How Salt Shaped Civilization: From the Roman Empire to the French Revolution
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- From the very first settlement in recorded history, early humans knew that to survive in the new age of agriculture, they'd need two things: access to water, and a source of salt. Without salt, our meats and vegetables wouldn't last long enough to help us survive droughts, monsoons, and long periods between harvests. Our bodies wouldn't have the necessary nutrients to live, and the entire experiment in building permanent villages might have failed. Salt tells the story of everything- as it was a foundational component of every culture, ever. And the lengths societies went to in order to procure the stuff...well that gave us innovations ranging from commerce to hydraulics to so much more. In this video we look at the origins of the salt trade. The myths and legends surrounding its discovery, and the incredible stories from the earliest days of history all the way to the 20th century that have followed humanity's long and important love affair with salt.
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0:00 - Introduction
1:07 - Salt Everywhere
4:36 - The Beginning
8:24 - Salted Fish
11:21 - Religion and Mythology
13:51 - Three Origin Stories
17:19 - The Early Salt Trade
19:54 - The Big Change
22:37 - Fish Sauce
25:54 - Riches and Salt Fortunes
28:03 - Ancient Rome
30:18 - Meat and Cheese
31:17 - Salt Wars
34:34 - Revolution and Resistance
37:33 - Salt in the Developing World
40:09 - Sausage and Sauerkraut
42:24 - On Every Table
46:32 - Burger and Fries
49:14 - American Salt History
51:17 - Conclusion
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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
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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.
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 🧂 😊
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.
Bro is a legend to this day. Respect.
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.
These history videos are absolute gems. In a way it teaches us more about humanity than the food.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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?
Do one with sugar... Starting and history of sugarcane cultivation. Love these documentary
You guys really take on the big topics.
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.
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.
You gotta love youtube , one minute im watching a video on the Troubles in Northern Ireland , next im watching the History Of Salt 😂😂
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
My favorite find from a Patagonia cruise: Chilean Atacama Desert salt with ancho chili pepper powder in a grinder. Very nice combo!
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.
such a well researched and written video!
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.
The book he mention: Salt by Mark Kurlansky is a good read. If you love history, you will like it.
Eating sea salted potato chips while watching this video.. amazing experience
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.
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
This channel is a gold mine - I mean a salt mine 😜
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 🧂 😂
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!
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 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 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.
Well, I know what I'm listening to on my commute today!
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.
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.
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.
So informative, colourful and fun way to tell history. I wish my history teachers in high school were even just half as good. thanks.
I've been waiting for you to drop a new video. You guys never disappoint!
A fantastic watch, thank you for your excellent work.
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!
I really believe this channel is the intellectual sucessor of Anthony Bourdain. What a great piece of work.
Yayyy finally a new video. I finished all your other videos. Your videos are calming
amazing and incredibly researched video as always
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.
Salt has been used as a food preservative since ancient times and is still an important ingredient in processed foods today, along with its flavoring properties. It's commonly used to preserve vegetables by pickling in brine, and meat by rubbing with salt and dry curing or injecting with a salt solution.
However, salt concentrations of around 10% or more are needed to prevent bacterial growth, which is much higher than what's found in most foods. As a result, the need for salt as a preservative has decreased with the introduction of refrigeration and other methods of food preservation.
The use of salt in human food seems to precede the Neolithic period, since in Portugal (and not only here) large quantities of domestic remains have been found that originated in the sea and marine estuaries and even marshes, even before the arrival of agriculture (which would have arrived around the 8th millennium before our era).
It seems that the simplest way of accessing salt, apart from making use of the salt that naturally dried up on the Portuguese coast, was the abundant and regular consumption of food from the sea and even seaweed by the population. What's more, even before the Neolithic period and after, people regularly changed the places where they lived during the year. Sometimes by the sea, sometimes far away, where they could access alternative sources of protein to those originating in the sea according to the seasons.
Basically, during much of the Palaeolithic and even Neolithic period, people ate meat from hunting (such as the extinct aurochs, horses and rabbits), pastoralism (goats and sheep) and later agriculture and its vegetables, especially cereals such as wheat and rye. But these populations in Portugal, as they still do today, eat a lot of shellfish, oysters, bivalves and even crabs. This kind of food was transported from the sea to inland , very far away from the sea. And this has always been the case, ever since modern humans arrived in what is now Portugal and replaced the Neanderthals. It was always one source of salt even before the agriculture.
The history of salt and its origins is still rather obscure. But it is almost certain that salt and pottery are intimately linked. Especially in Portugal, whose population is the same that survived during the Last Glacial Period. And salt is so common now in Portugal as it was in the past. In fact, it exists one very tasy food that we eat in Portugal that is the mix between bivalves and pork meat, and now includes potatoes, where the seawater from the bivalves is mixed with olive oil and generates a wonderful tasy sauce.
Adam, these videos must take so, so much work to research and produce. Who knew salt could be this interesting? Thanks!
I ain't salty at OTR dropping this video :D
The amount of work that goes into a video like this has to be immense. Thanks for your passion!
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.
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
Perfect script with fantastic directing
thanks, i rerally enjoy the diversity of food related topics and the historical perspective of each topic. i really love this channel1 great job guys!
Actually Antoinette wasn’t keen on holding ground toward the end. It was the clergy and other aristocracy that kept getting in the way. Marie actually was raised very differently and if she had known the extent she would have done more sooner. Unfortunately they were so removed by having their whole lives in Versailles that when they finally understood how horrific things were it was too little too late.
I will say that the increase/development of human salt production and extraction have drastically thrown off the earth's natural salt cycle; which is something to keep in mind when looking at how our environments have been impacted over time by said extraction.
Salt is a symbolic of civilization Great video !!
A lot of people with chronic pain want more salt in the food when they are in anbad way, compared to periods when they are in less pain.
First time stumbling onto your channel, well done! Very informative.
thank you, great look at an often overlooked factor in our shared history.
There is a video called "salt" about a village in India that makes its salt ponds anew after the monsoon water evaporates annually. Highly recommended.
Beautifully crafted video. Amazing work!
My Mother was born in a little Sicilian fishing town where the biggest business (still is) was canned sardines and anchovies. The main seller was salted sardines. Also in Sicily there's a city called Trapani that's known for salt production. In Sicily the there's a popular cheese that's called Primu Sali, which means first salt. The reason is that in the beginning it's not salty, then when it first gets salty (Don't know the exact process) it's sold.
Cheese becomes salty only because the cheesemaker adds salt. It's called primosale because the salt is added at the first stage, to the milk mixture before the curd forms, whereas other cheeses wait for the curds to form, the whey is drained, then the curds are salted.
Love this channel so much !
I need one of these for every spice and condiment out there man good work
Another banger video about this time about the king of flavor enhancer. The OG godfather, if I may say.
Thank you for the enjoyment of learning!! I love these videos, I’m sure they’re a lot of work, we all appreciate it!! ❤❤❤
food history and food in general is my special interest so im always happy to see a new upload from you
That fish sauce restaurant trip was shoe horned in beautifully. Thank you for your service 🫡
Man I love the channel. I especially love these super history heavy videos! Keep it up!
I never would have imagined that I would be so fascinated by salt. Thanks for a great and enjoyable video. I really enjoyed it!
Again, an awesome video!! Very well spoken, produced and done!
Loving your salty info, pretty cool.
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!
Like people are saying, thank you for a well-researched documentary. I am also interested in a study of grains of domestication, starting I suppose in Africa. As I know nothing about Africa, that would have to include peripheral information about tribal settlements and global human migration/trade, all the things. Thanks again.
Salt inspired the invention of deep drilling in China over 2,000 years ago. Indeed, the oil derricks that popped up in the late 1800s in the US were modeled on Chinese deep drilling machines for salt. Some of these were actually constructed by Chinese immigrant workers.
My father used to say "like meat loves salt" meaning something good, like salt and meat go hand in hand.
A lot of work to research this and well presented. Good job.
back when they were inventing brand new kinds of food like ham, and taking it around to different cities to sell, would they let people sample it first?
Thank-you so much that was absolutely fascinating and brilliant.
In Thailand, there is a rock salt deposit on the mountain in Bo Kluea of Nan district. They said kings in ancient time fought over for occupying this salt well. Maybe worth visitting for your research.
this is great thanks for your work amazing
once i heard or read about salt in russian.. they were saying that in times of old salt was not necessary as much as today to humans because the livong conditions were dofferen, namely the air pressure was much higher then after the "world catastrophe" after that salt become much necessary so that balance osmatic cell pressure and as a matter of fact it mimics high air preasure enviroment from within the human body.. this is why on average humans live much longer then animals on average with only certain exceptions like turtles who have outer shell (which can be used to pressurise the body) etc.etc. but no regular warm bloded animal lives longer then man.. just wanted to mention this
Awesome video as always mate. How about a future one on the history of fish sauce
This was so well made, sub earned
Elephants travel miles to "mine" salt.
Thanks Adam. Another home run.
Excellent and informative presentation. I just LOVE salt. Much respect from Western Australia
You should do a video on mustard. It's the oldest spice after salt, and also found in all cuisine worldwide
i had not considered ealry human civilizations in relation to salt sources but it does make sense !! thanks! commerce changes the world all day every day. facinating right
Your videos are a pleasure. Very well researched and seductively well narrated. Thank you ;)
Talk about convienet. I got curious about this topic after hearing of a book called "The History of Salt." Haven't read it, but I like the idea.
I knew that salt was important, but, wow, Adam, this is a deep dive. I had noticed that when pros mentioned 'seasoning' on cooking shows, they meant 'salt'.
The taste of prepared fish sauce is mind blowing it’s so good.
Once again, an excellent informative show,
Now I want a fish sauce episode 😀.
Excellent work!!
Very well presented. Even though i read alot . I noticed salt comes up but not very often.
Top Quality as usual!
This is the kind of content I live for
pepper would be a neat history as well or sugar, cinnamon , and clove ... adventures galore !!
Transportation is still expensive. Not just for individuals but for items. Boats don't use sails.