Enjoyed the program! However, the trip in 1966 from Istanbul to Munich had no dining car and we subsisted on stale bread, canned Vienna sausages, and canned mandarins doled out frugally. In 1968 I took the train from Paris to Istanbul and arrived with a very serious case of flu since the car I was in had had the heat turned off in order to punish the mostly Turkish families on board. One of the Turkish families kept me alive with blankets and food until we got to Istanbul. The Turkish train to Ankara was wonderful!

@GeeEee75

10 күн бұрын

You don't catch flu from being cold. It's a viral infection, similar to Covid (but not the same).

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

4 сағат бұрын

😯 Gosh, it sounds like your 1960s were full of dramatic travels!! Love that the passengers were looking after each other in hardship. Feels like the train company were definitely ripping off their passengers on those trips!

I think an absolute essential tasting history episode would be making food served aboard Santa Fe’s Super Chief. It’s also a great opportunity to discuss how American railroads competed for providing 1st class passenger service. The Harvey House cookbook is available with just about all the dishes that would’ve been served.

@WasatchWind

Ай бұрын

Another cool American train travel episode could be about how the Northern Pacific popularized the baked potato, after they started heavily promoting it on their route.

The really polite “quite warm” after admitting he often burns his tongue and got “past the burning” was very peak unintended humour for this channel😅

"Once I got past the burning..." I'm sorry, but I laughed at that.

@benjalucian1515

Ай бұрын

So dangerous. There was actually a man who died of shock because he was given a piece of fish I think it was to taste in a cafe I think? It was too hot and he quickly swallowed it down, but it seriously burned him internally and he ended up dying.

@MrNoipe

Ай бұрын

@@benjalucian1515 its not dangerous at all. One person is an exception.

@fraum3725

Ай бұрын

@@MrNoipe But on the long run, too many hot dishes and/or beverages increase the risk of esophagus cancer 😳

@Pandorash8

Ай бұрын

It cracked me up too 😂 Made me think of Ralph from The Simpsons, “It tastes like burning.” 🤣

The Orient Express has always been a weird fasination point for me, so I'm super excited for this one!

I love lamb, I love train travel, I love "Murder on the Orient Express " -- and most of all, I love Tasting History with Max Miller ! Thanks for another delightfully informative episode !!😂

I just recently lost my job. Been a chef and culinary teacher since 1997. Yes, it sucks:-) But then I re-discovered the gorgeous Max and all his unbelievable food-history knowledge, culinary skills and just all-round charm and love! Thanks so much again, Max!! HUGE respect and love from Denmark!!

@PhotonBeast

Ай бұрын

I'm sorry that you lost your job but I hope you find a new one that is even better!

@mhrgall

Ай бұрын

@@PhotonBeast thank you so much! 🙂

@thedarkdane7

Ай бұрын

I visited Denmark in 2022 and thought the food was amazing. I hope you get back into the food scene in Denmark soon, so you can help it remain awesome!

@ingridkeller9673

Ай бұрын

Hope the job search is quick and successful and you love your new position even more than the old one.

@mhrgall

Ай бұрын

@@ingridkeller9673 thank tou so much 🙂

"you don't want big-old lamb chops" yes i do. this whole recipe looks and sounds delicious!

@ChrisMattern-oh6wx

Ай бұрын

Big old lamb chops can indeed be great, but they aren't the point of this dish and wouldn't be ideal here.

I’m having an awful day. My pain levels are through the roof, nothing went right, and just when I thought I was done, my cat peed down a heating register… The first thing I wanted when I *finally* got to sit down with my dinner was to watch you. I’ve been here from almost the beginning and truly adore your content. It makes me happy and relaxed in a way I can’t describe. This channel is my happy place. Thank you so damn much for all you’ve put into this channel. It is deeply appreciated. ❤

I saw it in person at a station in Austria in the late 80s & truly gasped out loud. It was preparing to depart but a kind porter let me peek a bit, wished me well & hoped I would join them on a journey soon. I am still hoping.

A TRAIN EPISODE !! That’s what I was hoping for with the transportation theme. I’m so excited ❤

@stevenworden7890

Ай бұрын

Sheldon would be so pleased!🙂

Ah my GOD yes, I am so fascinated by the Orient Express! That I did NOT know was actually a real train until years later LOL

As a history geek, this is my favorite cooking show. I have done many of the recipes over the last few years, but your research and attention to the (sometimes) odd details makes the videos. Kudos!

This was amazing. Thanks! A life long dream but only if I could go back in time and take it in the 20's-40's. Oh who am I kidding, I would ride it now if I could. My only experience is in the classic 1974 (and the ONLY one that should be watched) Murder on the Orient Express movie. That movie dripped with elegance and class. It is absolutely a miracle how they managed to cook world class meals on a train!

I was ecstatic when I saw that you made a train-related video, and of the Orient Express of all trains! I hope you'll do something on Harvey Houses in the future, but this was great too. Also waving hi to Snivy in the back there with the lego Orient Express. Nothing but the best for him of course!

@mylesjude233

Ай бұрын

What are Harvey Houses

@fuzzyhead878

Ай бұрын

@@mylesjude233 Harvey houses were restaurants that served railroad passengers back on the old days. They were owned by the Fred Harvey Company, who also did hotels and other railroad-related hospitality services. They haven't been around since the 1960s but the company who bought them out specializes in lodges and accommodations at national parks. Most notably a few accommodations in Grand Canyon National park are originally part of or an homage to the Fred Harvey Experience, as well as the Grand Canyon Railway.

@lonelystrategos

Ай бұрын

What is it about trains that fascinates people so much? I think Saxon put it quite well: "Ninety tons of thunder Lighting up the sky Steaming red hot pistons See the wheels flash by Hear the whistle blowing Streaking down the track If I ever had my way I'd bring the princess back one day"

@fuzzyhead878

Ай бұрын

@@lonelystrategos The way I put it: “Ferrari’s have a few hundred horsepower…the old steam powered beast over there has a few thousand.”

@niallblack2794

Ай бұрын

​@@lonelystrategosyessss I sang that along in his voice exactly as I heard him sing it when I saw Saxon live the day I finished my Advanced Higher Chemistry Investigation writeup in a pub ib Glasgow before I walked down the street to go to the gig 😂 Thank you though. Saxon really do put it best.

Back in the '70s our Junior school's Dinner Ladies would make Duchess Potatoes periodically, though I shouldn't imagine the spuds were twice-cooked and passed through a sieve! Also, they were never piped into pretty shapes, but rather were formed using an ice-cream scoop... Still, I loved them!

I would totally be up for an Orient Express series!

@benjalucian1515

Ай бұрын

I second this!

Max, you are truly a superb storyteller. I bet you could read a box of cereal and make it enjoyable. Bravo sir, bravo.

@Pygar2

Ай бұрын

"The first "modern" cereal was a product called Filboid Studge..."

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

3 сағат бұрын

An episode on history of breakfast cereals would be fun! 😆 From the Sanitarium bran cereal meant to discourage m*sturbation, to America's odd habit of massively sugaring up kids at breakfast! Although I wonder what recipe one could try... perhaps that for original bran flakes? 🤢

I first heard about the Orient Express from a Call of Cthulhu campaign, but I didn't quite get why it was such a big deal till I saw the map of the entire railway. Forget the luxury car stuff this thing managed to connect to every single major city in Europe at the time. That railroad is friggin crazy.

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

2 сағат бұрын

One of the things that makes me saddest about the petroleum boom & the era of car obsession is the way it destroyed most railway networks? The remaining ones here seem to really struggle to break even. Yet it's such a great way to travel - you can read, sleep, eat, socialise & even walk while traveling (unlike on a bus!) And it's an effective way of moving large populations with minimal disruption to housing areas, in comparison to highways & motorway junctions?

My grandmothers house cook used to make exactly this meal with those potatoes. I absolutely love them, the "dryness" actually is something I really enjoyed, they are extremely savoury.

@furrycircuitry2378

Ай бұрын

Your family had a house cook? Must've been a fat cat life brah 🤑🤑😁

@lilyn7497

Ай бұрын

​@@furrycircuitry2378 grandmother's house cook ≠ family house cook. I'm assuming the commenter is probably an older adult. not only rich people had cooks and maids in the early 20th c

@kjarakravik4837

Ай бұрын

​​@@lilyn7497My mom's side of the family is from ex-yugoslavia, and as recently as during my grandmother's generation a lot of families had a maid that would either stay with them or occasionally visit. You were supposed to eat dinner with her or at least make her coffee when she comes over to clean

@niallblack2794

Ай бұрын

​​@@kjarakravik4837my spouse has a 'house fairy' come in once a week where she's from and I always make her a cup of tea or more appropriately some chilled filtered tap water from the fridge or some chilled juice. Since ya know. It's a significantly hotter country than the UK. Same as i always give the building's gardener huge huge classes of tap water because he really needs it with how hard he works. A couple of times since my spouse would be asleep at the time I'd actually intentionally buy is each a chocolate bar at the shops when I get the groceries and then sit on the back step and eat our chocolate bars and drink something cold together with the house fairy and the absolute legend that is the gardener. Shout out to Jabu and Sthembiso 😍 I will always buy you guys chocolate again... Man I miss them 😭 Because they'd never buy it for themselves usually. We'd have such a good rest eating those 🤣

@tanikokishimoto1604

Ай бұрын

I'd probably put some of that lemon butter on those potatoes.

You had me at Garum but I have recently started binging your vids again, your format and delivery are still just the best!

Being in Foodservice for over 30 years and enjoy history, I find this an excellent channel and very informative. I’m not sure if you ever checked The Grand Hotel on Mackinaw Island but I’m sure you would love the history and the food is excellent-5 Star in my opinion. You do a great job Max.

As a railroader, may I request more historical train episodes? Loved this!

@WasatchWind

Ай бұрын

If you haven't seen them before, I recommend Mark "Hyce" Huber's videos on firebox cooking : ) kzread.info/dash/bejne/fZqeuZKQf8LUd5M.html&pp=iAQB

7:00 "In Europe at the time..." Oh no, Max, that is still the case today for the most part. Europe's railways is still quite fragmented.

@timothystamm3200

Ай бұрын

Almost like someone trying this again, but with high-speed trains might get somewhere with the idea.

@oldfrend

Ай бұрын

huh. i thought the EU had done away with laborious border crossings.

@XMysticHerox

Ай бұрын

@@oldfrend It's not customs or whatever thats the issue. It's different standardsfor gauges, electrification etc etc. Which is the case anywhere really. It'd just be especially desirable to not have the issue in Europe. The EU is actually pushing for standardizing the rail networks.

@Zestrayswede

Ай бұрын

@@XMysticHerox Also different railway operators and right of way and the fact that there is no unified site for booking. And that railways up until very recently have been built for a national market rather than a European one so cross-border railway lines have been deprioritized

@XMysticHerox

Ай бұрын

@@Zestrayswede Those are minor issues compared to things that require renovating the entire network.

As a french I have to say your pronunciations of french words have gotten much better over the years. good job

I travelled on British Rail in 1970. It must have been one of the last trains with a dining carriage and kitchen. Since then British Rail food has been a cause for concern. I had a table in the dining carriage and was served a freshly cooked English breakfast on a china plate with full silver service. A memory I cherish to this day, of what service and travel used to be like.

@SarahMould

Ай бұрын

My granny used to take the 'breakfast train' to London from Dorset, back in the 60s. Not that often, but the waiters always remembered her, and brought out her favourite marmalade (Oxford thick cut).

6:07 Caterers for airlines found shaking and crying and throwing up.

@jaggedjottings

Ай бұрын

Nah, they're just counting their money and laughing at us rubes.

Hello Snivy in the background. Hearing about the food on the historical Orient Express makes me think of another luxury sleeper train based on it: the Excess Express from Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. No murders to solve during the chapter where you ride on it, but plenty of mysteries and tasks to take on. The first one involves Chef Shimi’s stew pot, and the stew in it, going missing, thanks to a certain rotund Gourmet Toad who was riding just for the food. Hercule Mario anyone? Lol Ah, memories.

@blackdragon7979

Ай бұрын

Though I can't figure out what Snivy has in connection to everything yet

I live in Germany and every time I take the train, I bring a snack or a little meal. Train picnics honestly make me feel like a queen.

I dined on the orient express in 1976 with my mom,i was 10 .I think fondly of that time.

As a massive train nerd, I've been waiting ages for you to covering the most famous train in the world! The VSOE's history is really amazing, the fact it's lasted for so long through two world wars, the cold war, and the rise of high-speed rail and other forms of international travel is a testament to the service it's provided. I don't know if you take requests but the "Electroburger" of the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad's Electroliner trainsets would be an interesting topic. The recipie itself is rather simple, with a 1961 menu for the Tavern-Lounge on-board saying; "Selected beef-tenderloin cooked to retain all its juicy delicious flavor...served on a tasty roll...with potato chips, relish and coffee, tea or milk...all for $1.00."

@katarjin

Ай бұрын

Question for you oh knower of trains....any suggestions on who to check out on here if I want to know more about trains? Took Amtrack (Mostly Capitol Limited) a few times last year and enjoyed it quite a bit.

@HazelReserveUnit

Ай бұрын

@@katarjin There’s a lot of resources online but if you want more on the history, American Rails has pages covering the first steps up to modern day.

@katarjin

Ай бұрын

@@HazelReserveUnit Thank ya, it will hopefully help me understand how we lost so many rail lines..I am betting its greed.

Toot toot, clack clack!

@ToaOfFusion

Ай бұрын

All aboard the Hardtack Express!

@aiko9393

Ай бұрын

​@@ToaOfFusion *clack clack*

@OctaviusHallstrom

Ай бұрын

CLACK CLACK

Max's next Vaca..... The Orient Express! I love this video. As a child my mother took me to Shelburne Museum in Vermont every summer. They have some Pullman private cars you can walk through that was my favorite part of the museum. I used to imagine what it was like to travel in such luxury.

Max - there are a couple of very complete KZread videos of people riding the current iteration of the Orient Express. In at least one I watched, the meals get special attention. I don’t know if I’ll ever get the opportunity to ride the OE, but it’s a dream of mine. Thanks for the recipes.

Obviously not the Orient Express, but when I traveled from Prague to Vienna and from Vienna to Budapest, I was stunned at the quality of the food. Never been on a train with an actual kitchen, just a snack bar “dinning car”.

We've seen planes and trains, and the cuisine was ultra-luxe in both instances. Meanwhile, when I think of automobiles and historic dining from a bygone era, I think much more working-class, the Roadside America days of Route 66.

@drdiabeetus4419

Ай бұрын

Sounds reasonable. Classic Americana.

@aiko9393

Ай бұрын

Before toll roads stretched the island of Java, Indonesia, we have De Grote Postweg or Jalan Raya Pos, also known as Pantura. I still remember we would stop at mosques and restaurants serving local cuisines as my family made way to Jakarta where my grandparents lived. The journey took a whole day. After the toll road, we can only stop at designated rest areas with fast food 😮

@drdiabeetus4419

Ай бұрын

@@aiko9393 it’s nice to hear that other countries have experienced the romance of the open road.

@shaventalz3092

Ай бұрын

"Look hun, we got burgers and we got fries. You want 'em or not?"

@hive_indicator318

Ай бұрын

Cold fried chicken and potato salad? That's what my grandparents did in the 50s. And my parents in the 80s, mostly

One of my favourite cookbooks is "Dining By Rail." That book is a compendium of recipes of the glory days of Canada and USA dining cars. Intermixed with the recipes is a wealth of history when we had the civilized opting of eating, sleeping and traveling by railroad.

Very good episode! My step-grandfather was a cook on the Blue Train, a South African luxury train going from Pretoria to Cape Town.

@jonesnori

Ай бұрын

Didn't Christie write a Blue Train mystery, too? Oops - different Blue Train. Never mind!

This was one of the best segments of Tasting History! I loved the little train car on the kitchen counter, as I’m always looking for a prop that goes with the segment. It was Max in the dining car with the lamb cutlet bones.

A meal so delicious, Poirot would say it is très magnifique.

@Mako2401

Ай бұрын

I learned about the Orient Express from the Poirot show/books.

You had me at lamb... That's really such a simple and perfect preparation with salt, pepper, clarified butter and lemon juice with parsley.

My grandfathers and father (in his youth) all worked on the old New York Central trains...so train travel played an important part of my youth. I was fortunate enough to ride trains all the way to Kansas several years... or, down to NYC to see a sister. Train travel is a very unique experience - Now, in old age, I'd actually consider riding trains as a vacation in itself, though, I understand that the food on them is now truly awful, which is terribly disappointing. It's no better than that junk you buy at the deli in your local Safeway. There are videos of people who travel and report on the quality of the various train rides, basically, travel advisors. I'd love to travel the northern tier states, passing through the Rockies. Even the plainest train ride, in the 1960s, which is what we could afford, was interesting .. and I wouldn't get as sick as I do on planes!

@davidcheater4239

Ай бұрын

Last year I took the Montreal-Halifax (sleeper) train and the food was restaurant level nice. I've also heard good things about the trains from Toronto to Vancouver. The cross Rocky Mountain trains in Canada are highly recommended vacations.

@WasatchWind

Ай бұрын

If you want a luxury train today, there's the Rocky Mountaineer in Colorado, that serves fine food aboard. I know that a number of historic railroads in the country also have luxury specials. For me personally, while I don't know the quality of the food on board, I hope to someday ride the Durango & Silverton or Cumbres & Toltec in Colorado, both historic steam excursions. But I really agree with the sentiment. I'm a young in, but I've read a great deal about that golden age of passenger rail, and I hope something like it will come back someday.

@jonesnori

Ай бұрын

Dining car sit-down service had good quality food last I tried (2015), though perhaps not Escoffier-level. The café car food is not good, though.

@markrossow6303

Ай бұрын

barely remember a train trip to So.Dak. to visit the Great-Uncle still on the family farm with my Grandparents : Yakima WA to Bismarck No. Dak.; must have been car down to the farm near the dam'd Missouri River = switch from dryland wheat to beef cattle -- harvesters abandoned to rust on the hilltops then train back to Tacoma to visit a different relative in damp SW WA Summer before Kindergarten in Mainz (profile pic is previous Spring -- Ft. Huachuca AZ)

Never watch this show 15 minutes before lunch!

The look on your face when you bit into that lambchop was priceless, Max! Beverly Nichols! I love his books, Merry Hall and Down the Garden Path. As you probably know he was a prolific writer who seems forgotten today, so thank you for bringing him and his charming books to the attention of your fans. Cheers~

OMG! He did it! I put this suggestion down several times. I guess I never expected him to do it, thinking there was too much other food history for him to do! But he did! Love it! So, left on my list: 1. Black rat recipe 2. -Orient Express meal- 3. Malt week 4. Waffle party

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

2 сағат бұрын

Oh my gosh, the rat... 😂 Perhaps an episode on medieval siege warfare? Though I've no idea if one can order culinary-grade rat, even in this day & age of the internet?? Speaking of culinary taboos I don't think he's explored any horse or dog recipes either, although I suspect comment section would probably explode....!! As a vegetarian I find it really fascinating how different peoples, both today & historically, draw the lines re which creatures are okay to eat (either religiously or culturally)?And how that can change significantly over time. E.g. the Romans ate a range of birds & critters that'd boggle the mind of most modern Italians. Chinese cuisine even today seems to be pretty broad in "edible" categories both flesh/fowl & vegetable/fungi, I suspect as a result of millenia of periodic famines?

@benjalucian1515

Сағат бұрын

@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 It is very interesting. I watch several several westerners in Japan channels, and some have traveled to several areas of Japan where things like bear and horse are on the menu. I'm not sure what the US government uses to decide what meats are allowable for our tables so I'm sure Max would have trouble getting food grade rats to make the dish.

Dear Max, just got your book. Bought it as a birthday present for myself. I LOVE vintage cook books. I stayed up until 3am and fell asleep reading your wonderful book. Thank you for all the hard work that went into it. Cook books are twice as hard, first you have to have the recipe, then you have to write well about it. I’m now finished and waiting for volume two….❤😊

The gauge of the tracks, that is, the distance between the rails, used to be different from country to country. Even in the US, it wasn't always the same. TO THIS DAY, the Durango- Silverton excursion train in Colorado is a narrow gauge. Trains on narrow gauge track can make tighter turns, but they sway side to side more.

@WasatchWind

Ай бұрын

Interesting, different gauge standards didn't occur to me as a challenge for the orient express, but makes sense. This now means that we have no excuse in the US not to run a coast to coast luxury train.

@katarjin

Ай бұрын

Some trains do it more? And I thought my trip from DC to Chicago got a bit wobbly at times..hmm.

@splendidcolors

Ай бұрын

And the BART subway trains in the SF Bay Area have a special wide gauge so they would sway less. Of course this means all new BART trains have to be custom built and they can't buy rolling stock from other systems. SMH...

@walmartdog1142

Ай бұрын

@@splendidcolors I'm now 78 and have always lived in Indiana. Several years ago, I was on a BART standing up riding and a young woman insisted that I take her seat. That was really nice of her but it made me feel so old.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Max! You always make My tuesdays SO much better! You're a Ray of sunshine! ☀️☀️🌞🌞🌞🌞

@TastingHistory

Ай бұрын

🥰

@danielsantiagourtado3430

Ай бұрын

@@TastingHistory 🙏🙏🙏🙏

I live in Vienna and sometimes I see the Orient Express the train is truly beautiful

My great-grandparents got married in 1901 and took the Orient Express from Prague (Karlsbad) to Venice (Trieste). It must have been a great experience and they always mentioned that they were glad the train had a huge luggage compartment because they had bought so much stuff in Venice and were worried the wooden crates with Murano glass chandeliers would not fit on the train. 😂

16:13: Petit Pois are peas braised in onions and bacon, and Fromage de Pays is a kind of cheese made exclusively in the department (subregion) of Chantal in south-central France.

I think a big part of the selling point for Murder on the Orient Express was just the inherent scandal in the title. The Express was such a cultural phenomenon at the time. Not to decry Agatha Christie's writing at all, but it was a very smart marketing play.

@oldfrend

Ай бұрын

i agree. a title like that by itself is worth a million bucks regardless of the content. doesn't hurt that the content is quite fantastic as well.

Keep being you man, my 3 year old daughter has been watching your videos since she was born. It's either you or pasta grannies (look it up if you've not come across the channel before, it's lovely) that she asks to watch after dinner. We're also looking forward to your next book.

I first learned about the existence of this train when I watched "From Russia with Love" way back in the day. One of my fav Bond films. Strange that it was called the Orient Express even though it didn't go to Asia.

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

2 сағат бұрын

Express to & from the Orient, I guess, with Istanbul being considered the gateway thereto at the time...?

I would love to hear Max's Poirot impression 😂.

"Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople. Been a long time gone, Constantinople..." or at least since 1930 apparently. Before this vid I actually thought the name change occurred centuries earlier.

@The_Str4nger

Ай бұрын

Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Good one for all of us who love the romance of trains and food. Thanks, Max.

I’ve got an inexpensive but sturdy food mill, with four cutting plates. Run them taters thru the medium then the fine plate, and you will use your ricer as a kitsch kitchen decoration forever after. Also, super smooth hummus without peeling the chickpeas one by one.

I shouldn’t have watched this while I was hungry

Barely 2 minutes into the video and Max is flexing his French already. Good attitude, lad!

Max mentioning vintages of the Moselle, while I'm savoring a glass of a Moselle vintage became a new personal favorite of Tasting History moments 😄 Greetings from Trier by the Moselle river valley 😊

As a French, thank you Max for always making an effort to pronounce the best possible all those names and words in French. Some sounds are not natural to americans so i know you have to check and then train to get it right! The accent remaining is cute (not in a negative way) I wish i could use the modern orient express but i've checked the price and i understand how poor i am to get that experience and how much it wouldnt have been different during the golden age 😂