This video is amazing, first time ive ever commented just out of sheer surprise by how small the channel is, thanks to the algorithm for recommending me this video

Never realized how relatively "young" Italy is as a country.

@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367

8 күн бұрын

Yeah when you go to itay you can see it. They are different races from north to south... Phisitcally and culturally very different. Also some italians had oligarchys, some theocracies, some ancient monarchies, some democracies some had strange hybrid governments others had always been governed by other cultures like french or spanish or austrians and others never considered themselves common with "italians". It was less of a unification and more of an invasion. There was resistance to it for a long time. If they had wanted a strong productive italy they would have formed a confederation.. Respecting each nations ancient history. A democracy can live with a monarchy or a theocracy easily that way. The "unification" was nothing b

@___Truth___

7 сағат бұрын

Most countries in the world became countries only in the 1900s, even more countries in the world existed after 1940s & during or after WW1 & WW2.

This was such a well made video. Voice over is peaceful and in pretentious, imagery is lovely, background music is not overwhelming and the information is delivered in a well constructed narrative. Well done, and thank you.

The story behind Margherita! so cool!

You should probably cover Indian and Southeast Asian food too. Both subcontinents didn't have chillies until the Americas were discovered... My head reels from that fact. What was their diet? The Irish and British commoners ate swede as their main source of calories before Sir Walter Raleigh brought them back from Peru. (and was given Co. Cork, IE, as a gift for it) By the spice trade, we really don't think what was actually available before the Americas were discovered and how the Eastern diets benefited as much as the West had from trading with them. It may maybe worth doing a wider-scoped video on this topic.

Wait, what? No basil, really? It was described (regarding the dishes) by Plliny the Elder, even ancient Romans used it. Not so much, as we or as Italians nowadays, but it was in the zone!

This is the most awesome video on pizza and perhaps on the history of food I've ever seen. Drank red wine while eating pizza as I watched it too, bonus points

In fact, almost anything the people of Western Europe would recognise as a vegetable, didn't exist in their cuisine prior to the discovery of the New World. And even then it took a fair while for these to gain widespread acceptance. Many historic or cultural dishes - simply aren't - they are surprisingly modern inventions (or modifications).

@user-ut5ld7ri6g

Ай бұрын

Mexico's basic cusine is as it pretty much was for most of it's recorded history. With an added upgrade 500 years ago from Spain.

Ah, the famous French and Spanish spaghetti, ravioli, lasagne, piadine and focacce! The way you ended the video was a bit stupid.

Please make more content like this! the way you put the animation, music, and explanation is on point!

Wow, so interesting, and such high quality! I hope your channel grows.

Urban legend.

Very very interesting.

not to mention Italian food changed in America too. I say as an Italian who lives in America. the menu in most Italian restaurants here is not from the old county. it changed! and I wrote a thesis on it

Very high quality well put together video even compared to large channels, keep up the good work bro

Loved this video! One small thing is that at 2:27, Italy never annexed the island of Corsica, and Nice and Savoy were given to the French before Italy unified.

@moonknightish

Ай бұрын

Not yet annexed

So maybe Caesar Salad will retake the History Books in 2024? I'm all for the Mediterranean Diet!

Love the EU4 sounds 😉

@giselasilva5415

9 ай бұрын

And is that a Sagres beer cap at 5:29?!

They ate dry noodles

I was interested specifically in the topic in the thumbnail, so I was disappointed by how it was only squeezed in at the end after a different subject for most of the video.

My little sister !! Her clam is open !! Fill it !! Like an ocean !!! My little sister !! Her mouth is open !! Shove it, make it pop Yup. Slop slop.

awesome!!! Now tell the story how chilli became main spice in south asia, even though chilli came after Columbus reached America

Wow, so interesting! I was super surprised this isn’t a super big channel. I’d love more details about the history of Italian food. What did they eat before the new foods like tomatoes arrived? Mostly medieval French style?

@indiemusicvinyl

9 ай бұрын

French food comes from Italy, look up Catherine De Medici as she was Tuscany and innovated cuisine. Italy had a lot of powerful city states republics like Venice, Florence, and Genoa

So pepperoni contains zuchini flowers originally? I couldnt find anything on that

Wait. How do you know what I think of Italy?

5:06 "When you think of Italy, you think of tomatoes." I've always thought more about that of Spain. 🤷

Corsica is Italy!

Just gotta ask… why is the flag of Kenya on your shirt? Especially when doing a video on Italy. Maybe my OCD is kicking in haha

Thank you Aztecs 🇲🇽🇮🇹💪

Of course, there is the need to simplify in eight minutes, but there are too many mistakes, starting with the map that includes Corsica, Nice and Savoy, which were already France at the time.

@Denise-pn1tj

5 ай бұрын

Actually Corsica was part of Italy before Napoleon took it. So it could still be considered Italian. I’m sure the people there are a mix. I am wondering if my family may have some Corsican in us. My father came from Sicily and I’ve found that we are predominantly southern Italian with some French and Spanish thrown in in small percentages. This history has given me pause and possible answers how this could be. More answers than my family family DNA can afford me as an adopted person. Just lending my perspective in this. Happy New Year to you and yours

When a non-Italian deals with Italian history stuff like this turns up. So, let's be precise. Pizza was of no importance to the Royal House of Savoy. No one ever thought of using it for political purposes. However, it often happened, every time a member of the aforesaid House visited any city in Italy, that he was gifted with local food by the restaurateurs. Food that royal servants ate. However, by protocol, the kind restaurateur were oficially thanked to advertise himself. Espòsito (not Exposìto, which would be Spanish) did this promotional action. Pizza as we know it today is a dish exclusively from the city of Naples. In the rest of the south, dishes called "pizza" were made, but which had little in common with the Neapolitan. Some pizzas were fried. Others were stuffed with ricotta, even mixed with sugar and still others were simple rustic "focacce". In the North (and also in Southern France), "focacce" of various kinds were made. In Rome, Lazio and Umbria, there were even some called "pinsa". Pizza (tomato, mozzarella and basil or tomato and anchovies) made its fortune in the USA, due to emigration from Naples and there it was singled out as an Italian dish. Then, all the other variations were born. At that point, after the Second World War, it began to spread and slowly arrived in Northern Italy, especially in the 1960s, when immigration from the South to Milan and Turin increased. It spread especially because it was cheap and good. Today, Neapolitan pizza is a modern Italian dish of the international cuisin, but in our country there are yet many regional cuisines. Abroad there is only "Italian cuisine", often made by foreigners who have seen Italy through a telescope.

@giorgiodifrancesco4590

9 ай бұрын

And let's move on to deconstructing the short story about the unification of Italy proposed in the video. The concept of Italy existed in the ruling classes of all the states of the peninsula since the Middle Ages. We already find it in Dante Alighieri (died 1321). The problem was the disconnect between the ruling classes and the peoples (who had no access to education and were each tied exclusively to their city bell tower). Banditry called "brigandaggio" did not arise in the Two Sicilies Kingdom because the Italians of the North invaded the South, but for more complex reasons. First of all, in every State ruled by the Bourbon dynasty there was endemic brigandage: 1) in pre-revolutionary France 2) in Spain (bandoleros) 3) in Southern Italy. The creation of united Italy worsened the previous endemic situation because Italy was born with an operation of Garibaldi (socialist) and the southern peasant masses hoped for a distribution of communal lands to the poor. This did not happen because the Savoy dynasty intervened to prevent the spread of socialist laws. On his side were all the southern ruling classes, composed mainly of landowners. At that point, after the transfer of power from Garibaldi to the Savoys, many southerners from the countryside rose up. Among them were: 1) landless and hopeless poor peasants (burdened with a new, previously non-existent, type of compulsory military conscription); 2) former Bourbon soldiers loyal to the old king; 3) delinquents already engaged in normal brigandage previously. The 100,000 soldiers employed by the unitary state were not invading foreign soldiers, but some were citizens of southern Italy and not even the commanders were all northerners. Many officers came from Southern cities. Also, many current Cabinet ministers were Southerners. The bloody war on brigandage was especially a war on the peasants. The city of Naples didn't give a damn about what happened to the peasants. However, this whole story is not connected in any way to pizza, except for the fact that, right from the start, a part of the Savoy royal family began to constantly frequent the Neapolitan royal palaces. On the other hand, even the last Bourbon king was the son of a Savoy. Francesco di Borbone and Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia were first cousins.

@giorgiodifrancesco4590

9 ай бұрын

As if that weren't enough, we must add that voters from the South remained loyal to the House of Savoy again in the Monarchy/Republic referendum of 1946. If it were only for the South, we would still have a king as head of state. For this reason I would go easy on following the explanations of the current "neo-Bourbonic" separatists and I wouldn't turn it into an established historical explanation

@YBExplains

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for your detailed comment! Feel free to check out the following sources where I sourced most of my info (+ sources within these sources). www.zacharynowak.com/pubs/pizza-margherita/ (Folklore, Fakelore, History - Invented Tradition and the Origins of the Pizza Margherita) cup.columbia.edu/book/pomodoro/9780231152068 (Pomodoro! A History of the Tomato in Italy - David Gentilcore) When nationalism and culture and cuisine are involved, the lines between actual history and folk-lore are often blurred and the truth can be difficult to discern. This is certainly true with Italian food history!

@tic-tacdrin-drinn1505

6 ай бұрын

I appreciate your contribution, but it is strange that so many people believe that pizza was not popular in Milan before the 1960s and the immigration from the South.There were already pizzerias (tavola calda) in Milan during the war years. It's like thinking that there was no espresso before Starbucks came along.@@giorgiodifrancesco4590

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Talking about French influence on Italian cuisine, have you ever heard of Caterina de’. Medici?

Espòsito, not espossìto 😢😂😅

@YBExplains

9 ай бұрын

I knew I'd get roasted for this one eventually lol. All I could think of was "Despacito" .... My apologies!!

Actually I don’t know who is aware of this and I do not know the data/timeline but Italian foods ruled the culinary world of the Be All End all of the food world. The French followed later. The Greeks and the Italians kind of went together on this. Due to the invading each others countries back and forth the Italians and the Greeks blended their cuisines and highly influenced each other’s dishes. So I would say the Italians beat out the French for Hundreds of years. The French cruising influence most definitely had to be because of Catherine de Medici. I would say however it was not in total and hadn’t taken a firm home for some time to come.

You try to dispell myths but you create new myths yourself. Too many errors here. Sorry.. 1. Where in the world DID you get the idea that Basil entered Italy from the Indian Ocean (?) in the 19th century? Basil was used in Italy and the Mediterranean since antiquity - it came from the Middle east it was used in ancient Roman and Greek cuisine, although not as much as oregano. 2. Potatoes, maize, and tomatoes enter Italy in the very beginning of the 17th century. 200 years earlier than you claim. They were controversal but were eaten right at the very beginning. We have recipes. Gnocchi and Polenta existed before maize and potatoes but were made with other ingredients such as millet, buckhweat, hazelnuts, chestnut and wheat. 3. Various varieties of Pizza existed long before the 19th century throughout Italy it's only during that century when NEAPOLITAN pizza became the most famous one. You have various varieties of Ligurian, Calabrian, Sicilian varieties of Pizza before such as ligurian Pisciandrea or Sicilian Sfincione.. There's also many stuffed pizzas and also some varieties in the neighboring countreis such as Pissaladiere nicoise in Nice in France. Pizzas were invented in the Medieval era and was originally a food for the elite but fell out of favour among the snobby small minoity of 19th century bourgeoise. In this way Pizza is really an ancient very Italian thing, even though it has evolved through the years. 4. It's pretty false to claim that Northern Italy ate "French" and southern Italy ate "Spanish cooking", even though their cuisine were a bit influenced from these cuisines during the 18-19th century. Southern Italy was also influenced by French cuisine as the aristocracy liked to use Monzius (French chefs). What they ate was Italian cuisine, which has its old base in the ancient mediterranean diet (olive oil, meat, wine, cereal, cheese, vegetables, fruit, nuts, herbs, fish, legumes) combined with the festive and creative cuisine of the renaissance Italian cities - were the pasta and risotto culture was invented, which was influenced by the Near East and India (where spinach, spices, sugar, citrus fruits, coffee, ice cream, liquor and many other things came from). The French influence in the 19th century was pretty limited, giving Italians the order they eat their meals, things like putting Bechamel sauce on lasagne, breaded cutlets and calling meat sauce "Ragout". Italian renassaince cuisine has had more influences on French food than the reverse. The French got various kinds of salads and many other vegetable dishes, ice cream, pastas, herbs, egg sauces, steaks, onion soup, sponge cake, merengues, nougats and pastries and many other dishes via Italy during this period.

@checkoutmyyoutubepage

5 ай бұрын

Tomatoes are from Mexico and they were a decorative plant before it was used in food. People thought they were poisonous.

LOL, so Italy before Mexico, Chinese and Arab dishes arrived, ate some of the most bland and disgusting food!

Nikola Tesla invented pizza. 😊

As if Italian cooking could more appropriately be called MARGARITIAN cooking!!!😅

The Aztecs likely invented pizzas after the Spanish came with the cheese and flatbread.😂

Bro is acting like he’s a genius. No lol!! Dislike!!

RaFFaele Espòsito is stressed on the 'o' - not on the 'i' It is a myth that all Italian words or names are stressed on the last syllable. It sounds really strange in Italian when Italian names are accented incorrectly. 5:46 Giovanni Domènico Sala, again the stress is on the 'e' - not on the 'i' 6:50 "no basil for pesto....before the 1800s" ? Basil was grown on the Italian peninsula thousands of years before the founding of Italy. 7:48 "...Italians were eating mainly French and Spanish cooking..." Perhaps in Naples that was under foreign rulers. According to other sources, Caterina de' Medici introduced Italian cuisine to the French nobility in the mid 1500s. Many vegetables that have always been popular in Italy were still very rare in Germany in the 1970s years.