Q: Is “African-American domestic worker” just a euphemism for “slave”? A: As we said in the video, domestic servitude of this era was functionally an extension of slavery in many ways, but this house was built 50 years after the American Civil War, emancipation, and the end of de jure slavery. I think it would have been inappropriate for me to refer to the woman or women who worked here as enslaved people. Q: Is this evolution particular to houses in former slave states? A: Not entirely. Cooking used to be much dirtier work generally, and it used to be much more of a fire hazard, so it’s not uncommon to see the kitchen set apart from the living space in old homes all over the world. There’s lots of interesting comments about that below. Keep them coming! Q: Can I have a beautiful kitchen like this designed and built for me, too? A: The brilliant Brant Freeman is open for business: www.freeman-cabinets.com/ Q: Is your kitchen on the second floor? A: Not really, my house is on a slope. That which is the first floor at the front is the second floor at the back. Q: Did you just dox yourself by showing your street? A: You could google my address right now, if you wanted. When you own your home, your address is a matter of public record. There are a million websites that scrape and aggregate all the public tax records containing that information. I don't go out of my way to put my exact coordinates in videos, but at the same time, I'm not going to go out of my way to hide them, because they are readily available on the internet, and there's (almost) nothing I can do about that.

@brettblair7655

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your videos and thank you for this comment addressing the subject of domestic servant spaces not being exclusive to the south. I have ties to both the north and south, as well as to the west, and have observed the common recognition of the past in the south by residents of the south along with the too often in my opinion of other areas of the country commonly overlooking similar conditions historically. Much has been learned, much has been forgotten, much needs be relearned (to paraphrase Emerson if I’m not mistaken).

@brettblair7655

4 жыл бұрын

Oh and congratulations on the new kitchen.

@thomasrogers7205

4 жыл бұрын

As a native Georgian myself, it's really interesting to see how architecture relates to history. I grew up in my great grandmother's old house, and it always seemed odd to me that the house opened into the dining room, and the kitchen was sequestered off to the side.

@sethaaron95

4 жыл бұрын

I noticed the IU magnets, I graduated from IUB, did you attend too?!

@jhettema715

4 жыл бұрын

In comparable late 19th century upper middle class houses in my area (NW-Europe) kitchens were also out of sight, and preferably placed in the basement with a cool stable temperature. They were operated by domestic servants which had nothing to do with slavery. These servants were plain white people. For what it’s worth, I guess the general attitude of the house owners towards their servants was probably comparable: “they live only to make our lives more comfortable” was the motto here.

Us: is this a cooking channel, a gardening channel, a science channel, or a history channel? Adam: Yes.

@hjelpmegpaaisen7815

4 жыл бұрын

69th like

@JasperRLZ

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty much the whole point Adam is making is that these topics aren't different. Recipes, houses, even appliances don't exist in a vacuum, they all weave together to reflect society as it goes through time. Any subject, no matter how seemingly dull, has strong ties to history and can be explored in this lens, and compartmentalizing knowledge removes that context. Adam's just one of the few people on KZread showcasing this.

@Lionimia

4 жыл бұрын

@@JasperRLZ That's what makes this channel so bad ass. Cooking really is an artistic conglomeration of all the above, and more.

@ollpu

4 жыл бұрын

Or... The History channel? No? ok

@frankturner4421

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh

Anyone else would have just shown off their kitchen, Adam is out here giving us a powerful history lesson

@octavianadrian7557

4 жыл бұрын

Thays why we all love him!

@evenberg9764

4 жыл бұрын

It is lowkey a racist home.

@poeticsilence047

4 жыл бұрын

Not even just that he has a modest kitchen remodel. Other people be like yeah I got this giant kitchen and expensive appliances but I don't even cook.

@wadooshful

4 жыл бұрын

@@poeticsilence047 this is so real. moving into mansions and offering up a house tour like we aren't all sweating over the fact that the place costs over 1 mil. The world is crazy and Adam is showcasing buff biceps and a humble attitude.

@poeticsilence047

4 жыл бұрын

@@wadooshful exactly that's why I appreciate Adams outlook on things. He works and lives just like we do, so for some people it's easy to relate. I lose and lost some respect for some KZreadrs because they ask for sponsorship to get any upgrades in their house. I'm thinking hey you make a decent living pay for your upgrades you are already getting paid by me watching your video PLUS the sponsorship videos they throw in.

This history of how kitchens were in america resonates so much with kitchen culture here in the philippines funnily enough. In homes owned by the well off it's pretty common to have TWO kitchens: one kitchen that is front and center for entertaining guests, showing off, storing snacks and easy to prepare food, being seemingly picture perfect (basically being used for everything BUT cooking), and the back kitchen, literally named the "dirty kitchen", where all the actual cooking is being done, usually by servants. Having two kitchens and hiding the labor is almost a status symbol here.

@werderdley245

4 жыл бұрын

Ah that's why

@chevronlily

4 жыл бұрын

That's so interesting, I dated a Filipino guy for a short while whose family were well off in the Philippines and had a maid. He didn't even know how to cook his favourite food, I had to teach him how to cut a tomato.

@solarise2107

4 жыл бұрын

Wow in Indonesia having two kitchens is also a thing too! It always strikes me as a little odd when I see those kitchens in my friend's house since at home, my mom keeps our kitchen spotless anyway so I see no point of having a 'dirty' kitchen. Interesting to know that other countries share a similar concept.

@jondow7401

4 жыл бұрын

In Malaysia, having two kitchens means you're a weirdo BN shill

@RickyRegal.

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah my Grandmas house is somewhat similar, they also have rooms for maids that are hidden.

Maybe it's just me, and I get that Professor David Davis is a friend, but I still think it's incredibly impressive that you can just have him come over and give us a history lesson. I love that your channel has evolved from simple recipes to hyper-focused lessons on all things related to food. You are easily my favorite KZread channel at the moment and I am thrilled that you're still uploading in these times. Wishing nothing but the best to you and your family, Adam!

@kevinboyle3104

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah he work(s/ed?) at Mercer University

@cuanchulainn

4 жыл бұрын

It's really great that he involves mostly the local community in his videos. It's clear that he has a lot of pride on his small town and is doing all that he can to promote and give exposure to his peers. It's an amazing phenomenon that I don't see much elsewhere in the KZread community; it's something that creators like him, and even us, can learn from. :)

@linkinlinkinlinkin654

4 жыл бұрын

If you really go back and check all of his videos, he never started as a cooking channel, so this doesn't surprise me. Adam just seems to be a guy who has penchant for understanding, and then applying. This channel has cooking, history, music-making, gardening and other miscellaneous videos. The cooking ones are what took him off

@sumojack99

4 жыл бұрын

Kevin Boyle yeah, he used to teach journalism at Mercer, but quit late last year to do youtube fulltime

@elaineparker855

4 жыл бұрын

And Professor Davis was so good on camera too! Great content!

Adam is probably one of the best history teachers I’ve ever had.

@watercressfabrique3333

4 жыл бұрын

Hail, the King ans sovereign Monarch of Antarctica.

@dankmemes7729

4 жыл бұрын

Probably the best lol

@Sune

4 жыл бұрын

aren't you the guy who makes those amazing comments of culture on DeadlyViper's posts? that pf pic, hmm...

@realkingofantarctica

4 жыл бұрын

Sune I see you’re a man of culture

@Sune

4 жыл бұрын

@@realkingofantarctica l i k e w i s e

I’m so happy you donated the cabinets instead of tearing them apart for dramatic effect the way they do on tv, that always rubbed me the wrong way.

@drasco61084

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah old cabinetry is still perfectly useable even if it's not pretty somebody could even use it in a workshop or something..

@samsontheladle

4 жыл бұрын

I totally understand your dislike of the waste on those shows. However, if it makes you feel better, remember that not all secondhand materials are always helpful. Sometimes they really aren't in the best condition, and other times the amount of energy and time needed to salvage them and use them elsewhere just doesn't outweigh the wasted material. Also, even putting in new, well-made cabinets into a space can be tricky. No two spaces are alike, and often walls aren't square and floors aren't level. Secondhand materials only tend to exacerbate this, as the years of settling into a prior space can warp the wood. That's not to say we should just ignore all the waste on those shows-- it often pains me to see a house that's perfectly fine (and maybe even recently refurbished, but just not to the new owners' style) get destroyed. Often I feel like that person could take a house in much worse condition and do far more good to it, with a similar final product. But just know that you don't always have to feel sad about the things that look like waste-- building materials can be pretty hard to reuse.

@drasco61084

4 жыл бұрын

@@samsontheladle that's true. But I mean at least put it out on the curb and post it on Craigslist rather than sending it directly to the landfill. *Somebody* will have a use for it even if a rich person doesn't have any imagination for used things. It's actually my first option rather than dumping stuff on charities and making them do all the work of getting rid of unwanted things, and they're often too polite to say "no this is crap I'm not taking it". But I'm sure Adam has some sense and took a look at the stuff before deciding to call for it to be picked up and wouldn't be donating crap.

@Patrick94GSR

4 жыл бұрын

lately on the This Old House projects, they've been doing "deconstruction" instead of just demolition, so that as many items as possible can be removed and saved from the house, to be reused by someone else. TOH is probably the best home improvement show there is, probably why they've been on the air for over 40 years now.

@gwendlevs.everything9178

2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes it’s not possible to dismantle rather than demolish. If the cabinetry was improperly installed or shoddily constructed it can be impossible to remove it intact

"The past is not even the past"...so true. Thanks for the history lesson Adam, and for shedding light on the history that still rings true today. Hope people can learn from you.

@shridharambady2069

2 жыл бұрын

I literally gasped at that part. Divided by one street but youd think theyre on opposite ends of the state. How can people not see the lasting structural racism there?

@feeeshmeister4311

2 жыл бұрын

@@shridharambady2069 It’s generational poverty. It’s not too hard to start the cycle, but very, very complicated to stop it.

I came to this channel for cooking and now I realize that I actually love learning all the stuff he talks about. He’s gotta be a great teacher

@maraschwartz6731

4 жыл бұрын

and for that reason he's on my list of favorite youtubers

@joshbartle1647

4 жыл бұрын

He was a University Professor after all

@MakaiiART

4 жыл бұрын

He knows the difference between objectivity and subjectivity, he does his research, knows when a source is reliable and for quite a few things even bring an expert's words on board. Last but not least he's great at delivering this info in an easy to digest manner. He's not ''gotta'' be a great teacher, he is one.

@bruhice6058

4 жыл бұрын

Josh Bartle that means nothing nowadays. Probably a negative honestly.

@aidabari1550

4 жыл бұрын

He’s also a classically trained music composer

Your friend is so into it, I love it.

@aragusea

4 жыл бұрын

People wonder how I’m able to get experts to talk about this stuff. Fact is, these are brilliant people who sit around all day learning things that they’re dying to tell people, so when you give them a chance, it’s like blowing the dam on a river.

@calebhammond1357

4 жыл бұрын

@@aragusea Haha, makes sense.

@JasperRLZ

4 жыл бұрын

I think a huge amount of props goes to you, Adam, for managing to connect the threads and give them a space to really shine. Not many people would think to turn a kitchen remodel on a cooking channel into a history lesson about society, and even fewer would be able to coordinate and conduct an interview and produce a segment like that. Your journalism background and love for it really shines through, and I don't think you realize how rare this is on KZread.

@thewindgamer2607

4 жыл бұрын

Adam Ragusea so cool

@indianasquatchunters

4 жыл бұрын

Adam Ragusea As a graduating university student I can tell you this is absolutely correct. It took me a few years to figure it out. Don’t be afraid of your professors they’re just dying to educate people. They likely can’t discuss much with their peers because they’re all educated on the topic.

A normal person: "I renovated my kitchen." Adam Ragusea: "I emancipated my kitchen." Jokes aside, loved the perspective you brought on this subject. What gave you the idea? How did you even think of getting dr. Davis into this study?

@chelybeann

4 жыл бұрын

“Emancipated my kitchen” Lmfaoooo 🤣😂🤣😂

@VardhanShrivastava

4 жыл бұрын

dead 🤣

@DatBoi-mo9vc

3 жыл бұрын

"Why i emancipated my kitchen and not my slaves"

@Leviblack12

2 жыл бұрын

Laugh of the day. Thank you!

@crazyjkass

2 жыл бұрын

He probably noticed that his kitchen was weirdly tiny and cramped and set off to the side even though it's an old rich people house. Modern rich people houses have lovely kitchens.

this explains a lot about my friends home. even though i live outside philly my friends house is old. being 3 stories high with an attic while other houses are only 2 stories high. their kitchen was at back of the house had doors cutting off the kitchen and separating the dinning room. the kitchen was right next to the basement, had access to a back yard and small prep area, and a “secret” stairway to the second floor. the main stairway was grand being wider than the stairways in my middle school while the “secret” stairway was narrow and was basically between two walls and it was dark. it was most likely used for the servants of the house to get upstairs without guest seeing them.

@lwilton

4 жыл бұрын

There used to be an English phrase: "the back stairs". This was because in the 1800s and earlier well-to-do English houses had two sets of stairs: the main or front stairs that the "lords of the house" (the owners) used, and the back stairs that the servants used. The back stairs were usually narrow and awkward and crammed in to spaces, but they were also large enough that you could manage to carry bulky things up and down them without dropping them. Food and laundry never went up the main stairs. The main stairs usually opened pretty much directly onto the main front door, and the back stairs would open, through a kitchen and/or pantry, on a back 'tradesman's door'.

@SuperCookieGaming_

4 жыл бұрын

l wilton that nails its description. the front of the house has large porch that goes around to the sides. and in the front door there is a study a living room the dining room and the main stairs.

@kaitlyn__L

4 жыл бұрын

Seems like these houses were pretty much laid out the same all over the place from the era... interesting.

Dr. Davis needs his own channel.

@indianasquatchunters

4 жыл бұрын

wpm Hes got his own classes and lectures haha so close?

@EricLeafericson

4 жыл бұрын

All these professors need a podcast, where they shoot the shit about the classes they run and the stuff they're researching

@shane9245

3 жыл бұрын

Dr. David Davis. I would HATE having that name

@thephantom7578

3 жыл бұрын

@@shane9245 Yeah imagine someone accidentally read your name as Dr Davis David and now you're stuck with that name for ever.

@KaiserMattTygore927

3 жыл бұрын

@@shane9245 *_WELCOME TO TRIPLE D_*

What a video. Adam outdid himself, which is a high standard to beat

I loved Anthony Bourdain. I watched him a lot in college. I wrote a whole thesis on the differences in food because of economic differences. I’d really welcome more of this historical content.

@mohammedsarker5756

4 жыл бұрын

woah. That sounds like a cool thesis to read tbh. Econ major (help lol) rn but I would love to be able to read it somehow, totally understand you not wanting to have your name on it tho

@jerdasaurusrex557

4 жыл бұрын

Can I read it?

@hakimmazouz267

4 жыл бұрын

I would love to read that.

@RamenNoodle1985

4 жыл бұрын

Any way to upload that and post a link here?

@ns687

4 жыл бұрын

Could we get a chance to read it - sounds really interesting!

It's weird how he blew uo because he seasoned his cutting board, not his steak. But this is really cool too.

@Ibegood

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, his pizza video before that was his first viral video.

@jeremyevans9629

4 жыл бұрын

His first viral video was broiled chocolate chip cookies

@jeremyevans9629

4 жыл бұрын

@Daniel C why is it sad, Adam is awesome

@VardhanShrivastava

4 жыл бұрын

i came for the fried chicken, vinegar leg is in the right!

@zidanelobo4712

3 жыл бұрын

His Pizza videos were what blew him up

"The past is not even past" I'm glad you put that in.

@indianasquatchunters

4 жыл бұрын

Sai Pie sadly it’s that way in majority of american towns and cities. Tons of data and maps have been made to show the divide between urban areas in terms of socio-economic and demographic features. A major city near me was able to ask people their zipcode and from that they could guess with very high confidence demographics and socio-economic features about you.

@Jacob-yg7lz

4 жыл бұрын

@@indianasquatchunters Yeah, you can look at redlining maps of Baltimore from the Jim Crow era and compare it to modern demographics, and they're surprisingly the same.

@gui18bif

4 жыл бұрын

@@indianasquatchunters thats life!

@TomorrowWeLive

4 жыл бұрын

@@indianasquatchunters where in the world do you think this isn't the case, exactly?

@davebaker3346

3 жыл бұрын

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." - Faulkner

A similar thing can be seen in some Swedish houses. Old estates have segregated kitchens and most of them have extra buildings to house workers. The workers in question were commonly the impoverished relatives of the estate owner who would employ them to do demanding physical labor, cleaning and cooking as well as care for the animals of the estate's farm. Contrary to much of Europe Sweden never really developed a noble class. There were noble families for sure but wealthy farmers could easily rival them in terms of sheer power and prestige so the main building of many farm estates essentially became wooden palaces. During the 20th century Socialism came into vogue and old concepts like nobility and an agricultural elite became frowned upon. Sweden modernized, Social Democracy reigned supreme and the farm workers found better paying jobs away from the rapidly shrinking agricultural sector. Architecture reflects this as the smaller middle class houses are centered around the kitchen. Instead of elegant dining halls the 1920s-1940s allocated this role to the humble kitchen table. Social interaction moved into the kitchen as chatting over a cup of coffee became the new norm and the trendy all-in-one kitchens ironically spread to the people they were once intended to spite. During the 50s-70s even the rich would begin to base their homes around the kitchen. Nowadays kitchens have opened up to an even greater extent as the living rooms have gained greater importance so it isn't unusual for Swedish houses to seamlessly combine the two. If i were to make a prediction i believe Swedish kitchens will stay roughly the way they are now but open up more to the outside. Taller windows provide not only better lighting but also a fantastic view as you sit down to eat and a way to let the world know how great your kitchen is. This effect can already be seen in Swedish "Stugkultur" (Summer cottage culture) as windows take up more and more of the exterior. If you've read this far i hope you learned something new and i'd be glad to know how kitchens have evolved in your country. Your English doesn't have to be perfect (as mine clearly isn't) and the length of the comment doesn't matter since I have way too much time on my hands due to the quarantine.

@eesynopsis7393

4 жыл бұрын

fascinating comment...

@LunaVioletta7

3 жыл бұрын

Omg, thank you for your comment! I learned SO much from it. I've had family friends in Sweden my whole life, and had the pleasure of spending a Christmas with them a few years ago, in a beautiful farmhouse in Vaxjo (one that's been in their family for generations - they built it themselves with their bare hands!!). I fell in love with the culture, and I imagine that fika culture has heavily influenced how the kitchen table has become the hub of social activity in the home. Your explanation of the agricultural elite > Social Democracy > Stugkultur was so fascinating, and now I can't wait to go back to Vaxjo and ask my family friends about their family's rich history. Also, your English was absolutely wonderful. I was an English Literature major, so believe me when I say I barely spotted any mistakes. You, like many Europeans I've met, have a stronger grasp on the English language than many Americans lol

@apotato6278

3 жыл бұрын

@@LunaVioletta7 Växjö is absolutely beautiful! The region Växjö is located in is called Småland (lit. "The little lands") as it was once a psuedo-confederation of cities with considerable autonomy within the Swedish state (until they rebelled against the king in the 16th century... which ended with their leader's head on a pike, the region being looted and a complete integration into the state). Småland is a perfect place to observe the shift first hand since it's possibly the most productive agricultural region in Scandinavia. The farmers in the region have always been relatively wealthy ensuring an ample supply of old, luxurious farmhouses. Since it was the southern border against Denmark there is also a considerable amount of old castles and fortresses that were once meant to defend the region. I believe the Fika-culture was a side effect of Swedish neutrality and a series of education reforms. Swedish cooking and baking is very rigid. You don't use "a pinch of salt" or "a bit of oil", you use your måttsats ("measuring set") where there are individual scoops for strictly defined measurements. There's a Kryddmått (spice scoop) equating to 1ml (millilitre or 1/1000 litres), the Tesked (tea spoon) which is 5ml, a Matsked (tablespoon) at 15ml, a half-decilitre scoop at 50ml and a full-decilitre scoop at 100ml. Swedish education has, since 1842, ensured that every child in the nation is given a free 6 (later changed to 8) year long basic education. Children were taught, among other subjects, math, science and cooking/baking. When the entire population is well versed in the metric system, has a rudimentary understanding of baking and access to such a rigid system recipes spread like the plague. Fika was originally reserved for high society. By the end of the 1800s a proper lady was meant to serve her guests 7 types of small cookies along with tea. If she baked fewer than 7 she was seen as cheap, if she baked more than 7 she was seen as haughty (I say "she" but it was more often the staff that baked). When the working class burst unto the scene and practically took control of the country in the 1920s they didn't really care about old customs like that... but the cookies were damn good so they stuck around. Another stepping stone to fika was that the working class wasn't really accustomed to things like cookies and fluffy cakes so when upstart bakers and hobbyists started experimenting with cheap sugar after the 1st world war they resorted to what they grew up with: Bread. Spiced bread has long been a favorite in Sweden, usually reserved for holidays due to the price but when ingredients are cheap it's suddenly an economically viable option to experiment. A buttery dough spiced with cardamom, cinnamon and sugar resulted in the cinnamon bun, a Swedish favorite. Served with coffee, the drink of choice for the workers, it became the face of Fika. Since dining halls went out of fashion in the age of Social Democracy Fika was served in the kitchen, this made the kitchen an even more important place in the house as it was suddenly not only associated with the family and their meals but also relaxation, social interaction, visits and pastries. Fika ultimately "piggy-backed" on the importance of the kitchen in the minds of the working class to cement itself as a Swedish tradition. Where an American company would have a lunch room a Swedish company will have a fika room, where an American couple would "go grab something to eat" a Swedish couple will "go grab some Fika" (a superior choice to dinner since it's a date with plausible deniability, if it all goes wrong you can just brush it off as a regular fika with a friend). When this pandemic is finally over you should try inviting some friends over for fika. Bake some cinnamon buns, maybe some cookies, sit down in your living room and watch something good on tv/netflix together. It's a surefire way to make even the darkest winter day enjoyable.

@emmamemma4162

3 жыл бұрын

@@apotato6278 That's a well written text if I ever saw one! I would like to play devil's advocate and provide a different narrative, if I may. When you go into larger apartments in buildings from the 1950's or earlier you might stumble upon the remains of upper class culture in that some apartments have a separate entry (sometimes from a different staircase, the servants' staircase), a small room for a servant to sleep in, and/or find that the kitchen is situated in a sealed off location by the servants' quarters. Sometimes you can even find special passageways for servants inside the apartment itself, though I have never seen that in a 1950's apartment, it's probably more of a turn of of the century thing. I find it fascinating how the lay-out of apartments can tell us a lot about the history of different neighborhoods. I suspect these kinds of apartments were not commonly built in Sweden in the 1950's, but here in the old eastern half of what used to be the Swedish Empire we did not experience a large wave of industrialization and urbanization until the 1960's. So in Finnish cities it was still possible to find maids from the countryside working for rich families in posh, newly built apartments in the 1950's. Some families still had maids in the 60's and 70's, but I think it mostly died out after that. I would be very curious to know when the last apartments that were meant to house a servant were built over in Sweden, not to mention other countries.

@thehungrypam

3 жыл бұрын

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This video is incredibly well done on every level. You've definitely earned the new kitchen, and I'm excited to see what else you make in it. :)

@lilettex0421

4 жыл бұрын

TimTom You’re an Adam Ragusea fan? :0

@fishstew2573

4 жыл бұрын

adam’s pretty great, yeah!

@Nuecrow

4 жыл бұрын

:o

@pleaseboi3410

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's a very interesting backstory to a house you wouldn't think would have much going for it.

@liyakathashmi6858

3 жыл бұрын

Why is Tim tom here

"I'm doing the cooking. That's why the oven moved from backstage to center stage" love that quote

Really cool how he always implements local businesses and such into his videos.

@chelybeann

4 жыл бұрын

Macon is so lucky to have him

They didn’t have the strength for dividers in between doors? WEAK

@rockshot100

4 жыл бұрын

WEAK

@burgerpatty

4 жыл бұрын

WEAK

@overheaven8684

4 жыл бұрын

WEAK

@MT.SYNTHAL

4 жыл бұрын

WEEK

@derek596

4 жыл бұрын

WEAK

I've been so accustomed to Adam's Pseudo-Southern accent that when everyone else started speaking in true Georgian drawl I felt like I got kicked in the teeth.

@aetu35

3 жыл бұрын

same

"A poor man's pasta become posh" that line is so powerful. Like to sum up the entire evolution of the domestic space into a sentence like that is so crazy to me. Because it's SO TRUE

"Video on ktichen renovation? Thats a tax deduction." - Accountant

Adam: Opens spice drawer Me: Aight time to stop and take a very close-up look at exactly which spices Adam has around his house-

@jjrpoektl1925

4 жыл бұрын

The Doc Block so where's the list lol

@thedocblock6421

4 жыл бұрын

@@jjrpoektl1925 Oregano Nutmeg Smoked Paprika Black Pepper Sesame Seeds Bay Leaves Herbes de Provence MSG Paprika Seasoned Salt Taco Seasoning Food Coloring Parsley Flakes Turmeric Chinese Five Spice Ground Cinnamon Coriander Allspice Yellow Mustard Seed that's all I can decipher for now, I'll update if I find any more.

@jjrpoektl1925

4 жыл бұрын

The Doc Block niceeeee thanks I’m missing MSG and taco seasoning lol

@hz3917

4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't matter what you have. Just throw it on your cutting board

@PlagueDoc25

4 жыл бұрын

@@thedocblock6421 bruh you killed me with actually delivering through with the list lol

5:50 my house used to have a wall and a door separating the kitchen from the house but my parents tore it down a couple of years ago.

I'm always amazed at how much things interact with each other. The fact that you can tie something like labor opportunities to the biggest, world changing things, like the Civil Rights Movement, and to the smallest of things, such as the invention of the washing machine, or the design of a room in a house, is fascinating.

As an architect, this video is much appreciated. Nice one Adam!

@rockshot100

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, he did a good "form follows function" review.

Your kitchen is on the second floor?! Now that's something strange.

@aragusea

4 жыл бұрын

The house is on a slope.

@thecatonacouch9371

4 жыл бұрын

Adam Ragusea oh lol

@SNitro

4 жыл бұрын

See that makes a little more sense...

@Z50nemesis

4 жыл бұрын

@@SNitro i don't get it

@mckennaConfig

4 жыл бұрын

@@Z50nemesis The kitchen is on the first floor. It's just that the hill slopes downward from the front of the house making a walk-in basement and balcony for the kitchen.

I was so nervous watching this. I’m glad I watched to the end. I have sooooo much respect for the way this telling of history was carried out. I always loved the content but now I'm a supporter!

Adam:*renovates kitchen* Guy from the Uni: You just made history!!!

I love history lessons on real-life subjects like this, it helps me to put the world into perspective. I'm glad you haven't given up on being an educator at heart, keep doing what you're doing. And thank YOU, Adam. You're one of the few youtubers I have notifications for; your videos are always a high point of my Mondays and Thursdays.

The start of your video makes me wonder about the futur of history if that makes sense. There's so much we can learn just by going into journals to get informations on the past, but with internet I see a lot of things disappearing with time and the information is not available the same way people can just go to their town library and dig up old journals. Edit: what an insightful video overall, I really liked it.

@techmage89

4 жыл бұрын

There are efforts to archive stuff on the internet, but yes, it does seem likely that most of it will be lost in a matter of decades.

@drunkenmasterii3250

4 жыл бұрын

@@techmage89 There's just so much stuff on the internet, it's really not practical.

@techmage89

4 жыл бұрын

@@drunkenmasterii3250 Like a lot of stuff, probably only particularly notable stuff and random lucky stuff will get saved. The biggest challenge is that most ways of storing digital data require active management to not decay. A hard drive on a shelf almost certainly won't be usable in 100 years.

@drunkenmasterii3250

4 жыл бұрын

@@techmage89 Yeah that's another problem. Strangely enough internet was supposed to help with communication of information, it does, but at the same time it presents a lot of problem for the future. I mean when things are printed unless you recover every single physical copy it's a lot harder to make anything disappear and in the right conditions paper can survive hundred of years.

@lodziklocPL

4 жыл бұрын

Everything can be indexed, either digitally or on paper (I have a better proposition, though). It is solely our laziness' fault that we don't index some things to the point that we are worried this knowledge may die out, not the Internet's or digital media's. *We* take knowledge for granted - the Internet is just a tool. HDDs can't last for 25 years without powering them up occassionally, true enough, and they have to be stored in specific conditions in order to maximize their life. But what if we just print the stuff that isn't a video or a sound? Wikipedia allows you to save any article - or a variety of articles concerning a common subject - as a printable book which is perfectly legible in paperback. We have the means, we just don't have the willingness. We live in better times than any to preserve knowledge - I'm sure 80% of anything we ever knew, as humanity as a whole, is *gone forever* because we didn't have dependable means to store knowledge, but relied on oral traditions or something as flimsy as paper, while Mesopotamians took advantage of *clay, which lasted for **_MILLENNIA,_** and yet we still aren't taking advantage.* How hard is it to make a machine which punches letters on clay and then solidifies it?

Adam: Why is there a nook here? Calpurnia: Hold my beer.

@hausedog7309

4 жыл бұрын

underrated

Wow, I have always loved the recipes but this has to be one of the most engaging, professional, and informative historical videos on youtube. Keep it up!

This is amazing to me. I have never put thought into the history of buildings outside of the business sphere. We had a home that we lived in as our first home, and I always thought it interesting that we had two front doors that faced the street. The purpose of one door (that led into a bedroom) was to filter guests into the home for a death in the family as a de facto viewing room for the dead. It's amazing how utilitarian and spartan our homes are now compared to the nuance of homes in past eras.

I have been missing Anthony Bourdain even more since this pandemic started. I'd so much like to hear what he would have had to say about it all, not just about food but about how we are treating each other.

I watch cooking videos for several reasons. 1) I am interested in good nutrition and eating healthily. 2) I want to save money by doing it myself. 3) I want to taste the flavors of the world and can't always travel to do so. 4) I want to learn about the people and the cultures whence the various cuisines arise. 5) I want to cook with more finesse and confidence. 6) I want to share the above with my family and friends. Nice remodel, Adam! I think the contribution by David Davis was significant and your delving into the history of the house was very interesting.

I love how you interweave your journalism background into such interesting topics. Telling stories and giving real value.

This channel is doing something that no other cooking channel has even attempted before. Being able to see that a kitchen renovation can be an opportunity to discuss history, class structure and architecture simultaneously is just brilliant.

Although I'm not good with history, I do appreciate the history of architecture, as it is an art form literally made to accommodate us. So thank you for this well-researched video on a subject I always enjoy learning about. :)

Really really amazing essay work here. You're elegantly going from making cooking videos to deconstructing the structures on which cooking stands. Please more, love this new direction.

This is actually an amazing video. From your own research to your former colleagues knowledge and just the entire history of the house. You really outdid yourself Adam 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I love the fact that the comment section isn't repetitive and unfunny.

@ronaldoperez6440

4 жыл бұрын

Love the irony

@samwinchester1326

4 жыл бұрын

Ur mom gay

@thecatonacouch9371

4 жыл бұрын

sam winchester words of wisdom

@vrldf8181

4 жыл бұрын

@@samwinchester1326 I can see that you're part of the repetition. Gotcha.

@shyasaturtle

4 жыл бұрын

I love the fact that the comment section isn't repetitive and unfunny.

Your new kitchen is beautiful, looks really spacious and bright, I really love this type of videos you make where you go above and beyond to tell a particular story around food, its not just recipes which if it where, it'd still be fine, I mean I love your carefree just do it aproach to cooking, but this is something else, the journalist in you really shines

Watched almost all your videos, this is one of the best yet. Incorporating important history that's relevant to your region and is around you everyday into a video explaining how and why you're making your own changes to suit you for the future. A great concept, executed really well. I'm looking forward to more of videos of these style as well as your standard food ones. Great work!

Dog, you've honestly become my favorite youtube chef in the past month. I love how you incorporate education with your cooking videos.

This was a way more intense kitchen renovation than I was expecting. Also, RIP Anthony Bourdain. We miss you so much.

White Wine Report: No white wine spotted We cry This has been your White Wine Report

I also really like how light everything looks, i love your older videos but this makes the lighting look amazing and crisp

This video is exceptional even among some of your best. It is pulling from so many areas and packaged beautifully. Well done man.

Oh damn, I never knew Bourdain narrated his own books. Medium Raw is sitting on my bedside right this minute. Hearing him describe the Ortolan dinner is wack.

What an incredible video Adam, really awesome. Gonna miss the fog on the lens though...

How did i go from watching you make a dank pizza to getting a southern architecture history lesson and commentary on the philosophy of cooking? I'm not sure but I fuckin love it.

Loving the fact that you went as far as to recognize the "who's doing the cooking" thing.

i like how you always go the extra mile with every video, telling us about the history of certain thing and consulting experts to back up your claims every time.

@mockturtlesuppe

4 жыл бұрын

Caillous Mutter You can tell he is a former journalism instructor.

This video totally demonstrates what makes Adam the best foodtuber. Anyone else would have given us a lot of nice clean shots and flexed their new several thousand dollar renovation on us. Adam chose to instead take what could've been a very boring video and turn it into something that actually taught me something and made me think. Keep up the great work, Adam.

Awesome video. I appreciate how you showed off your kitchen remodeling project, but also gave us a nice history lesson.

As a lover of history, I thought this video was endlessly fascinating. Thank you to you and Dr. David Davis!

The Habitat for Humanity ReStore is also a good place to get niche items at a good price. Last June my dad spent like 75 dollars for this big drill press(an item we didn't need but had niche uses for, I use it for Prop and Costuming for fun and to assist my friend who is a Cosplayer). Comparable presses are like hundreds of dollars. In general Habitat for Humanity is very good and we should all endeavor to support them.

i lived in a 100-year-old house here in the south for a few years. i'm happy people still live in and take care of our region's historic houses, but it is very difficult to go about as normal while you replace a kitchen and redo much of the house! that said, this video brought back nice memories of that house, some good times happened there :)

I always liked Adam's shows, interesting, informative, well done. Now I have another level of respect for the man for discussing cooking and serving as it relates to literal servitude for so many throughout history.

I'm really excited for the future of this channel. Keep up the great work, Adam!

"The newspaper was Facebook before Facebook destroyed the newspaper" haha well said

That was TED quality material: "The Kitchen Social History". You can expand it to include other countries ...

The way you connected a historical event to your new kitchen is really spectacular, excellent video.

Adam, another home run of a video! Thank you for continuously amazing us and bringing people together with your comforting voice and wonderful personality! I look forward to more informative videos from you!

It's bonkers to me that a large portion of the country still refuses to acknowledge the lasting impact of all these racist practices going on for centuries. Even down to the damn kitchen, it still haunts this country. Appreciate the history lesson, greatly. On the request side of things, would love to see your take on various rubs and spice mixtures for something like oven broiled ribs. I think it would make for great food-adjacent content as well, exploring the history of the rubs and spices.

@emmamemma4162

3 жыл бұрын

Well, this is a common lay out in old houses all over the world, I think it speaks of class disparities and the use of servants more than actual slavery. Though you are of course right in connecting the existence of a large serving class in the southern US with slavery.

5:51 “How many houses these days have a door separating the kitchen from the house”? ***Laughs in European***

@-suiluj-

4 жыл бұрын

My man!

@MrGiovanniOSFP

4 жыл бұрын

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@fundelgurgel3913

4 жыл бұрын

I would really hate if my living room would always smell like the food I cooked a few days ago.

@dannycarrington1601

4 жыл бұрын

My 70 year old house has one which is used every day, great if you get up early and don't want to disturb others.

@Patrick94GSR

4 жыл бұрын

Nearly every sitcom TV show set up through the mid 90's haha, they ALWAYS had a double-swing door! Home Improvement is one of the few exceptions I can think of.

Your proficiency as a speaker really shows in these types of videos. One thing I've always admired about the best professors is that they have a way to teach that is neither complicated nor (more importantly) alienating in nature. This is the same skill I see often practiced in your videos with the way you always choose to address different points of view without actively antagonizing (most of) them. It's a little detail that most people miss in their speech which leads to many miscommunications/confrontations, and I'm happy to see it done well.

Hey Adam, thanks very much for this episode - it was incredibly interesting. I like that you aren't afraid to go in to some detailed explanation. You have a fantastic channel.

Living next to a house built in the 1700s I can say the kitchen is different

Came for the kitchen reveal, stayed for the history lesson

I love these interview-heavy videos from Adam because we get to hear a bunch of really smart people talk about things they’re passionate about

This was incredibly original and really interesting to watch; love how you are unapologetically diverse with your content. Keep it up!

I draw house plans for a living, and do a lot of additions. I see a variety of plans, and actual houses built over a hundred years ago. It's common for older homes to have started with the kitchen being walled in. And many had a butler's pantry, like Adam's house. Everything Adam and the professor said is true, except for one thing, domestic servants were quite common in every state. You can look at house plans in books, and magazines, from the 1920's and earlier, and see that the walled off kitchen layout is standard. The kitchen would have a screened porch on a back corner, and have it's own entry to the side yard by the driveway. The servant used the porch to perform many tasks in, and was typically expected to enter the house through that side entrance. Servants, and delivery men were not allowed to come in the main entrance. It was also common to have a teeny tiny powder room reserved for the servant(s) who were only dayworkers. That kept them from tying up the bathrooms used by the home's residents. But mostly, it resolves any unease felt by a homeowner who was prejudiced based on race, or class. Sitting on a toilet that a mere servant had used would be unacceptable to many people in those days. And more than a few today. For those houses that were designed to accommodate live-in staff, modest homes would have a tiny bedroom for a cook/housekeeper located at the back by the kitchen. It was usually adjacent to the kitchen porch. In larger houses, owned by more affluent people, a section of the house was set aside for servants, like you see on British TV shows. Sometimes they'd be in the basement, sometimes in the attic, and just as often, in their own small wing. The servant's floor, or wing, would have a full bath reserved just for the staff, and sometimes a sitting room was reserved for them. The exception is that live-in chauffeurs, and gardeners, would often have rooms and a bath in the garage. The garage was not attached to the main house, and was located in the back yard. Domestics may have been predominately Black in the South, but in other parts of the country, they were Irish, Norwegian, Italian, Portuguese, Mexican, Chinese, or any ancestry you can think of. The rising cost of labor, opportunities for better jobs, and labor saving devices, eventually killed off the profession of domestic workers. The exception being those who are employed by the very rich. And even they try to pay as little as possible, often hiring foreigners who are here without legal papers. My purpose for writing was to point out that, as bad as the South may have been with it's treatment of Blacks, domestic servants of all backgrounds, were common across the country, and even around the world.

Did I need to know this? Not at all. Am I happy I did learn it? Yes. Yes I am.

Thank you for your continued quality. Something about the way you treat your audience is what makes your compelling content.

I really appreciate this work you do. Thanks Adam 😊

"Buildings that have been added onto often lack design logic" As someone who lives in a house that is 150 years old that has had multiple additions added on over the years, no truer words have ever been spoken. One such example in my own home is a door at the back of a closet that leads straight into a 15 foot drop down to my basement...

@chelybeann

4 жыл бұрын

That is spooky!

@MK-dr7dx

4 жыл бұрын

Do you know what the reason is for that? Assuming there's a reason at all and it wasn't just awkward renovation weirdness.

@sweetkittykat2000

4 жыл бұрын

@@MK-dr7dx Well, the stair case of my house has been moved multiple times over the years, and this door leads to the space under my stair case. I can only assume that before the stairs was put in, the door might have actually led somewhere.

This was great. Sharing this to my homeschooling mama group

i’ve never been so glad that i’m subscribed. this is a wildly beautiful, well produced video. plus your new kitchen is very pretty!

Adam, I've been watching your channel for a while and my family and I love your recipes. I've made oven fries, steak with board dressing, broiled cookies, crème brûlée, mac and cheese, and your salmon. All turned out great. Your cooking videos are very quick and informative! Thank you Adam!

"Why I segregate myself instead of my servants" I'm sorry.

@LostSwiftpaw

4 жыл бұрын

HOLY SHIT I SCREAMED SO LOUD LMAONTBDKD DJD

@satan9487

3 жыл бұрын

OH NO OH GOD

Adam does “This Old House.”

Very well done video, amazing for Adam to show us this side of his kitchen and house and giving us history lessons.

I am so glad I found this channel. Thanks for making such great and helpful videos

Facebook: The future is now, old man.

I live in brasil, my grand father’s house have these kind of thing, the buzzer unde the table, the separations on public and service areas. And there is something else interest, this integrated design, where the kitchen is open to the dining room, is called “American Kitchen” here in brasil!

The ReStore is fantastic! I used to volunteer there in San Jose when I was in high school!

This is a very inspired segment. Thank you for putting out such thoughtful material.

As a history major and part-time kitchen cabinet designer: This was the perfect video for me 👌

If anyone is interested in learning more, try watching the movie “The Help”. Great movie about the south in the 60’s.

@rebekahrhodes9512

4 жыл бұрын

The movie is actually heavily fictionalized, I enjoyed watching it, but I learned it was written by a white woman who made it all up, it wasn't based on her life during the time, or the lives of any African American women either. Not much research was done, it was basically just what one person thought it was like.

@drasco61084

4 жыл бұрын

@@rebekahrhodes9512 Yeah I learned the same when I watched Kim's video. Anyone unfamiliar look up For Harriet on here her videos are great, the one about The Help is a good place to start since lots of people know the movie.

@rebekahrhodes9512

4 жыл бұрын

@@drasco61084 I love For Harriet great channel

This guy just keeps pumping out excellent quality videos with great information.

This reminds me of the very first apartment I lived in. It was a large old house that had been split up, and ours had the original kitchen - the back door and the stairs to the basement were right off our kitchen. Our pantry was a walled-off servant's staircase. I think our living room was an old parlor or something, and the bedroom the former dining room, or maybe vice versa

How is grow doing? I can't imagine they're having a good time of it with the stay at home orders and all.

I now see how Adam tries to emulate Alton Brown in all of his videos.

Love the video, and the lesson. Everytime I tune in I learn something and it’s great. I live in Georgia as well and learning more about home state and how the culture developed over time really intrigued me. Love what you do and I can’t wait to see more.👌🏿

Your channel is amazing. Thanks- love seeing all the experts you bring in (especially as a Georgia native!)