Growing Bread I: Planting to harvest

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  • Опубліковано 20 чер 2021
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  • @nonowords7857
    @nonowords7857 3 роки тому +7134

    Finally, Adam seasoned his dirt and not his bread.

  • @viethuongvothai686
    @viethuongvothai686 3 роки тому +3434

    We all joke about babish or joshua growing their own flour and made bread from scratch.. but it turn out the guy that literally said “ i coudn’t be bother to” in almost every of his video is the one to actually do it. Sure is a surprise

    • @person9854
      @person9854 3 роки тому +186

      Truly a beautiful irony. And that’s why I love this channel

    • @Apotheosister
      @Apotheosister 3 роки тому +193

      Adam does like doing the educational thing.

    • @poorangus8584
      @poorangus8584 3 роки тому +198

      @@Apotheosister exactly, he’ll do it for the educational value, but probably wouldn’t be recommending it for home use

    • @TheSlavChef
      @TheSlavChef 3 роки тому +49

      Real heroes do not wear capes, they grow their BREAD!

    • @ledzeppelinfan1001
      @ledzeppelinfan1001 3 роки тому +31

      Yeah because Adam is actually a good youtuber.

  • @JSideFx
    @JSideFx 3 роки тому +1638

    Did not expect a cliffhanger. I feel empty and betrayed.
    Edit: re-read the title. I have no one to blame but myself.

    • @kindlin
      @kindlin 3 роки тому +48

      This post is word for word my experience with this video. I needed to do more than give you a single like.

    • @deefdragon
      @deefdragon 3 роки тому +11

      It needed a "part" before the I

    • @arshadpakkali
      @arshadpakkali 3 роки тому +1

      Myself too

    • @reclude2059
      @reclude2059 3 роки тому +1

      same boat man.

    • @RyuuRider
      @RyuuRider 3 роки тому +3

      Showing a second of clipping the wheat straight into the sponsor isn't much of a harvest, but I'm also not going to throw the baby out with the bathwater here. Great video.

  • @eugenebebs7767
    @eugenebebs7767 3 роки тому +2151

    Me sowing: "Hell yeah man this rules!"
    Me reaping: "Oh man this sucks so much!"

    • @TheSlavChef
      @TheSlavChef 3 роки тому +131

      Me eating bread: "Nom nom nom"

    • @thefrenchareharlequins2743
      @thefrenchareharlequins2743 3 роки тому +89

      You reap what you sow eh?

    • @samsabo2271
      @samsabo2271 3 роки тому +34

      I know this is unrelated but that is a fabulous profile picture sir

    • @eugenebebs7767
      @eugenebebs7767 3 роки тому +31

      @@samsabo2271 Happy trails, pardner.

    • @Neimonster
      @Neimonster 3 роки тому +9

      This is why I sow chili. It just keeps giving me fresh chilies constantly with no hassle.

  • @Haedox
    @Haedox 3 роки тому +1926

    "don't eat your seed corn" is something i will now use every single time if people need wisdom

    • @Mizatsuwu
      @Mizatsuwu 3 роки тому +9

      Dude, why do you keep showing up in the comment section of literally every video i watch
      Who are you, Justin Y.?

    • @Haedox
      @Haedox 3 роки тому +47

      @@Mizatsuwu i just am bored with my classes and procrastinating on my thesis work so i have a lot of "free time"

    • @doluseb
      @doluseb 3 роки тому +3

      Gonna use it whether it's relevant or not, because nobody will know wtf I'm talking about.

    • @nostalgia_junkie
      @nostalgia_junkie 3 роки тому

      i don't like that people see you as a justin y. copycat when it feels like i've known about you way before justin became a meme. am i tripping?

    • @ThePribylProductions
      @ThePribylProductions 3 роки тому

      Damn it's been a while since I've watched your stuff. How you doing man?

  • @grant1133
    @grant1133 3 роки тому +493

    I love how he manages to get so many authors/academics to explain parts of their books.

    • @adrianbs0
      @adrianbs0 3 роки тому +91

      It's those journalism genes. Get in touch with the primary source. Those academics love to explain it themselves, instead of butchered news articles misinterpreting.

    • @greatcoldemptiness
      @greatcoldemptiness 3 роки тому +47

      @@adrianbs0 He is an academic himself, I'm sure he's got connections

    • @Amr_D
      @Amr_D 3 роки тому +27

      A former lecturer would know the ways in the education system. It goes without saying.

    • @carolyngolden6681
      @carolyngolden6681 3 роки тому +40

      People who put all that work into it love a chance to talk about it with genuinely interested people. Academic nerds, especially authors, are basically evangelists for their special interests!

  • @darklink594
    @darklink594 3 роки тому +436

    I like how you went from the pizza guy to giving in depth reports about the history of various foods

    • @HoorayTV21
      @HoorayTV21 3 роки тому +2

      .....toooooooooooo communist.

    • @darklink594
      @darklink594 3 роки тому +33

      @@HoorayTV21 wat

    • @strayorion2031
      @strayorion2031 3 роки тому +13

      @@HoorayTV21 Now recognizing the red scare and it's consecuences makes you a communist

    • @downhill2k013
      @downhill2k013 2 роки тому +1

      @@strayorion2031 do you know what the red scare is

    • @alalalala57
      @alalalala57 2 роки тому +1

      @@downhill2k013 do you know what the red scare is?

  • @matthewposton3243
    @matthewposton3243 3 роки тому +424

    I love Adam’s inclusion of experts in each of these videos

    • @StoufSto
      @StoufSto 2 роки тому

      He learned that from his mistake with the christmas music.
      Always have an expert on, so THEY get thrown under the bus if your info ends up being wrong.

    • @ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim
      @ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim Рік тому

      "Experts". . . who teach us evolution. XD So very "expert" of them. . . .

    • @PunzL
      @PunzL 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhimdo you enjoy wearing your tinfoil hat?

  • @domesticdingo1417
    @domesticdingo1417 3 роки тому +310

    When Adam takes "Getting bread" as literally as possible

  • @gabrielfraser2109
    @gabrielfraser2109 3 роки тому +401

    "Why I season my soil, not my bread"

    • @bensoncheung2801
      @bensoncheung2801 3 роки тому +3

      No doubt with the necessary nitrogen species it needs to thrive.

  • @sorenrohrbach2361
    @sorenrohrbach2361 3 роки тому +128

    Yoooo I go to MSU! Dr Zabinski is a professor in the same department as my major too!

  • @lionheartz1337
    @lionheartz1337 3 роки тому +222

    Ya know I dont know how im gonna handle Adam no longer being from Macon Georgia. I mean he seasoned his Macon before his Georgia. So many memes, so many memories and it just wont be the same without that beautiful town as his backdrop.

    • @barvdw
      @barvdw 3 роки тому +8

      probably Georgia was becoming too blue to his taste, he wants a new place to proselytise LOL.
      I guess he wanted a little cooler to live, and Tennessee, whatever you may think of the politics in that state, is a beautiful area to live. Just as West Virginia is, or (parts of) Texas. I'm sure he'll have a lot of new memories to make in his new hometown.

    • @diceman3219
      @diceman3219 3 роки тому +4

      @@MaFTB " he also seems to be a creative which is typical of more liberal people" that's.... is there a word for racism but regarding political opinions?

    • @yunyng
      @yunyng 3 роки тому

      @@MaFTB Didn't he already own a house?

    • @barvdw
      @barvdw 3 роки тому +13

      @@MaFTB I know, I was joking. After all, I was suggesting he wanted to proselytise his (blue) faith in the red wilderness ;) Apart from one video where he called on his viewers to go and vote, I don't really remember any highly political content, although, in America, probably everything can be construed as political if you're so inclined.

    • @sonikku956
      @sonikku956 3 роки тому +6

      @@barvdw Too blue? Adam always struck me as a liberal, if not a social democrat (a leftist who supports capitalism and socialism fused together), what do you mean by that?
      EDIT: Nevermind, you said that you were kidding lol, my bad

  • @texasyojimbo
    @texasyojimbo 3 роки тому +39

    Welcome to Tennessee, Adam! I'm growing things in 5 gallon buckets in Columbia, Maury County.
    I have spent an ungodly amount of blood, sweat, tears and money on trying to chemically de-weed my lawn this year and now I'm thinking I should just give up on fescue and bluegrass and start planting wheat instead. If my neighbors complain I'll tell them I'm growing flours (haha sorry pun).

  • @jellybr3ak
    @jellybr3ak 3 роки тому +122

    9:13 Adam, that ant was farming aphids on the wheat you were farming!

    • @halyoalex8942
      @halyoalex8942 3 роки тому +3

      Aphid Rancher! :D

    • @goblinslayer6432
      @goblinslayer6432 3 роки тому +14

      Actually aphids secrete honey dew, which draws the ants. In return aphids are also protected by the ants from predators and parasites.

    • @xXSinForLifeXx
      @xXSinForLifeXx 3 роки тому +6

      @@goblinslayer6432 that was the original joke I'm sure

    • @jamescanjuggle
      @jamescanjuggle 3 роки тому +2

      @@halyoalex8942 they totally have small cowboy hats

  • @jordonbooman9913
    @jordonbooman9913 3 роки тому +89

    "It causes certain parts of us to grow more than its optimal for our bio-functions"
    The most polite way to call someone fat

    • @WanderTheNomad
      @WanderTheNomad 3 роки тому +7

      Ooh, I thought he was talking about a _different_ part.

    • @krasnamerah1926
      @krasnamerah1926 3 роки тому +7

      Thought he was talking about height because nutrition certainly affects that, stunting rate worldwide were largely reduced in the last 70 years after all because of better food production rate.
      edit: grammar

    • @mzaite
      @mzaite 3 роки тому +2

      @@krasnamerah1926 Which sucks when a lot of the worlds design standards were made BEFORE that 70 year time period.

  • @eltraplaysthe4thgeneration532
    @eltraplaysthe4thgeneration532 3 роки тому +268

    This guy is the everyday astronaut of the cooking world

    • @Preetzole
      @Preetzole 3 роки тому +21

      What you know bout rolling down in the deep

    • @ddo1114
      @ddo1114 3 роки тому +14

      @@Preetzole im sorry but that song is crap

    • @auraskadante6273
      @auraskadante6273 3 роки тому +4

      @@blower5 theese ppl talk to much

    • @mjs3188
      @mjs3188 3 роки тому +1

      Now I wanna see the two of them collab on space food.

    • @marlayoung3177
      @marlayoung3177 3 роки тому

      Do you cook often?

  • @anyasolovey17
    @anyasolovey17 3 роки тому +181

    Jokes about planting wheat to make his own bread are over 🤣

    • @moneebkhan3744
      @moneebkhan3744 3 роки тому +1

      Thats the annoying one, Joshua weissman

    • @abdqs853
      @abdqs853 2 роки тому

      no now he'll be making his own soil starting with pure soil metals from outer space heating and mixing them up with proper care to make the soil.

  • @flowerboy97
    @flowerboy97 3 роки тому +52

    I think making roti or some other relatively unprocessed whole grain food would end up better than bread here

  • @Reversinator
    @Reversinator 3 роки тому +155

    The man actually grew his own bread before Babish.

  • @TMatt007
    @TMatt007 3 роки тому +12

    I started "prepping" about a decade ago. One of the things i bought for long term emergency storage was wheat berries. I didn't even know what a wheat berry was or what to do with it. After a pretty big learning curve, I have been grinding my own grains and baking my own bread for around 7 years. I no longer buy bread. i really appreciated this video.

    • @yowayde
      @yowayde 3 роки тому +2

      If you ever felt like posting a video on your process and tips on growing wheat I'd totally watch it! My husband can't eat processed wheat products you get at the store, but I wonder if he could if we were to grow our own wheat.

    • @ajrwilde14
      @ajrwilde14 3 роки тому +2

      @@yowayde try Spelt, Emmer, Einkorn, Barley

    • @yowayde
      @yowayde 3 роки тому

      @@ajrwilde14 einkorn in on the top of our list! I've heard it's hard to work with though. The hippie bakeries around us do a loaf that's 50/50 wheat and einkorn

    • @TMatt007
      @TMatt007 3 роки тому

      @@yowayde I have only bought it, never grown it. We have a retail store relatively close that sells all sorts of grains. Honeyville Farms. I make a whole grain using wheat berries, barley berries and rye berries. If you grind the berries right before use, they are the healthiest. I bought a Wonder Mill brand mill, great for grain, but it doesn't work with nuts. I would assume that there is probably a local supplier you could buy from.

    • @mzaite
      @mzaite 3 роки тому

      @@yowayde Just do Wheat, Barley, and Rye. The other stuff is only popular because it's diffrent and harder = "Authentic" to hipsters.

  • @limacorn
    @limacorn 3 роки тому +10

    I know you dont get nearly as many views on your educational video vs your cooking videos, but I’d like to thank you for continuing to do them. I always find them wildly entertaining and supremely well done. Thanks for all your hard work :)

  • @romhac8234
    @romhac8234 3 роки тому +9

    This guys puts so much effort into his videos

  • @decasaint532
    @decasaint532 2 роки тому +2

    in bulgaria we eat the soft wheat seeds with cream and sugar as a desert, it's really nice

  • @ilaibavati6941
    @ilaibavati6941 2 роки тому +10

    Where I live (Middle East) we get wild wheat growing in some of the parks, with the ears maturing in late spring/early summer when the plant dries out. These are quite different from modern commercial wheat as the kernels are much smaller and fall off too easily to be able to collect them (blown off by the wind). If you do manage to get one it'll taste much like regular wheat flour.

  • @plastic1605
    @plastic1605 3 роки тому +17

    Adam, I really appreciate this type of content, makes me feel real good finding about humanity and it makes me feel connected to my ancestors like nothing else does. I hope you never stop with this format.

  • @ARMTOAST
    @ARMTOAST 2 роки тому +8

    this video started a weeks-long bender in learning about my local ecology and ultimately led to me joining my community gardens, thank you adam.

  • @ghazalaansari6
    @ghazalaansari6 3 роки тому +188

    It’s a lot easier in Minecraft

  • @chrisresnikoff1741
    @chrisresnikoff1741 3 роки тому +29

    "...grew it over the Winter..."
    Me in northern Minnesota: "You fuckin' what?"

  • @user-lh7pl2fu9c
    @user-lh7pl2fu9c 3 роки тому +10

    I'd be really interested to see a series like this about rice

  • @AudreysKitchen
    @AudreysKitchen 3 роки тому +17

    This is a really cool project, Adam. Kudos. Love the notion of making traditional food as a study in the experience of being human.

  • @mov7526
    @mov7526 3 роки тому +93

    0:41 I can't wait for the Adam Ragusea YTP comming out of this footage

    • @Luke-cp2jz
      @Luke-cp2jz 3 роки тому

      Even better is his communism speech towards the end

  • @omninulla9472
    @omninulla9472 2 роки тому +1

    hot winter is such a good way to put it. winter down here is more like spring: we spend as much time outside as possible. in the summer we basically hibernate.

  • @nanzymyap
    @nanzymyap 3 роки тому +95

    The way your parents say they ate bread.

  • @Nossimid
    @Nossimid 3 роки тому +34

    Finally!!! Step 1, so I planted my own wheat...

  • @kajerlou
    @kajerlou 3 роки тому +2

    I'm so glad you brought up Norman Borlaug. I hadn't seen anyone talking about him since that one episode of Penn & Teller's old show.

    • @mzaite
      @mzaite 3 роки тому +1

      He was on an episode of Scientific American Frontiers years ago too. I want to say it was pre-Alan Alda.

  • @mcheung97
    @mcheung97 3 роки тому +15

    This is a wonderful video!
    I've been loving these deep dives into history and culture, especially seeing the process from planting to harvest and bread.
    I'd love to see more of these kinds of videos. They're wonderfully approachable and remind me of my years in university :)

  • @natrapx1582
    @natrapx1582 3 роки тому +6

    Yet again Adam shows why he's just one of the best food youtubers. Great video!

  • @zeanamush
    @zeanamush 2 роки тому +5

    My favorite part of the Evolution of grass is it really puts into perspective on how quick and how recently plant evolution takes place. The dinosaurs did not not have the option to eat grass

  • @TheUltimateNoobHD
    @TheUltimateNoobHD 3 роки тому +1

    What are you man? I literally just watched a video about grain without losing interest after 3 minutes. You are an amazing UA-camr man. Your editing and scripts are super, successfully making boring subjects interesting to an idiot like me.

  • @NomadicSheep01
    @NomadicSheep01 Рік тому

    Adams voice is calming. Thank you

  • @prayle3887
    @prayle3887 3 роки тому +58

    if you're wondering why your aphids multiplied so rapidly, when conditions are good for them, aphids are parthenogenic (meaning that they do not need to mate and instead undergo asexual reproduction) and they experience telescoping generations (meaning that when they are born, the next generation is already undergoing development inside of them [yes, pregnant babies, nature is weird like that]). they don't even bother to grow wings as adults when conditions are good; why would they need to leave a good host plant? as conditions worsen (i.e., host plants die) the next generation will have wings and take off.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 3 роки тому +8

      Oh crap, aphids are tribbles!
      I guess that’s why ants and ladybirds and so forth farm them, too. They’re easy mode. Feed them and keep them safe and they multiply, you eat the rest or whatever.

    • @prayle3887
      @prayle3887 3 роки тому +12

      @@kaitlyn__L well, not exactly. ants in particular typically farm aphids in order to get "honeydew" which is just the waste secretions of the aphids. like many hemipterans (the "true bugs"), aphids feed almost entirely on plant liquids, which are rich in sugars but very low in nitrogen compounds (amino acids, proteins, etc.), so they have to consume a lot of this liquid in order to fulfill their dietary requirements. this means that their waste is essentially the unneeded sugar water. it's more like the relationship between humans and cows (if you ignore the part where we eat the cow). not saying that ants never eat aphids, but that's not typically the goal.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 3 роки тому

      @@prayle3887 I did know that, but I often get really wordy in some of my comments, so I’ve been trying to trim it down a bit 😅 still, if our cows just multiplied and we got way more milk, that would certainly be convenient!

    • @123Todayy
      @123Todayy 2 роки тому

      this is the most insane fact i have ever heard

    • @MumrikDK
      @MumrikDK 2 роки тому

      Aphids are pretty terrifying.

  • @bzymek7054
    @bzymek7054 3 роки тому +23

    Hold on, Adam no longer lives in Macon, Goergia? That was a big part of this channel's identity!

    • @derekkim593
      @derekkim593 3 роки тому

      Check his newest community post

    • @crash.override
      @crash.override 3 роки тому +4

      Knoxville should count themselves lucky to now have Adam

    • @fsmith45
      @fsmith45 3 роки тому +1

      @@crash.override We do!

  • @jacobhires990
    @jacobhires990 2 роки тому +1

    I'm amazed at how simple growing wheat actually is. Lot of work, but very simple in concept.

  • @dwaynewladyka577
    @dwaynewladyka577 3 роки тому +2

    My dad and his siblings grew up in the Great Depression era in Alberta, Canada, on a farm. My dad said for his school lunches his mom would make sandwiches from freshly baked bread, butter, lettuce and slices of cucumber, from the garden. My dad said the sandwiches were very good. Many people do take farmers for granted. Farmers do rely on the weather, and one bad storm can ruin everything. I'm originally from a very large farm. Gardening is very enjoyable. Cheers!

  • @octaneblue6
    @octaneblue6 3 роки тому +5

    I've been waiting on this video since you mentioned it awhile ago. Living my proto-agricultural dreams through you, Adam! Keep it up!

  • @KyrieFortune
    @KyrieFortune 3 роки тому +6

    Under every video by Babish and Joshua there's the joke they're going to cultivate their own wheat to make bread, but Adam is the only one who has actually done it.
    We now know who's the king of Cooktube.

  • @3rdjrh
    @3rdjrh 3 роки тому +6

    Brew some beer with that grain next!

    • @mzaite
      @mzaite 3 роки тому +1

      It's feed wheat, probably has no functional Diastatic properties. He needs to do a Barley and Hop grow next spring.

    • @3rdjrh
      @3rdjrh 3 роки тому

      @@mzaite if anyone could do it, Adam could!

  • @kurtphair1446
    @kurtphair1446 3 роки тому

    Adam I love your videos thanks for consistently putting out high-quality stuff.

  • @jasdub765
    @jasdub765 3 роки тому +4

    Adam, I watched your first episodes on making pizza and glad you continued to make content till this day. Super informative and genuinely entertaining to watch

  • @avivarabinowitz7895
    @avivarabinowitz7895 3 роки тому +3

    In the Middle East, they take nearly ripe but still GREEN wheat, smoke it and then coarsely crack it. The resulting grain product called"freeka" is delicious in stews or pilaf type dishes

    • @avivarabinowitz7895
      @avivarabinowitz7895 3 роки тому +1

      This would be handy if you have to harvest early

    • @christinedolmayeh9094
      @christinedolmayeh9094 3 роки тому

      One of my dad's favorite foods! Though it's quite difficult and time-consuming to make and cook, especially compared to burghul

  • @shethjrebbell
    @shethjrebbell 3 роки тому

    I really appreciate Adam’s love of and ability to book subject matter experts and scientists in these videos of his.

  • @extrules
    @extrules 3 роки тому +25

    You had too many aphids because it looks like you may have had HERDER ANTS! While you were farming, so were they!
    The ants defend aphids from predators like ladybugs. Ants dont eat aphids, but they do eat the sweet secretions aphids produce, known as "honeydew". Lots of species of ants farm aphids, and some definitely live in the continental USA. Good luck, can't wait for part 2!

    • @orangeyellow9695
      @orangeyellow9695 2 роки тому +2

      Those aphids killed my long beans, zuchinnis, snake gourds, and pumpkins.

  • @CronyxRavage
    @CronyxRavage 3 роки тому +3

    Your hair is beautiful. I've never seen anyone with such healthy, thick, shiny, inky black locks.

  • @Asteroid_Jam
    @Asteroid_Jam 3 роки тому +25

    Last time I was this early Adam had not seasoned his grain instead of his bread.

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku 3 роки тому

      ATTENTION BROTHER!!! I have two very very sweet girlfriends who I show off (I smell like 100 not-alive orangutans oh nooo) in my perfectly great videos that most people consider to be the reason of life! Thank you for you attention, dear dude kid tee

  • @cnoory12
    @cnoory12 3 роки тому

    I love your content Adam please don't ever stop doing this

  • @lazybunnycat7593
    @lazybunnycat7593 3 роки тому

    Today was a rare day of eating bread, this video makes it better :)

  • @mrbullseye
    @mrbullseye 2 роки тому +3

    Fun fact, "corn" or "korn", in Swedish, means specifically barley. It can also mean speck or grain, like a grain of sand, "ett sandkorn/ett korn av sand".
    Corn on the the hand is called "majs" just like the name maize.
    It's funny and quite enlightening to consider what specific grain or seed gets the name corn in different languages and why that is.

  • @declanmanning518
    @declanmanning518 3 роки тому +7

    I've been wondering about this for such a long time! looking forward to pt 2

  • @Teawisher
    @Teawisher 3 роки тому

    The flowering lawn grass was kinda cute. So smol ^_^
    Like a mini meadow.

  • @bobbypatton4903
    @bobbypatton4903 3 роки тому

    Adam, you make such good videos, I love watching them.

  • @haggis525
    @haggis525 3 роки тому +13

    "Don't eat your seed corn" is the same idea as "Don't get high on your own supply" 🤣🤣🤣

  • @norobot858
    @norobot858 3 роки тому +5

    Yes, I would like a video about the green revolution.

  • @YaBoiHakim
    @YaBoiHakim 3 роки тому +1

    Lovely work!

    • @AndrewGillard
      @AndrewGillard Рік тому

      Oh hey, I wasn't expecting to see you here! 😸👋

  • @davidbouldin3326
    @davidbouldin3326 2 роки тому

    Living in Knoxville, I can attest...that Cruze Farm Dairy shirt is legit! They are amazing!

  • @tobybianchi6756
    @tobybianchi6756 3 роки тому +57

    4:07 - reminds me of the following that has stuck with me since I read it in Horse, Wheel, and Language:
    "Domesticated animals can only be raised by people who are committed morally and ethically to watching their families go hungry rather than letting them eat the breeding stock. Seed grain and breeding stock must be saved, not eaten, or there will be no crop and no calves the next year. Foragers generally value immediate sharing and generosity over miserly saving for the future, so the shift to keeping breeding stock was a moral as well as economic one. It probably offended the old morals. It is not surprising that it was resisted, or that when it did begin it was surrounded by new rituals and a new kind of leadership, or that the new leaders threw big feasts and shared food when the deferred investment paid off. " p155

    • @RonJohn63
      @RonJohn63 3 роки тому +2

      The hallmarks of being an adult are delayed gratification and thinking beyond the end of your nose.

    • @victorquesada7530
      @victorquesada7530 3 роки тому

      Thanks for that citation! That was my thought exactly.

  • @ArticBlueFox96
    @ArticBlueFox96 3 роки тому +5

    This kind of reminds me of the book "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States" by James C. Scott.

  • @nickcurrier1546
    @nickcurrier1546 Рік тому

    I found your channel years ago and thought it was pretty cool then UA-cam didn't show me your content for a long time but it popped back up yesterday and I just wanted to say how much I enjoy these videos. Mini deep dives on food history and science makes for awesome listens while at work

  • @greenlizardballs
    @greenlizardballs 3 роки тому

    This is an incredible video. Watching it still. Love it.

  • @meepmeep8035
    @meepmeep8035 3 роки тому +3

    This was really cool to see

  • @smartaleckduck4135
    @smartaleckduck4135 3 роки тому +9

    Finally my favorite food group!

  • @efraim3364
    @efraim3364 3 роки тому

    How Beer saved the World is a good documentary to go with this

  • @clairemcnerney
    @clairemcnerney 3 роки тому

    this is so cool! thank you for showing us how things happened for so so long & explaining it all so well

  • @sooooooooDark
    @sooooooooDark 3 роки тому +8

    SHOULDVE GOTTEN SCYTHE TO HARVEST THE FINISHED WHEAT
    ITS LIKE COOLEST TOOL BRUH

    • @NT-sx2bd
      @NT-sx2bd 2 роки тому

      Just like stardew valley!

  • @thomasking49
    @thomasking49 3 роки тому +28

    I’m happy you moved to a bigger home, but then again my mom always refers to you as the “Georgia guy”.

  • @GigaDavy91
    @GigaDavy91 3 роки тому +1

    Best episode in a while, great job

  • @jimmyrodriguez7660
    @jimmyrodriguez7660 3 роки тому +1

    This is such a cool video idea! Looking forward to part 2

  • @FahmiZFX
    @FahmiZFX 3 роки тому +4

    For when they days I didn't like history classes during my high school years, it all turned around when Adam Ragusea thriving on UA-cam and I never thought I would like it (for food history that is).
    And I am thankful for it.

    • @FahmiZFX
      @FahmiZFX 3 роки тому

      @@Noam-Bahar It's all about the grades and expectations rather than the students actually learning something and most importantly, take them to heart.

  • @Segatari
    @Segatari 3 роки тому +3

    That’s incredible Adam!

    • @dailyblankscreen7938
      @dailyblankscreen7938 3 роки тому

      You make great videos!

    • @Segatari
      @Segatari 3 роки тому

      @@dailyblankscreen7938 And you make great blank screens ;)

  • @saraatppkdotpt8140
    @saraatppkdotpt8140 3 роки тому

    Always here for good videos & great useful information! Thank you Adam 😊

  • @rjsalameh
    @rjsalameh 3 роки тому

    hurry!!! please post the 2nd episode!! These food and Ag videos are the best!!!!

  • @sephirothjc
    @sephirothjc 3 роки тому +5

    I remember everyone's reactions to other youtube ches making their bread from.scratch, and here's Adam taking things to pretty much the ultimate level.

  • @srikantsahoo8192
    @srikantsahoo8192 3 роки тому +32

    Now that's the way my father ate food according to him

  • @think.culture
    @think.culture 3 роки тому +1

    Yo Adam Knoxville is dope! Happy to see you out here!

  • @joniqitu
    @joniqitu 3 роки тому

    Food and history is my favourite subjects, please make more

  • @starfthegreat
    @starfthegreat 3 роки тому +4

    Would love to see a video on the Green Revolution

  • @cradezclan4889
    @cradezclan4889 3 роки тому +11

    Plot twist: he waters the plants with white wine

  • @BluJns
    @BluJns Рік тому

    I love that kind of heavy bread! Add Brewers Yeast, seeds & nuts!
    A meal in a slice or 3 with fresh butter.

  • @PlayusTheGreat
    @PlayusTheGreat 3 роки тому +1

    I’m already excited for part 2

  • @dafttassia1960
    @dafttassia1960 3 роки тому +4

    are you still doing the tomato series?

  • @campionkrautter7544
    @campionkrautter7544 3 роки тому +4

    Hey Adam, pardon me if this may be rude.
    Comparing this video to one of you a year ago, you look so much more healthier & seem more energized! It seems like you’ve been exercising and taking care of your health, and I just wanted to let you know I can see the results!
    Love your work!

  • @adriang3492
    @adriang3492 3 роки тому +1

    OMG I never wanted a sequel so bad!

  • @chefe2152
    @chefe2152 2 роки тому

    Man, this brought me back to when I was kid in good old Ploand ,helping my uncles harvest wheat and barley,riding on the combain ,tying up the wheat straws good old days

  • @TheWhiteDragon3
    @TheWhiteDragon3 3 роки тому +5

    4:18 It's not _that_ hard to imagine. I believe you were very specific in your video on dry aging that an accident resulted in a preservation method. It's also around this time that people started taming/domesticating horses and cows, and yogurt/cheese was invented. Taking long steps to insure a food source in the future was a part of hunter-gatherer lifestyles, too.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 3 роки тому

      Indeed, lots of traditional preserves were invented pre-agriculture

  • @pennyforyourthots
    @pennyforyourthots 3 роки тому +4

    Oh yes, another skill to add to my repertoire on my journey to become a mad Appalachian hermit who's the local townsfolk only tell Legends of

  • @Max-nb7eg
    @Max-nb7eg 6 місяців тому

    your squarespace transitions are wayyyy too smooth ahahha. I laugh every single time it hits me. Love it and love your content!!!

  • @BaioWithMayo
    @BaioWithMayo 3 роки тому +1

    Adam playing with fire at the end... think we got a pyro after the last kitchen fire NOW THIS lol

  • @QuolashMCDuck
    @QuolashMCDuck 3 роки тому +7

    not gonna lie, as a farmer, that part about "just waiting for a it to grow" hurt. standing 6 hours a day in the sun whacking weeds so the plants we want to grow can thrive. it's neverending work. great video nevertheless.

    • @janedoeYT
      @janedoeYT 2 роки тому

      Thanks for the hard work!

  • @yeon_ster
    @yeon_ster 3 роки тому +5

    Guess Adam really liked having a fire in his videos ever since that one incident

  • @MrTmb64
    @MrTmb64 3 роки тому +1

    It came right as I wanted to try baking bread. Thanks adam

  • @collinslagat3458
    @collinslagat3458 3 роки тому

    Your first attempt was amazing. I'm a sucker for brown grainy bread.