The Food Of The French Revolution | Let's Cook History

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6 жыл бұрын

The French Revolution in 1789 had a major impact on French society, as it meant the end of an era of absolute monarchy. Old ideas of hierarchy and power were replaced by new ones, including the emergence of the bourgeoisie. Of course, these social changed left its trails in the culinary world. As is shown in this episode, Paris was the birthplace of the first restaurants where the Nouveaux Riches wined and dined.
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@SteveWVera Жыл бұрын

This was a wellspring of tidbits of knowledge to questions I didn’t even know I had! Well done. Thank you!

@highonimmi 4 жыл бұрын

the Irish didn't starve to death because they relied on just the potato. they died in droves because the british took their food....animals, veggies and grain. still a great video.

@alexandersmall7380 2 жыл бұрын

@@appalachianwarcriminal While I agree with your sentiment, most of the Irish fishermen didn't have deep water fishing vessels, they only had small craft for venturing into estuaries, they couldn't have supplied all of Ireland with food, and even if they could, most had sold their nets and craft for money to buy food

@appalachianwarcriminal 2 жыл бұрын

@@alexandersmall7380 of that explains.

@alexandersmall7380 2 жыл бұрын

@@appalachianwarcriminal BTW, nice moustache

@appalachianwarcriminal 2 жыл бұрын

@@alexandersmall7380 Mr Davis was very drippy during his youth.

@austind9675 12 күн бұрын

They were consistently forced to only grow potatoes by British landlords because the Empire wanted potatoes….

@pikachu-chan8893 3 жыл бұрын

This is an excellent episode - I learned so much about the history of the evolution of gastronomy and cooking. Thanks for uploading.

@jeffreyorosas2393 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome Video!Awesome Info!!

@jamesmicheal4814 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent documentary Kindly upload more such works 👌👌👌👌

@billgorman4030 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for uploading this program this was a wonderful show

@chuckfults9256 6 жыл бұрын

awesome doc timeline!!!!

@auberthere3737 3 жыл бұрын

This is a history we Don't learn about. Totally awesome subject. Very fascinating.

@cjthedevil5689 2 жыл бұрын

I gotta do it to you cause every one of these videos has the comment, SO YOU DONT LIKE ICE ROAD UFO TRUCKERS AND PAWN MEN IN BACK ALLEYS?

@nachel6306 6 жыл бұрын

Absolument incroyable ! Merci beaucoup !

@JonniePolyester 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely excellent doc ... there’s surprisingly little on KZfaq which covers such range and in interesting detail ( title is slightly misleading as it covers a very wide range of history)

@JonniePolyester 3 жыл бұрын

I meant to add... in this episode

@sparkymahoney4343 4 жыл бұрын

"Your Majesty there is only one thing in the world than being talked about and that is not being talked about."

@pensandshakers 4 жыл бұрын

What I like about this is that you can put "better" or "worse" in and it applies either way.

@user-tt5li8hf2f 5 жыл бұрын

Good documentary. I love to view foods and food preparations from all periods. I would love to be there for a day.

@antonvernooy6186 2 жыл бұрын

Good doc well done. And i will look for more French history based docs. i am a huge fan of Timeline

@kaarlimakela3413 6 жыл бұрын

Interesting series, especially for the semi-professional this particular episode helps us see that even though French cooking has that cache nowadays ... it's a late-comer ... next to Italian Greek and Mediterranean and so forth going East ...

@Vlad2319 Жыл бұрын

Ehhh... The french have always had a bit of influence on cookery and fashion. Of course the further back you go Romans and Greeks bear a heavy influence on cookery since they had a great expansion, which lead to influences from middle eastern and Mediterranean nations trickling west to begin with.

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff 6 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@cheftucker2357 4 жыл бұрын

Love it mate

@SK-lt1so 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@SK-lt1so 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent content

@hannahamoah9034 3 жыл бұрын

Love love love.....

@foodieeyes 5 жыл бұрын

A great reconstruction!

@Strimlarn87 6 жыл бұрын

I like the classical type of music used in these. It inspires me as I myself like to compose that type of music for fun. For example that music at 24:25 made me think of super mario or some kind of RPG. :)

@troydodson9641 Жыл бұрын

Good or bad, soldier or senator, housewife or homeless, elder or child, BC or AD. Everyone wants a good meal This was informative and fun, thank you

@dibutler9151 4 жыл бұрын

That veal olive dish has my mouth watering. Time to hunt for a recipe for that up on Google.

@everything7363 4 жыл бұрын

5:10 She can't handle the spoon

@salatwurzel-4388 3 жыл бұрын

Do not try and bend the spoon, that’s impossible. There is no spoon. You’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

@hamdankhan319 3 жыл бұрын

@@salatwurzel-4388 the matrix spoon thing is still a mystery to me.

@loonloon6860 2 жыл бұрын

she knew she gonna get chop head that can make out religion

@valfletcher9285 5 жыл бұрын

I like to say "Escoffier". It's just plain ole fun! Cherries Jubilee is good, too! Thanks, Escoffier!

@ingriddubbel8468 5 жыл бұрын

Get his cookbook if you don't have it. I use it ALL the time.

@videogames956 6 жыл бұрын

Please upload some medieval documentary

@People-of-the-Past 6 жыл бұрын

Hon hon hon! Omelette du Fromage! I’m so sorry....

@Ghost3210 6 жыл бұрын

TDC - The Documentary Channel that comment made me go and make myself a parmelette for dinner :P Damn cheese and eggs are an awesome combination.

@sleepysartorialist 5 жыл бұрын

DEE DEE GET OUT OF MY LABORATORY

@garymingy8671 5 жыл бұрын

Cheese of the egg ! Damn sicko degens! Off! Off with your mushrooms like heads!

@pritsie 5 жыл бұрын

@@sleepysartorialist THATS ALL YOU CAN SAAHAY, THATS ALL YOU CAN SAAAYY😆

@israelmcclure2771 4 жыл бұрын

“Omelette du fromage!!!” 😂😂😂😂😂

@RenegadeTimes 6 жыл бұрын

BM - Before Monsanto

@CHIEF-ug4mu 5 жыл бұрын

Very good documentary!

@kateprice1762 3 жыл бұрын

Wtf

@maincoon6602 2 жыл бұрын

Great video 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻.

@bunnyfoofoo9695 4 жыл бұрын

Who wants the chef staring at you while you try to eat?.......lol..

@bajoobiecuzican 4 жыл бұрын

Food, a universal language.

@zeebee9356 4 жыл бұрын

Bajoobie Cuzican; Indeed. But don't eat bats in Wuhan China or from anywhere else!

@davidtinkle9634 4 жыл бұрын

39:14-I seen Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil many times. This seen reminds me when Hanzel and Gretal ate the whole batch super truffles and became "helpless as beachballs" as Granny put it. Literally

@iamrichrocker 6 жыл бұрын

Sacre Bleu....

@Phantbat 6 жыл бұрын

Are you going to add the Enlightenment era episode of this series?

@4600norm 6 жыл бұрын

It is up.

@kevinbyrne4538 6 жыл бұрын

How did they transport, to Paris, seafood and fresh vegetables (tomatoes) -- without their spoiling?

@3monsters014 5 жыл бұрын

Salt

@aguyhere7945 4 жыл бұрын

France isn't nearly as large as maps might lead you to think, so they used a relay system to bring fresh stuff into the inland cities. You could go from the Atlantic or Med coasts to Paris in a day just by switching horses and drivers every couple of miles.

@kimberlyjohnson1371 2 жыл бұрын

Pony express maybe..

@monetwatson7257 Жыл бұрын

After 5:10 you could clearly see that any defiantly did not like the dish she blinked 5 times and tried to force it down more poor Francesca!!

@Vlad2319 Жыл бұрын

I'm sure the cheese's delicacy status came from the fact that the nobles started having meals to 'eat like the poor'.

@robinsenpai7993 5 жыл бұрын

Food beyond compare - food beyond belief!

@dmolinari 6 жыл бұрын

Ooh la la! Champignon, coq au vin, oui Monsieur!!!!

@ace1776 2 жыл бұрын

“Oh Sir! The food ALONE is worth the trip!”

@semiseriouschefs4629 5 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know what painting is portrayed @21:30? I would LOVE to own a poster of it. Thanks. - Semiserious Chefs

@garymingy8671 5 жыл бұрын

Goode eye , it's excellent , pointilest saurrat , name two contempaoaries , note the light ,have faith your going to find it , you know this name , note the for lighting , the late dashes of pure white...Monet?

@Funboyy123 3 жыл бұрын

16:50 camera mans a hero

@deanb4799 3 жыл бұрын

Right? Bwahahaha

@mikesummers-smith4091 4 жыл бұрын

My oath, but Heinz Winkler has a full-on Boarisch accent. Some viewers might find subtitles useful.

@ryeguy7941 2 жыл бұрын

Thought that was Mr Bean in the thumbnail.

@johunter4733 6 жыл бұрын

At 4:06 ish, I was thrown by how clumsy that lady was.

@biancacaba3705 5 жыл бұрын

5:06 :D

@danwhite5339 4 жыл бұрын

I was expecting to learn how to make head cheese.

@gaslitworldf.melissab2897 3 жыл бұрын

It's just pork, not dairy.

@kim7990 5 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who giggles when he said... " Thanks to the know-how peasants..."

@fenriz218 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I know... oxymoron tend to be funny... :)

@joelin5887 4 жыл бұрын

When it comes to agriculture and food, I have no problem in believing that peasants are 'professional' intellectuals!

@CookinginRussia 6 жыл бұрын

The supposed dishes they are showing by Careme at around 6:00 in are hilariously lacking in his style - they are obviously made by modern day amateurs.

@3monsters014 5 жыл бұрын

Budgets

@SAnn-rf3oz 3 жыл бұрын

Amateurs!

@user-mi7zx2ki5o 5 жыл бұрын

there is very little about food at the time of the revolution very disappointing

@lizaburgos 5 жыл бұрын

I think that would be more of the Enlightenment era.

@ingriddubbel8468 5 жыл бұрын

The is very little appropriate capitalization and proper puntuation in this comment; very disappointing.

@butterkutter79 5 жыл бұрын

Ingrid Dubbel Your comment does not make any sense - please read it again if you would like to properly correct someone’s grammar. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Could be mine or the person who made the original comment. Yours, to be honest, is atrocious 😬 I can also tell the person is not a native English speaker and therefore, no need to make fun of them by ridiculing their spelling / grammar (Asian grammar is different- perhaps you should educate yourself). 😃

@annamarie8420 6 жыл бұрын

its so elaborate... no simplicity

@ashelyjames2478 4 жыл бұрын

Anna Marie that’s when moderation comes in ...

@guardianoftheduat 2 жыл бұрын

27:32

@feeltheburnsalissaaj681 4 жыл бұрын

Now I’m hungry

@K4n01 4 жыл бұрын

1:21 Oh thats charming. So deliciously naive.

@nephildevil 6 жыл бұрын

Funny how this is the fanciest eating docu I've seen in a while, it explains well the differences before and after the revolution but in the end food is still a way to display status and (new) wealth nvm the peasants and their revolution :D

@4600norm 6 жыл бұрын

I agree with everything you said, although the peasants really didn't have control over the French Revolution. It was really the French intellectuals and radicals of the National Assembly that had the reins of power.

@user-mi7zx2ki5o 4 жыл бұрын

silver plate means articles made from sheet silver as opposed to silver plated items a base metal covered in a thin layer of silver samuel pepes the famous diarist buried his plate and his parmesan cheese in his garden here he means his solid hallmarked silver

@ababyatemydingo4926 6 жыл бұрын

The irony of using Millet's The Gleaners (Des glaneuses), 1857, to illustrate "[production methods that] meant better food for the entire population," beggars belief! (22:05) It is pure ideology, and rather illustrates the need for a repetition of a second Jacobin revolution. cf wikipedia: "The painting illustrated a realistic view of poverty and the working class."

@bayuajie9120 5 жыл бұрын

@joemontano71 3 жыл бұрын

28:54 Quality of wine production/Alcohol content.

@stargo2931 5 ай бұрын

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say there are a lot of over indulged people sitting at table in this documentary.

@vaylonkenadell 6 жыл бұрын

There's a lot of misinformation in this video. Don't watch it. For example: "bran" is what makes bread brown, not "chaff". Butter had already been invented for thousands of years.

@pritsie 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, do you recommend some other docu/source online? I am looking for more history of cooking and such..!

@bunnyfoofoo9695 4 жыл бұрын

The first reference to butter in our written history was found on a 4,500-year-old limestone tablet illustrating how butter was made. It is generally believed the word butter originates from the boutyron, Greek for “cow cheese”, however it may have come from the language of cattle-herding Scythians. American Butter Institute › all-about... ALL ABOUT BUTTER | ABI

@aguyhere7945 4 жыл бұрын

For some reason all of these documentaries say "This was the first time butter was ever used in food." It's weird.

@bunnyfoofoo9695 4 жыл бұрын

@@aguyhere7945 Overlooking the misinformation for entertainment purposes only........lol....... They need to make some more of these.

@MrPh30 4 ай бұрын

Townsend channel, and Walther Staib " A taste of History " .

@roundedges2 2 жыл бұрын

Marie Antinette cake, Obviously--But eat fast!

@cuisinbo7843 3 жыл бұрын

Yummy

@felixniederhauser7799 6 жыл бұрын

Careme & Escoffier are still the big names in culinary history. I had the honors and the pleasure to learn their trade by a late Escoffier student. NB: Britain was extremely reach for one reason only, their terrorism forced on other countries (colonies) and stealing from them.

@fenriz218 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Britain had a long reach... lel! You can still the effects of colonization today: countries that were not colonized by Europe, still don't have any form of infra-structure, hence are bigger shitholes than countries who were later ruined by local corruption. (Relatively) prosperous countries like India or Hong Kong can still thank that give & take process, generally known as colonization, to this very day.

@poporotismo 4 жыл бұрын

Pêche Melba y la música kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNxnZ92kz9WVpo0.html

@noodlesxx3827 3 жыл бұрын

am i the only one here bc of class? lol

@noodlesxx3827 3 жыл бұрын

@@chanhel_9346 you got the answers? 🙈🌝

@warmanhall8951 5 ай бұрын

Great content but kind of poor quality video.

@msbrowngault 5 жыл бұрын

😕I'm here to learn why they started eating snails🐌

@fenriz218 4 жыл бұрын

My dear, if it moves and is alive, you can eat it. Just a matter of how you prepare it. The Chinese said it best: "If it got legs but isn't a chair, has wings but is no plane, and if it swims, but is no submarine, then you can eat it".

@ImitableChaor 4 жыл бұрын

@Sheila T. Yes and? It's meat, isn't it?

@ImitableChaor 4 жыл бұрын

@Sheila T. Get over yourself you child

@crystalberry748 3 жыл бұрын

So they beheaded a king got rid of aristocrats to just become as snobbish as them and have a emperor. How did that help the real poor people.

@BerkshireBitch 4 жыл бұрын

The table service scenes are awful! The steward can't even pour wine without dripping it! And the reaching across the table!

@adriana.ostfriesland 5 жыл бұрын

Poot miners 🙁

@jamesangusmcaninch 4 жыл бұрын

The vulgar little, ill prepared adverts ruin the production. How sad.

@gaslitworldf.melissab2897 3 жыл бұрын

I hate when cooks touch food way too much. I prefer stews and soups, which are stirred, not handled.

@anitad-kuo476 3 жыл бұрын

Oh i hate that too! which foods do u usually avoid? Sushi involves lots of touch

@JaythePandaren 2 жыл бұрын

every time I hear the potato famine of my country I cry (well not all the time. lets just say i feel sad) Because all of my ancestors either died or had to go all over the world to find work

@TheRomanianWolf 2 жыл бұрын

There is one thing I don't get about the "potato famine"... isn't Ireland surrounded by sea and ocean??? Why didn't people just eat fish instead of potatoes?

@JaythePandaren 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheRomanianWolf Because we didn't have the strength and energy to fish and to make nets and carry boats. Our ancestors could only afford to plant and farm potato's and when they rotted we were forced to satasfy our hunger by eating grass. We were too hungry and didn't have the calories to fish. Legend said that the turks sultan donated a thousand pounds to help feed the Irish but that still didn't stop us from going on coffin ships and Saling into the wide world.

@laurieleannie Жыл бұрын

They grew wheat and had many food sources EXCEPT they were required to give it all to the landowners that sold it to England and Europe while their own country starved.

@wlemonte 4 жыл бұрын

The narrator with the oxford accent smoothly glosses over the Irish potato famine as if it hadn't deliberately worsened by English policies. "The rest of Europe hardly noticed." The English gentry certainly did and profited by it. I'm not even Irish, and I find that bit offensive.

@MrMethadrine 6 жыл бұрын

i must admit that this was a bit boring.

@jangelbrich7056 6 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I could not disagree more. This is VERY interesting to learn about life conditions of the past: how people ate and how that did change.

@moddingspree 6 жыл бұрын

If you aren’t interested in the culinary arts then yea, it’s not for you.

@MrMethadrine 6 жыл бұрын

blah blah.I like most of the content this channel offers.I just found this episode boring.

@moddingspree 6 жыл бұрын

MrMethadrine two years old btw

@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 6 жыл бұрын

MrMethadrine If you are looking for an entertaining historical food documentry series. May I recomend the Supersizers series by the BBC. Staring Sue Perkins & Giles Coren. They are available on KZfaq & cover just about every time period from Ancient Rome to the 1980's. They even did a special one off special about the Royal Wedding of William & Kate. Covering everything from the dress & big day to the food eaten. By various Royal couples at their own weddings. I have the whole lot saved to my own KZfaq play list. Which can be viewed by the public. Please feel free to check it out & if you do I hope you enjoy them. 😊

@jeffreyrichardson 5 жыл бұрын

ellers restaurant now go order what you want idiot savant

@gaslitworldf.melissab2897 3 жыл бұрын

I prefer Indian cooking. They do veggies superbly. Greek food is also relish.

@brunovolk7462 Жыл бұрын

Very soon we will enjoy foods made out of insects and worms, according to the predictions of our global leaders 🤗

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff 6 ай бұрын

Who?

@briannave7326 4 жыл бұрын

Incorrigible conservative?

@margaretlouise6200 4 жыл бұрын

Kinda funny....Ah, the nobility, all exquisitely familiar with each other and their ranked bloodlines going back hundreds of years. But they were all dead....so restaurants were invented to introduce members of the rising moneyed class to each other....Because prior, they were all nobodies coming from nowhere who needed introduction so a new "nobility" could be formed. People are just people after all. History repeats. Meet the new nobility, same as the old nobility......or it will be given a little age it can brag about. So silly.....but DO bring on the wonderful food.

@gaslitworldf.melissab2897 3 жыл бұрын

I prefer Indian cooking. They do veggies superbly. Greek food is also delicious.