Wild boar is so tasty for all type of cooking

Things said by Max and also probably medieval cooks... but not in the bedroom cuz that could sound like 'my bore guys' or 'my bored guys'

also something I would be surprised to hear from anyone else, but I'm not surprised to hear it from max.

Wild boar was also free in Pennsylvania. That was the main meat course at my wedding. Granted, that was over 20 years ago.

Are his 2 boar guys Gauls, a short blonde fella and large fat redheaded guy?

Only Max could have two boar guys! 😄

😂

Good luck weathering the boartage

I just nodded like, "figures". At least they are not (yet) raising boars and other historical wild game in their garden with the rue.

What type of wine do you pair it with? Boargundy perhaps.

I wonder if the Celts ever felt like they were going through a period of self-reinvention.

It seems they also had their version of Brad Mondo and Hair Buddha critics too😅

So real 😅

I remember reading a long time ago about visitors to a hall being offered a welcoming cup. I think the scene was set in France, and it was the 800s. In the story it was the daughter of the house who presented the cup, but that might have been authorial license. Anyway, if the author got that from legit history, I wonder if it's related?

@@jonesnori Sure, I mean France and Scotland are both Celtic lands, it’s entirely possible

@@jonesnori Modern Brittany identifies not as French, but Celtic. If the story originated from that region it could easily be one way.

Huh. When I first had mead, my host said it was meant to be shared among friends. Who knew

​@@justdropnot to mention Brythonic share alot with Gymraeg, to an extent we can to a good degree speak with eachother.

Bag of holding

Honestly that's pretty accurate

Would you happen to remember where he said that? I'm not being skeptical, I just really agree with him and want to know the context lol

@@a.c.1839 It was during an inauguration speech at oxford! Just google his name and the word celt!

You SURE he wasn't just talking about a haggis??? ;o)

Usually follows an airing of grievances.

But do you still do it naked?

@@jamiepenfold3182 grievances beginning in 1947!

I hope y'all keep the sword box locked.

My family, too. It's not a holiday meal or especially a wedding where there isn't a parking lot brawl.

Magic potion helps a lot.

I can second that 🤣 my dad is very Irish

Hahaha for real 😂 can't even remember a single family party that didn't have at least one fight

We're probably not exactly decedents of the Celts because actually, I'm literally 100% Gaelic from Ireland; my (Clann) name is one of the oldest of the language, the Irish/Scottish are separate

@@Lofirainbows Well you’re still a Celt, just not a Gaulish one. All Gauls were Celts, but not all Celts were Gauls.

The bison steak and the reindeer a les lichens may be possible but the mammoth mega-ham is definitely something we won't enjoy ever again. Oops my bad: I was thinking Paleolithic. Neolithic is what we eat now (more or less).

​@@LuisAldamiz, don't close the door on Mammoth burgers just yet.

@@andrewroberts4253 - It'd be cruel and unncessary: elephans are too smart to treat as mere cattle. Just the same reason most of us don't eat chimpanzee, parrot or dolphin.

It was a while ago, but there was an exhibition on feasting at Stonehenge, there will be articles about it online still. Tbh this could easily be a recipe that was eaten in the Neolithic, the type of wheat would have been different but most of the other ingredients would have been the same

​@@LuisAldamizwe can grow mammoth meat in lab, we have already done it, and made meatballs of it.

Store-bought is fine.

Now I want to grow a strain and name it "magic cauldron".

​​@@SarafinaSummersit took me a moment...lol.

Really, you don't get the same flavor as you do in a magic cauldron.

Me with multiple cauldrons... well, good to know I'm prepared for once

Who needs ingredients? Just wrestle the wild pig and toss it in the fire. Can't get more Celtic than that. rawrrr

Could you ask a pest control hunter if they are able to help you get one? I am aware that boar and deer are pests that can be hunted in Japan.

But why? Japan mostly a long thin archipelago. How hard delivery be?

@@MbisonBalrog When some people live in very hard to reach areas that can be about 12 hours of driving to get through. Also some of those areas don't have 24hr services.

You might be able to find decent substitutes

I’ll keep with wine barm Cream of tartar as we call it now Plus I vastly prefer sourdough for risen breads (vs quick breads)

Apparently your obsessive tendencies don’t extend to properly spelling “tendencies.” 😂

Turn me loose on them, Despite, I can talk their ears off.

It’s the same when I talk to people about the Iberian celts

@mezjean5966DNA would beg to differ.

My family's from northern Portugal. And I'm mostly Celtic. Why is our most of the people from that area. Everyone just thinks it's Irish and Scottish people.lol

Not entirely true. The British isles were occupied by Rome, Saxons, Angles, Vikings, who knows who else for centuries. As was much of Europe , changing hands every few hundred years as 'barbarian invasions' came and went. With each occupation came much mating . Get it ? Ireland, Celtic , England, not so much. Also the Gauls were Celts, so figure that one out. I think Max painted with a broad brush, the Cemts werent all one massive tribe, it was a conglomerate of several huge tribes over centuries, which is why Celts settled everywhere in Europe, going by more than one name.

I'm actually getting into bronze casting as a business, maybe once I get my shop set up I can figure out how to make one c:

And a golden sickle so he can make magic potion.

I'm sure the Celts would think my slow cooker and electric pressure cooker were enchanted

Totally missed an opportunity to say “if you don’t have an enchanted caldron, then store bought is fine.”

Of all the people who could get the Dagda’s cauldron, he’s the one I trust the most

René Goscinny was nothing if not cultured. And filled with a sharp sense of irony that few could match. His two most iconic comics, Asterix and Iznogoud, were not only funnily accurate, they were also treasure troves of word games and cultural jokes. Best childhood comics ever.

@@zennvirus7980 Hold up, hold up! You're telling me that the creator of Asterix also made Iznogoud (or Isnogud as it was called here in Germany)? How did I never notice that, it makes so much sense! I loved both of them as a kid!

@@Quallenkrauler There's even a scene in 'Asterix and the Magic Carpet' where the Vizier Hoodunnit where he says "... and in the image of my cousin Iznogoud, I'll be the Rajah instead of the Rajah".

@@zennvirus7980 Man I just got the biggest flashback here. It's cozy and it made me remember how in summer I got to watch Iznogoud each weekend morning on Bouldogue-Bazaar, and each December the Asterix movies all played for Cine-Cadeau over the month. Best vacation times for when the library wasn't open for me to re-re-re-read the comics.

​@@zennvirus7980OK... I was wondering what the heck "Asterix and the Magic Carpet" was, so I googled it and found out it was "Asterix and Princess Rahazade" where I'm from, lol.

I'm a history buff and while I don't ' like to eat', I love flavours. Eating is supposed to be an event. I would love to eat this. Knowing where it comes from, it's story, just adds to the 'flavour'

Food has been just as important to humanity, as science or chemistry.maybe MORE SO bc without food, the scientists and chemist's wouldve been DEAD.😂Prove me wrong.

Yeah, I don't think they fought to death every time two or more people wanted the same piece of food. They would have died out real quick!

Maybe they were really hungry.

​@Maybe they didn't really challenge each other all that much either. If someone got an award in today's world for being judged the best at something, not a lot of people are going to challenge that and risk looking petty and selfish.

Population control? >_

​@@paula889mmmm, think more like drunk dudes at a tailgate party fighting over who deserves the biggest Ribeye from their drunken competition. That type of thing certainly still happens!

I think I found my people, cumin is my favorite spice! I could put it on just about everything the way Townsend puts nutmeg on everything!

Ha, I have the opposite reaction, as cumin is one of my least favorite spices. Interesting nonetheless 😄

The Romans had pepper too. There is in recipe for pear with black pepper. Also Apicius, a great Roman cook used pepper for many dishes. 😊

I love toasted, ground cumin and use that a lot. The toasting really adds to the flavor. The people at the local Hispanic grocery near me call it gheera.

They used long pepper, a much milder heat and subtle flavor compared to black pepper. It was well known and cultivated and fell out of favor by the Renaissance. Though the Celts may not have had much access to it, anywhere the Roman's went, long pepper went with them.

Healthy and tasty, too!

Celts and old slavs require more recognition and historian work tbh. Celts be drinking beer from one cup, Slavs would have bathtubs they take onto a long voyages with them

I feel like a boar guy would worth a bit more thab a deer guy

@@user-fn2mx6dd5k I also imagine so, I was just thinking of a scenario where you have too many duplicates, so you try to trade for one you don't have yet.

@@Dmobley9901 who wouldn't have a deer guy

I suspect tree-tending preceded full agriculture in a lot of places, just as herd-minding did. I've read that Europeans arriving in North America thought the forests were wild, but they were not - they were being tended by the people already living here. (They had agriculture, too.) The new arrivals didn't recognize it partly because it wasn't their style of agriculture at that time, and also because by the time a lot of settlers had arrived, many of the native people had died of European diseases to which they had no immunity. As a result, the tree-tending had stopped in many areas. Or so I understand. It must have been a bit like what happened after the Black Death.

Right, forest tending has often been misunderstood as simple gathering by Europeans. Heck, there were "no domesticated animals other than dogs in North America" - but indigenous people in the Northeast definitely fed the "wild" turkeys, and they would hang out near their villages as a result.

@@terriblefez oak trees are really productive but hazelnuts are much easier to process than acorns.

Hmmm. I wonder if there's hazelnut bread

And we still eat them and love them up till now. And often grown in Turkey. Nothing has changed, really.

I am very sorry for your loss but very glad you are here.

@@susanscott8653 what a beautiful thing to tell someone.,im sure they appreciated it.

❤❤❤❤

I hope you find peace and reason to live well as your father intended.

@@applesandgrapesfordinner4626 thank you

That's so funny because in his very first videos, Max didn't even try the food on camera. Max has come a long way

Ya, not everything tastes like chicken

Max’s eyes light up when he really likes something. And his eyes also tell you when he doesn’t 😂

@@jwilliams3269 at the end of the video where Max was tasting the heart he'd prepared, it looked like he came very close to spitting it out, but then thought better of doing that on camera and finally swallowed. He was very up-front about not liking the texture, but his eyes and face sure told the whole story before that point!

yes, this!

In italy too...

Must be the flu,in America boars are always on season.

Yes, I think most of Europe is affected, and has been for a while. A relative of mine is a veterinary inspector and I think she is close to taking a gun and shooting all those bright souls who don't comply with the measures and keep prolonging the flu. It's COVID-mentality all over again.

American boars are considered a pest species you can always hunt them because they’re destructive and overpopulated

Where I live in Canada, here in Saskatchewan...boars are considered a pest and there is no restriction on hunting them. Note. These are the descendents of imported boar that escaped into the wild and reproduced like crazy....and they are incredibly destructive and require a hefty calibre firearm when hunting as they are both tough and dangerous.

“Did you say Abe Lincoln?”

Are you sure he didn't say 'That's a wild bore!' ? I might have to go back to that classic and brush up.

“Loxley and Bagel, you can’t miss.”

@@SheyD78 I believe you're correct.

Ah, people of culture, I see. 😎

Yeah i think the celts and gauls/gaellic where two different people groups that intigrated together as one. The Geals have the classic irish black spiky hair, the celts had blonde hair. I also think the celts morphed into the modern germanic peoples, along with other races.

Celts were French. Gaelic or Irish people descend from a group whom migrated to the British isles during the early bronze age from what is now Holland. The original Celts were very genetically similar to French people whom are largely descended from them and came from the alpine range, so Switzerland Austria south-Germany and East France. They moved into France and some immigrated to Britain where the local people mixed with them a bit, like 15% and started speaking Celtic languages. Those same local people AKA Irish Welsh and such were still more closely related to people living in Northern Germany and Scandinavia at that time whom had a similar bronze age origin in west Germany and Holland but migrated into Scandinavia instead then back south into Germany again while their relatives went into the British isles. This is why it can be hard to tell apart English and Welsh in a DNA test today even though Englishmen are around 47-52% Saxon on average while the Welsh are between 10-15%, the Saxons were already related to the people on the islands. As for why old Greek historians describe ye old Frenchmen as being blonde it's because ancient Greeks were a mixed Middle Eastern- European population and they weren't used to seeing blonde hair, so they exaggerated how often it occurred, you can see the same thing in that they describe German populations as all having "red hair and blue eyes". EDIT- This isn't to say people didn't call them Celts, just an explanation of why this can be confusing for some people, a more accurate term would be Britons. For example there were also Celtic speaking people in Spain that were a bit closer to the original Celts than British "Celts" were but still they aren't all the same people. Hope you find some of this information usefull.

​@@brentonwilliamson1728 When I was at school we always referred to the people the Romans met when they crossed the Channel as the 'Ancient Britons'.

@@Wotsitorlabart Yeah that is a more accurate description. I've done a lot of looking into population genomics as well as history study as a hobby. Learning the genetics side of things is often interesting because it can reveal migrations form area to area throughout history. The point of my comment above was basically just to explain that "Celts" as a group are somewhat diverse and aren't all related to each other beyond a very mild influence from France. The Celts propper being the Gauls, though there were also Britons whom weren't really all that Celtic, Belgae whom were Celto-Germanic and didn't even all speak Celtic languages, Celtiberians in Spain that were partway descended from the original Celts but had cultural connections to the Mediterranean as well as local Iberian ancestry, Balkan Celts in South-Eastern Europe and the Galatians in Turkey. I just thought having the information out there would be nice given that a lot of people think Celtic just means Irish and Scottish... RIP Wales.

@@brentonwilliamson1728 Interesting points there. A recent 20 year DNA study of Britain by Oxford University not only found that the so called 'Celtic' areas - Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland - were genetically quite different but, as reported in the Guardian: 'The Welsh also showed striking differences to the rest of Britain, and scientists concluded that their DNA most closely resembles that of the earliest hunter-gatherers to have arrived when Britain became habitable again after the Ice Age'.

Sometimes a good stew makes you feel like you've come back from the dead too lol

Thanks for that, I don't know what Wheat Berries are :) I don't think we have them in Australia

@@gln9068 wheat berries are the wheat kernel with only the hard husk removed. So if you see a recipe calling for whole-wheat flour it is a flour ground from exactly that. You can use the berries like you’d use barley or kasha or things of that ilk. They are hard so they do need a long soak-cooking time in lots of liquid to be edible. “Cracked Wheat” is wheat berries that have been rolled to “crack” the covering in order to speed up fluid adsorption. Hope this helps 🙂

Tell me you’ve read René Goscinny’s Astérix.

@@foodofthegods of course!

That is good timing! I’d love to go to that sometime.

​@@TastingHistoryLove your channel max!❤❤❤😊😊😊

So cool- I spent a school year in Oviedo but of course wasn't there in July so I missed that. Have some sidra for me and let us know if it works with this stew!

The International Congress of Celtic Studies is also curently going on this week. So it was kind of fun to be coming home after a day of papers and see a video about the Celts:) Good timing indeed!

@@tracybartels7535 I will gladly have un culín de sidra in your honour 🥂

I'm curious about your phrasing - what about all the eventually-Welsh rulers?

As a fellow Druid, I was excited to see him include hazelnuts. Very fitting!

@@nocturnaldruid2191 as a Roman Centurion, I am surprised we missed two of you.

As a Dutch born carribean, these comments fascinate me.

I've not often had chestnuts but I bet it would be absolutely delicious with leeks

Or chufas (tiger nuts).

@@josestate3918 - I have not been lucky enough to find those yet, but I understand that they are very good.

That sounds like a good idea.. I was thinking of other things I could use in place of hazelnut, due to allergies. The texture might be a little off, though. I was thinking of a mix of almonds and pistachios, maybe.

Hazelnuts are also very common. Depending on the geographical region, they might be even more common than chestnuts. Where I live (around where the Santones Gauls were), when I'm at my parent's, there are kgs of hazelnuts each year just from their garden/yard, that's so much that they give it away to friends, but when I go to see my grandparents and uncles, chestnuts are often used in main courses, or maybe sometimes appetizers, while hazelnuts are more often used in some desserts or as snacks. By the way, roasted hazelnuts is a really nice snack, super addictive, I would recommend it to anyone that's not allergic to hazelnuts. It's easy to make, too. In the end, for this specific meal, I think it's down to a matter of texture and personal preference, but either will work.

Same, it sound sooo good!

With a little adjustments with the liquid this would make a great stuffing!

Please do not use the term British Isles, it's not accepted by the Irish as a term. It perpetuates the status of Britain ruling over all of Ireland.

The Gauls were a Celtic tribe, so yup they most definitely fit in here.

🙅‍♂ Not a wizard, Druid!, distinct difference 🤓😉 To me it is always kind of interesting how the "support characters" names differ between the countries/languages, while only Asterix and Obelix mainly stay the same (apart from a few areas like iceland and turkey). Example #1: Inwould not have known who you mean by the name Getafix if you wouldn't have mentioned cauldrons. (He's called Miraculix where i'm from)

@@nirfz I know them in German and English. I think their original language was French. In the 1976 film The 12 Tasks, Asterix says how many languages they've been translated into. And in most languages the Gauls always end in "ix" Dogmatix-Obelix's puppy, Cacofonix the bard... I just didn't want to stray super far from Mr. Miller's show. .....1976.....i didnt realize it was that long ago.... :,( i feel even older now

@@bor3549 No worries, i only know them in german (and 2 austrian dialects, but the names stay the same in those). I am not that much younger it seems. I grew up in the 80's and my cousin had most of the Asterix "books". But it took me until my adulthood, to a full set myself. (apart from the last 2 i think, but they don't matter as neither Mr. Goscinny nor Mr. Uderzo were present anymore and lot's of their fine humor/wit seems missing to me in those.) I only looked the different names up after reading your comment.

Oh, I love Asterix! The humour is legendary.

😂😂😂

Now I'm curious...?

I'm more partial to Arsenic Cake myself, but that comes down to personal preference, I guess. :D

Yeah, maybe Max can find the receipt of that potion.

And then just slurp the meat off the bones like Obelix.

Hmmm... cooked boar with peppermint sauce... 😁😁😁😋😋😋😜😜😜

Asterix and Obelix comics are actually indeed very good for studying the basics of history in a humorous way. They have a very good historical background as well as very good designs of the houses or the materials

@@easolinas1233 Except real Celts weren't allowed to get fat like Obelix...then again Obelix has magical super-strength so maybe he gets a pass 😆

Interesting.....!

Or a tee shirt

I like Ritschert! For english speakers: you can either ignore the ts or the c for pronounciation. (it sounds a bit like the name Richard, but the end is more like "aired")

yes, ričet! i absolutely love it even though its sometimes literally referred to as prison food. me and my dad always make it in a huge flat iron pot over a gas barrel and then freeze it in batches

Sounds like your typical bean stew, except for the barley (and maybe some other veggies like onions also included). That's a very typical dish in Spain in fact, the cured pork are sometimes called "the sacraments" and would be typically be something like fat or bacon, porc ribs, chorizo and blood sausage (but may vary). Today's beans are usually of American roots (alubs) anyhow but lentils and chickpeas are perfectly good alternatives and are authoctonous.

I was thinking the same thing! Now all we need is a bard to sing terribly... I mean, sweetly, to us!

Asterix ans Obelix were Gaujs.

​@@janetmackinnon3411Gauls are Celts. There are many tribes of Celtic people, those settled on the territory of modern day France, Belgium and a bit of Germany, known as Gallia, were Gauls. But they were also further divided into smaller tribes.

They are called Asterix and Obelix

@@PCLHH hahahahahahahhaha

He can just resurrect chefs of old and have them on his channel arguing about how to really make the recipes. First episode on Samhain!

Or pottery ...

Another material that was used for cauldrons and other cooking vessels was soapstone.

And if my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike.

​@@snafu2069that's the politest version of that phrase I've ever seen 😂

chickpeas and hazlenuts I would not consider as exchangable variations. beans and chickpeas, yes, walnuts and hazelnuts, yes, those are variations, but chickpeas and hazelnuts?

​@@snafu2069Every time I see that quote, I think of Gino D'Acampo. One of the funniest moments on a morning show I've ever seen!

So basically, if you change all the ingredients you have another recipe.

I'm a wizard

Funny thing about conjugation in English, we don't really use the second person plural anymore, except in Southern American accents! "Y'all" survives, while "you all" has become "youse guys" in Jersey! 😋

José does the captions! All honor to him for that behind-the-scenes work.

I was hoping for an Asterix reference!

Getafix 😂😂

Getafix has taken the recipe to the grave

Wild boar and not a single mention of Obelix?

@@ragnkja it would explain the boar shortage lol

@@The_Str4nger Apparently the names are all different in different translations. Getafix? Never heard of that. In Finnish he's called Akvavitix. Also Cacofonix is called Trubadurix, Dogmatix is Idefix et cetera. I wonder why they decided to change them.

​@@noob19087Localizations, so the joke made sense. Or if they couldn't translate the joke, they made a new one. Similar thing happened with the Duck comics, Lucky Luke etc.

The Nipples of Venus one was a bit of a hooter.

You love fruitcake eh?

@@cuttwice3905 It was a fun bag of content.

Now I need to look that up!

​@@randomvintagefilm273if it's made right. At one point, I had a recipe using dried fruit, not candied, and an orange liqueur, made by monks (which I can't remember the name of), not Cointreau. It was really good. I may just have to find a recipe and play. Benedictine. The nerves are just firing a little slowly tonight. 🤓

Celts have been around for a hell of a long time. And their territory would have included parts of Northern Greece and countries surrounding it. Whose is to say they didn't help influence something of the Greek mannerisms.

@@clothar23 Not early enough for Homer, sorry. When the Celtic culture starts is an open question, but even when you equate that with the beginning of the Hallstatt period, it would be around 800 BC. The epic poems were written down maybe around 700 (the date for that is also shaky), but they are anchored in an oral poetry tradition that is 500 years older than that. So that's not much potential overlap to start with. And there is not much contact of the Celts with the Mediterranean before 600, either. They did eventually come to Greece, as you say, and also to Turkey, where they are mentioned in the Bible as Galatians, but that would be in the fourth century (from memory at least^^). So while the idea is fascinating, I don't think it was the case, sadly. Also, slightly unrelated fun fact: drinking horns like the one briefly shown in the video may not be Celtic or Nothern European either, there is evidence they were introduced from Assyria of all places. And the paper I had to write in university about feasting in Central Europe and Greece in comparison has clearly left a lot of traces in my brain😅

I know about reading novels that make you hungry with their lavish food descriptions, but it sounds like we can add your uni paper to that category as well?? 😅 Sounds like a super-fun topic, esp. with the richer Romans who ended up eating some pretty darn weird & exotic stuff by our modern standards...?

@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 Hah, unfortunately no, it dealt mostly with pottery and vessels from graves😅 No recipes, sadly. It was a super fun topic, though!

Or at least the season that the honey was made by the bees. The mead could've been made at a later date from the honey, I.e. any season

Not if the local blacksmith gets to them first...

@@SPierre-dm4wo Nah, he would have to get past the fishmonger first.

Always make extra pie for the cops!

I was going to comment that's where talking politics at Thanksgiving comes from, but I think you got it covered. Family get togethers easily become blood sport when food is involved for some reason.

I am my own boar guy

A foodie=a walking shit factory 😂😂😂

Thanks for mentioning this! I don't follow Babish and would not have known about it otherwise.

Max likes to take mercy on small time up and comers like Babish from time to time.

Max ate Babish’s nipples. WTF!? Go see for yourself😂

I just got done watching Babish's video. 😊

Wow, calling Obelix a Celt hoe 🤣

Hmmm, cooked boar with peppermint sauce... 😜

"Who", not "hoe". That's one particularly misleading misspelling...

@@beth12svist I'm from Belgium so my english is not the best but ok.

@@urban7135 I figured it might be something like that; I brought it up because... that's not exactly a nice word in some contexts so you may want to take care not to use it.