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@nicoskefalas

Ай бұрын

A video on Sage? F**k yeah! Love these kinds of topics!

@loraweems8712

Ай бұрын

The microscope is truly cool!

@GodBlessCanada

Ай бұрын

You should have mentioned salvia is a horrible time. You're basically guaranteed to lose contact with reality and experience really horrible visions that can feel like they go on for years. The reason it isn't all that regulated is because 99.99% of sane people would have no interest in it. This should really come up every time the stuff is discussed so someone doesn't go give themselves PTSD.

@chezmoi42

29 күн бұрын

@@GodBlessCanada He made it clear that he wasn't going into the subject, just as I, as an amateur mycologist, do not get into the properties of certain mushrooms with the general public.

@chezmoi42

29 күн бұрын

Adam, please block and report porn bots like KatiLiza; they are out in force, emerging every day like cicadas.

Ok but herbs instead of flowers on a wedding table is genuinely smart and nice

@murunbuchstanzangur

Ай бұрын

You can have flowering herbs and edible flowers if you like,

@alfonso365

Ай бұрын

A very Italian thing

@WouldntULikeToKnow.

Ай бұрын

Yeah! I wish I had thought of that!

@BLTkitchen

Ай бұрын

Isn't it! Such a low-waste solution I'm surprised more people don't do this.

@slothguy_

Ай бұрын

how about weed

I think it was Lindybeige who did a video a while ago on the subject of "Why are only some plants poisonous?" and the answer was basically "Incorrect starting premise. They're all poisonous, we've just evolved to deal with certain varieties of poison so they no longer actively poison us". That's been an idea stuck in my head forever.

@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger

Ай бұрын

Capsaicin. Plant evolves to deter mammals who would eat it and crush the seeds: we decide we like the pain and eat it anyways.

@lmpeters

29 күн бұрын

​@@Your-Least-Favorite-StrangerNot just humans. Back in the early 2000's, I read a story about telecom companies coating long-distance cables with capsaicin to discourage rodents from chewing on them, only for some squirrels to develop a taste for spice and actively seek out spicy cables to chew on.

@yektaagra741

29 күн бұрын

Turnzs out Adam watches lindybeige too!

@user-ci7wn5im5i

29 күн бұрын

Another thing is that scurvy was caused more by sailors heavy diet of ship biscuits, rather than any deficiency of vit C in meat Not that I am a 'manly sigma'. I am actively reducing meat in my diet, though not vegan or even vegetarian, just wanted to say that

@user-bz3kd2mt3u

28 күн бұрын

whooooooaaa

Post-retirement Adam videos don’t feel like content, they feel like information that is worth listening to. These recent videos have been so authentic

@miabussell0229

Ай бұрын

That's the dividing line for me! Those last few months definitely felt like "this is Adam's job" but this feels like early Adam and are so charming and engaging and REAL!

@dreaziemobbins

Ай бұрын

he is not retired he just read a Helix commercial for like 3 minutes. He works for Helix. You're a bot

@allanjmcpherson

Ай бұрын

@@dreaziemobbins he did a video talking about how he's in semi-retirement. They may have been imprecise in their language, but that doesn't make them a bot. Your reaction, however, makes you an asshole.

@saifeldeenadel3491

Ай бұрын

He's retired?

@microwaveman1234

Ай бұрын

yeah i’ve enjoyed them so much

This channel has become oddly nostalgic. It's gone from my primary, "learning how to cook" channel, to my , "remember how you learned cool shit on PBS as a kid?" channel. I'm digging it.

@bv310

Ай бұрын

Call it his Tom Scott era

@whitneywujkoayala8613

Ай бұрын

Call it his *Late Middle Ages of the Tom Scott Era. Less computer science, variety of topics, some travel, Pre-roller coaster era haha

@werydan1878

29 күн бұрын

Well said

@Spencebot42

29 күн бұрын

Ethan Chlebowski has become my default for actual cooking content, but I enjoy Adam's random topics.

@taejaskudva2543

29 күн бұрын

Those PBS vids have always been my favorite. I love his old why is turkey called turkey video.

In perfumery we use “thujonic” to describe scents reminiscent of absinthe or wormwood. The more you know.

@aragusea

Ай бұрын

Whoa!

@semjart

Ай бұрын

That is so interesting!!

@espalier

Ай бұрын

Is that a y/i sound? Or j/zh?

@MintyFreshCupcakes

29 күн бұрын

How does one get into Perfumery

@duyanhng8430

29 күн бұрын

@@MintyFreshCupcakesprobably some kind of chem degrees i think

There's a very clear correlation between the decline in Chia Pet ownership and the rise in cyberbullying. This cannot be ignored.

@thesquishedelf1301

9 күн бұрын

It’s grass you can pet, of course the decline of it coincides with cyberbullying

Funny story: I love fresh basil. I had a plant on my kitchen-windowsill. Kitchen smelled great, especially when you brushed against the basil. Silly me - "what is 10x better than a basil? I thought.. Well - 10 basils! Right? C'mon, am I right? three months later, large planter on the windowsill with 10 basil plants in full glory.. And I tell you, it smelled HORRIBLE. Like in a chemical factory. When a certain threshold is crossed, your nose apparent relabels it from "friend" to "enemy". Now I am back to one plant, sometimes two on the sill.

@pendlera2959

29 күн бұрын

That makes sense. All poisons have a threshold they can cross where they go from friend (or at least benign) to enemy.

@lordyhgm9266

29 күн бұрын

I bet you never had a problem with flies though lol

@AdityaMehendale

29 күн бұрын

@@lordyhgm9266 Basil-lice :( Even more evolved than I.

@fc-js3qj

29 күн бұрын

so true, this happened to me while extracting basil oil in the lab

@ringoffire0

29 күн бұрын

huh, nice to know

The crucial thing with toxicity is dose. Very small amounts of sage are just a flavor or benefit to 70 KG persons, but poisonous to 70mg bugs.

@CleopatraKing

Ай бұрын

In general yes, dose makes the poison but the fact that he didn't mention that, and the fact that some humans have adverse reactions to sage is more it more likely to be a specific tolerance we have built up. Similar to predators of poisonous animals, those of us who could eat those poisons without dying were more likely to live and breed, thus weeding out the genes that make thujones poisonous

@eclipseeffigy

Ай бұрын

Sort of but also no. To quote another example from the video, a big onion portion for a human is tasty food, a small portion for a dog is dangerous poison.

@nunya___

29 күн бұрын

Bugs should consider a more varied diet.

@elongated_muskrat_is_my_name

29 күн бұрын

also keeps the 70mg bugs from eating the food in storage

@DeltaEntropy

28 күн бұрын

That’s not entirely true, because you have to scale the portion accordingly based on the relative size of each. Otherwise yes, the amount of sage a human might regularly consume would kill a 70mg bug, because its organs would explode as it’s filled with seemingly endless amounts of sage. While dose is certainly super important, it’s not something that is comparable across species in the way you describe.

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@azyfloof

29 күн бұрын

I read this in their voices and it was amazing :D

@gabbonoo

27 күн бұрын

Infomercial Adam voice comes easy to the mind.

11:18 Adam: “The nutlet has mucilage.” *DEMONITIZED*

As someone who is on a meat based, low FODMAP diet in order to deal with chronic digestive conditions, it frustrates me to see such radical thinking associated with nutrition - whether among carnivores, vegans or folks on any other diet. I feel very lucky to be able to eat the kinds of food I'm able to tolerate, and it's been a very difficult journey for me. Diet doesn't need more stress associated with it than it already does. There is no such thing as a universal diet. I wish that more people could understand that.

@cameronschyuder9034

22 күн бұрын

"'There is no such thing as a universal diet." THANK YOU. I'm actually sympathetic to veganism (the philosophy), tho am not currently on a strict plant-based diet myself. It's frustrating for me to see people who care about other animals to dismiss fellow human animals when they say they have a medical issue that prevents them from eating completely plant-based, like saying they haven't tried hard enough or "there has to be a way, it has worked for me." No such thing as a universal diet. People are different and the not understanding people's differences in body constitution, psychology, outlook, etc causes a lot of strife. Would I want more people to try plant-based? Sure. But not at the expense of their own well-being, ofc.

Im a city dweller, but manage to find space for some potted herbs. One planter is called Scarborough Fair. Yup. You guessed it, it has parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme. Another one is called Olive Garden and has oregano, basil, cilantro, and am trying to grow some garlic. Fresh herbs are expensive and not always so great from the grocery store. From my little garden they couldnt be fresher nor cheaper!

@user-ci7wn5im5i

29 күн бұрын

I'm trying to grow garlic too I live in Malaysia, so my idea is to keep it in my bedroom with the AC so it doesn't overheat

I knew someone in college who could only eat red meat due to allergies. At the cafeteria, he had to request a beef hamburger patty without cheese or a bun. That's all he could eat at school. He hated it so much. The school's food already sucked. I couldn't imagine having to only eat previously frozen, plain hamburgers for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

@PredictableEnigma

29 күн бұрын

I'd definately be learning to cook my own food if my diet had to be so limited. What a struggle

@taejaskudva2543

29 күн бұрын

Glass half full: in older times, he'd just be dead. But we live in a time where medical technology allows him to live and society, while not great, still accommodates him. I'm in kind of the same boat with allergies and asthma. Kind of sucky. But the only period of history where I can even be alive.

I've been living by the credo "The more things you can eat, the more powerful you are" for a while now. I'm happy to hear my mock alpha toxicity echoed. To the scavenger go the rest of the spoils.

@vaylonkenadell

14 күн бұрын

The scavengers will inherit the Earth.

Something about this style of video is really cool. It's unmistakably Adam but with an extra dash of comedic timing. I like it! I don't really care about sage but I couldn't turn away! And now I learned something new!

@WouldntULikeToKnow.

Ай бұрын

​@KatiLiza shut up bot

@BLTkitchen

Ай бұрын

It was really hard to look away. 😄 The pacing was great!

@FORDNESS123456789

Ай бұрын

Ha I just got done writing something similar.

On the topic of evolution and how "survival of the fittest" is often misinterpreted by people as "survival of the strongest, smartest, biggest etc." I want to share a study I learned about in graduate school. I wish I could remember the authors, but I don't so will have to give a summary. Basically the researchers were studying this microscopic arthropod (I think it was a form of dust mite), there were two variants of the species: a big, well armored tank, and a smaller more slender less well armored one. The researchers planted a group of females of the species in the center of a dish, and the two different kinds at various different locations in the dish. The presence of a female group would ensure the two populations of males would not get along. Unsurprisingly the big strong well armored ones basically wiped out the smaller ones. Then the researchers changed the game: instead of having an open dish they segmented the dish with cut drinking straws. Now the females were behind a series of walls, and suddenly it was no longer a benefit to be so big because they couldn't slip under the walls as easily, and the researchers found the smaller mites were the ones who successfully mated, and survived. The moral, such that there is one, is that evolution doesn't work by what _you_ personally consider to be beneficial. It is always about how an adaptation interacts with the environment the organism finds itself in.

@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger

29 күн бұрын

We had a watered down version of this as a hands on demonstration in one of my high school science classes (back in like 2012). We covered the same topic, adaptation suiting or failing to suit the environment, but we used hand size as a determining factor. There was a hypothetical tree which had a hollow, within which was a deposit of resources - the first tree had a wide hollow which allowed larger handed individuals (myself included) to grab huge fistfuls of resources to bring back to the group. In this situation, being able to climb the tree and retrieve large fistfuls of resources was a beneficial adaptation. From there we traveled to an isolated island which also played host to the trees, but due to environmental factors the hollow was much smaller compared to the mainland equivalents - my hand could barely fit, let alone get resources from the tree. People with more slender hands were able to get their hands in easily enough as well as bring out a reasonable amount of resources per trip up the tree - in this setting, people with large hands were at a clear disadvantage. Obviously there are other factors to consider if this were a real scenario, but the essence is the same: traits which are beneficial to survival or benign in nature generally get passed on to the next generation. We benefit from the ability to eat a bunch of different plants and animals - if you're limited to only one or another plant, sorry but genetically speaking you're somewhere else than the majority of people. We live in a world where thats perfectly fine and we have workarounds to keep you happy and healthy, but that doesnt mean everyone else should follow your example.

@vaylonkenadell

14 күн бұрын

And this, children, is why genetic homogeneity -- whether of human society or of our food crops -- is bad.

@supremelordoftheuniverse5449

Күн бұрын

Nice story. Now look at human evolution and tell me. Did we become more or less intelligent the more we evolved?

@saoirsecameron

15 сағат бұрын

@@supremelordoftheuniverse5449 there isn’t any one genetic or cognitive trait associated with “intelligence but I’ll accept the premise anyways and point out human brain to body mass ratios has be been remarkably stable for the last 60,00 years, and are actually lower than that of Neanderthals. Try again

Sidebar, holy shit your property is gorgeous. Flanked by woods, gentle slope, sign me up.

@SimuLord

Ай бұрын

East Tennessee is full of the best natural beauty God or the vagaries of fractal patterns can cook up. Great place to visit, the barbecue is out of this world, but after living there (lived in Sevierville) for a chunk of 2013, I've no interest in moving back. Adam and Lauren may make great neighbors but in general I'm happier in Seattle in terms of feeling like I'm among my tribe.

@aragusea

Ай бұрын

East Tennessee is gorgeous and much of it is still very inexpensive don’t tell anyone.

@oxoniumgirl

29 күн бұрын

Yep! I lived in eastern TN during my early 20s, it's a truly gorgeous area. If the discriminatory politics don't target you then it's a lovely place to live, but the beauty of the land isn't worth putting up with the ugliness of most people's hearts there.

@flamingpi2245

29 күн бұрын

Appalachia in general is beautiful. A true hidden gem ravaged by the coal industry

@cool_scatter

29 күн бұрын

@@araguseaYou already own a house there, don’t you mean “tell everyone”? 😂

One of the beautiful things about living in a time period when societies exist is that people who would not have survived otherwise are now able to survive, as long as their society is functional and does its job. That will almost certainly have an effect on genetic diversity of our species, preserving traits which may not be adapted to the present, but could be adapted to a future situation.

Sage advice

@SummitBidTech

Ай бұрын

Lolz!

The dudes that eat exclusively red meat and talk about it on the internet shall henceforth be known as the Nutlets.

@FLPhotoCatcher

Ай бұрын

What about the dudes who complain about dudes who eat exclusively red meat and talk about it on the internet, and talk about it on the internet?

@Nijht

Ай бұрын

​@@FLPhotoCatcher Obviously, they'll be called the Sages.

@raraavis7782

Ай бұрын

​@@Nijht Good comeback 😅

@semjart

Ай бұрын

Im all for this

@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger

Ай бұрын

The motion passes. "Nutlets" has entered standard vernacular.

I'm really enjoying this mode of presentation. I know this isn't actually as off the cuff as it might present - there's lots of camera setups and interstitial bits, obviously it's tightly scripted (or ready to be riffed). But I'm really excited when Adam sets himself to "rip and run" mode. I dig the more walking paced stuff too, I love it all, but this was breathless in a way that I can really gobble up.

@DeanoFountino

29 күн бұрын

The Green brothers call this “The Format”

@ 3:30 Haha. While I do miss the twice weekly food science videos and podcasts I am warming up to Adam’s DILLIGAF phase of his career lol.

@nicoskefalas

Ай бұрын

I am here for all of it 😂

@flamingmonkeyuk

Ай бұрын

Have a like for DILLIGAF

@chezmoi42

29 күн бұрын

I like the relaxed Adam, having a good time sharing stuff with us. He was getting visibly stressed in his delivery before he stepped back, and I find this far easier to absorb.

Sage tea is quite nice too. A bit of an acquired taste, perhaps; particularly soothing for a slimy throat during a cold.

@nicoskefalas

Ай бұрын

Yes we have it a lot in Cyprus! Especially when one gets down with a cold or the flu. It’s perfect with some honey! 😃

@tjord

Ай бұрын

@@nicoskefalasOh this sounds lovely, I definitely gotta make some.

@georgejones5019

Ай бұрын

Probably a little palatable if the flower is also used to make the tea.

@raraavis7782

Ай бұрын

Herbal teas can be surprisingly tasty. I never thought I would like it, but then I did, when I tried.

I don't know, I kinda love herbs on a wedding table!

Just as a blanket statement, covering everything since he stopped doing his podcast, I like this version of Adam Ragusea a lot :) There's a delightful swagger to the way he carries himself. His cheeky quips are sharper than ever and I just plain like the flow. Well done and thank you for the awesome content!

@semjart

Ай бұрын

I second this!! Well put

Besides the fact that so many plants are delicious, eating plants that have serious defences against predation is kind of our super power as humans. It's weird to just write that off.

@user-ci7wn5im5i

29 күн бұрын

A hypothesis suggests that the very fact that it is poisonous is why we grew to like it so much. Herbs and spices could stop food from spoiling and eventually we adapted to the poison and started actively seeking it out

@donotlike4anonymus594

28 күн бұрын

Ok let me counter that argument... (while i sgree plants are delicious) on the other hand take koala's for example "Evolved" into freaks of nature... with such and incredible stomach They can breakdown and feed on one of the worst most toxic leafs known to man Now is that impressive by any means? Nope What we end up with are horrible bears with smooth tint brains (Cute... perhaps) but non the less horrible... The amount of energy they require to survice and thr smount they get from the eucalyptus plant leaves very little for the brain/anything but eating shitting and sleeping all day Some super power uh.... Can≠should/ideal

@Mattheq

28 күн бұрын

@@donotlike4anonymus594 Yeah but we don't have that one, we can just 3eat all the poisonous stuff as well as lots of other things

@Baulder13

26 күн бұрын

I always think about capsicum and how pissed off they'd be to find out they developed over how ever many hundreds of thousands of years only to get farmed by us by the bazillions for hot sauce and salsa etc.

@elinor8569

23 күн бұрын

​@@Baulder13i think that was a double edge sword but in this case both edges hit the target they became unappealing to every animal except the one hominid who can aid and expand their reproduction massively

I have to say, as someone who's always enjoyed the anthropology/food science videos more than the recipe videos, your new focus and interests are improving the quality of the content overall. Not to mention it feels like you found the perfect crossover between shooting outside garden shots and the more podcast format from your greenhouse, which is the visual style that pairs well with the information you're sharing. Glad this is the new direction, I definitely watch videos more consistently now than ever before. I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

Fun talk, Adam! I really like your videos when you keep it kinda conversational, but informative. I know you put a lot of work and effort in making it appear as such. Thank you bunches!

You are making art about the botanical families. It's an incredible blend of science and aesthetics and love. Its incredible. This video made me cry. i am high tho

This is such a good video. Really loving this era!

"Basil's more like a salad green to me though." THANK YOU! Basil is one of the herbs I'd really like to have as part of a salad, sometimes more than it being a central part as a herb (obviously pesto is amazing and such). Sage is super underrated and we need to use it more in stuff.

@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger

29 күн бұрын

Thai basil is just a straight up snack - its perfect

@pixelspritevickysvarietych2365

19 күн бұрын

Yeahhh!! I eat this regularly with banh xeo

Saw one particularly fascinating point of view from one of these carnivore people. Somebody suggested he use some seasoning on his meat, like paprika or chili flake to which he responded "those have Fibre and Fibre destroys your gut."

@dtemp132

Ай бұрын

Imagine thinking that dietary fiber is bad for you...

@patcho7518

Ай бұрын

@@dtemp132maybe for a small amount of people, right?

@wezzuh2482

Ай бұрын

Seriously, if I subsisted only on meat and no veggies, I would get constipated beyond repair.

@rallekralle11

Ай бұрын

meat has fibre lol. very little, but it's there.

@MintyFreshCupcakes

Ай бұрын

​@@rallekralle11Not enough fiber though. Most American adults are fiber deficient

For fun from Italian - salve: hello! But also very close to salvare - to save (to help) And words you might know: salvatore - savior! And also the name

@wilsan806

23 күн бұрын

In danish sage is called "salvie"

Your story of your brother's herb flower decorations reminds me of my father's funeral 'flower' arrangement. We had it based around fruits and vegetables because my father hated cut flowers (grew up in ww2, cut flowers = dead family). So, after the service we went home and made soup out of the arrangement. I'm 100% convinced my dad would have loved our idea. None of us talked about this beforehand but once we were talking to the funeral director, we all knew cut flowers was a no go.

I love how absolutely savage adam was in this one 😅

I really like these cooking / health related learn explainer videos, ofc they are more relaxed in their nature now than about 2 years ago since the channel has become a bit more relaxed, but it works really well, just wanted to say I love these kinds of videos :)

My favorite ragusea era - kinda like the pod, kinda like the videos. Laid back and various topics

Isn't mint something you don't usually plant on the ground outside because is spreads like wildfire in a garden?

@WouldntULikeToKnow.

Ай бұрын

Yes, mint goes crazy!

@clintoncooper3427

Ай бұрын

On April first I told my wife that I had fertilized the mint in the garden.

@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger

Ай бұрын

So long as you regularly trim it back, you're good. Having a lot of mint means a lot of mint tea

@some_shiptoster

29 күн бұрын

@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger Ah. Good, good.

@whogavehimafork

23 күн бұрын

I explicitly recommend against planting mint for most gardeners unless they are the type of person who is extremely diligent and regularly maintains the garden. If you often forget about maintenance or are very busy (i am both) I wouldn't plant it at all. And I especially advise against planting it directly in the ground, you want it in a raised bed with a barrier or a planter.

I love to "slightly roast" sage in butter - it breaks the "strong flavor" and makes it taste absolutely delicious.

@letzte_maahsname

Ай бұрын

It for sure does. For a more shelf stable version it's also possible to very slightly heat it with olive oil and garlic, this way you'll have a nice condiment to make every salad incredible!

@giacomoboffi9394

26 күн бұрын

Italy. Sage roasted in butter is the traditional condiment for "ravioli di magro", i.e., ravioli stuffed with ricotta and spinach.

Im loving this new phase of Ragusea

Adam. This is a totally unrelated comment to the topic of this video, but i wanted to say your greenhouse and outdoor garden area are so lovely. Im so glad you feature them prominently, and i can see all the wonderful handwork that has produced such beautiful plants. One day it be cool if your could point out a couple of the plants you have but either way... i love seeing your greenhouse and the many new plants (atleast for my eyes). Great video as always.

I was tripping about seven minutes into this video because the lighting outside makes your hair look very purple. Love the video, by far the most informative and entertaining video I've watched on sage and phytochemicals today.

Love the impromptu 'Liver King protegee' roast

@fc-js3qj

29 күн бұрын

how can liver king still have followers after the steroid fiasco?

@starfthegreat

29 күн бұрын

​@@fc-js3qjbecause he's super funny

I do have a chiapet, Adam. It's shaped like John Green.

@thehousecat93

Ай бұрын

Is it meant as a riff on his post-chemo curly hair? That would be pretty on brand for the Green’s media empire.

@drewharrison6433

29 күн бұрын

​@@thehousecat93John didn't have cancer. That was Hank. As a side note, I always wanted the Chia Garcia (Jerry Garcia) and the Bob Ross version.

@cameronschyuder9034

22 күн бұрын

@@drewharrison6433 Nonono, John and Hank are clearly the same person!

Thank you for speaking out on this topic! 👍

Can we get an Adam Ragusea x Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't crossover

@chezmoi42

29 күн бұрын

I don't know, he'd rip that lawn right out of there.

@gohabs9

29 күн бұрын

whuddyadoing there nice?

I love all this cooking adjacent stuff. Always have. Also love all the plant stuff. I guess I just love everything you're doing in semi-retirement. Thank you!

Not growing yet but I did buy the one from pizzamas... it's called chizza john

@WouldntULikeToKnow.

Ай бұрын

Ah, another fan of the Green brothers!

@kianadavisrodell3300

29 күн бұрын

DFTBA :)

The hallucinogen salvia divinorum is also in the sage family

@nunya___

29 күн бұрын

I saw the fabric of the universe.

@chezmoi42

29 күн бұрын

That's what he's referring to.

That Hmmmm at the end was absolutely perfect

this video covered so many topics while still centrally being about sage while ALSO being super interesting and funny the entire time

Love sage! Especially in stuffing balls served with Sunday roast and beef gravy 🤤

potted herbs on a table for centerpieces sounds lovely! i grow a ton of herbs, although honestly more fr the pollinators and bumblebees and stuff than for me... and yes, they all have lovely flowers

I love to see your enthusiasm about sage i had the asme when i started using salvia from mexico

the amount of videography put into this one is great

The funny thing about Adam is i like his voice and manner of teaching so much i think id be interested in watching him go on about literally anything

I love this video. Also I LOVE sage. I'm obsessed with cooking with it lately.

Retired ragusea vídeos are my favorite, really like this vibe.

Ragusea: more science facts than any other cooking show.

Great video! I learned a lot about plant structure 🌿

This sure is a fascinating topic. As a pharmacist I love the perspective from which you illuminate these secondary plant compounds. There is a multitude of different compounds and many appear to have some sort of influence on us to which we adapt, if this influence remains as a selective pressure in the diet for generations. Others like the polyphenols and the flavonoids as examples for products of polyketide and shikimate pathways have already been the subject in previous videos of yours I enjoyed a lot. I am looking forward for more exciting content in the future! In the meantime I'll take delight in my symbiotic relationship with the lamiaceae by making a fresh pesto!

I love food so therefore I thoroughly enjoy your food tangent videos. Lots of love from Cameroon!

Some lovely clover in your lawn, Adam. Looks great.

LOL I love this content Adam, so informative and entertaining!

boi oh boi I’ve been watching your channel for years on end and this episode made me so damn happy. I’m a natural products chemist so I deal with photochemistry all the time and this was such a great breakdown and episode on the field I work in

0:27 I had fresh sage when I was young, it makes for a nice bitter tea. It tastes bitter like rosemary, but with a slightly cool feeling sensation that I’m having a hard time describing. But hey, at least I can put it in some words, unlike with shiba or as you’d call it “mugwort”. Now that is a special kind of brewable herbage. An impeccable plant, a cousin of the main ingredient in absinthe, & 1 of my favorite herbs for tea of all time.

A friend gifted me a box of sage tea he made from his garden and I have been in love with it ever since!

Sage indeed stays very interesting Thanks to my mom getting into the menopause sage got into the household. Elder collegues of my mom advised her sage since it helped them mitigate effects of the menopause a bit. It was also present in different meds for it. Now we have dried sage at home for primarily tea but the flavor is getting enjoyed by everyone at home so i can put it into foods now too :)

Love the herb talk, give us more herb talk. Ice tea with herbs is one of my favorite summer drinks..

From Sage to Devolution. What a bomb! Well done Adam 🤙

try your sage leaves fried in olive oil until crisp - a few seconds in hot oil is enough. Very tasty and pretty garnish.

Sage is used in Saltimbocca, so there's that. Yay sage!!!

the shots in this video are beautiful

My favorite sage recipe is fresh leaves and garlic chopped and simmered in butter for a few minutes, then tossed with pasta. Asparagus or snow peas go well with it, too.

I do have a chia pet! It's a Bob Ross Chia Pet that I use as a kitchen counter herb garden... or at least that's the plan when I take it out of the box...

Hey man, I just wanted to express to you that you've changed a lot of how I think. This is a weird video to put this on, but you've shifted the way I approach food, in particular the way I approach cooking for my family. Suffice it to say, I have been cooking more simple, delicious food because I am more worried about the family being happy and satisfied than I am about preparing an immaculate meal. Thank you for helping me realize that food is food, and "foodtube" necessarily makes food sound more complicated.

This was a really informative video.

I am so here for this era of Ragusea production

Hey! I hope you're doing well because I think you're great. Can you tell me about the netting you have around your garden? Who's it protecting from? Cool design! Don't think I've seen that before.

Every time I see a shot of a person walking towards the camera, that is clearly not held by a person, I imagine them setting up the camera and awkwardly walking away from it

I made basil ice cream a few years ago and I was blown away by how minty it tasted.

Adam rocking the Italofro...

The evolution critical hit. Love it.

To touch on the "why do we eat toxic things", one of the hypothesis for the ultimate (in evolutionary terms) reason is because they're toxic. That thing about some phytochemicals being antimicrobial? Turns out that still holds true inside the human body, so they can potentially treat your stomach bug or skin infection or whatever. We can actually observe this in nature: In the tropical grasslands of South America there's an animal call the maned wolf. This canid species is notable among it's kin for a very large part of it's diet consisting of plant, not animal, matter. Not just any plant matter, but almost entirely a fruit know as the wolf apple, so named because it's so bitter the maned wolf is the only thing willingly eats it. The reason the maned wolf goes out of its way to eat such a revolting thing is that the "apple" (not a real apple) has powerful antiparasitic properties, & the maned wolf happens to have a problem with parasitic worms.

@chezmoi42

29 күн бұрын

Fascinating, thank you.

What a gem of a video

You crack me up Adam 🤣 thanks for the vid

I have a Chiazza John and a Rick (no Morty) Chia. I haven't planted the Rick in a while and haven't done the John Green head at all yet. Might run those this summer :) I'd never tried eating the flowers from the sage before, but I'm gonna try that as a garnish tonight!

Nice video. I want more herbs now

I’m amazed how much bigger your tomatoes are than mine up here in NJ.

To answer the last question, I have chia pets. We used in my homewtown in southern Mexico as decorations for Easter. They are mainly Lambs, but you can also see deers, turtles and frogs.

5:15 Ok so OMG I need that blanket!! Anyone know where to get it??

I really am loving these informative wanderings. It's fun as hell and VERY interesting, and a lot like the things that made me follow Adam to begin with. He even got out the microscope! Also, I noticed your spider-worts in with your mint - that tickled me to no end, I think two thirds of my yard belongs to the spider-wort now. And I'm glad! It's edible!! Point of fact I'd love to hear your take on the ideas surrounding "not a lawn" - or maybe I mean your thoughts on native plants that we can actually cook with, that'd be cool too. Your tomatoes look grand, I'm jealous. I have a single survivor from the dozen I planted from seed :( Meanwhile my totally accidental potatoes are going NUTS.

Great vid as always Adam, also If you happen to read this comment you usually pronounce the ending of plant families 'aceae' as 'AY-see-eye' or sometimes just 'AY-see", and lami also has 2 common pronunciations, I prefer 'lam-ee' cause I'm southern, but 'lah-mee' is usually how it's said, so I'd say it 'lam-ee-AY-see' but you might prefer 'lah-mee-AY-see-eye' based on your pronunciation in the video. I've also been struggling through all the taxonomic names while researching botany so I hope this helps :)

Diviners sage, salvia divinorum is a very interesting drug. It is a k-opioid agonist, and it's effects are that of a dissassociative, rather than a classical psychedelic like LSD, DMT, or psilocybin mushrooms. Its effects can certainly be described as "tripping balls," but it's nothing like the classical psychedelics. Although an interesting property it shares with LSD is that its psychoactive ingredients are remarkably potent, active in the microgram ranges. Wowee! Cheers and good stuff Adam. Hope you're doing well.

Your greenhouse is dreamy!

There's so many threads here. Love the education, as always. The story behind warding off spirits is interesting. Did people who keep a lot of it around their house ward off fleas, ticks, mosquitoes that carried "bad humors"? We can only speculate. There's no doubt these plants can be both nutritious and delicious and the initial framing of the argument for just eating meat resonates quite a bit with me as one of those people who starts dying at (accelerated) speeds when eating various plants. In order of descending death acceleration... Sesame > Peanut > Tree Nut > Gluten > Nightshades > Oats... Eventually I gave up on essentially any plants although I'll have a GF Cupcake at my kids birthday etc. But yeah, the notion that some people tolerate plants much better than others is a great way to frame this, and hilariously, does represent a backslide in adaptations in the evolutionary sense. I too hate the militant one sized fits all arguments, but people who are really sick, or have auto immune issues do deserve to be offered a plant free diet, and see if it works out for them. Also, if you're really all meat you don't get scurvy, whether that's because you're scavenging vitamin C more due to ketosis, or not competing with sugars for its uptake in the GI tract, is all speculation. Love your videos and especially the freedom here you have in making you-do-you content. Validates my desire to have followed you in the first place. You're a curious person, and a delightful video essayist.

@whogavehimafork

23 күн бұрын

Unfortunately the one size fits all attitude with the carnivore bros is a really good grift that resonates with insecure young men. These kinds of dudes can make a lot of money from online content

I want to know where you acquired the microscope from. I'm sure you made a video about it but I couldn't find it.

I genuinely enjoy your retirement videos. We are so far past b-roll. Pretty soon we're going to see long takes

What brand of deer fence are you using? Do many birds get stuck in yours? I have that issue with my fencing.