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@Spring8707

Жыл бұрын

I bring carrots!

Iam 50% Azorean, lived there for half my life, my wife's family during summer had a dinner costume we made the stew at home, drive from pdl to Furnas, left the stew cooking went to the beach and, coming back we would eat the "cozido" and enjoy it because of the special taste...

@RareEarthSeries

Жыл бұрын

It is truly unique!

@GuntherRommel

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this!

@unpopuIaropinion

Жыл бұрын

i expected your wife to be 50% and also your cozido to be half eaten by something

@fubarlife7776

Жыл бұрын

@@RareEarthSeries you didn't eat it

@Doomroar

Жыл бұрын

@@fubarlife7776 Evan lied as naturally as he breathed 🤣 Unless, that comment was written by Francesco or Kata

"It's even more authentic if you're not even from there." Is such a skillful one sentence summary of it all!

@alexandremoniz2586

Жыл бұрын

as a born and raised azorean (from sao miguel) I totally have to agree, that last one got me laughing hard. so smart and so true.

@estranhokonsta

Жыл бұрын

Yeah,. And it is more and more relevant as tourism continues to grow. All the "tourist places" all over the world feel that. And we in Portugal feel it strong lately.

“Smells like a basset hound crawled under a quilt after eating egg salad.” You win the internet today for your most outstanding description of a foul odor.

I cooked eggs in a volcanic pool in Iceland using a fishing rod and a sock. They were adequate but I treasure the memory.

@RareEarthSeries

Жыл бұрын

Every great meal includes a sock

"I may not be a monkey spa biologist, but..." If I had a nickel for every time I've heard someone say that, I'd have a nickel.

What an interesting way to look at the concept of authenticity. "Doesn't exist until observed, but once observed it's changed forever." To paraphrase.

This reminds me of the time I had a lovo (earth oven) in Fiji and I asked my friend “how often do you cook lovo?” And he said “as little as possible. It takes too long. We only do them for very special occasions” and I can see why yet, at the resort we were staying at they cooked a lovo every Tuesday because A) people like to witness it and B) it sells well in the local restaurant.

Even if it's just about the authenticity of a stew from a place I've never heard of, let alone never visit - Evan gets main monitor, full attention, every video. Thank you for sharing!

@shinnam

Жыл бұрын

I hope you get to go some day. The Azores and Maderia are wonderful places.

@BraindeadCRY

Жыл бұрын

Love the expression "gets main monitor" for getting undivided attention. Its beautiful and Im stealing it :D

I don’t know about the stew, but this is definitely one of the most authentic channels on KZread. Every time I watch I know I’m in for a profound treat.

@walkinmn

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, it's honest, intriguing and you always get an interesting answer or question in return

Captain Disillusion, and Rare Earth drop new videos on in the same day. My weekend is complete.

Really liked the comparison of authenticity to particle physics, a great episode

@wayoutdan8334

Жыл бұрын

You can know how hot the stew is or you can know how long it took to cook, but not at the same time.

"It's only 150,000 people. It's nothing - it's a large town." Exactly how I feel about my home province of PEI. Because hot damn is there nothing here. No room for niches of any sort, and not enough of a population (or at least not a discerning enough population) to actually allow for excellence in cooking, or art, or anything. We've got good potatoes, apparently pretty solid golf courses, world-class seafood, one internationally-recognized ice-creamery, pretty beaches that are way too cold (and often jellyfish-infested) to comfortably swim in, and one globally-known author who wrote one incredibly famous book that I find truly, deeply, terribly dull (if competently prosed). That's it. Everything else tends to be meh at best (including the restaurants that cook said seafood). Also we have tourists. So many tourists. I feel bad for their choices. PEI sucks. You should come some time!

@rridderbusch518

Жыл бұрын

We get CBC1 radio here across the border via Toronto. PEI sounds like hell to me. So sorry about your potato problems this year, though :-(

@LadyAnuB

Жыл бұрын

As a 10 year old, PEI was just fine. This was 43 years ago for me during the family's East Coast of the US and Canada.

@mrentity2210

Жыл бұрын

@@rridderbusch518 Don't forget our delicious post-tropical storm and the complete shit-show that it turned out our utility companies and their shoddy infrastructures are!

@mrentity2210

Жыл бұрын

@@LadyAnuB As a youth, PEI is probably fine. It's pretty. There are beaches and woods to explore and play around in if you don't live in the one city vaguely worth the name. As an adult, it's just a near-cultural void lacking jobs or prospects or anything beyond "a nice place to retire if you don't live in the one city". That's why basically all the young people move away - especially if they've gained an education and want to put it to use.

No joke, I've had a very similar burning question, albeit not about the Azores. In New Zealand, the native Maori cook in hot springs and fumaroles in regions where they're available. However it always seems to be European foods (corn, beef, etc) just cooked in the authentic style for tourists. Is it truly authentic food if its really just non traditional stuff cooked in a traditional style? I really don't know. I similarly didn't bother with it, considering its mostly just a tourist gimmick, but wish I did in retrospect. At least in that case it seems at least somewhat practical, and was used historically, albeit with traditional crops and whatever could be foraged.

@tiggzywiggzy

Жыл бұрын

Not a gimmik, that's what we cook in a hangi. Definitely plenty of gimmiks and they probably have chosen more generally appealing foods but root vegetables and a meat is what everyone eats. At least in my experience

@hvarthtonn6870

Жыл бұрын

its kind of authentic, in that soon after european colonization, most iwi would gladly trade for new crops. diversifying one's diet is always appreciated, so crops like corn, potatoes, cabbage etc were quickly adopted into the traditions of various iwi. its the same as "traditional" maori rewana breads, a kind of sourdough process using potatoes as a plant or bug. we had no access to flour or regular starchy potatoes before colonization, but we pretty quickly made them part of a cultural icon of food in the form of rewana bread, then rewana frybread, a staple of gatherings in maori communities. karanga piro, or "rotten corn" is a well known, if rarely sampled delicacy, and corn certainly wasnt a traditional food before it was imported by the europeans, and adopted by the maori. much the same, what is "traditional" to put in a hangi or any underground cooking method, in the modern day, happens to include a wide range of meats and vegetables, because these crops and animals have been availiable since first contact with the wider world, and seeing as they grow so well in the rich, lightly farmed volcanic soils that make modern kiwi produce so sought after. who wants just kumara and pork when you can have pork, lamb, chicken, kumara, corn, potatoes, cabbage, and pumpkin?

"You can't get this anywhere else on earth"... well, maybe not those exact flavours, but as a kid growing up in Rotorua, New Zealand I remember occasions when we cooked in a geothermal pool. Your videos are always a great snippet of somewhere I'd love to see though - keep up the good work!

@RareEarthSeries

Жыл бұрын

I mean that exact stew - there's plenty of other spots to cook in a volcano, but this one is special for the stew specifically, rather than as a generic oven Thanks for the nice comment Andrew!

@rahul17023

Жыл бұрын

Won't many places on earth's ring of fire have such places.

I've never seen the entire concept of tourism explained that nicely before. wow.

I enjoy eating American fast food when I'm abroad, it's culturally authentic and exotic at the same time. Taco bell in Costa Rica serves French fries.

@VoIcanoman

Жыл бұрын

Umm...doesn't Taco Bell serve french fries everywhere? They have that side dish with the fries, taco beef, nacho cheese sauce, tomatoes and sour cream. It's called Fries Bell Grande in the US, and even Canada has a version they call Fries Supreme. That's how most fries are served at Taco Bell, but you can get nacho fries as well (with only the nacho cheese sauce)...and also just fries without anything (because if they're going to serve fries with toppings, it's trivially easy to just serve fries without them).

@djb903

Жыл бұрын

@@VoIcanoman they're different, they're crinkle cut and they're served as a side with combo meals like burger places

@VoIcanoman

Жыл бұрын

@@djb903 Interesting. Funnily enough, I actually visited a Taco Bell in Liberia, Costa Rica once, and I never noticed this. I can't remember what I ordered (this was almost 15 years ago), but I guess there's a good chance it came with crinkle-cut fries.

I've sailed by, but never had the opportunity to jump ship and experience the Azores. But I did live in Japan for over 2 years and had fallen in love with their native cuisine. Especially the sweet potatoes and chestnuts that were cooked buried in volcanic heated sand. Absolutely superb~👍

Growing up, whenever my parents had to build a big fire to clear brush off the land, we would bake potatoes in the fire (after it had cooled sufficiently to allow for successful baking). They usually were OK, sometimes not very good at all, rarely exceptional, but my parents always were pleased to have done it the way they imagined that their grandparents would have cooked routinely. The furnas stew seems to be similar (independent of the tourists) it’s cool to make it that way, to prove that you _can_ that you aren’t dependent on modern conveniences like electric convection ovens or whatnot.

An Indian friend once told me that the 'Indian Takeaway' type food was like eating high-class celebratory wedding food. It seems that this is a similar case

In Chicago there's a discussion, deep dish versus thin crust tavern cut (circle pizza cut into squares). Deep dish being something that came out of the Depression and WWII rationing. Many people talking about of they eat one, the other style or both. Outsiders only know Chicago pizza for deep dish, while many locals argue the thing crust differently cut is the local "authentic" version. But really is one or the other actually local authentic, which one is the real local experience? Which one is talked up for the tourists? Does anyone truly want the authentic local experience or just the most fulfilling tourist experience?

@Ampera_

Жыл бұрын

In New York, though I can only talk as a person from upstate, NY style pizza is the only style pizza you can really get. Unless you're at a chain restaurant that's the same everywhere (like Pizza Hut), you get the same pizza the tourists get. Flat, 25% grease, and delicious crust. I can't speak for much else, but I actually don't really like deep dish pizza, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the people from around here agreed with that. I suppose this is just a contrast, in that sometimes the tourist thing is also the local thing. So, to be a heretic, I'd say that New England style greek pizza is by far the best kind, any is only acceptable when made round, and cut square. :D

Great commentary on tourism in general. It is often how I feel when I travel... I feel disassociated with the "tourist" that is me. For some reason, I like to step back and watch myself and others (like being a drone flying a few feet above and behind the scenes). This idea came from a short poem I read decades ago (no idea of the author or title). Your analysis of tourism and authenticity captures many of my feelings very well. Jordan is excellent. I am interested to see what you think of Wadi Rum. I quite liked it. Actually visited twice to get the "authentic" experience of sleeping in the desert and eating the lamb stew with is baked by burying it in the sand ;-). The experience was great but all the "cultural entertainment" seemed forced. Both of these ideas reminded me of the Boy Scout Hobo stew tradition of burying your food in tinfoil under the fire for a few hours to let it cook slowly. Good memories.

@RareEarthSeries

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately Wadi Rum was outside of what we were in Jordan for, as our videos centre around the Syrian refugee camp in the north. But I hope to go back someday!

A true student of human nature. Thanks for yet another enlightening and thought-provoking journey

"It's even more authentic if you're not even from there." Amazing as always!

The description of the smell of the place. As someone who worked in the pet industry for nearly a decade, I knew EXACTLY what that smell is like. Wafted over me like a phantom memory was taking me back in time, and I gagged just a little. bonus: I have a dog with skin issues. The best shampoo for her has a sulfur and coal tar base. She is also a very farty and burpy dog. They smell like sulfur as is, and her body is constantly wafting it as the smell of her shampoo does not wash away.

Rare Earth: For things I didn't know I wanted to know about, and nobody else will tell me about. Also: congrats on hitting 1M subs. One of the best things on youtube.

As a former basset hound momma, I felt that 😅

This journey through the azores has been truly fascinating one way or another

Thank you for being so introspective. Those small hours of the night must be tortuous for you. But it seems your suffering brings fantastic insights.

We have a similar tradition where I grew up in rural northern Wisconsin in the USA. We obviously didn't have a volcano, but frozen wild game and fish from the last season that was getting a bit freezer burned needed to get used somehow, fall was when you're fish and hunt to refill your stocks, and also when everyone would be clearing brush to prevent first fires so there would often be a community event where neighbors would get together, dig a pit, and burn their collective brush... at the end of the day there'd be a pit with embers in it, so they'd push in a layer of dirt, then stack all that freezer burned wild game wrapped in aluminum foil and bury it. The next day everyone would get together, dig it up and have a party... Slow cooking for 18hrs really helps freezer burn. lol so I could see something like this happening just about anywhere, and then getting exaggerated to entertain tourists. We certainly made a stink about it when people from out of town were around and they ate it up.

Reminds me of the vulcanic grill I saw on Lanzarote, its a nice gimmick, but because its on the mountain, I don't think the locals ever cook like that before the tourists.

Our cruise stopped there this summer. I ate a corn on the cob cooked in the volcano just to say I did it. Such a beautiful place to see. I hope I can go back again for more than a day.

BTW, one of the interesting stories I learned on San Miguel was that some well meaning portuguese aristocratic botanists back in a day decided to put a bunch of cool exotic plants on the island and some of these plants became dangerous invasive species. Like tree ferns, which first originated from early Jurassic...

I did a semester of college in a place with a sulfur spring. You are frighteningly accurate in your description of the smell.

you are a poetic version of tom scott

@Zestrayswede

Жыл бұрын

More like the humanist version of Tom Scott

@jpe1

Жыл бұрын

Tom Scott *does* cool things, but Evan *thinks* and *says* cool things. No disrespect to either Tom or Evan, nor to their channels, I’m just saying that Tom is all about showing you the experience, Evan is about getting you to _think_ about his experience.

@VoIcanoman

Жыл бұрын

@@jpe1 Eh, they both do both of those things really. Tom does more "getting you to think about his experience" (basically every video he makes has at minimum, a small section near the end where he does this, although it's almost never as deep as Evan's shallowest musings) than Evan does showing you his, but you're right - they both specialize in very different styles of communication and education...and both are very good at their job.

@jpe1

Жыл бұрын

@@VoIcanoman agreed! And some of Tom’s have been (for him) surprisingly philosophical, for example the one he did about going to some spot just because it had a humorous name, and then deciding that that wasn’t really a fair thing for him to have done, to bring attention to a place that likely didn’t want it.

@RareEarthSeries

Жыл бұрын

Tom is a great friend to me (as much as two men with polar opposite personalities can be) and is the reason I made this series. When I took him to the arctic many years ago he used me as his cameraman for a video or two and it inspired me to try my hand at rare earth. I asked him if he'd be ok with me ripping off his style, he gave me his blessing, and here we are. I've heard it described by a viewer as vloggers make Id, Tom makes Ego, and rare earth makes Superego.

Loved the video, amazing production quality as always!

That'd be like going to Lake Bled, Slovenia and not getting the cake. Except the cake doesn't taste like basset farts.

The more we stare into that bowl, the more the stew stares back. Were truer words ever spoken?

It is called Cozido in Portuguese...In France they call it Pot-au-Feu... in Italy they call it Bollito Misto...in Spain they call it Cocido... famous European dish that one makes with the different little meats available. The best part of that stew is the soup they make with the leftovers adding beans...delicious 😋

Another awesome video!

Such an interesting question. An anthropologist studying an isolated tribe doesn't intend to join the tribe. He wants to go from tourist to house guest. Still odd but that's just how he is and also, mostly not noticed. A place like this is almost the opposite: instead of the anthropologist learning about them, they learn about our society by studying the anthropologists.

6:57 This reminds me of people coming to Maine to eat lobster (especially the expensive lobster rolls). Yeah, it's local food probably caught and prepared by locals, but lobster isn't a regular thing we eat in Maine. I know a lobstermen who attended a dinner where lobster was being served and he had to admit to them that he didn't know how to properly crack into the shell to get the meat out lol

My favorite KZread channel. Keep up the good work!

Left field here...I have an airsoft gun. It's made of a very lightweight plastic, but looks like a real assault rifle. In order to give it an "authentic" feel, the manufacturers included three lumps of lead, shaped and positioned to give a balanced increase to the weight of the toy. That's my name now, for things that get added later to make other things FEEL more real: authenticity. Volcano stew definitely has the same vibe to it...

top notch content as always

Honestly, with the rising gas prices, it might actually be cheaper to fly to the azores, cook a stew in a volcano and fly back home, then cook with a gas stove here.

I'm so glad Rare Earth came back after the pandemic (honestly I was real worried)

It is authentic if you are not from there. What a great line! Thanks!

Nice episode... regrettably you didn't ate the stew because it doesn't tastes sulfuric at all. You should try and figure it out...

makes an episode with b-rolls and it is still a banger. what a madlad :D

The Volcanic Restaurante de Timanfaya (Lanzarote) is pretty cool too, also very much touristic but it's more like a part of the volcano tour experience, with a stunning view and volcanology explanations. And also sausages and chicken cooked every day on volcano heat :)

@noregrets92

Жыл бұрын

I had the volcano chicken. The people I went with said to grab something to eat before we leave and just went to the cafe, when they started wondering where I was they found me halfway through a chicken dinner lol.

On Lanzarote in the Canary Islands there’s a place where you can eat chicken roasted by volcanic heat. It supposed to taste a bit like sulfur, but I’d try it for the novelty of the experience!

Really cool video and story. Thank you

You are the most authentic.

What great piece of writing.

I live in México. We have a lot of stalls, and restaurants and whatnot with Mexican food (that for us is just food). Then, there also are "authentic" Mexican food restaurants for tourists. We never go there. They're just for tourists. It's Mexican food adapted for people who don't eat chili. Also they're more expensive than "the real" thing.

I love this channel.

Hehe, now if you get steak cooked there you can say it's "Rare Earth"😂

This is really well written

Thank you.

You have such an interesting writing style

Thank you. Have you visited Rotorua?

3:19 I seat there to take the bus home every day

this video is peak rare earth gonna have to watch it twice to understand even half of it

Love that town. :) Ah, Tony's. Lovely place.

I tried the corn they cook in Furnas, delicious!

Came for the end card. Wasn’t disappointed. 😂

love that takeaway!

Lol, shoutout to the guy on the balcony at 0:18 sticking something up his nose to make his girlfriend laugh

Masterpiece

Yes, You are getting into the topics I truly care about. Is it a taste of desperation, or a taste of freedom?

Best cozido of portugal :) you should have had it. At least 6 year old me liked that stew. Miss that island, my childhood place on earth

Back when i was a kid my family visited lanzarote and ate volcano grilled food at el diablo, dont really remember if it was any good but it was a fun daytrip during that vacation.

55 euros for stew? If that was the price for a single serving I think I would have passed on it too. 🤔

Rare Earth could make me feel guilty visiting any place.

Hh Furnas...oddly .. i miss that aweful smell I do remember while on vacation in Sao Miguel my parents and relatives would bring pots of food, vegetables, meats to do the stew. Go to th Praia Ribeira Quente 5/6 hrs later Time to go to the Lagoa park and eat the cozido

Cooking with geothermal is pretty fucking awesome

I’ve had it, definitely tastes like sulphur.

That sulfuric smell that hit me when we visited Kusatsu Onsen.... xD I guess that's the other place they cook some stuff with volcanic heat... but it's mostly eggs and some sweets if I'm not mistaken. The name got my attention, but it wasn't the Furnas I was thinking about. I live somewhat close to a geological formation also known as Furnas, down here south of Brazil. Not sure why though, it has nothing to do with volcanoes, it's just a huge hole in the ground. xD

@VoIcanoman

Жыл бұрын

People have been cooking using volcanoes for millennia, from Italy to Iceland, Hawai'i to South and Central America, New Zealand, Indonesia, and many other places. It's an idea that has a strange appeal to people, it seems, because we keep doing it. Using natural geologic heat to cook is just downright amazing (especially if you get to do it directly on a recently-solidified lava flow).

Stoo... THAT'S authentic!

The Mauri in NZ also cook in geothermal springs

Should try Ferraria the only ocean jacuzzi

I was there, I saw the cooking field and smelled the sulfur. I'm kind of glad I didn't get the stew - it has to be ordered in advance, and I don't have so much foresight. I had a nice pizza instead, enjoyed it next to a family from Czech Republic (I think), and it was a nice experience and a great day. San Miguel was great, the nature, the people (really friendly, really unobtrusive, and with this lovely Portuguese with a weird French accent), the sea, and a lot of friendly dolphins I could almost touch. It's a great place, especially if you want to find back to yourself.

Bingo! I am not as wordy as you, yet I said something similar when experiencing a luau. Carry on

My homie did an entire thesis about *stew*

Casual Baraka outtakes :D

We ate the stew at the exact place that you showed and man was it a let down.

Anywhere flooded with tourists sounds so unappetizing.

Deep dude

❤

Quality

I had it when I was too young to properly apricciate it. But damm this is place is pretty.

That "canyon" you traveled to is a volcanic caldera. It was formed by a very large explosive eruption and, since it is still active, could erupt again. SMH.

@RareEarthSeries

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's a video about how the Azores are a volcano that they cook in?

wow, i spent a summer month in S-Miguel 20 years ago, tourism didnt even exist, how strange to see this, still, not unexpected.

Love the Azores, but it seems that it is tourism done wrong. Most people rent cars take taxis to get around the island. Public transportation has an inscrutable schedule, especially daunting if you don't speak Portuguese. If one walks along the road, there is evidence of damage from car pollution. I wish the government would just make the tourists pay a transportation fee, let the locals ride for free. Maderia has a much more usable public transportation system, but tourists still rent cars to get around. I would be happy to pay the next time I go to the islands.

Due to food safety the places that do "hangi" have to use food grade preparation methods and can't use hot rocks now at least where I live.

👍👍💯💯❤❤

This video made me hungry for stew ☹️

Of course it is authentic, where else are you gonna eat a stew cooked underground? Isn't the the whole point of traveling? to go out there and experience new stuff? see the world, smell the world, taste the world? Hell there's a bunch of tourist attractions where i live, but i haven't experience even one, the idea of going on a tourist outing on the city i already live in sounds really appealing, but is probably something i should do one day, why would people want to come here and do X instead of staying home and watch a Rare Earth video about going to the Azores and not eating volcano stew?

Yeah.. I'm half azorean and always heard amazing things about cozido cooked like this.. I agree with the video that it makes cozido taste worse... But boi this vid might piss a lot of azoreans off XD The way they talk you'd assume it tastes so much better, but heck. Also locals on special occasions may eat that. At least my family did, just cuz its fun, well and cuz they think it tastes better Thank you for showing off my country and especially a region where my family is from, I've loved many of your videos on this series. However, I feel like this one required further research with locals.

@RareEarthSeries

Жыл бұрын

I say locals eat it on special occasions, just to a much smaller degree than tourists. Which part specifically is unresearched?