Location pins: 1. J Cafe (Israeli food & grocery): maps.app.goo.gl/kkbs1mwMty3eVfXa7 2. Le Dalat (Vietnamese): maps.app.goo.gl/kffeBDkyGbpjzAVQ9 3. El Mercado** (Meat and Cheese): maps.app.goo.gl/eHbWXpN5zu4tAeqz5 4. Ratsstube (German): maps.app.goo.gl/tsfUieVSdyVN7pWv8 5. Easy Burger (Burgers): maps.app.goo.gl/encmA7oGrbFap9FX6 ** = I do need to issue a qualifier. We choose our locations carefully and are extremely proud of the fact that many places we highlight see a nice boost in business thanks to our viewers. So I feel like I owe it to you to tell you that our experience while filming here was the worst we've had on the channel, ever, in just about every facet...the food quality was a huge disappointment, and after seeing how the manager treated his own staff, we nearly cut the segment from the video entirely, and kept it in just because of how great Kit was (our server) and we wanted to at least give him a quick shout-out. This is not the place or forum for me to go into further detail on this subject but it's important for me to make clear- for the first time ever in an OTR video- this is not an endorsement of a place we chose to film. I'm certainly not saying "don't go here"- just, don't view this as our recommendation.
Humans species that we evolved from did not hunt regularly. You showed and image of the extinct supsspecies called Neanderthal. They did eat almost only meat, but we are not closely related to the Neanderthals. Our branch of humans comes from Africa. In Africa hunting would have been a net loss of energy. Imagine running down an antelope for a week, till it dies or collapses due to exhaustion, and then stab it with a spear. This was something humans could only do during periods of plenty; the berry seasons. Humans would then have enough energy to hunt. The meat would then give the necessary fats, proteins, and minerals that humans needed, after living most of the year with nutrient deficiencies. Humans have the natural ability to adapt the body's salt content. The problem with not having enough salt is that we have adapted to high salt. When you stop eating salt the blood stream will stop being salt, but not the cells. With a low blood salt level the cell will start to absorb water trough osmosis till the cells burst and you die. Too much salt leads to kidney failure. The kidney uses high salt concentrations and the resulting osmosis to filter the blood stream. Not exactly sure how that happens, but it does. These kidney cells have an extreme salt content, which makes them very sensitive as it is. Increasing the salt levels can then start to kill these cells. But the body has the ability to change the salt concentration within the cells of the body if the process happens slowly. This is what the body will try to do if you have very high or low salt levels, but the process is far from being quick enough. Adapting the body to new salt levels is super slow. Humans did not consume much salt before we learned to speak. When we learned to speak we also invented the bow and arrow, which was used to hunt animals with far greater ease. Leading to an increase in salt consumption and survivability. This happened about 40 years ago. This would have lead to increased blood salt levels so much that farmers would have to add salt to their food about 30 thousand years later, when farming was fully embraced.
Oh I absolutely love smoked sprats. Smoked sprat pate is even better than smoked mackerel pate. What a shame that most of them are produced by nazi Russia 😢 so I stopped buying it! And I’m well surprised by you know old Slovak folk tale
My Mum's father was a pioneering aviator in Papua New Guinea, flying cargo in and out of highland villages after WWII. Mum told me a story about her Dad finding a little boy with an Appendicitis when he landed in a village. He flew the boy back to Port Moresby so he could go to hospital for surgery. After he recovered they took him shopping to buy something to take back to the village. They told him he could pick anything he wanted. He apparently chose a giant bag of salt. He was welcomed as a hero when he landed. Even as a child, the boy well knew the value of salt. Thank you for another great documentary. Well researched and very informative.
I am a pilot in Papua new guinea right now. Basically every flight into remote communities has several kilos of salt taken by our passengers in their cargo.
I’m only 12 minutes in and my mind is BLOWN. Thank you, this is fantastic. Another example of how UA-cam creators are better than anything traditional media turns out.
I am annoyed by those “who’s here cramming for an exam” comments because I am so around just to learn! And I love/hate the algorithm. It brings me new amazing things but also guides me to the weirdest rabbit holes
History Channel (when it wasn’t full blown Ancient Aliens TV) did this around a decade ago. One of those story of mankind series. Pretty good. Couldn’t get through 5 minutes of the presenters voice.
What a fantastic video. As a child, my mom would tell me stories before bed and my absolute favorite story was the story of salt. I remember a king that would trade one bag of gold, one bag of silver and a bag of jewels for a single bag of salt... Thanks for the nostalgia.
Beautiful but a little distracting from the narration. Nevertheless I like the connection with Mozart, who was born in the town of “Salt Mountain” - Salzburg.
Addit: Having just finished watching the last half of your salt documentary (after watching the first half in the early hours of today), I loudly proclaim to anybody who will listen, that this doco is your Phd treatise. Thank you, Dr Adam. I'm sure your Professorship is just around the corner. Your channel and your team's work is without peer on UA-cam. It educates me and gives me immense pleasure.
@@justinmorgan2126 Metaphor might be a better term than euphemism, though euphemism qualifies because thesis and doctorate were used by me in a slang usage (one of the seven types of euphemism) My advice is for you to not assume everybody is always literal. When you ASSUME you make an ASS out of yoU and ME.
Other than having something to eat every day, I couldn't care less about food lore, but salt is much more than a food thing. It IS an important element in human civilization.
In England all the place names that end in wich are roman towns founded on top of salt mines. lead salt pans were used by the Romans at Middlewich, Nantwich and Northwich and excavations at Middlewich and Nantwich have revealed extensive salt-making settlements.
@@marvinmauldin4361a mere oportunistic person that took over the knowledgde of others like your inexistent cooks and other tales made for glorify inexisten nationalisms . 😂 keep with your fairy tale, but remember lionheart only spent less than 6 months in the uk 😂
@@xavisanchez7522 Your comment doesn't make sense and is full of spelling mistakes... also why mention Richard the Lionheart, he was Norman and did not speak English, which is pretty common knowledge for Brits, and whats that got to do with Earl Sandwich wanting to eat meat while playing cards???
Here in Indonesia, there is an old taboo that a house has to have rice, cooking oil and salt, or the house will bring misfortune. Even after online food delivery right now we have in urban, we still keep those three in our house.
very interesting. there is an old tradition in Finland that is similar! whenever someone moves into a new house or apartment, their friends have to gift them bread and salt. usually this is done at the house warming party, but the idea I think is similar: there is no life without salt (or bread)
So, Indonesian culture considers salt & rice to be lucky, also. The West even has the tradition of oil conveying a blessing. The more we know, the more interesting it all is.
@@ajknaup3530 I never believe it though, i think it is because when someone doesnt have anything to eat, they can always cook the rice with cooking oil and add salt, the very basic of fried rice. So, if I dont have rice, cooking oil and salt in my house, then according to the old saying, I am beyond poor 😀
@@jusjengkol "doesnt have anything to eat, they can always cook the rice with cooking oil and add salt," Um, that makes no sense. If you have rice and oil and salt, You HAVE something to eat.....I think that is the point. I'm extremely poor, but I follow this rule as much as possible. Many times, I have nothing but rice and oil and salt. I feel rich if I have a big bag of rice. I also have chickens for their eggs. Eggs are gross, but they are free protein.
@@jusjengkol oh, I get it; you don't believe in the "good luck" part. I understand that, but isn't it "good luck" to always have food, even if it's just rice?
Add grain to the mix and you have the three products of Sampo, legendary "MacGuffin" from Kalevala (Finnish/Karelian mythology.) In Kalevala, Sampo is kind of a milling machine, forged from metal by hero-god Smith Ilmarinen. It has three sides, each able to create one product out of thin air. Traditional order is "grain-salt-gold" which does make sense when you measure the value of them through "price-per-pound." But with the Slovak story in mind, I can imagine an Aesop where a greedy ruler can only choose one of the three functions, chooses gold, and then his realm starves when there is no food or salt to buy.
Fantastic presentation! Enjoyed every bit of it. Your passion for the subject is apparent and makes watching/listening enjoyable. Looking forward to the next one and to seeing this channel grow!
I'm going to need to watch this video 6 or 10 more times to actually absorb all the information. You're amazing. I look forward to your videos every week.
The mention of Sůl nad Zlato (EN: Salt over Gold, or Salt above Gold) makes me as a Czech really happy, thank you so much for mentioning it. A couple things that I should mention about the Czech folk tale version of this story, one which was first written down by Božena Němcová in her folk tail collection and was later made into the Byl Jednou Jeden Král... movie: 1. in the movie, there is a curse placed on the Kingdom after the King commands all salt to be dumped into the river, to show that salt is "worthless to him". This backfires, but actually for a different reason: no one can enjoy eating savory foods without salt anymore, so they try to eat sweet things but get tired of it after a while. 2. instead of being taken in by the Salt god, Maruška is taken in by a magical handmaiden, who lets her watch the events on her Father's court unfold through a magical mirror. This same magical handmaiden then also takes in the King after he almost dies in the swamp, being saved by the handmaiden. 3. Maruška never returns to the palace, giving her father the bottomless wooden salt bowl before he leaves the handmaids house in the swamp. She instead marries a fisherman that lives close to the swamp. 4. the only person who refuses to ever ever give up their salt, that being the widow Kubátová, is ironically who the king marries upon returning, after he has been taught his lesson and gained some common sense (or as we call it here "selský rozum" - directly translates to "farmer's wisdom". But that's trivia. Its amazing how much a folk tale can change from country to country, I haven't ever heard of the "Maruška marries the son of the Salt god" version of it until now xD. But it actually makes a lot of sense given how other Czech fairy tale adaptations such as The Prince and the Evening Star (CZ: Princ a Večernice) show a motif of marrying to a son/daughter of a God. It really makes me appreciate our Slavic folk stories more so than I would otherwise, since I take it for granted so often. And I would also be interested in what other people living or who've grown up in Slavic countries have as their variations on these fairy tales, so please comment down bellow if you have unique stuff you want to mention. More the merrier!
also P.S.: The mention of that Norse tale reminded me of one story in Fimfárum, where a salt mill grinds infinite salt, but is unable to be stopped at one point and ends up sinking in a boat and that's how it explains why the ocean is salty. Another reason to add the the list of proofs that Europeans cant stop talking about salt, we really do love that shit here...perhaps too much as you said the Czech and Hungarians are tied for second largest salt consumption per capita.
In Romania we have a similar fairy tale: a king demands that his daughters tell him how much they love him. The eldest daughter says that she loves him like honey. The middle daughter says that she loves him like sugar. The youngest daughter says she loves him as much as salt in a dish. The king is offended by the youngest daughter's comparison and he no longer wants her at his court. The youngest daughter is driven away and she works in the kitchen of another king. His son, the prince, falls in love with her because she cooks so well. Her father is invited to the wedding, but he doesn't recognize the bride. The bride insists on cooking dinner for her father herself. She seasons the soup and the roast with honey and sugar. The king is offended because his food doesn't taste good. Then the bride reveals that she is his daughter and explains her comparison to him again. The father realizes that his youngest daughter was wise and apologizes for his behavior.
Just found your channel… it’s perfect 👍🏻 I love documentaries like this. I immediately knew I had to stop what I was doing to know the history of salt 🧂 😂
I love how you tie things together in your video's, your research is very in-depth and you have a natural ability to tell a story and this video is no exception. When I first started watching I was wondering if you had read the book Salt, I read his book Cod then Salt and they are both excellent reads and then you mentioned it, much to my enjoyment. Thanks for doing all these wonderful excursions into the food history of the world!
Well, there goes my morning. Time to go make a breakfast stir fry and hang out with yall. My parents immigrated from north Germany so im basically a salt expert and connoisseur
@OTRontheroad it was nice seeing it. Potatos and sauerkraut is the standard. We're from the north coast so we have salted fish as much if not more than sausages though That restaurant was really charming. You should have included Würze in the condiment hall of fame you listed, I know Maggi is pretty popular in lots of east asia
Extremely Welsh genetics. Also imagine yourself in the early days, you trek hundreds of miles across barren wastelands. You see water, as you have seen before, but you need to make sure this is the right place to call home. Bending down, you put your face to the dirt, licking the earth. Mm, yes. We settle here.
I sat down with my phone and told my gf “ ohh a new video on salt ! “ she turned and very straight faced said - “ you know I love you … but some days your as dull as shit …” hahaha and she laughed at me .
I remember learning the world "salty" as in "a salty person" I didn't quite understand why it was something negative since in Spanish being salty means being happy and cheerful
If you're still curious, it's a reference to tears. It's kinda weird, since all of our fluid secretions (saliva, urine, sweat, blood) have salt in them, but there it is. Apparently, it's attested in English as far back as 1938.
This fantastic OTR Team....as usual. A fact filled foray into the history of the most basic of ingredients . Great show, I’ve come to expect nothing less.
I had an early portable Video Cassette Recorder (Panasonic) that had a button labeled, "OTR", which stood for "One Touch Recording". (In the tape recorder days, you used to have to press both "Record" and "Play" to start recording. This was to prevent accidentally recording over something you had previously recorded. Audio tape recorders had this feature as well.) And every time I see "OTR", I understand that it really means, "One Touch Recording". Thanks Obama! Thanks Panasonic.
This young man is absolutely showing out with the historical accuracy "And for the people of the Americas" Then proceeds to talk about Indians That bought me way more joy than it probably should have He then discussed places in the Middle East and shows pictures of dark people These small details did not go unnoticed and they are appreciated
Please watch our video on Rice for my 20-minute rant and segment about West African contributions to cuisine....you definitely hit on one of the main reasons this channel exists- to try to tell honest stories and not just repeat what's been written by the few cultures that get to write the history books. Thanks for the kind comment. Also "young man" is much appreciated a couple weeks after turning 40.
Wow! This is new! I have been binging on your channel so much, I assumed it was old at first. Amazing subject, I am fascinated by it so much that I do spend extra cash to get any salt that sounds interesting.
my life has completely changed after watching this. I had no idea. I feel like before this video I was missing a huge piece of a puzzle that I needed. Foundational knowledge right here.
Since this vid is about salt, maybe future topic you can talk about black & white pepper. Luckily, they said one of the best pepper come from area around here, eastern of Thailand/Cambodia/Vietnam.
I love these Videos. I like food videos and history, but this is even a bit philosophical. You combine those topics greatly. They tell a story. Always one more interesting than one would've guessed! It even has some vibes with the music in the background in the intro/outro. Certainly one of the best series on UA-cam. Keep it up mate!
This was an amazing video! It reminded me of a trip I took to a small town in Chile called Cahuil, where people still harvest salt the same way it's been done for centuries, and this salt is very appreciated across the country for cooking. Nowadays they also add herbs and spices to their salt to diversify their products. Greetings from Chile and thanks again for your video!
does salary also come from salt? I remember I watched some other channel where they mentioned soldiers in Rome were given portions of salt as compensation for their service.
I enjoy your deep dives into culinary history. Salt is an intense, interesting topic. I grew up loving bagoong in Manila. Your objective, fact-based presentations are appreciated. Salt is essential to my existence. I often get up from a deep sleep at 3am to walk to the kitchen & indulge in a salt treat.
Is it any food region not represented in Bangkok? In every episode there's a new restaurant/store from wherever with characteristic food culture that just happens to be there. Find it fascinating.
I'm glad it comes across that way- unfortunately it is a bit limiting in what we can showcase. Bangkok's a terrific melting pot, but there are definite weaknesses; there's a reason we can't really highlight much of anything from South or Central America. There's little Cambodian, Indonesian or Malay Peranakan, weirdly enough nothing (at all!) Slavic, barely any Chinese that isn't southern, and no African cuisine outside of Nigerian and Ethiopian. But still, considering the density and affordability of what it does have, it's about as good as we could hope for and makes this channel viable.
@@OTRontheroad Interesting. I live in a global food city as well (Melbourne, Australia) and I guess that is all about immigration patterns. We have Somali food here because of the UN refugees and that is amazing too, as is that Italian influence in their food as well. Kinda like how you can get Somali food in Minnesota of all places because that is where they clustered and settled. And like Thai food, Melbourne has had a global food influence (third wave cafe culture, and where the food and coffee style mimicked by McCafe comes from. Which was in turn started by the Italian and Greek WWII refugee immigrants bringing their cafe culture). However, you are doing ALOT for Thai tourism for foodies like me 😂 - soooo tempting to visit Bangkok. Came for Siracha video, stayed for the amazing food and the history behind it!
Thank you for backing up the assertion I've made for decades that the reason we think of salt "bringing out" the flavor of food is because our palates became so used to it from preservation. Food tastes like food; when you add salt, it takes on the taste of salt. I find it surprising how many people seem to think food has "no flavor" if it doesn' taste like salt. Of course it has flavor - its OWN flavor. But you'd be amazed how violently some people will insist that's wrong, to the point of getting very insulting about it. Go figure.
Palestine is a name invented by the Roman empire to mock the people in the area, and what you are calling Palestine didn't exist as an idea until after the second world war. So no, Jericho was not in Palestine...
Another great video, you really do your research and I like how you have a list of your UA-cam sources for people who are interested in diving deeper. May I also say that you have an amazing narrative voice. I’m sure you’re not interested, but you would be a great narrator for audiobooks!
All videos of this channel are high quality with full of useful and interesting content. I’m so grateful that you choose Thailand as your base out of another countries.
17:17 Austrian here. some of those stories about salt, the one about the kings and the princess and the other one about the salt mill are well known here as well.
Thank you for this interesting and educational content. Growing up with the discovery channel this goes way beyond and I don’t have to sell my soul to the cable company for one interesting channel.
Thank you for your travels. It allows me to sit at home and visit places worldwide within hours. The knowledge I've acquired is greater than many college educations if you watch just a few hours a week.
I have a business card of a high ranking government official from sometime in the 1930s in China. His job title was "Central Administrator of Salt" and "Vice Minister of Finance." When I first received this card, I was intrigued. I became further intrigued as I researched about this man and discovered that several of China's high ranking officials at that time doubled as salt administrators. Although I knew about the origin of the word salary and about ancient Roman soldiers being paid in salt, I didn't realize the political and economic importance of salt beyond that. I soon found myself digging deeper and learning about the French Revolution and Ghandi as well. Needless to say, I appreciate this video and how well it was done.
Please never stop talking about mythology, religious aspects of things etc. I’ve finally found a channel combining the things I love the most : History, religion/theology, and food :’) I’m slowly building you a fanbase in France, you are the best discovery of this year in what I’m concerned!
Location pins:
1. J Cafe (Israeli food & grocery): maps.app.goo.gl/kkbs1mwMty3eVfXa7
2. Le Dalat (Vietnamese): maps.app.goo.gl/kffeBDkyGbpjzAVQ9
3. El Mercado** (Meat and Cheese): maps.app.goo.gl/eHbWXpN5zu4tAeqz5
4. Ratsstube (German): maps.app.goo.gl/tsfUieVSdyVN7pWv8
5. Easy Burger (Burgers): maps.app.goo.gl/encmA7oGrbFap9FX6
** = I do need to issue a qualifier. We choose our locations carefully and are extremely proud of the fact that many places we highlight see a nice boost in business thanks to our viewers. So I feel like I owe it to you to tell you that our experience while filming here was the worst we've had on the channel, ever, in just about every facet...the food quality was a huge disappointment, and after seeing how the manager treated his own staff, we nearly cut the segment from the video entirely, and kept it in just because of how great Kit was (our server) and we wanted to at least give him a quick shout-out. This is not the place or forum for me to go into further detail on this subject but it's important for me to make clear- for the first time ever in an OTR video- this is not an endorsement of a place we chose to film. I'm certainly not saying "don't go here"- just, don't view this as our recommendation.
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If u haven't done potato or coffee... please can you
@@ArtingFromScratch we haven't, but there is a good segment on the history of coffee in this video: ua-cam.com/video/Ft59HXTGOqg/v-deo.html
Humans species that we evolved from did not hunt regularly.
You showed and image of the extinct supsspecies called Neanderthal.
They did eat almost only meat, but we are not closely related to the Neanderthals.
Our branch of humans comes from Africa.
In Africa hunting would have been a net loss of energy.
Imagine running down an antelope for a week, till it dies or collapses due to exhaustion, and then stab it with a spear.
This was something humans could only do during periods of plenty; the berry seasons.
Humans would then have enough energy to hunt.
The meat would then give the necessary fats, proteins, and minerals that humans needed, after living most of the year with nutrient deficiencies.
Humans have the natural ability to adapt the body's salt content.
The problem with not having enough salt is that we have adapted to high salt.
When you stop eating salt the blood stream will stop being salt, but not the cells.
With a low blood salt level the cell will start to absorb water trough osmosis till the cells burst and you die.
Too much salt leads to kidney failure.
The kidney uses high salt concentrations and the resulting osmosis to filter the blood stream.
Not exactly sure how that happens, but it does.
These kidney cells have an extreme salt content, which makes them very sensitive as it is.
Increasing the salt levels can then start to kill these cells.
But the body has the ability to change the salt concentration within the cells of the body if the process happens slowly.
This is what the body will try to do if you have very high or low salt levels, but the process is far from being quick enough.
Adapting the body to new salt levels is super slow.
Humans did not consume much salt before we learned to speak.
When we learned to speak we also invented the bow and arrow, which was used to hunt animals with far greater ease.
Leading to an increase in salt consumption and survivability.
This happened about 40 years ago.
This would have lead to increased blood salt levels so much that farmers would have to add salt to their food about 30 thousand years later, when farming was fully embraced.
Oh I absolutely love smoked sprats. Smoked sprat pate is even better than smoked mackerel pate.
What a shame that most of them are produced by nazi Russia 😢 so I stopped buying it!
And I’m well surprised by you know old Slovak folk tale
My Mum's father was a pioneering aviator in Papua New Guinea, flying cargo in and out of highland villages after WWII. Mum told me a story about her Dad finding a little boy with an Appendicitis when he landed in a village. He flew the boy back to Port Moresby so he could go to hospital for surgery. After he recovered they took him shopping to buy something to take back to the village. They told him he could pick anything he wanted. He apparently chose a giant bag of salt. He was welcomed as a hero when he landed. Even as a child, the boy well knew the value of salt. Thank you for another great documentary. Well researched and very informative.
I am a pilot in Papua new guinea right now. Basically every flight into remote communities has several kilos of salt taken by our passengers in their cargo.
Fantastic, thank you. x
This was most enlightening 😮 ❤ this makes me glad to pay to use internet.
Rest in peace uncle bosey- he was eaten by cannibals!
he just hoped it was cocaine, he didnt know.
I was going to make a joke about salt but, Na.
and you win the comment section
Unusually witty joke for a UA-cam poster!
😂😂
Isnt salt NaCl ?
@@koblmo
Sodium is the point, if you get it, you get it.
Me, ready to go to sleep...."Wait, maybe I should find out where salt comes from first"😅
Clearly can’t go to sleep without knowing the history of salt 🧂 😊
Hahaha facts!
UA-cam does this to me
Same. 😅
The story of my every night… 🥱
These history videos are absolute gems. In a way it teaches us more about humanity than the food.
I’m only 12 minutes in and my mind is BLOWN. Thank you, this is fantastic. Another example of how UA-cam creators are better than anything traditional media turns out.
You gotta love youtube , one minute im watching a video on the Troubles in Northern Ireland , next im watching the History Of Salt 😂😂
I was watching a Warhammer 40K lore video, and here I am now.
I was watching a discussion about the history of the rona people before 😂
Omg I'm so glad I'm not the only yt documentary nerd!!! I need to find me a gf that is the same 🤔 😂
I am annoyed by those “who’s here cramming for an exam” comments because I am so around just to learn! And I love/hate the algorithm. It brings me new amazing things but also guides me to the weirdest rabbit holes
My Watch History looks insane so I definitely can relate 😂
How could you forget the incredible cultural impact of “These pretzels are making me thirsty!” ?!
Never thought I'd be watching nearly an hour long video about salt, but this was fascinating!
Do one with sugar... Starting and history of sugarcane cultivation. Love these documentary
Purified sugars are relatively new inventions. Honey, that’s an old one.
Sidney mintz has a really good book about sugar and it’s links to power and colonialism. Recommend
sugar feeds our brains, lowering iq is due to lack of frsh sugar eaten by humans #ketokilledmybrain
Eating sea salted potato chips while watching this video.. amazing experience
Quick! OTR dropped a 1 hour video on salt.
How salty.
And my Fiance groaned and rolled her eyes and I told her .. “ read your book! “
My kind of entertainment, bring it on.
I couldn’t stand the bloody accent so only managed 30 secs
History Channel (when it wasn’t full blown Ancient Aliens TV) did this around a decade ago. One of those story of mankind series. Pretty good. Couldn’t get through 5 minutes of the presenters voice.
What a fantastic video. As a child, my mom would tell me stories before bed and my absolute favorite story was the story of salt. I remember a king that would trade one bag of gold, one bag of silver and a bag of jewels for a single bag of salt... Thanks for the nostalgia.
For those who want to know, the song playing in this video is Mozart's 20th Piano Concerto in D Minor K. 466
21st Piano Concerto, 2nd movement. K. 467.
If Mozart wrote the song playing at 23:40 then I'm a dutch uncle, time stamps please!!
It's not a song.... there's no singing.
Beautiful but a little distracting from the narration. Nevertheless I like the connection with Mozart, who was born in the town of “Salt Mountain” - Salzburg.
@@louisehaley5105 Actually, Salzburg means "Salt Castle", Salzberg would be "Salt Mountain". For reference; I am Austrian.
Addit:
Having just finished watching the last half of your salt documentary (after watching the first half in the early hours of today), I loudly proclaim to anybody who will listen, that this doco is your Phd treatise.
Thank you, Dr Adam.
I'm sure your Professorship is just around the corner.
Your channel and your team's work is without peer on UA-cam. It educates me and gives me immense pleasure.
check out fall of civilizations, you might like that channel too
You should read salt by mark kurlanski, there’s so much more to how salt has shaped society.
It cannot be a PhD thesis because it presents absolutely nothing that is not already known.
@@justinmorgan2126 have you heard of euphemism.
Wakey wakey Dr Justin.
@@justinmorgan2126 Metaphor might be a better term than euphemism, though euphemism qualifies because thesis and doctorate were used by me in a slang usage (one of the seven types of euphemism)
My advice is for you to not assume everybody is always literal.
When you ASSUME you make an ASS out of yoU and ME.
You’re my fave food history channel . I can get bored of cooking shows but food history is just right up my autistic alley !
Other than having something to eat every day, I couldn't care less about food lore, but salt is much more than a food thing. It IS an important element in human civilization.
The book he mention: Salt by Mark Kurlansky is a good read. If you love history, you will like it.
Absolutely fantastic book. So is Cod: A biography of the fish that changed the world
@@lynnwalton814 Yep. The Cod is a good book too. It shows how humans abuse our natural resources.
In England all the place names that end in wich are roman towns founded on top of salt mines. lead salt pans were used by the Romans at Middlewich, Nantwich and Northwich and excavations at Middlewich and Nantwich have revealed extensive salt-making settlements.
Sandwich. Yum.
Sal Sapid Omnia
Sandwich, U.K., immortalized by the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is close to the coast, but by U.S. standards, everything in England is close to the coast.
@@marvinmauldin4361a mere oportunistic person that took over the knowledgde of others like your inexistent cooks and other tales made for glorify inexisten nationalisms . 😂 keep with your fairy tale, but remember lionheart only spent less than 6 months in the uk 😂
@@xavisanchez7522 Your comment doesn't make sense and is full of spelling mistakes... also why mention Richard the Lionheart, he was Norman and did not speak English, which is pretty common knowledge for Brits, and whats that got to do with Earl Sandwich wanting to eat meat while playing cards???
You guys really take on the big topics.
I really believe this channel is the intellectual sucessor of Anthony Bourdain. What a great piece of work.
Here in Indonesia, there is an old taboo that a house has to have rice, cooking oil and salt, or the house will bring misfortune. Even after online food delivery right now we have in urban, we still keep those three in our house.
very interesting. there is an old tradition in Finland that is similar! whenever someone moves into a new house or apartment, their friends have to gift them bread and salt. usually this is done at the house warming party, but the idea I think is similar: there is no life without salt (or bread)
So, Indonesian culture considers salt & rice to be lucky, also. The West even has the tradition of oil conveying a blessing. The more we know, the more interesting it all is.
@@ajknaup3530 I never believe it though, i think it is because when someone doesnt have anything to eat, they can always cook the rice with cooking oil and add salt, the very basic of fried rice. So, if I dont have rice, cooking oil and salt in my house, then according to the old saying, I am beyond poor 😀
@@jusjengkol "doesnt have anything to eat, they can always cook the rice with cooking oil and add salt,"
Um, that makes no sense. If you have rice and oil and salt, You HAVE something to eat.....I think that is the point. I'm extremely poor, but I follow this rule as much as possible. Many times, I have nothing but rice and oil and salt. I feel rich if I have a big bag of rice. I also have chickens for their eggs. Eggs are gross, but they are free protein.
@@jusjengkol oh, I get it; you don't believe in the "good luck" part. I understand that, but isn't it "good luck" to always have food, even if it's just rice?
This channel is a gold mine - I mean a salt mine 😜
Add grain to the mix and you have the three products of Sampo, legendary "MacGuffin" from Kalevala (Finnish/Karelian mythology.)
In Kalevala, Sampo is kind of a milling machine, forged from metal by hero-god Smith Ilmarinen. It has three sides, each able to create one product out of thin air. Traditional order is "grain-salt-gold" which does make sense when you measure the value of them through "price-per-pound." But with the Slovak story in mind, I can imagine an Aesop where a greedy ruler can only choose one of the three functions, chooses gold, and then his realm starves when there is no food or salt to buy.
Fantastic presentation! Enjoyed every bit of it. Your passion for the subject is apparent and makes watching/listening enjoyable. Looking forward to the next one and to seeing this channel grow!
I'm going to need to watch this video 6 or 10 more times to actually absorb all the information.
You're amazing. I look forward to your videos every week.
The mention of Sůl nad Zlato (EN: Salt over Gold, or Salt above Gold) makes me as a Czech really happy, thank you so much for mentioning it. A couple things that I should mention about the Czech folk tale version of this story, one which was first written down by Božena Němcová in her folk tail collection and was later made into the Byl Jednou Jeden Král... movie:
1. in the movie, there is a curse placed on the Kingdom after the King commands all salt to be dumped into the river, to show that salt is "worthless to him". This backfires, but actually for a different reason: no one can enjoy eating savory foods without salt anymore, so they try to eat sweet things but get tired of it after a while.
2. instead of being taken in by the Salt god, Maruška is taken in by a magical handmaiden, who lets her watch the events on her Father's court unfold through a magical mirror. This same magical handmaiden then also takes in the King after he almost dies in the swamp, being saved by the handmaiden.
3. Maruška never returns to the palace, giving her father the bottomless wooden salt bowl before he leaves the handmaids house in the swamp. She instead marries a fisherman that lives close to the swamp.
4. the only person who refuses to ever ever give up their salt, that being the widow Kubátová, is ironically who the king marries upon returning, after he has been taught his lesson and gained some common sense (or as we call it here "selský rozum" - directly translates to "farmer's wisdom". But that's trivia.
Its amazing how much a folk tale can change from country to country, I haven't ever heard of the "Maruška marries the son of the Salt god" version of it until now xD. But it actually makes a lot of sense given how other Czech fairy tale adaptations such as The Prince and the Evening Star (CZ: Princ a Večernice) show a motif of marrying to a son/daughter of a God. It really makes me appreciate our Slavic folk stories more so than I would otherwise, since I take it for granted so often. And I would also be interested in what other people living or who've grown up in Slavic countries have as their variations on these fairy tales, so please comment down bellow if you have unique stuff you want to mention. More the merrier!
also P.S.: The mention of that Norse tale reminded me of one story in Fimfárum, where a salt mill grinds infinite salt, but is unable to be stopped at one point and ends up sinking in a boat and that's how it explains why the ocean is salty. Another reason to add the the list of proofs that Europeans cant stop talking about salt, we really do love that shit here...perhaps too much as you said the Czech and Hungarians are tied for second largest salt consumption per capita.
Yeah, I know this story.. "why ocean is salty?"@@cronoz-sensei4259 thanks for the detailed info
In Romania we have a similar fairy tale: a king demands that his daughters tell him how much they love him. The eldest daughter says that she loves him like honey. The middle daughter says that she loves him like sugar. The youngest daughter says she loves him as much as salt in a dish. The king is offended by the youngest daughter's comparison and he no longer wants her at his court. The youngest daughter is driven away and she works in the kitchen of another king. His son, the prince, falls in love with her because she cooks so well. Her father is invited to the wedding, but he doesn't recognize the bride. The bride insists on cooking dinner for her father herself. She seasons the soup and the roast with honey and sugar. The king is offended because his food doesn't taste good. Then the bride reveals that she is his daughter and explains her comparison to him again. The father realizes that his youngest daughter was wise and apologizes for his behavior.
Thank you so much for sharing! My grandfather was Bohemian but he barely talked to us grandkids so we never heard any of these stories.
Just found your channel… it’s perfect 👍🏻 I love documentaries like this. I immediately knew I had to stop what I was doing to know the history of salt 🧂 😂
I love how you tie things together in your video's, your research is very in-depth and you have a natural ability to tell a story and this video is no exception. When I first started watching I was wondering if you had read the book Salt, I read his book Cod then Salt and they are both excellent reads and then you mentioned it, much to my enjoyment. Thanks for doing all these wonderful excursions into the food history of the world!
Well, there goes my morning.
Time to go make a breakfast stir fry and hang out with yall. My parents immigrated from north Germany so im basically a salt expert and connoisseur
Well you’ll love this one- unless I’m forgetting something, this includes our first-ever German meal on the channel
dinner time here - might enhance the flavour with some added salt :)
@OTRontheroad it was nice seeing it. Potatos and sauerkraut is the standard. We're from the north coast so we have salted fish as much if not more than sausages though
That restaurant was really charming. You should have included Würze in the condiment hall of fame you listed, I know Maggi is pretty popular in lots of east asia
Extremely Welsh genetics. Also imagine yourself in the early days, you trek hundreds of miles across barren wastelands. You see water, as you have seen before, but you need to make sure this is the right place to call home. Bending down, you put your face to the dirt, licking the earth. Mm, yes. We settle here.
39:52 I've been conditioned to expect a "tap tap" after hearing hard tack mentioned anywhere. Thanks @tastinghistory
I was disappointed when the word "hardtack" wasnt followed by a "tap tap", and then I realised this isnt a Tasting History video xD
Same!
I just literally watched a show about salt.. Wow this guy is good!
My favorite find from a Patagonia cruise: Chilean Atacama Desert salt with ancho chili pepper powder in a grinder. Very nice combo!
Intro sounds like beginning of a book I read: Salt, a world history.
Which is very well written, highly recommend it
Excellent book! Stimulated a lot of conversations
" Ye are the Salt of the Earth, but if that salt hath lost its savour , wherewith shall it be salted ? "
That’s the book he recommended
Do you mean
Salt a world history by Mark kurlansky?
It's a brilliant book.
Yayyy finally a new video. I finished all your other videos. Your videos are calming
I sat down with my phone and told my gf “ ohh a new video on salt ! “ she turned and very straight faced said - “ you know I love you … but some days your as dull as shit …” hahaha and she laughed at me .
The amount of work that goes into a video like this has to be immense. Thanks for your passion!
I remember learning the world "salty" as in "a salty person"
I didn't quite understand why it was something negative since in Spanish being salty means being happy and cheerful
? Si alguien está salado entonces está de mal humor… cual es un ejemplo de una connotación positiva de la sal??
@@ninoska.noe. mira el niño qué salero tiene. Es una salado
En España eso significa que es alegre y vivaracho
En la cancion Malagueña esta describida como salerosa. Imagino significa lol mismo. Llena de vida. @@pisos95
Who is more full of life than someone angry at losing a video game?
If you're still curious, it's a reference to tears. It's kinda weird, since all of our fluid secretions (saliva, urine, sweat, blood) have salt in them, but there it is. Apparently, it's attested in English as far back as 1938.
Wow! That was a very well made doc. I felt like I was watching PBS. I had to sub
This fantastic OTR Team....as usual. A fact filled foray into the history of the most basic of ingredients . Great show, I’ve come to expect nothing less.
I had an early portable Video Cassette Recorder (Panasonic) that had a button labeled, "OTR", which stood for "One Touch Recording". (In the tape recorder days, you used to have to press both "Record" and "Play" to start recording. This was to prevent accidentally recording over something you had previously recorded. Audio tape recorders had this feature as well.)
And every time I see "OTR", I understand that it really means, "One Touch Recording". Thanks Obama! Thanks Panasonic.
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Ha, I think "Over The Road" OTR shipping
This young man is absolutely showing out with the historical accuracy
"And for the people of the Americas"
Then proceeds to talk about Indians
That bought me way more joy than it probably should have
He then discussed places in the Middle East and shows pictures of dark people
These small details did not go unnoticed and they are appreciated
Please watch our video on Rice for my 20-minute rant and segment about West African contributions to cuisine....you definitely hit on one of the main reasons this channel exists- to try to tell honest stories and not just repeat what's been written by the few cultures that get to write the history books. Thanks for the kind comment. Also "young man" is much appreciated a couple weeks after turning 40.
fascinating
and thankyou for being human and not using a robot voice with inappropriate illustrations
Perfect script with fantastic directing
Subscribed! One of the most interesting historical videos I've watched, thank-you!
such a well researched and written video!
Can I take this opportunity to thank you for the quality of your videos? Your research is thorough and so informative.
Wow! This is new! I have been binging on your channel so much, I assumed it was old at first. Amazing subject, I am fascinated by it so much that I do spend extra cash to get any salt that sounds interesting.
my life has completely changed after watching this. I had no idea. I feel like before this video I was missing a huge piece of a puzzle that I needed. Foundational knowledge right here.
I ain't salty at OTR dropping this video :D
This whole show is beautiful. I love all the connections, story, and current restaurant all together. This is a beautiful learning show
amazing and incredibly researched video as always
You set yourself a giant task on this one and delivered in true OTR style! Thanks for that.
Salt is a symbolic of civilization Great video !!
I'm sharing this with the caption "Homage pour sel". Thanks, Adam. As a side note, your production values have reached a new high point. Kudos.
Since this vid is about salt, maybe future topic you can talk about black & white pepper.
Luckily, they said one of the best pepper come from area around here, eastern of Thailand/Cambodia/Vietnam.
I thought I knew about the value and the history of Salt, but props to you, you've added a lot more to the story, Well done.
I need one of these for every spice and condiment out there man good work
Pepper or vinegar would be a good counterpoint
I love these Videos. I like food videos and history, but this is even a bit philosophical. You combine those topics greatly. They tell a story. Always one more interesting than one would've guessed! It even has some vibes with the music in the background in the intro/outro. Certainly one of the best series on UA-cam. Keep it up mate!
How about "Wrinkle Potatoes" Canary Islands style.
Sea salt and potatoes, simply delicious❤
This was an amazing video! It reminded me of a trip I took to a small town in Chile called Cahuil, where people still harvest salt the same way it's been done for centuries, and this salt is very appreciated across the country for cooking. Nowadays they also add herbs and spices to their salt to diversify their products. Greetings from Chile and thanks again for your video!
Well, I know what I'm listening to on my commute today!
I've been waiting for you to drop a new video. You guys never disappoint!
A fantastic watch, thank you for your excellent work.
Another banger video about this time about the king of flavor enhancer. The OG godfather, if I may say.
Great documentary, lots of effort and resources went into it.
Weird. I've watched an entire documentary about salt, but there's no reference to League of Legends players.
Also no reference to Peter Schiff....
I’ve been working on the salt trade for 10 years. This is fascinating.
does salary also come from salt? I remember I watched some other channel where they mentioned soldiers in Rome were given portions of salt as compensation for their service.
Yes
I enjoy your deep dives into culinary history. Salt is an intense, interesting topic. I grew up loving bagoong in Manila. Your objective, fact-based presentations are appreciated. Salt is essential to my existence. I often get up from a deep sleep at 3am to walk to the kitchen & indulge in a salt treat.
DO NOT WATCH WHILE HUNGRY
So informative, colourful and fun way to tell history. I wish my history teachers in high school were even just half as good. thanks.
Is it any food region not represented in Bangkok? In every episode there's a new restaurant/store from wherever with characteristic food culture that just happens to be there.
Find it fascinating.
I'm glad it comes across that way- unfortunately it is a bit limiting in what we can showcase. Bangkok's a terrific melting pot, but there are definite weaknesses; there's a reason we can't really highlight much of anything from South or Central America. There's little Cambodian, Indonesian or Malay Peranakan, weirdly enough nothing (at all!) Slavic, barely any Chinese that isn't southern, and no African cuisine outside of Nigerian and Ethiopian. But still, considering the density and affordability of what it does have, it's about as good as we could hope for and makes this channel viable.
@@OTRontheroad Interesting. I live in a global food city as well (Melbourne, Australia) and I guess that is all about immigration patterns. We have Somali food here because of the UN refugees and that is amazing too, as is that Italian influence in their food as well. Kinda like how you can get Somali food in Minnesota of all places because that is where they clustered and settled. And like Thai food, Melbourne has had a global food influence (third wave cafe culture, and where the food and coffee style mimicked by McCafe comes from. Which was in turn started by the Italian and Greek WWII refugee immigrants bringing their cafe culture). However, you are doing ALOT for Thai tourism for foodies like me 😂 - soooo tempting to visit Bangkok. Came for Siracha video, stayed for the amazing food and the history behind it!
Thank you for backing up the assertion I've made for decades that the reason we think of salt "bringing out" the flavor of food is because our palates became so used to it from preservation. Food tastes like food; when you add salt, it takes on the taste of salt. I find it surprising how many people seem to think food has "no flavor" if it doesn' taste like salt. Of course it has flavor - its OWN flavor. But you'd be amazed how violently some people will insist that's wrong, to the point of getting very insulting about it. Go figure.
Jericho is in Palestine.
Who cares
Palestine no longer exist , get over it.
Palestine is a name invented by the Roman empire to mock the people in the area, and what you are calling Palestine didn't exist as an idea until after the second world war.
So no, Jericho was not in Palestine...
@@bigboy379little dick energy
There is currently no Palestine, so Jericho is in Israel
Another great video, you really do your research and I like how you have a list of your UA-cam sources for people who are interested in diving deeper. May I also say that you have an amazing narrative voice. I’m sure you’re not interested, but you would be a great narrator for audiobooks!
Palestine…
All videos of this channel are high quality with full of useful and interesting content. I’m so grateful that you choose Thailand as your base out of another countries.
I flinch every time I hear "Israel". No problem with Jewish people in general, but Israel is something of a pariah these days.
Man I love the channel. I especially love these super history heavy videos! Keep it up!
All this IsNOTreal talk but it was Palestine
Adam, these videos must take so, so much work to research and produce. Who knew salt could be this interesting? Thanks!
Discovering this channel. That's very interesting and really well made. keep up the good work !
This just went into my top favorite documentaries. Informative to the t! Thank you. ❤️ From 🇰🇪
Excellent and informative presentation. I just LOVE salt. Much respect from Western Australia
Very enjoyable history of salt!
17:17 Austrian here. some of those stories about salt, the one about the kings and the princess and the other one about the salt mill are well known here as well.
Thank you for this interesting and educational content. Growing up with the discovery channel this goes way beyond and I don’t have to sell my soul to the cable company for one interesting channel.
Thank you for your travels. It allows me to sit at home and visit places worldwide within hours. The knowledge I've acquired is greater than many college educations if you watch just a few hours a week.
I have a business card of a high ranking government official from sometime in the 1930s in China. His job title was "Central Administrator of Salt" and "Vice Minister of Finance." When I first received this card, I was intrigued. I became further intrigued as I researched about this man and discovered that several of China's high ranking officials at that time doubled as salt administrators. Although I knew about the origin of the word salary and about ancient Roman soldiers being paid in salt, I didn't realize the political and economic importance of salt beyond that. I soon found myself digging deeper and learning about the French Revolution and Ghandi as well. Needless to say, I appreciate this video and how well it was done.
Great video. Have always been fascinated with salt and it's place in human history. I have Kurlansky's book, Salt: A World History as well.
These history videos are absolute gems
Please never stop talking about mythology, religious aspects of things etc.
I’ve finally found a channel combining the things I love the most : History, religion/theology, and food :’)
I’m slowly building you a fanbase in France, you are the best discovery of this year in what I’m concerned!
This video is FANTASTIC. Thank you very much for such an interesting hour.
Thank you for the enjoyment of learning!! I love these videos, I’m sure they’re a lot of work, we all appreciate it!! ❤❤❤
I appreciate the thoroughness of this video!! Super enjoyable and interesting
Again, an awesome video!! Very well spoken, produced and done!
This video went DEEP!
So inspiring and informative.
Great content as always. Love the long form.
That fish sauce restaurant trip was shoe horned in beautifully. Thank you for your service 🫡
Ahh, just found You. Love History and learning something new everyday. Thank You!! ❤❤❤
I never would have imagined that I would be so fascinated by salt. Thanks for a great and enjoyable video. I really enjoyed it!