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Interesting that you mention Guys and Dolls, which musical features a considerable mention of one of the towns in which I grew up: Havre de Grace, aka 'The Graw' (from the French pronunciation of 'Grace.'). Meyer Lansky featured heavily in the gambling activities there, and some of the old timers remembered him and his peers. The National Guard Armory is placed on the old race track grounds, and remnants of the racing, gambling, and criminal heyday still linger; the rail line that brought New York City gamblers in and out of town still lies under Juniata Street, and my neighbors across the road had and used one of the race track's old stables - relocated entirely and intact - from after when the track closed. A VERY fine stable it is, too. Havre de Grace is a small town, but it's crazy how it connects to a much larger (and criminal) world.
One of my favorite stories about Capone was how he was the instigator behind the expiration dates in milk. He would often go to hospitals to tend to his men and often paid for children's stays, but once he heard how a common problem amongst the hospitalized youths was having drank/eaten bad milk, he personally went out of his way to make sure that legislation was passed to make sure milk had expiration dates.
@@sarafontanini7051 I'm convinced Al Capone didn't kill 'a lot of people.' Sure, he bumped off other gangsters who became too competitive with his organization but if he had really killed 'a lot of people,' why could they only indite him on tax fraud? Meanwhile, legal business, the train companies, hired nazi scum murder guards to shoot and kill hobos. Hobos were not just homeless drunks, they were also regular men and women (probably kids also) who hopped on slow moving trains to hitch a free ride because they were too poor to afford a ticket. They must have killed hundreds, thousands even. But they had the law on their side. Tresspassing on my trains? A few bullets or buck shot would make sure you never did that again.
I don't like milk, so don't drink it. But you can tell when milk is bad just from smelling it..... How did they not know!? But, still..... Good on capone for helping with that. 👍👍.
Ingredients - 6 small potatoes 1 large carrot (optional) 2 stalks celery (optional) 1 large onion 2 cloves garlic 3 leaves mint 5 sprigs parsley 1 sprig rosemary 2 sprigs of thyme Salt &Pepper 3 tablespoons Olive oil 1kg beef stew meat (chuck) Roman or Parmesan cheese 2 cans of 500g tomatoes (1kg) Rigatoni pasta Cooking Instructions - Finely chop herbs, garlic and dice onion, mix together. Pan fry beef in olive oil and add herbs and onion, season with salt and pepper. 7 mins Add 2 cans of tomatoes Once simmering cook 10 minutes Add 4 cups of water *Stew slowly 60 mins~ Add diced vegetables potatoes, carrot, celery Stew for 45 mins~ Serve over rigatoni pasta and add grated Roman cheese garnish with parsley. This was my take, tasted so good and serves about 3-4 adults. *May prefer to stew longer, before adding vegetables, for more tender beef
@@celesteschroeder5924 not too sure, you could google the fresh herbs and convert maybe ? These are all fresh herbs you can grow/find in local supermarket pretty easily, no ?
Capone had one of the greatest quotes I have ever heard: "Do not mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me."
@Lucinae Spend a little less time off of videogames/comic books, kid. Silencing your enemies back then in the real world was a little more Complex than “confronting an adversary” in person. You go around getting your hands dirty and next thing you know, you are arrested for murder. It’s called avoiding leaving a trail. You can’t just go around confronting all your enemies in person. >.>
My Grandmother was present at the grade school where Al Capone dumped the crates of milk all over the cafeteria floor because he could smell it was all spoiled even though none of the cartons were open yet. He absolutely hated that smell! He had new milk from a nearby grocery brought in and then began a politcal campaign for milk given to kids in schools to be marked with a "use by date" so no kid ever got spoiled milk at school ever again, even if the adults couldn't smell it was off.
It wasn't just the soup kitchen. My Sunday school teacher had been a small child when Al Capone was alive. They lived in NW Wisconsin where he had a vacation home. Her mother cleaned his home. One day, they were in town shopping. My teacher stopped in front of a store and started to cry when she saw the new winter coats. Because she knew her family could not afford them. Al Capone comes out of the store and recognizes her. He stops and asks why she is crying. She tells him about the coats. The next day, the entire family had new winter clothing. Hats, coats, mittens, boots, everything. He bought all of it and had it delivered. Because he didn't want anyone that worked for him to worry about things like that.
@@nicoleb695 imagine being so dumb that you're grateful to a murderer, extortionist and overall terrible human being. And all for what? A paltry sum of money or food as he continues to terrorize thousands of people.
My grandfather and great grandmother survived because of his food kitchens. Grandpa would roam the train tracks looking for bits of coal that fell off the train bins. It was their heat in the Chicago winters. He said the constant cabbage soup was bad enough but he said at least having salt and pepper would have helped. I interviewed Grandpa for a history project. Grandpa pushed broom for one of the guys killed in the Valentine’s Day massacre (it was one of that guys bars). Grandpa swore they wouldn’t have survived without it. Edited to add. We are Native American and European mixed. We ended up in Chicago because one great great grandfather escaped the trail of tears and we were in Chicago for 3 generations before returning home. Imagine being starved out of your land to move and having a mobster provide food so you don’t starve some place else.
The coal collecting is called "gloaming". John Biggers painted several pieces depicting the act. edit: I've recycled the word for collecting bottles and cans for cash.
The saddest takeaway from this video by far is that some guy was at a soup kitchen again 25 years after visiting Capone's. Poor guy, living on the streets (or nearly so) for 25 years.
going to a soup kitchen and complaining that you got better soup at a different soup kitchen definitely seems like the kind of attitude that would do that to you
My grandmother was friends with Capone (she lived next to him in Cicero). She said he was a very kind gentleman, and would bring groceries over to her house, and help her out with things, and they voted together (he brought her over to the polling site). I lived with my grandmother growing up, and she used to say to me, "we don't talk bad about Mr. Capone in this house - he was saint to a lot of people".
My grandmother was not friends with Capone, but certainly, talking bad about him was forbidden. He was upstanding, except for all the times he was not.
This same line of thought is what has doomed my beloved Mexico. Sure, the narcos fix roads, but the money they used is washed crimson with the blood of many, many innocents.
Capone was in the league of guys who lived the old code. "Never EVER sh*t where you eat." as one older mentor of mine used to say it. Meaning, he knew when to get tough, and other than when he had to... He largely wasn't. He could talk smack with the best og he guys in places where that was appropriate, but outside... in mixed company... He was as fine a gent' as you'd find around town. I've known quite a few among his family, descendants, and even a couple old timers who knew him before they passed. Everybody who met him said the same things. You'd never know the "Scarface" Al Capone that the public hears about now is the same guy they knew... It just couldn't be so. He was probably in Florida "on purpose"... BUT it's still kind of difficult to fully "buy" the idea that he was committed to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre... and yeah... I know better... BUT to have sat with them and hear THEM talk about him as they knew him... It's not so easy. He wasn't the only one who wanted something to happen... He was just the biggest name on the list of those who wanted something to happen... ;o)
It was definitely a watershed moment for him. Ever since, he's been less finicky about changing absurd quantities of ingredients or cooking steps in his presentations.
My husband grew up in Chicago and has stories about Al coming to dinner at his great-grandfather's house. He always brought flowers. He had a reputation for being "a nice guy outside of business hours". But they pronounced his last name Caponi...it certainly sounds more classically Italian.
Not a nice guy, most likely doing it to retain a certain image that would help his court of public opinion. You don’t realize it, but it’s still doing what he intended it to do. He wasn’t a nice guy, he just knew how to pretend to be a nice guy.
A "spray" is 2-3 sprigs. If you look at how Rosemary grows there is typically a single branch with1-3 other branches coming off it. That is what my great-grandmother taught me (who lived in Capone's Chicago--she and her sister actually ran a Speak Easy for him) was a spray...
Nice addition to the recipe and the history lesson. I learned that the measurement "spray" extists and a viewer actually can contribute an explanation of it. That makes the channel even greater.Thanks for your contribution.
Sounds familiar to the "mazzetto" used sometime in Italian. Could be of flowers, could be the free handful of fresh spices you ask at the local market along with the paid vegetables ("un mazzetto di odori").
"It was the murders, Al, it was the murders" Oh my gosh...I busted out laughing at this. Your delivery is perfect, and your research abilities are truly admirable! ❤
Reminds me of in Chainsaw Man when Samurai Sword was saying all that "my grandpa was a heroic yakuza. He didn't kill that many women and children" stuff 🤣
@@JishinimaTidehoshiHe also killed a lot of those related to his rivals, and also threatened people and used violence to ensure he got his money, and many of those people were part of the downtrodden and needy communities that turned to crime Nad illegal activity in order to support themselves. He and his gang killed other gangsters, but also abused and killed prostitutes, a lot of which were often underage girls, both that were under his gang and that of other gangs. Not to mention that one of the most common sources of income for gangs, protection rackets, are literally schemes designed around threatening people and hurting them so that they give you money to not hurt and threaten them. I also don't think al or any of his underlings were usually sympathetic when someone under them couldn't pay their dues, regardless of their reasoning of it. He and his gang did kill other gangsters, but the reason they did that is so they could muscle in on their territory and use it for their rackets to get more money, and those rackets mainly got their money from the poor and downtrodden, since they were the least able to protect themselves or be helped by the government, which was also because Capone threatened, blackmail, and bribed government officials so that they would turn a blind eye and allow him to continue his illegal activity against people that weren't cared for which allowed him to rake in even more blood money and exercise his power as he liked.
I'm from Utah, and there is a lot of native Americans here. In particularly a lot of Navajo and I would love to see someone authentic Navajo cooking. I love Navajo tacos and it would be great to have an episode of that, but it would also be great to have an episode of Indian cuisine before the encounters with European colonists. I know that there's probably not much that you could go on with truly authentic native American cuisine but anything would be awesome. If anybody could pull it off you could! Edit: just as a warning to you the history of Navajo tacos or fry bread as it is otherwise known is going to be a pretty sad one but also very interesting and an important story to tell.
There's a native American chef with an authentic restaurant. He gets techniques from elders, but then turned to botanists & biologists for what would have been in the area pre whites & creates from there. Can't remember his name he was on NPR.
You can always contact the tribal elders with such a request. Recipes are handed down in cultures, from mother to daughter, until somebody writes them down.
I made a bucket list of native foods a while back. I should add to that list the Jerusalem Artichoke, which despite its name isn't an artichoke or associated in any way with the Holy Land. Rather it is a species of sunflower originally native to the Great Plains, sporting edible root tubers, that were extensively exported to both coasts of North America and widely eaten by precontact nations. It was labeled an artichoke by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain after eating them at a Wampanoag village in Massachusetts Bay, using the closest taste comparison he could think of. The "artichokes" were later exported to Western Europe, where they proliferated widely, and obtained the other half of their name from the corrupting of the Italian word girasole (sunflower). Edit: Add to the list Canadian Bannock Bread (so called because it is cooked in a skillet like actual Bannock, but was traditionally made from cornmeal for centuries before European contact), and California Manzanita Berry Cider (soft cider).
My mom was a volunteer for the Salvation Army in Hot Springs,AR when she was 25 years old. Big Al showed up with his bodyguards to see the pleasant young woman he talked to on the phone. Mom said that his eyes looked to glow in the dark. She saw him coming down the dark hallway that led into the office. She said he was a gentleman. She was impressed. He asked what they needed and by the close of business, it arrived at the office.
I'm an old woman now, but when I was a young girl (9-12) I used to go with my grandmother to visit the elderly at a nursing home here in TX. They were such wonderful people with amazing stories of their lives when they were young. One man in particular I loved to visit because I loved his accent & he was always dressed like he just walked out of a silent movie. Real classy like.... Anyways, one day we're going through his old photo albums & there he is with AL CAPON!!!! Not just one pictures, but almost an entire album! He idolized Al, claiming that he saved the lives of millions. He didn't just have his soup kitchens, but he handed out blankets, food, etc, to help anyone in need. Now, I'm a young girl, but I started thinking, "What made you leave Chicago for a little ole' hick town down south?" His reply? Turns out he was one of Al's tax attorneys!! & had to go undercover because, well, you know.....bang bang. He swore he wasn't the one who helped get Al arrested, but Al was after them all. Life lesson learned.....Listen to the elderly. They were AMAZING when they were younger.
My story isn't quite as cool but i took care of a Ford Supermodel in a nursing home. She had a ton of photos too. It is amazing what you'll learn just talking to our elders
Not an Al Capone story but my mothers uncle owned a bar in the Boston area that was frequented by a few gangsters. She met Whitey Bulger there in the 60's or 70's and said he was such a nice guy, but I'm sure most of us know how he turned out. She said the bars that the gangsters hung out in where the safest places for girls to go. If they went to other bars they had to be careful to watch their drinks. The gangsters might be bad, they might be killers, but they took care of their neighborhoods. I think we could use some of them today.
@@thedullohanvids My father said something similar, that our Chicago neighborhood was safe because of an alleged gangster down the street. I never asked him how he knew... it's an early memory, so I suppose it's possible he meant his own Depression Boston childhood and I was confused.
Think I know why the recipe didn't call for salt or pepper at all - it was already in the canned tomatoes. Homemade canned tomatoes were quite common, and they were usually already seasoned.
I mean even back then seasoning was a way to preserve perishables (still today), flavor was an extra. Usually recipes would call for other things like herbs, like mint in this soup, not necessarily salt. that's more of a recent thing.
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Yes passata..but never salt or pepper..Just basil.. but in this case he used tomatoes.. the home made tomatoes are called "pelati" and its usually in jars..again not seasoned.
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Passata is a puree. Not diced or whole tomatoes. But at the time the can would normally contain both salt and sugar. But not pepper or capiscums.
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Whenever our family has a garden we always canned our own veggies, and they always used a bit of salt in the tomatoes (and other veggies) to help preserve them. Thus whenever those 'canned' (in glass Mason Jars) tomatoes were used for a recipe, the added salt called for was left out.
No, he’s… a bad guy and that means he’s a bad guy. He only attached his name to the soup kitchen probably for good press, doubt he actually used any of his money for it. Where do you think they get the money from the shakedowns? The working and middle class.
@@maozedongaming It absolutely worked in his favor with how many comments see him as a Robin hood. For less than 10k per month feeding the homeless, he could get away with making millions stealing and killing because "He gave me 2 dollar soup for free".
Story goes that he bought a milk processing plant and lobbied for milk expiration dates after a family member or friend got sick from expired milk. There was a lot of conflict between his milk empire and the Wisconsin dairy industry resulting in "The Milk Wars". Apparently his brother got the nickname "Bottles" after they ran a non alcoholic bottling ordeal, including the milk with dates on them. Neat read.
When I was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the early 1980s I was pleased to learn that it was illegal to use margarine in a restaurant. No matter how basic the meal, the bread was always served with real Wisconsin butter.
@@TheKingOfBeans my understanding is that the basic form of pounded breaded fried meat is referenced all the way back in the Roman Empire by Apicius. It's an ancient dish and anyone really trying to claim discovery or the originality of it, rather than a specific form of it, is as silly as someone claiming a specific region invented boats. I'd just be really interested to see what a good historical dive into the history and early recipes of it manage to bring up, like is the Apicius version cookable? What is the earliest published actual Wiener schnitzel recipe? Or for that matter cotoletta alla millianese?
Today on tasting history -Soup kitchen edition, I’m going to be making Pope Clement V “heretic stew” First you’ll need to burn 2 heretics, one male, and one female at the stake. Now from the blackened remains collect from each 2 Heresies of meat 🍖 Now I’m not sure how much a Heresy is, but given the amount of water and other ingredients I’d estimate it to be 1/2 a kill-o Now since we obviously can’t murder somebody for an authentic recipe I’m going to be substituting pork as another name for human meat is “Long pig”…
My great-grandmother was one of those waitresses that was tipped by AL Capone. She worked in her mother's diner in Elgin, IL and she remembers Capone and his group visiting her diner about once every couple of months. He used to tip her $50 and back then that was alot. He also used to pay for other people's meals she used to say, or buy everyone a round of coffee. She only had good thing to say about him.
Did she mention the fact that he ran crews that intimidated small business owners into giving up hard earned revenue? Did she mention that he had rival gang members lined against a wall and shot? In cold blood? Did she mention the countless illegal and violent acts his crews committed under his orders? Did that ever come up? No? Then why are we pretending that this guy was a good person? Why?
My dad was born in Italy and raised there. The soup you made reminds me of my Nona’s recipe. Although she also uses some pork once in awhile. Depending on the weather and Nono’s mood lol 😂
I have an Italian great aunt that used to put mint in her spaghetti sauce. A lot of people like to distinguish their sauce from others. That's the way she made hers.
I know they're not the same in menthol content but peppermints actually help a lot with getting rid of gas so that actually seems practical as well as unique.
Here in Spain (or specifically the Canray Islands, Idk if it applies to all of Spain) they put a sprig of mint in their chicken noodle soup. It's a bit weird at first but fits the dish nicely
If you were homeless in Chicago and you got a delicious and filling bowl of soup as a kindness, I don't think you'd care that it came from Capone. He was a brutal, ruthless gangster, but he wasn't completely devoid of humanity. He was a loving father, generous to the people, and even contributed to food being labelled with expiration dates, specifically milk, after someone he knew got sick from out-of-date milk. That doesn't wash away his crimes, but it definitely makes him more understandable than some of the more terrible people in history.
In south-east Germany, where I grew up, we have a word for a small bunch of herbs. It is Kräutersträußl, which probably can be translated to spray of herbs. Such a Kräutersträußl would contain a sprig of each herb required. So I think, your amount of herbs was very close to what they had in mind, when they wrote down the recipe. Thank you for another very entertaining lesson in history and cooking.
My grandfather was born in 1898, lived his entire life in and around Chicago and made it to 1990. The stories that man could tell were amazing, WW I, the Great Depression, WW II, the Korean War, Vietnam, the birth of cars/planes/TV, he saw it all. He always ate simple, cheap, hardy food, and the only plate cleaner than his was our dogs, he wasted not a scrap of food...or anything else for that matter. The soup kitchens in Chicago saved I don't know how many people from starvation, and the fact that Mob Bosses ran a bunch of them was no accident. The "old school" Mafia guys always looked out for their neighborhoods, and were considered almost saintly by the people, pretty useful to have all the "little guys" on your side when calls for witnesses went out from the police dept.
My great aunt and great uncle did kitchen work at the old Wawasee Hotel (later a seminary, then a prep school, now condominiums) in northern Indiana in the late ‘20’s-early ‘30’s. Capone, in his trips to and from Chicago, would often stop by the hotel to play a few rounds of Poker in the game room. Great Aunt Jenny and Great Uncle John recalled that Capone was a very good guest, kind of quiet, and quite generous.
Just the right amount of credit for something he did for the poor without glorifying him for what he really was. A thug. Max you sure do your homework. Always with a little humor too. Love your channel and thank you. Sure beats what’s on tv these days
I'm of Italian descent, growing up Ma would make stews like this all the time. The tomato always gave it that distinctive taste and savoryness I love about Italian food. I was suprised at how similar this was to stew growing up, only thing I would add to this recipe are some lentils or peas. Great stuff man.
Fun fact: the pasta shapes at 13:17 are pretty much all still used with little variation. The number 42's name, "maruzze", is southern italian dialect for "snails", even though today we call them "conchiglie", literally "shells", or more precisely "seashells".
I'm just a half Italian American who buys his pasta from the store, but I'm very very familiar with that kind of pasta.... Granted, half the time it's sold by Kraft... but that's how life is.
@@TastingHistory Your friendly, interesting, entertaining videos are a go-to for anyone having no bad day. I'm currently exhausted and so stressed I threw up my dinner. Your video, like always, give me a pleasant break. I imagine it's like having a grandma cook you dinner, except I never knew my grandmas. You might never see this, but thanks for your work.
Just found this channel today and now I’m binge watching a lot of these episodes. I’m hooked already and keep wanting more stories and history lessons.
My love for rigatoni can never be completely satisfied. My absolute favorite pasta shape of all time. Probably because it's what my Nuni uses, but regardless, I absolutely love it.
I just made this for dinner! You’re definitely right about the house smelling amazing and it tasted delicious! Husband liked it as well. Definitely will make it again! 👌
He was very generous with people who lived near his hideout in northern Wisconsin. My Grandma was a little girl at the time and she knew he liked fishing and would be very generous with money with the local people. No one ever forgot that.
Yes this is true as I live in N. WIS. He or staff bought food from local farmers and there was a small lake on the property where a seaplane could bring in liquor from Canada about 6 hours North. There were stone walls with areas for the guards to sit with guns. It used to be open for tours and had a cafe. The Lac Courte Orielles tribe now owns the property now and is exploring what to develop it into such as a camp ground. It is run down. His bookkeeper alledgly was Radio Joe who ran a bar /restaurant in Hayward, WI. He was said to have donated money to a local Priest who walked to his residence but was told that was the last donation so don't return.
You know what's crazy about how to hide out up in Wisconsin also which they did know Al Capone and they also knew baby face Nelson. It's crazy to think even though they weren't mobsters, they all knew each other.
I've been binge watching your videos since UA-cam suggested them to me. I'm genuinely in love with everything about them. The attention to detail, the love of history, and food! Can we talk about your ability to sound like you have nailed every language and accent?! You're so well put together, too! Seriously ❤️
I'm feeling under the weather and came across this video. My husband got the ingredients and it's in the instant pot. Can't wait to try it with Maggi Würze! 😋😊
Soup is definitely our favorite in this house. Got an instapot a few years ago for christmas and since it's snowing that means soup every other day. Never get tired of it!
My favorite story about Capone wasn't the murders or the racketeering or the bootlegging or his tax evasion or his soup kitchen, it's that he lobbied Chicago for sell-by dates on milk. It's a cute story about a terrible person, and though dating wasn't really even a widespread thing until the 50s in Europe, you can find milk bottle caps from 1930s Chicago, which do in fact have stamped on them the days of the week they are to be sold by. This is similar to the ties used for bread, which are different colors based on the day they were baked.
Capone was generally always a sweetheart. Its laws that make a person evil. not the person. Gangs were created to protect themselves from the government and people who tried to kill you cuz, racism. Everyone sells liquor here in Chicago now.
Was there a reason he did that? I mean milk DEFINTELY needed that considering how fast milk rots. but was it because it was too hard to sell it or something?
@@kaiserlowa It's not clear that he actually did; as with much stuff associated with gangsters, there's little evidence regarding it. The legend is that it was a family member or associate that bought or used or perhaps just had spoiled milk around.
Max, I just wanted to say that it always warms my heart to see you being able to do this channel as a your job. I’m legit happy that you’re here doing this.
My grandmother once took a tour that went past Al's old house. The tour guide allowed the tourists to grab a rock from the crumbling building. So just like people have chunks of the Berlin Wall, my grandmother still has a chunk of Al Capone's house. Neat!
New to this channel and i love it. Max is a great host, with eloquent speech, and great comedic timing. I love the concept of tying history and food together. I like to watch while i eat my meals. Thanks for the great content.
So I have a cool story about Al Capone! When I was young we lived in a double house and the lady who owned it was born in 1897. Her son came home and saw that my mum was taking care of his mother like her own. He ended up treating us like family, especially when he saw that my mum and dad took care of her out of love and not for anything specific. As it turns out he owned a restaurant where Capone and the 'family' all ate and he was a made man. He bought me a race horse because he wanted it to pay for my college, and he showed off my mum and dad when they brought his mum to visit him. So, if you know me, you are only one step from Capone's food and Capone himself! Edit: I didn't think this comment was going to get so much attention so let me give you some information Hazel Booth was born 1897 and died in 1986 of a hip fracture. Her son, the made man, Thomas Booth Born 1906 and died Christmas Eve of 1981 in Chicago. He owned/managed the restaurant in Sportmans' Park, Capone's race track. He was a bald and kind man, who treated me like a granddaughter. I was born 1974 and so not as up to tick on details as I would like, but I remember a lot still since they were so important to my life in many ways. As for the doubters....Doubt when I get paid millions for my story HAHAH!! Having stage 4 cancer money and clout mean nothing. I do love to share the stories that die with me though! enjoy looking stuff up!
@Three Strands Ministry - Any names, dates, or figures you met that anyone would actually know? What about the restaurant, does it still exist? If so, is it under the same ownership? Additionally, I noticed you wrote “mum”, you in the UK? That’s not a common term for mother in the US, hence the question. 😜
@@alexyoungberg5232 Good catch! I only ever went to visit Al Capone's house in Cuba. I'm Canadian. It was February 1989 before the end of the Soviet Union so there were lots of fat Russians on the beach at Varedero.
As someone who lived in Chicago their whole life, the history of the Chicago Outfit is fascinating. The violence is never okay, but the fact they could've changed things and done lots of good for the community is astounding.
I'm italian and I'm always curious to what happened to italian recipes once they crossed the ocean. I can say that, taking off the rigatoni, this is a really common "spezzatino" in center Italy, some add some peas and it's usually more "overcooked" (softer potatoes) but it's basically that same thing.
Well, the bad news is the pasta mostly got overcooked when it crossed the ocean and people forgot to salt the water. A simple cheese sauce was bastardized into weirdly alfredo. The good news is thanks to the internet, Italian recipe sites with actual Italian recipes can be easily found, and ingredients are generally available in most cities. If you speak Spanish which many Americans do, you can read Italian and at least get the basic understanding with how similar the languages are
An underrated moment in ‘Downton Abbey’ is when Robert calls himself a “Chicago bootlegger” and the Dowager Countess says: “I don’t even know what that means.”
She didn't know what a week-end was and probably never heard of Al Capone; for an "Edwardian" woman going around with French and Russian aristocrats, Lady Olivia had a lot to learn.
Some of my mother's family were associates or knew associates of Tommy Lucchese in NYC. According to my mother, no one had a bad word to say about Al Capone and he was well respected by the families in NYC. Also, all of Al Capone's associates had to "adopt" a homeless, unemployed man and provide him with housing, food, clothing, medical care, and anything else that was needed. Like all of us, Al Capone had his faults and his virtues. I think he should be remembered for his virtues.
My grandmother used to still do a lot of canning for food preservation from her farm. She referred to the jar sizes as cans of (a specific fruit or vegetable) and the tomato can was the 32oz one. I'm not sure if this is accurate or not, but when you referenced simply "2 cans of tomatoes" that's how she worked recipes. They were, as I remember, relish, pickles, tomatoes, and apples. For 16, 24, 32, and 64 oz respectively.
Here in Argentina we have a plate that's very similar, is called "guiso" and it's everything that you said and used but more commonly done with oregano instead of thyme and no mint and with bell pepper added along the onions, and the meat is diced in small cubes. It goes along with any kind of medium sized pasta
I agree! Living in Vegas and worked in a restaurant that’s from Chicago’s old days I both hear stories from the GM and how some recipes came to be “influenced” by mobsters back in the day and still today.
I LOVE the interplay between cooking shows online. Quite by accident, I came across DYLAN'S vintage recipes; and while his delivery is hilarious, I was very pleased that he referred his viewers to my own longtime culinary HERO, "Tasting History With Max Miller". It was kind of like dining at a restaurant and having the owner say, "Glad ya liked it. But have ya heard of Max Miller? HE'S great, too." Gave me a quick rush of the Warm 'n' Fuzzies.
@@TastingHistory England! not super exciting, I know, but it is in the Fens on the east coast where King John's caravan was famously lost taking a shortcut through the marshes!
@@firebert123 it’s one of my favorite areas in the world! I think Ely is my favorite cathedral and I love the story of the outlaws who fought William the Conqueror in the Fens.
@@TastingHistory I didn't get to this time, but I always try to visit Wales as well. North Wales specifically, the Snowdonia region. Supposedly where King Arthur's legend happened, and the mountains that were the insparation for Tolkien's Misty Mountains, AND the mountains Edmund Hillary practiced on for his Everest trek!
Max, I just want to say thank you for doing what you do. I know you probably won’t see this but on the off chance that you do I want you to know that I really enjoy and look forward to your videos. I grew up helping my mom in the kitchen and was interested in cooking from a very young age. I was a professional cook for a long time and have loved cooking at home since I was a teenager. Your videos are always very interesting and entertaining and sometimes they remind me of the love I have for cooking and this one did that. So thank you, Max. Keep doing what you do. I love you man.
Anything with tomatoes and herbs like the ones used here is always guaranteed to be a hit. Gosh I like stews like these and soups so so much. Thanks for this video!
Always love the concept of macaroni soup. Now of course being a Hong Konger, the version we refer to is closer to Wedding soup: Light chicken Broth, macaroni, mixed veggie, spam. Feels more like wonton soup. Serving it hot is real good when you have the flu.
My friend made that for me once, when I was an undergrad in England. It's actually incredible when you're ill, should be a more widely published thing!
During the Depression and again during the Second World War, my grandma made something very like this, though without the pasta. Apparently, there would be a large pot on the "Workwell Grate", a cast iron cooking range here in the UK. From the end of September to the start of April, the stew bubbled away day after day. In the oven, there would be potatoes baking all day. After a meal, the pot would be topped up with whatever my grandma could get hold of that day. I imagine that the family must have got a little bored of the same meal every day, but at least they were never without food. Neighbours who were even poorer than my family were never forgotten either, and grandma would always squeeze a bit extra from the pot to tide them over.
I love all of your videos. My two favorite things are history and cooking and I like to try out the recipes on my family. Please don't ever stop making these videos. You are the best!!
Glad you partnered with Babbel! A different language is a different vision of life. Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. The more doors we open to other cultures by learning these languages, the more we open up ourselves! Thank you for promoting Babbel, Max! Hope it inspires more people to explore the world of linguistics.
You gotta love Italians for providing numbered lists with diagrams of specific pastas hand illustrated with the detail and accuracy of a Motor Parts or Medical Textbook
You really should be doing voiceovers and audiobook narration, dude. You're 1920s news guy is excellent Reminds me of grandma's gozinta soup. Whatever is in the kitchen that day gozinta the soup.
I grew up in Chicago. Remember hearing stories about his soup kitchen years after it closed. People remembered going with pots and getting soup to feed their family.
If you're looking for a culture to cook from, perhaps acadian cuisine. A rich history and food inspired from so many things, like french(obviously) and mi'kmaq cuisine, as well as the experiences from settling in unforgiving land in atlantic canada. It would be interesting to learn more about the connection between acadian food and cajun food, as the cajuns were displaced acadians from the "french and Indian war"
Great video. I had an idea, Max. I'd love to see famous people in history and their favorite meal (or single dish). Like - January 12th, so and so's birthday and they loved Pavlova for instance. Or Caesar died on () and he always loved Roman iced fruit. Thanks, Max.
@@leahdavis9434 Because I hadn't had coffee yet and the only thing that my brain would come up with is the phrase ides of March. Is that the 15th? The 16th? I had nothing but fog going. So, I punted :D
Ah, this is not a generic italian soup, this is "spezzatino" (literally mens "little thorn pieces") and its just delicious and so simple to make, not energy and time-consuming at all. Usually its not just made with tomato soup, but also broth. I cooked this quite regularly when I was working in Germany last year, saved me many hours of time. PS Don't add pasta, the potato is just starchy enough.
@@gatocles99 please, I'm italian, I know what I'm talking about. Pasta just doesn't add anything to this recipe (apart from heaviness), trust me (plus you can save it for another future dish)
@@simonecasi9753 I get that your eating disorder causes you to fear carbohydrates. But the rest of us are not mentally ill. And we don't mind noodles in our soup. Calories are necessary to be healthy.
Being that my godmother was half Italian/half Bulgarian ive eaten this kind of soup/stew on many occasions- she was cooking something all day every day- pastry's, breads, pasta, stews, soups, hot cereal, hot grain cereal ( oats, wheat ), pasta with meat sauce, pot roast etc. And my grandmother cooked Southern style food, my mother cooked all styles- and in this atmosphere i learned to cook also-
Thanks Max, another interesting video and another inviting recipe. I'm here to also brag about the Tasting-History-themed dinner I prepared last Saturday, which was a *huge* success. Friends were delighted, there was no leftover (and I served 8 different dishes!). Once the book is out, cooking your recipes will be much easier - and I do recommend every follower to try at least once. Surfing across centuries by trying different food is truly entertaining and... tasty. Thank you!
@@gwennorthcutt421 Sure: Parthian Chicken Chewtes on flesshe day Boar with cameline sauce Pomodori all'erbette Torta d'erbe comuni Punch romaine Semlor All recommended. Plus, a friend prepared Club Sandwiches, because his are awesome and they are on the menu by default 😀
I hope that sometime you could do a show about the late Diana Southwood Kennedy, who for 50 years lived, traveled, and worked in Mexico learning to cook dishes of many regional cuisines and collecting food lore. Apparently she has been credited with popularizing Mexican food more than any other single individual.
I went right to the store to grab the stuff to make this and was not disappointed. Thank you for all the super appetizing recipes, Max. I can't wait for my copy of the Cookbook to come in!
I have learned so much from this episode. I loved the way you, Max, tried to sound gangster. It made it very fun😊. This is probably one of my favorite episodes. I am even going to do my nails in a Mafia theme😁
I don't usually comment on ads, but that tea Max served at the beginning of that ad alone is enough to make me consider them when I resume studying Japanese. 👀
mint is a common ingredient in Italian-American soup recipes, but only a little. In the northeast US it was used to "brighten" the flavors, because access to citrus of any kind was rare.
I just saw the first copies of the Tasting History cookbook and they're beautiful! I can't wait to share it with everyone.
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Can't wait to serve it forth!
I'm so excited to see what the final copy will look like
Filipino food.
Capone knew the power of having the masses on his side; if the people like you, they're unlikely to rat on you.
But always pay your taxes
@@TastingHistory 'Cause the IRS doesn't take soup in lieu of dollars.
Interesting that you mention Guys and Dolls, which musical features a considerable mention of one of the towns in which I grew up: Havre de Grace, aka 'The Graw' (from the French pronunciation of 'Grace.').
Meyer Lansky featured heavily in the gambling activities there, and some of the old timers remembered him and his peers. The National Guard Armory is placed on the old race track grounds, and remnants of the racing, gambling, and criminal heyday still linger; the rail line that brought New York City gamblers in and out of town still lies under Juniata Street, and my neighbors across the road had and used one of the race track's old stables - relocated entirely and intact - from after when the track closed. A VERY fine stable it is, too.
Havre de Grace is a small town, but it's crazy how it connects to a much larger (and criminal) world.
It’s honestly brilliant. That PR campaign tho.
Sounds like the Democratic Party today
One of my favorite stories about Capone was how he was the instigator behind the expiration dates in milk. He would often go to hospitals to tend to his men and often paid for children's stays, but once he heard how a common problem amongst the hospitalized youths was having drank/eaten bad milk, he personally went out of his way to make sure that legislation was passed to make sure milk had expiration dates.
Good for him. Drinking milk that you don't know is bad is a way to have terrible indigestion. (I speak from experience)
"I may have killed a lot of people but I can't STAND the idea of children getting sick by bad milk!"- al capone, probably
@@sarafontanini7051 I'm convinced Al Capone didn't kill 'a lot of people.'
Sure, he bumped off other gangsters who became too competitive with his organization but if he had really killed 'a lot of people,' why could they only indite him on tax fraud?
Meanwhile, legal business, the train companies, hired nazi scum murder guards to shoot and kill hobos.
Hobos were not just homeless drunks, they were also regular men and women (probably kids also) who hopped on slow moving trains to hitch a free ride because they were too poor to afford a ticket. They must have killed hundreds, thousands even.
But they had the law on their side. Tresspassing on my trains? A few bullets or buck shot would make sure you never did that again.
I thought his brother died from bad milk when he was young?
I don't like milk, so don't drink it. But you can tell when milk is bad just from smelling it.....
How did they not know!?
But, still..... Good on capone for helping with that. 👍👍.
Ingredients -
6 small potatoes
1 large carrot (optional)
2 stalks celery (optional)
1 large onion
2 cloves garlic
3 leaves mint
5 sprigs parsley
1 sprig rosemary
2 sprigs of thyme
Salt &Pepper
3 tablespoons Olive oil
1kg beef stew meat (chuck)
Roman or Parmesan cheese
2 cans of 500g tomatoes (1kg)
Rigatoni pasta
Cooking Instructions -
Finely chop herbs, garlic and dice onion, mix together.
Pan fry beef in olive oil and add herbs and onion, season with salt and pepper. 7 mins
Add 2 cans of tomatoes
Once simmering cook 10 minutes
Add 4 cups of water
*Stew slowly 60 mins~
Add diced vegetables potatoes, carrot, celery
Stew for 45 mins~
Serve over rigatoni pasta and add grated Roman cheese garnish with parsley.
This was my take, tasted so good and serves about 3-4 adults.
*May prefer to stew longer, before adding vegetables, for more tender beef
Just cooked it today, it was absolutely stupendously bussing
What's the ratio for using dried herbs?
You beautiful person, thank you so much
@@evandeverix8445 Np, let me know how it went.
@@celesteschroeder5924 not too sure, you could google the fresh herbs and convert maybe ? These are all fresh herbs you can grow/find in local supermarket pretty easily, no ?
Capone had one of the greatest quotes I have ever heard:
"Do not mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me."
Damn!!!
Didn't know he coined that term.
@Lucinae
Spend a little less time off of videogames/comic books, kid.
Silencing your enemies back then in the real world was a little more
Complex than “confronting an adversary” in person. You go around getting your hands dirty and next thing you know, you are arrested for murder. It’s called avoiding leaving a trail. You can’t just go around confronting all your enemies in person. >.>
Delete *both of your* comments ^^ - this quote was recreated by historians on recording - to mimic Alphonse Capone’s voice
@@domanskikid stay off the green text kid, Al Capone confronted the back of his adversaries heads with a baseball-bat. Do you learn nothing nowadays?
To me one of the greatest quotes ever is when Zelenskyy said; i need ammo, not a ride.
My Grandmother was present at the grade school where Al Capone dumped the crates of milk all over the cafeteria floor because he could smell it was all spoiled even though none of the cartons were open yet. He absolutely hated that smell! He had new milk from a nearby grocery brought in and then began a politcal campaign for milk given to kids in schools to be marked with a "use by date" so no kid ever got spoiled milk at school ever again, even if the adults couldn't smell it was off.
what a strange guy, he will happily kill people to make a buck but will turn around and care for the poor and for kids.
I believe he had a niece or similar almost die from bad milk.
This is a myth and some weirdo on UA-cam claiming his grandmother was there on something that never happened
So how do you know what is the truth ? Were you there ?
@@herbertdiaz4318 Were YOU?
"It was the murders, Al. The murders." DUDE you mad me laughing
It wasn't just the soup kitchen. My Sunday school teacher had been a small child when Al Capone was alive. They lived in NW Wisconsin where he had a vacation home. Her mother cleaned his home. One day, they were in town shopping. My teacher stopped in front of a store and started to cry when she saw the new winter coats. Because she knew her family could not afford them. Al Capone comes out of the store and recognizes her. He stops and asks why she is crying. She tells him about the coats. The next day, the entire family had new winter clothing. Hats, coats, mittens, boots, everything. He bought all of it and had it delivered. Because he didn't want anyone that worked for him to worry about things like that.
Aww what a sweet murdering gangster! So nice that he bought up those crocodile tears for vanity clothes while people were starving on the street
@@smellypatel5272 r/choosingbeggars called, asked to use your comment as content.
@@nicoleb695 imagine being so dumb that you're grateful to a murderer, extortionist and overall terrible human being. And all for what? A paltry sum of money or food as he continues to terrorize thousands of people.
@@smellypatel5272 Well they wouldn’t have starved if they had gone to his soup kitchen.
@@NumPad 😂😂
My grandfather and great grandmother survived because of his food kitchens. Grandpa would roam the train tracks looking for bits of coal that fell off the train bins. It was their heat in the Chicago winters. He said the constant cabbage soup was bad enough but he said at least having salt and pepper would have helped. I interviewed Grandpa for a history project. Grandpa pushed broom for one of the guys killed in the Valentine’s Day massacre (it was one of that guys bars). Grandpa swore they wouldn’t have survived without it. Edited to add. We are Native American and European mixed. We ended up in Chicago because one great great grandfather escaped the trail of tears and we were in Chicago for 3 generations before returning home. Imagine being starved out of your land to move and having a mobster provide food so you don’t starve some place else.
Even the worst people can sometimes do some good
Is there anyway to read the interview? I’m enthralled by such a tale
Was the cabbage soup the soup served in the Al Capone soup kitchens? Not the luxurious soup shown in the video?
I'm glad you're alive and well now
The coal collecting is called "gloaming". John Biggers painted several pieces depicting the act.
edit: I've recycled the word for collecting bottles and cans for cash.
The saddest takeaway from this video by far is that some guy was at a soup kitchen again 25 years after visiting Capone's. Poor guy, living on the streets (or nearly so) for 25 years.
Or he had his wife’s mothers horrible cooking and remembered a better soup 🍲
going to a soup kitchen and complaining that you got better soup at a different soup kitchen definitely seems like the kind of attitude that would do that to you
That still happens to people today
That's what I thought too.
To be fair most of them probably weren't homeless. They were just broke so looking for a free meal.
My grandmother was friends with Capone (she lived next to him in Cicero). She said he was a very kind gentleman, and would bring groceries over to her house, and help her out with things, and they voted together (he brought her over to the polling site). I lived with my grandmother growing up, and she used to say to me, "we don't talk bad about Mr. Capone in this house - he was saint to a lot of people".
My grandmother was not friends with Capone, but certainly, talking bad about him was forbidden. He was upstanding, except for all the times he was not.
This same line of thought is what has doomed my beloved Mexico. Sure, the narcos fix roads, but the money they used is washed crimson with the blood of many, many innocents.
Capone was in the league of guys who lived the old code. "Never EVER sh*t where you eat." as one older mentor of mine used to say it.
Meaning, he knew when to get tough, and other than when he had to... He largely wasn't. He could talk smack with the best og he guys in places where that was appropriate, but outside... in mixed company... He was as fine a gent' as you'd find around town.
I've known quite a few among his family, descendants, and even a couple old timers who knew him before they passed. Everybody who met him said the same things. You'd never know the "Scarface" Al Capone that the public hears about now is the same guy they knew... It just couldn't be so.
He was probably in Florida "on purpose"... BUT it's still kind of difficult to fully "buy" the idea that he was committed to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre... and yeah... I know better... BUT to have sat with them and hear THEM talk about him as they knew him... It's not so easy. He wasn't the only one who wanted something to happen... He was just the biggest name on the list of those who wanted something to happen... ;o)
My dad worked for Al Capone and said he was a goo guy.
Andrew Tate's fans see him as a Saint too.
I just love how Max can effortlessly insert a hard tack reference in any situation 🤣
And I laugh every. single. time.
Clack clack
It was definitely a watershed moment for him. Ever since, he's been less finicky about changing absurd quantities of ingredients or cooking steps in his presentations.
It's his superpower.
It cracks me up how many times he can slip that clip in...... And it never gets old... Long live the hard tack clip!
My husband grew up in Chicago and has stories about Al coming to dinner at his great-grandfather's house. He always brought flowers. He had a reputation for being "a nice guy outside of business hours".
But they pronounced his last name Caponi...it certainly sounds more classically Italian.
everyone in Chicago has a fake "my grandpa and Al" story. It's a common fool's lie.
Not a nice guy, most likely doing it to retain a certain image that would help his court of public opinion. You don’t realize it, but it’s still doing what he intended it to do. He wasn’t a nice guy, he just knew how to pretend to be a nice guy.
In Italian you would pronounce it "Caponeh"
A "spray" is 2-3 sprigs. If you look at how Rosemary grows there is typically a single branch with1-3 other branches coming off it. That is what my great-grandmother taught me (who lived in Capone's Chicago--she and her sister actually ran a Speak Easy for him) was a spray...
Nice addition to the recipe and the history lesson. I learned that the measurement "spray" extists and a viewer actually can contribute an explanation of it. That makes the channel even greater.Thanks for your contribution.
The right touch of rosemary can totally change dishes
Sounds familiar to the "mazzetto" used sometime in Italian. Could be of flowers, could be the free handful of fresh spices you ask at the local market along with the paid vegetables ("un mazzetto di odori").
@@basileerla a breath of dill makes a great taste with the right hot sauce
Two sprigs in a spray. That's easy enough to remember.
"It was the murders, Al, it was the murders" Oh my gosh...I busted out laughing at this. Your delivery is perfect, and your research abilities are truly admirable! ❤
Same, best line! 😂
Reminds me of in Chainsaw Man when Samurai Sword was saying all that "my grandpa was a heroic yakuza. He didn't kill that many women and children" stuff 🤣
I mean, he murdered other gangsters.
It was bad guys killing each other
No you didn't.
@@JishinimaTidehoshiHe also killed a lot of those related to his rivals, and also threatened people and used violence to ensure he got his money, and many of those people were part of the downtrodden and needy communities that turned to crime Nad illegal activity in order to support themselves.
He and his gang killed other gangsters, but also abused and killed prostitutes, a lot of which were often underage girls, both that were under his gang and that of other gangs. Not to mention that one of the most common sources of income for gangs, protection rackets, are literally schemes designed around threatening people and hurting them so that they give you money to not hurt and threaten them. I also don't think al or any of his underlings were usually sympathetic when someone under them couldn't pay their dues, regardless of their reasoning of it.
He and his gang did kill other gangsters, but the reason they did that is so they could muscle in on their territory and use it for their rackets to get more money, and those rackets mainly got their money from the poor and downtrodden, since they were the least able to protect themselves or be helped by the government, which was also because Capone threatened, blackmail, and bribed government officials so that they would turn a blind eye and allow him to continue his illegal activity against people that weren't cared for which allowed him to rake in even more blood money and exercise his power as he liked.
I just made this. I am in awe of how my kitchen took on the smell of my grandma's kitchen. This stew was absolutely delicious!
Gotta say, Max's impression of the stereotypical newscaster was great. It added a LOT of character to the very interesting history bits.
It's called a "Transatlantic accent" and was a deliberate affectation of the period. Look it up, it's really interesting!
@@thatcanuck5670 will do, thanks! I honestly thought it was an accent of the time.
I'm from Utah, and there is a lot of native Americans here. In particularly a lot of Navajo and I would love to see someone authentic Navajo cooking. I love Navajo tacos and it would be great to have an episode of that, but it would also be great to have an episode of Indian cuisine before the encounters with European colonists. I know that there's probably not much that you could go on with truly authentic native American cuisine but anything would be awesome. If anybody could pull it off you could!
Edit: just as a warning to you the history of Navajo tacos or fry bread as it is otherwise known is going to be a pretty sad one but also very interesting and an important story to tell.
There's a native American chef with an authentic restaurant. He gets techniques from elders, but then turned to botanists & biologists for what would have been in the area pre whites & creates from there. Can't remember his name he was on NPR.
Ute cuisine would also be neat, the uto-aztecan families of our tribes got some neat foods, parched corns and grasshoppers
You can always contact the tribal elders with such a request. Recipes are handed down in cultures, from mother to daughter, until somebody writes them down.
I agree I'd like to see some navajo food.
I made a bucket list of native foods a while back. I should add to that list the Jerusalem Artichoke, which despite its name isn't an artichoke or associated in any way with the Holy Land. Rather it is a species of sunflower originally native to the Great Plains, sporting edible root tubers, that were extensively exported to both coasts of North America and widely eaten by precontact nations. It was labeled an artichoke by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain after eating them at a Wampanoag village in Massachusetts Bay, using the closest taste comparison he could think of. The "artichokes" were later exported to Western Europe, where they proliferated widely, and obtained the other half of their name from the corrupting of the Italian word girasole (sunflower).
Edit: Add to the list Canadian Bannock Bread (so called because it is cooked in a skillet like actual Bannock, but was traditionally made from cornmeal for centuries before European contact), and California Manzanita Berry Cider (soft cider).
My mom was a volunteer for the Salvation Army in Hot Springs,AR when she was 25 years old. Big Al showed up with his bodyguards to see the pleasant young woman he talked to on the phone. Mom said that his eyes looked to glow in the dark. She saw him coming down the dark hallway that led into the office. She said he was a gentleman. She was impressed. He asked what they needed and by the close of business, it arrived at the office.
I'm an old woman now, but when I was a young girl (9-12) I used to go with my grandmother to visit the elderly at a nursing home here in TX. They were such wonderful people with amazing stories of their lives when they were young. One man in particular I loved to visit because I loved his accent & he was always dressed like he just walked out of a silent movie. Real classy like.... Anyways, one day we're going through his old photo albums & there he is with AL CAPON!!!! Not just one pictures, but almost an entire album! He idolized Al, claiming that he saved the lives of millions. He didn't just have his soup kitchens, but he handed out blankets, food, etc, to help anyone in need. Now, I'm a young girl, but I started thinking, "What made you leave Chicago for a little ole' hick town down south?" His reply? Turns out he was one of Al's tax attorneys!! & had to go undercover because, well, you know.....bang bang. He swore he wasn't the one who helped get Al arrested, but Al was after them all. Life lesson learned.....Listen to the elderly. They were AMAZING when they were younger.
My story isn't quite as cool but i took care of a Ford Supermodel in a nursing home. She had a ton of photos too.
It is amazing what you'll learn just talking to our elders
Not an Al Capone story but my mothers uncle owned a bar in the Boston area that was frequented by a few gangsters. She met Whitey Bulger there in the 60's or 70's and said he was such a nice guy, but I'm sure most of us know how he turned out. She said the bars that the gangsters hung out in where the safest places for girls to go. If they went to other bars they had to be careful to watch their drinks. The gangsters might be bad, they might be killers, but they took care of their neighborhoods. I think we could use some of them today.
@@thedullohanvids My father said something similar, that our Chicago neighborhood was safe because of an alleged gangster down the street. I never asked him how he knew... it's an early memory, so I suppose it's possible he meant his own Depression Boston childhood and I was confused.
@@thedullohanvids
That’s the difference between white Catholic ones of yesteryear, and the ones we have today. Gotta love diversity! 🙄
@@mindstalk
Every city went to shite when it changed colors. It’s really sad to see what became of everything that was once nice and white.
Think I know why the recipe didn't call for salt or pepper at all - it was already in the canned tomatoes. Homemade canned tomatoes were quite common, and they were usually already seasoned.
I mean even back then seasoning was a way to preserve perishables (still today), flavor was an extra. Usually recipes would call for other things like herbs, like mint in this soup, not necessarily salt. that's more of a recent thing.
Oh yeah right, the Italians made their own canned tomato sauce and it's called "Passata" (?)...
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Yes passata..but never salt or pepper..Just basil.. but in this case he used tomatoes.. the home made tomatoes are called "pelati" and its usually in jars..again not seasoned.
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Passata is a puree. Not diced or whole tomatoes. But at the time the can would normally contain both salt and sugar.
But not pepper or capiscums.
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Whenever our family has a garden we always canned our own veggies, and they always used a bit of salt in the tomatoes (and other veggies) to help preserve them. Thus whenever those 'canned' (in glass Mason Jars) tomatoes were used for a recipe, the added salt called for was left out.
Al capone is the embodiment of "your a bad guy, but that doesn't mean your a bad guy"
Tell that to Joe Howard.
He did own a dairy and said that he wished he got into that earlier, instead of bootlegging booze and crime
“Zangeif, you are bad guy. But does not mean you are… bad *guy*! Without Zangeif, who would crush men’s head like melon between thighs?”
No, he’s… a bad guy and that means he’s a bad guy. He only attached his name to the soup kitchen probably for good press, doubt he actually used any of his money for it. Where do you think they get the money from the shakedowns? The working and middle class.
@@maozedongaming It absolutely worked in his favor with how many comments see him as a Robin hood. For less than 10k per month feeding the homeless, he could get away with making millions stealing and killing because "He gave me 2 dollar soup for free".
Story goes that he bought a milk processing plant and lobbied for milk expiration dates after a family member or friend got sick from expired milk. There was a lot of conflict between his milk empire and the Wisconsin dairy industry resulting in "The Milk Wars". Apparently his brother got the nickname "Bottles" after they ran a non alcoholic bottling ordeal, including the milk with dates on them.
Neat read.
That’s kinda cool.
When I was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the early 1980s I was pleased to learn that it was illegal to use margarine in a restaurant. No matter how basic the meal, the bread was always served with real Wisconsin butter.
@@rosezingleman5007 It's an unspoken law even in our house today! Always served with butter. Cheers
@@rosezingleman5007 people with dairy allergies can go to Hell, MI
Raw milk is great for a woman's hormones though. Some say it's the best way to increase bust Size without surgery!
As an Austrian I would love to see you do the history of schnitzel and find what the oldest recipe available for the very old dish is.
Wiener schnitzel is claimed by the people of Milan, it would make a good episode indeed 👍
Rada rada
schnitzel??? As in hotdog pr sausage?
@@jonathanbair523 Its a piece of meat that is pounded thin and pan fried, usually served with lemon or a sauce.
@@TheKingOfBeans my understanding is that the basic form of pounded breaded fried meat is referenced all the way back in the Roman Empire by Apicius. It's an ancient dish and anyone really trying to claim discovery or the originality of it, rather than a specific form of it, is as silly as someone claiming a specific region invented boats. I'd just be really interested to see what a good historical dive into the history and early recipes of it manage to bring up, like is the Apicius version cookable? What is the earliest published actual Wiener schnitzel recipe? Or for that matter cotoletta alla millianese?
Thanks!
You know times are tuff when Max is working in a soup kitchen.
🤣
as long as he isnt a soup na zi 😂
Today on tasting history -Soup kitchen edition, I’m going to be making Pope Clement V “heretic stew”
First you’ll need to burn 2 heretics, one male, and one female at the stake. Now from the blackened remains collect from each 2 Heresies of meat 🍖
Now I’m not sure how much a Heresy is, but given the amount of water and other ingredients I’d estimate it to be 1/2 a kill-o
Now since we obviously can’t murder somebody for an authentic recipe I’m going to be substituting pork as another name for human meat is “Long pig”…
@@beepboop204 no soup for you
@@TastingHistory al capones grandmother on his father's side was a amazing chef
My great-grandmother was one of those waitresses that was tipped by AL Capone. She worked in her mother's diner in Elgin, IL and she remembers Capone and his group visiting her diner about once every couple of months. He used to tip her $50 and back then that was alot. He also used to pay for other people's meals she used to say, or buy everyone a round of coffee. She only had good thing to say about him.
$50 in 1920 was like $740 in today's money!
@@CathrynAnn98 dear God that inflation
Did she mention the fact that he ran crews that intimidated small business owners into giving up hard earned revenue? Did she mention that he had rival gang members lined against a wall and shot? In cold blood? Did she mention the countless illegal and violent acts his crews committed under his orders? Did that ever come up? No? Then why are we pretending that this guy was a good person? Why?
@@maozedongamingnah as long as they are benefitting from it, they won't mention it.
My dad was born in Italy and raised there. The soup you made reminds me of my Nona’s recipe. Although she also uses some pork once in awhile. Depending on the weather and Nono’s mood lol 😂
I was going to say I thought at first the meat was going to be Italian pork sausage based!
I still can't get over the "cook potatoes until done (delicious)" line, they just really had to express their love of cooked potatoes.
I thought it was like a secondary instruction, like, you'll know they're done when they're delicious.
I have an Italian great aunt that used to put mint in her spaghetti sauce. A lot of people like to distinguish their sauce from others. That's the way she made hers.
I’m gonna have to try that, I love mint and Italian food even more!
Look tasty
I know they're not the same in menthol content but peppermints actually help a lot with getting rid of gas so that actually seems practical as well as unique.
Here in Spain (or specifically the Canray Islands, Idk if it applies to all of Spain) they put a sprig of mint in their chicken noodle soup. It's a bit weird at first but fits the dish nicely
I put cinnamon in mine. Just a dash but it really turns out pretty good if making a meat sauce.
If you were homeless in Chicago and you got a delicious and filling bowl of soup as a kindness, I don't think you'd care that it came from Capone. He was a brutal, ruthless gangster, but he wasn't completely devoid of humanity. He was a loving father, generous to the people, and even contributed to food being labelled with expiration dates, specifically milk, after someone he knew got sick from out-of-date milk. That doesn't wash away his crimes, but it definitely makes him more understandable than some of the more terrible people in history.
The politicians today are worse than Alfonso
In south-east Germany, where I grew up, we have a word for a small bunch of herbs. It is Kräutersträußl, which probably can be translated to spray of herbs. Such a Kräutersträußl would contain a sprig of each herb required. So I think, your amount of herbs was very close to what they had in mind, when they wrote down the recipe. Thank you for another very entertaining lesson in history and cooking.
Sounds a lot like a bouquet garni
@@octochan Probably it's the same or at least nearly. I think, bouquet garni contains specific herbs. Kräutersträußl can contain any herb.
My grandfather was born in 1898, lived his entire life in and around Chicago and made it to 1990. The stories that man could tell were amazing, WW I, the Great Depression, WW II, the Korean War, Vietnam, the birth of cars/planes/TV, he saw it all. He always ate simple, cheap, hardy food, and the only plate cleaner than his was our dogs, he wasted not a scrap of food...or anything else for that matter. The soup kitchens in Chicago saved I don't know how many people from starvation, and the fact that Mob Bosses ran a bunch of them was no accident. The "old school" Mafia guys always looked out for their neighborhoods, and were considered almost saintly by the people, pretty useful to have all the "little guys" on your side when calls for witnesses went out from the police dept.
LOL, Al did this in the early 30's for PR when on trial. That's it. This is the 2020 = of cooperations posting BLM stuff.
@@BudsCartoonhuh
@@M50A1 huh huh
@@BudsCartoon Funding and organising a bunch of soup kitchens is a lot more work than having your social media team spout empty platitudes on twitter.
@@BudsCartoon I'd probably like BLM better if they did soup kitchens tbh...
My great aunt and great uncle did kitchen work at the old Wawasee Hotel (later a seminary, then a prep school, now condominiums) in northern Indiana in the late ‘20’s-early ‘30’s. Capone, in his trips to and from Chicago, would often stop by the hotel to play a few rounds of Poker in the game room. Great Aunt Jenny and Great Uncle John recalled that Capone was a very good guest, kind of quiet, and quite generous.
Just the right amount of credit for something he did for the poor without glorifying him for what he really was. A thug. Max you sure do your homework. Always with a little humor too. Love your channel and thank you. Sure beats what’s on tv these days
Thanks Jodi
Well, technically government is bunch of thugs in charge of certain territory.
This is an underrated comment.
You'd not be saying that if you were starving in 1930s
@Harley Quinn mafia is a criminal organisation, not evil.
Though they did kill people
I am absolutely adding the annotation "Clack Clack" into my copy of your cookbook, Max. 😂
I wonder if he could make a run of word bubble stickers..
I'm of Italian descent, growing up Ma would make stews like this all the time. The tomato always gave it that distinctive taste and savoryness I love about Italian food. I was suprised at how similar this was to stew growing up, only thing I would add to this recipe are some lentils or peas. Great stuff man.
Did your ma use lentils? I could see peas in there for sure or cannellini beans like in Pasta Fagioli
Fun fact: the pasta shapes at 13:17 are pretty much all still used with little variation. The number 42's name, "maruzze", is southern italian dialect for "snails", even though today we call them "conchiglie", literally "shells", or more precisely "seashells".
I'm just a half Italian American who buys his pasta from the store, but I'm very very familiar with that kind of pasta....
Granted, half the time it's sold by Kraft... but that's how life is.
Not a fun fact
As a native Chicagoan, it was great to see a bit of our history on your channel. And that soup looks delicious!
5:00 - he said the line! Max, I love your dedication to this running joke. Never let it drop.
I'm loving the vibes this episode. The radio host voice, the jazz music, and of course Max himself. It lightens my heart.
Hey Max.
Had a rough few weeks. Just wanted to say that I appreciate your videos that always manage to put a smile on my face.
I'm glad you're around.
Hope the next ones are better *crossfingers
@@TastingHistory Your friendly, interesting, entertaining videos are a go-to for anyone having no bad day.
I'm currently exhausted and so stressed I threw up my dinner. Your video, like always, give me a pleasant break. I imagine it's like having a grandma cook you dinner, except I never knew my grandmas.
You might never see this, but thanks for your work.
@@machematixSending good vibes. Hope you get through it soon. Lots of love
Were the next few weeks better bud?
Just found this channel today and now I’m binge watching a lot of these episodes. I’m hooked already and keep wanting more stories and history lessons.
Max Miller giving us a recipe we can't refuse.
My love for rigatoni can never be completely satisfied. My absolute favorite pasta shape of all time. Probably because it's what my Nuni uses, but regardless, I absolutely love it.
It's my favourite as well
Try tortiglioni or edicoladi..they are good aswell with meat sause..rigatoni are the best with pasta al forno or ragù.
I just made this for dinner! You’re definitely right about the house smelling amazing and it tasted delicious! Husband liked it as well. Definitely will make it again! 👌
Imagine coming home on a cold, rainy winter day and this soup is waiting for you. Would make everything better in an instant.
He was very generous with people who lived near his hideout in northern Wisconsin. My Grandma was a little girl at the time and she knew he liked fishing and would be very generous with money with the local people. No one ever forgot that.
Lol thousand of grandmas and grandpas knew al Capone In here.
@@oldironsides4107it shows how effective his winning of hearts and minds was, to have such high regard for him longer after his death.
Yes this is true as I live in N. WIS. He or staff bought food from local farmers and there was a small lake on the property where a seaplane could bring in liquor from Canada about 6 hours North. There were stone walls with areas for the guards to sit with guns. It used to be open for tours and had a cafe. The Lac Courte Orielles tribe now owns the property now and is exploring what to develop it into such as a camp ground. It is run down. His bookkeeper alledgly was Radio Joe who ran a bar /restaurant in Hayward, WI. He was said to have donated money to a local Priest who walked to his residence but was told that was the last donation so don't return.
You know what's crazy about how to hide out up in Wisconsin also which they did know Al Capone and they also knew baby face Nelson. It's crazy to think even though they weren't mobsters, they all knew each other.
Italisn soup is soup for the soul. All the veggies snd beef and pasta, beans. Wht all but the taste is the best. Magic.
I've been binge watching your videos since UA-cam suggested them to me. I'm genuinely in love with everything about them. The attention to detail, the love of history, and food! Can we talk about your ability to sound like you have nailed every language and accent?! You're so well put together, too!
Seriously ❤️
I'm feeling under the weather and came across this video. My husband got the ingredients and it's in the instant pot. Can't wait to try it with Maggi Würze! 😋😊
Can confirm tasty, and perfect for this rainy/cold season
Its been raining/snowing for the last three days. It is time for soup.
Soup is definitely our favorite in this house. Got an instapot a few years ago for christmas and since it's snowing that means soup every other day. Never get tired of it!
My favorite story about Capone wasn't the murders or the racketeering or the bootlegging or his tax evasion or his soup kitchen, it's that he lobbied Chicago for sell-by dates on milk.
It's a cute story about a terrible person, and though dating wasn't really even a widespread thing until the 50s in Europe, you can find milk bottle caps from 1930s Chicago, which do in fact have stamped on them the days of the week they are to be sold by. This is similar to the ties used for bread, which are different colors based on the day they were baked.
Capone was generally always a sweetheart. Its laws that make a person evil. not the person. Gangs were created to protect themselves from the government and people who tried to kill you cuz, racism. Everyone sells liquor here in Chicago now.
Was there a reason he did that? I mean milk DEFINTELY needed that considering how fast milk rots. but was it because it was too hard to sell it or something?
What’s the reason he lobbied for it do you know? I imagine it’s not just because of his good heart 😂
@@kaiserlowa His mother died from spoilt milk.
@@kaiserlowa It's not clear that he actually did; as with much stuff associated with gangsters, there's little evidence regarding it. The legend is that it was a family member or associate that bought or used or perhaps just had spoiled milk around.
‼️‼️ I LOVE the subtitles at 15:03 - “motions wildly” …hahaha😂😂‼️‼️
Max, I just wanted to say that it always warms my heart to see you being able to do this channel as a your job. I’m legit happy that you’re here doing this.
My grandmother once took a tour that went past Al's old house. The tour guide allowed the tourists to grab a rock from the crumbling building. So just like people have chunks of the Berlin Wall, my grandmother still has a chunk of Al Capone's house. Neat!
New to this channel and i love it. Max is a great host, with eloquent speech, and great comedic timing. I love the concept of tying history and food together. I like to watch while i eat my meals. Thanks for the great content.
You know it's a proper cook book when they tell you a) exactly which pasta to use and b) exactly which cheese to top it with.
So I have a cool story about Al Capone! When I was young we lived in a double house and the lady who owned it was born in 1897. Her son came home and saw that my mum was taking care of his mother like her own. He ended up treating us like family, especially when he saw that my mum and dad took care of her out of love and not for anything specific. As it turns out he owned a restaurant where Capone and the 'family' all ate and he was a made man. He bought me a race horse because he wanted it to pay for my college, and he showed off my mum and dad when they brought his mum to visit him. So, if you know me, you are only one step from Capone's food and Capone himself!
Edit: I didn't think this comment was going to get so much attention so let me give you some information
Hazel Booth was born 1897 and died in 1986 of a hip fracture. Her son, the made man, Thomas Booth Born 1906 and died Christmas Eve of 1981 in Chicago. He owned/managed the restaurant in Sportmans' Park, Capone's race track. He was a bald and kind man, who treated me like a granddaughter. I was born 1974 and so not as up to tick on details as I would like, but I remember a lot still since they were so important to my life in many ways.
As for the doubters....Doubt when I get paid millions for my story HAHAH!! Having stage 4 cancer money and clout mean nothing. I do love to share the stories that die with me though! enjoy looking stuff up!
@Three Strands Ministry - Any names, dates, or figures you met that anyone would actually know? What about the restaurant, does it still exist? If so, is it under the same ownership?
Additionally, I noticed you wrote “mum”, you in the UK? That’s not a common term for mother in the US, hence the question. 😜
Yes because in America we all spell mom with a u...
@@alexyoungberg5232 oh damn you’re right. It’s not like the U.S. is filled with immigrants or anything. Ya clown 🤡
@@alexyoungberg5232 Good catch! I only ever went to visit Al Capone's house in Cuba. I'm Canadian. It was February 1989 before the end of the Soviet Union so there were lots of fat Russians on the beach at Varedero.
@@LaDivinaLover there are so many ministries and mums in Chicago ya clown! Always believe everything you see! 🤡
As someone who lived in Chicago their whole life, the history of the Chicago Outfit is fascinating. The violence is never okay, but the fact they could've changed things and done lots of good for the community is astounding.
I'm italian and I'm always curious to what happened to italian recipes once they crossed the ocean. I can say that, taking off the rigatoni, this is a really common "spezzatino" in center Italy, some add some peas and it's usually more "overcooked" (softer potatoes) but it's basically that same thing.
Well, the bad news is the pasta mostly got overcooked when it crossed the ocean and people forgot to salt the water. A simple cheese sauce was bastardized into weirdly alfredo. The good news is thanks to the internet, Italian recipe sites with actual Italian recipes can be easily found, and ingredients are generally available in most cities. If you speak Spanish which many Americans do, you can read Italian and at least get the basic understanding with how similar the languages are
@@TinyScorpion44 In other words, Americans made it taste better which is why the best Italian food is found in America.
@@gatocles99 Sounds like someone who thinks Italian food is Ragu and thinks Olive Garden is fine dining. LOL!
@@thedullohanvids Yes, verbal abuse and insults are a sign of narcissism.... also a mental illness.
@@gatocles99 I was just joking around. I'm sorry if you took it as an actual insult
An underrated moment in ‘Downton Abbey’ is when Robert calls himself a “Chicago bootlegger” and the Dowager Countess says: “I don’t even know what that means.”
🤣 love her
She didn't know what a week-end was and probably never heard of Al Capone; for an "Edwardian" woman going around with French and Russian aristocrats, Lady Olivia had a lot to learn.
@@barrymalkin4404 Haha
@@barrymalkin4404 her name was Violet.
I love all of your silly voices and the way you sound so authentic when you speak other languages. Plus, you are very nice to look at and listen to.
Some of my mother's family were associates or knew associates of Tommy Lucchese in NYC. According to my mother, no one had a bad word to say about Al Capone and he was well respected by the families in NYC. Also, all of Al Capone's associates had to "adopt" a homeless, unemployed man and provide him with housing, food, clothing, medical care, and anything else that was needed. Like all of us, Al Capone had his faults and his virtues. I think he should be remembered for his virtues.
I also think my pal Jeffrey Epstein should be remembered by his virtues
@@StephanyMaracais that the same Jeffery Epstein that didn’t kill himself?
@@StephanyMaracasadly he had none
@@StephanyMaracaI feel like other names would be better to pick. Did Epstein actually do anything good for anyone?
My grandmother used to still do a lot of canning for food preservation from her farm. She referred to the jar sizes as cans of (a specific fruit or vegetable) and the tomato can was the 32oz one. I'm not sure if this is accurate or not, but when you referenced simply "2 cans of tomatoes" that's how she worked recipes.
They were, as I remember, relish, pickles, tomatoes, and apples. For 16, 24, 32, and 64 oz respectively.
Love watching your channel with my mom because we love historical and vintage recipes. We definitely want to get your cook book too!
Here in Argentina we have a plate that's very similar, is called "guiso" and it's everything that you said and used but more commonly done with oregano instead of thyme and no mint and with bell pepper added along the onions, and the meat is diced in small cubes. It goes along with any kind of medium sized pasta
I'm not sure if this is possible, but it would be great to have a whole series about gangsters favorite meals.
I would totally watch that.
I agree! Living in Vegas and worked in a restaurant that’s from Chicago’s old days I both hear stories from the GM and how some recipes came to be “influenced” by mobsters back in the day and still today.
Hell yes!
Joe Biden loves his pudding cups.
Tony Soprano's gabagool.
I LOVE the interplay between cooking shows online. Quite by accident, I came across DYLAN'S vintage recipes; and while his delivery is hilarious, I was very pleased that he referred his viewers to my own longtime
culinary HERO, "Tasting History With Max Miller".
It was kind of like dining at a restaurant and having the owner say, "Glad ya liked it. But have ya heard of Max Miller? HE'S great, too." Gave me a quick rush of the Warm 'n' Fuzzies.
Back from a 3 week long vacation with no computer and this is the first video I see! WOO!
Where was vacation?
@@TastingHistory England! not super exciting, I know, but it is in the Fens on the east coast where King John's caravan was famously lost taking a shortcut through the marshes!
@@firebert123 it’s one of my favorite areas in the world! I think Ely is my favorite cathedral and I love the story of the outlaws who fought William the Conqueror in the Fens.
@@TastingHistory I didn't get to this time, but I always try to visit Wales as well. North Wales specifically, the Snowdonia region. Supposedly where King Arthur's legend happened, and the mountains that were the insparation for Tolkien's Misty Mountains, AND the mountains Edmund Hillary practiced on for his Everest trek!
Max, I just want to say thank you for doing what you do. I know you probably won’t see this but on the off chance that you do I want you to know that I really enjoy and look forward to your videos. I grew up helping my mom in the kitchen and was interested in cooking from a very young age. I was a professional cook for a long time and have loved cooking at home since I was a teenager. Your videos are always very interesting and entertaining and sometimes they remind me of the love I have for cooking and this one did that. So thank you, Max. Keep doing what you do. I love you man.
Anything with tomatoes and herbs like the ones used here is always guaranteed to be a hit. Gosh I like stews like these and soups so so much. Thanks for this video!
This morning I thought to myself, "meh. Tuesday." Then I thought, "new episode of Tasting History... that makes Tuesday a lot better!"
Always love the concept of macaroni soup. Now of course being a Hong Konger, the version we refer to is closer to Wedding soup: Light chicken Broth, macaroni, mixed veggie, spam. Feels more like wonton soup. Serving it hot is real good when you have the flu.
My friend made that for me once, when I was an undergrad in England. It's actually incredible when you're ill, should be a more widely published thing!
Greetings from Mexico!! Really enjoy how you go all over the world for every episode.
Your accents, impressions, and ability to speak and understand different languages really add to the craftsmanship of your show! Great content!
During the Depression and again during the Second World War, my grandma made something very like this, though without the pasta. Apparently, there would be a large pot on the "Workwell Grate", a cast iron cooking range here in the UK. From the end of September to the start of April, the stew bubbled away day after day. In the oven, there would be potatoes baking all day. After a meal, the pot would be topped up with whatever my grandma could get hold of that day. I imagine that the family must have got a little bored of the same meal every day, but at least they were never without food. Neighbours who were even poorer than my family were never forgotten either, and grandma would always squeeze a bit extra from the pot to tide them over.
Sounds like the age Ole perpetual stew. Never goes bad and can feed a family.
It’s amazing, with the “characters” we have in our daily news today, Al Capone looks like an absolute Saint!
I love all of your videos. My two favorite things are history and cooking and I like to try out the recipes on my family. Please don't ever stop making these videos. You are the best!!
Still at it every Tuesday (and sometimes Fridays)
Glad you partnered with Babbel! A different language is a different vision of life. Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. The more doors we open to other cultures by learning these languages, the more we open up ourselves! Thank you for promoting Babbel, Max! Hope it inspires more people to explore the world of linguistics.
Wise words Kim! 👍
I only speak traditional americanese👴
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 well done! Charming, funny, informative and interesting! I'm an instant fan!! And a good soup recipe to boot - win win win!!
You gotta love Italians for providing numbered lists with diagrams of specific pastas hand illustrated with the detail and accuracy of a Motor Parts or Medical Textbook
I love the ambience with the music of the period playing in the background as you tasted the yummy-looking soup.❤
You really should be doing voiceovers and audiobook narration, dude. You're 1920s news guy is excellent
Reminds me of grandma's gozinta soup. Whatever is in the kitchen that day gozinta the soup.
Thanks! I have dabbled a bit in past
I grew up in Chicago. Remember hearing stories about his soup kitchen years after it closed. People remembered going with pots and getting soup to feed their family.
If you're looking for a culture to cook from, perhaps acadian cuisine. A rich history and food inspired from so many things, like french(obviously) and mi'kmaq cuisine, as well as the experiences from settling in unforgiving land in atlantic canada. It would be interesting to learn more about the connection between acadian food and cajun food, as the cajuns were displaced acadians from the "french and Indian war"
Zuppa Tuscana, (Tuscan soup) has got to be my favorite Italian (or Mediterranean) soup. Eating some right now!
Great video. I had an idea, Max. I'd love to see famous people in history and their favorite meal (or single dish). Like - January 12th, so and so's birthday and they loved Pavlova for instance. Or Caesar died on () and he always loved Roman iced fruit. Thanks, Max.
That's a cool idea, this way Max would never run out of material. Not that he is likely to but it could be good for some fillers.
Caesar has one of the most known death dates of any historical figure, why was his the one with no date and the made up one not xD?
@@leahdavis9434 Because I hadn't had coffee yet and the only thing that my brain would come up with is the phrase ides of March. Is that the 15th? The 16th? I had nothing but fog going. So, I punted :D
Ah, this is not a generic italian soup, this is "spezzatino" (literally mens "little thorn pieces") and its just delicious and so simple to make, not energy and time-consuming at all. Usually its not just made with tomato soup, but also broth. I cooked this quite regularly when I was working in Germany last year, saved me many hours of time.
PS Don't add pasta, the potato is just starchy enough.
What kind of monster does not add pasta?
food can never be too starchy.
@@gatocles99 please, I'm italian, I know what I'm talking about. Pasta just doesn't add anything to this recipe (apart from heaviness), trust me (plus you can save it for another future dish)
@@simonecasi9753 I get that your eating disorder causes you to fear carbohydrates.
But the rest of us are not mentally ill.
And we don't mind noodles in our soup.
Calories are necessary to be healthy.
@@gatocles99 Oh, what a mature and not at all childish answer. Guess it's clear who won the argument ;)
@@simonecasi9753 An irrational fear of carbohydrates is a serious mental illness.
Instead of being smug, get help.
I absolutely love the way you made yourself sound like an old time radio announcer. You really have a program that's not only interesting but fun!
Being that my godmother was half Italian/half Bulgarian ive eaten this kind of soup/stew on many occasions- she was cooking something all day every day- pastry's, breads, pasta, stews, soups, hot cereal, hot grain cereal ( oats, wheat ), pasta with meat sauce, pot roast etc. And my grandmother cooked Southern style food, my mother cooked all styles- and in this atmosphere i learned to cook also-
My wife (a sous chef) writes the menus for the local college. I'm going to try to get her to serve this.
My love for food and history comes alive in your videos. Keep up the phenomenal work.
Interesting and cozy video about some serious and not so pleasant times. The soup looks delicious. Thank you Max Miller.
Thanks Max, another interesting video and another inviting recipe.
I'm here to also brag about the Tasting-History-themed dinner I prepared last Saturday, which was a *huge* success. Friends were delighted, there was no leftover (and I served 8 different dishes!). Once the book is out, cooking your recipes will be much easier - and I do recommend every follower to try at least once. Surfing across centuries by trying different food is truly entertaining and... tasty. Thank you!
@@gwennorthcutt421 Sure:
Parthian Chicken
Chewtes on flesshe day
Boar with cameline sauce
Pomodori all'erbette
Torta d'erbe comuni
Punch romaine
Semlor
All recommended.
Plus, a friend prepared Club Sandwiches, because his are awesome and they are on the menu by default 😀
I hope that sometime you could do a show about the late Diana Southwood Kennedy, who for 50 years lived, traveled, and worked in Mexico learning to cook dishes of many regional cuisines and collecting food lore. Apparently she has been credited with popularizing Mexican food more than any other single individual.
I believe a spray is a small handful or bundle. I sprig would be more like a single stalk of the herb.
I went right to the store to grab the stuff to make this and was not disappointed. Thank you for all the super appetizing recipes, Max. I can't wait for my copy of the Cookbook to come in!
I have learned so much from this episode. I loved the way you, Max, tried to sound gangster. It made it very fun😊. This is probably one of my favorite episodes. I am even going to do my nails in a Mafia theme😁
I don't usually comment on ads, but that tea Max served at the beginning of that ad alone is enough to make me consider them when I resume studying Japanese. 👀
Wow. I got so immersed in the story, I had forgotten about the Soup kitchen by the time you mentioned it! Love the show!
mint is a common ingredient in Italian-American soup recipes, but only a little. In the northeast US it was used to "brighten" the flavors, because access to citrus of any kind was rare.