The Oldest Cookbook of the West is in New York City | Gastro Obscura
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2019
- If you’re in the mood for some cookbook history or craving some medieval recipes, we suggest browsing the oldest cookbook in the West. The medieval cookbook Apicius was written in the year 830 in Germany, and contains recipes dating back to the 4th century. Today, it’s located in the New York Academy of Medicine. Our friend Emmymadeinjapan made a trip to browse through the cookbook, and we challenged her to pick a recipe to recreate in her own kitchen. It presented, as you might imagine, quite a few obstacles!
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YAAAY!!! Finally, video evidence that I actually met and touched the Apicius, the oldest cookbook of the West. ✨
AND you recreated a recipe! Which means that you're now a master of medieval cooking recipes. That's how that works, right?
emmymadeinjapan Yay!! Two of my all time favorite YT Channels coming together! So awesome and love historical texts, history and cooking. Thanks so much for showing us a fun way to make history even more fun for everyone🙌🏼🙌🏼! Much love from Montana. ✨💖✨
What new arcane powers did you gain from touchnig the Apicius, Emmy?
This is a perfect collaboration! So happy you got this once in a lifetime experience 🙏🏻
@@atlasobscura -- Master of [one of the] ancient Roman recipes, anyway. And wonderfully done -- yayyyy, Emmy!
The manuscript as a physical object may be medieval, but the monks were copying from an older text. It's essentially a compilation ultimately based on a 1st century CE text in classical Latin, with additional later recipes in what is known as "Vulgar" Latin (vulgar in the sense of "inferior" compared with the older, classical, literary language). I'm honestly not sure how many texts of "Apicius" there are, some with more recipes, some with fewer, and some others with different recipes, or what their dates are. I think the version Emily saw was the probably late 9th century "Fulda" manuscript, thus called from the monastery where it was copied. Presumably the text those monks used (possibly even more than one text, combined?) is no longer extant.
If Emmymadeinjapan, Objectivity and Townsends had a collaborative channel, this would probably be their video
Wow! Thanks, we're so honored!
So want Emmymadeinjapan, to drop by The Nutmeg Tavern!! @Townsends
What I love about Emmy is how absolutely unique she is. So humble and intelligent with a healthy dose of whimsical curiosity thrown in for good measure. She's amazing ❤
So well-said!
I've thought for a while that she would be an excellent host for a children's program
I want to be like Emmy when I grow up. :D
Tjana T She also has one of the most soothing voices ever. 😂
This is too cool, it would be amazing to go to this library. Also, the librarian looks like she should be in a Harry Potter movie
You can visit the New York Academy of Medicine-just have to make an appointment. Here's more information: nyam.org/library/connect/visit-library/
EMMY GANG EMMY GANG
Omg Emmy in Atlas Obscura!! Best colab ever!
Move over, Avengers, this is the most ambitious crossover in history.
The Rare Book Room at the New York Academy of Medicine. Wow!
I'd be afraid to go in there because I'd never want to leave.
I LOVE old book collections! The scent of paper, ink, leather and time, the voices within the books (yes! Books have voices! Libraries are full of quiet murmurings)...
My oldest book was printed (you can feel the imprint of the type on paper) in the late 1790s.
This is a delight to watch.
Thank you!
I love old books too, for all the reasons you mentioned. My daughter has a few books that have been passed down in our family for generations, a handful of which are so old they don't have copyrights. We don't handle them, but every now and then I love to just open their cabinet for a second to smell them.
@@JuBeeJuBeeJu The History of Greece is wrapped in paper and stored carefully, but I look for excuses to bring it out and do my "lecture" on paper and print... (Librarian's daughter all the way) give careful folks a chance to have the tactile experience of different papers and printing techniques.
My son is in his second year of Latin. He is already a love of wordsmith. They dropped French in his school and we discussed how language is formed and the true root of languages. I’m so proud of him. He loves Latin. My mother knew Latin as well. There wasn’t a word she couldn’t spell or explain.
Oh I’d love to sit for hours in that library and soak in the knowledge of our yesteryears.
Great collab! Emmy was a great choice - she's adventurous, curious, willing, intelligent, and able. She made it look feasible for any of us to try and enjoy a recipe from a cookbook from ancient times!
Arlene, has a magical witchy vibe going on, that I am totally loving.
Love how Emmy wore the same outfit she wears in her house.
No fakeness everything.
That library looks like my idea of heaven. Too bad I live over a thousand miles away.
The BEST collaboration EVER!! Forget the Beauty Gurus and ASMR Chewers!
What an experience that must have been, that library is awesome. And being able to see and touch the Apicius, amazing. So happy to have been able to see this collaboration between you both. Beautifully done!!❤️🌹
Thank you for collaborating with Emmy! What a cool video. I also checked out your page, and now I’m a new subscriber! I love history!!! Thank you again🙏🏻💜🤘🏻
Welcome! Thanks for joining us :)
As a Latin student it's really cool to see this!
This recipe reminds me of Jerusalem kugel, or "kugel yerushalmi" it's kugel from thin egg noodles that absorb a mixture of egg, black pepper, and carmalized sugar that form into a kind of dense cake that you can slice. I know it sounds awful and super weird but it's absolutely amazing and so unique. It's sweet (but not too sweet) and has a nice flavor and kick of spice from the black pepper. The pepper is what really makes the recipe good, it takes something that would have been plain and sweet into something with a complex, deep, almost smokey flavor and the texture is really interesting too. If you haven't tried kugel yerushalmi I definitely recommend finding some to try. Ohhh, I love me some good kugels!!
Oh, yum! Guess we know what we're getting for breakfast. Thanks for letting us know!
OMG, that place is magical!!! I love 💕 Emmy!!
I'm here because of my love for Emmy. 😆
Welcome, welcome :)
Came from Emmy's link! That library is so beautiful!!!! And the curator was so kind and helpful~ What a dream of a day...I would love to go and have a look around...
Hi! Thanks for visiting and for joining us :) Yes, the New York Academy of Medicine is absolutely gorgeous! You can visit the library if you're in the area-you just need to make an appointment.
Very well made video, Emmy. The production value is high. Congrats! Would love to see more like this, perhaps even more from some of the other cookbooks in their collection?
Yay for Emmy! And yay for this awesome cookbook!
This is so cool! I'm an early medievalist, specialising in the Carolingian world and yet I had no idea this ms existed. Such a fascinating insight into life at Fulda.
Emmy brought me here and Atlas Obscura’s quality content and collaboration made me subscribe and stay! Well done everyone, these videos were beautifully made!
Hi Erika, welcome! So glad you're here with us :) Thanks for the lovely note, it made our day!
Very cool episode! I'm already subscribed to both channels! 👍🏻❤🤗
Hurray! Here's to more hidden wonders and more amazing food!
"You also make the same sauce for parrot."
Came here from Emmy’s video! ❤️
I almost watched these backwards but THIS IS SO COOL!
That's ok! No matter what order you watch them in, it's still a great story :)
That was so incredibly fascinating! I came here from Emmy’s channel. I had never heard of the Apicius until now. Thank you for sharing this with us! ❤️👍
Welcome! Thanks for joining us :)
My two favorite UA-cam channels together!
What a pleasant video and what a nice personality they both have. Subscribed+
Love this Emmy!
I found you via Emmy, love her and have now sub's to you too! thanks for having her on....off to watch Emmy make honey fritters now.
Hi! Welcome, thanks for joining us! It was wonderful having Emmy here!
I'm so glad y'all collaborated! ❤️ both channels!
Thanks for watching! :) We're very excited that we get to work with Emmy - big fans!
Emmy!!!!!! I love Emmy!!!!
Iconic
Here for Emmy!!
Awesome👍
Oh wow!😮😍
Ya did right by our girl. ✌
Wow! I came here from Emmy's channel. Subscribed!😋
Welcome!
@@atlasobscura Thanks!
subscribed indeed!
I'm not from the west (I'm from the Philippines) but dang isn't this so interesting
Best team up evar!!!
I’m a simple gal. I see Emmy, I click.
omg.......Emmy is so tiny and adorable..
It’s EMMY!!♥️
Emmy sent me! Subscribed !
Aw, that's so nice! Thanks for the sub, and we're so glad you've joined us :)
Here from Emmy's channel
Hello, welcome! :)
It's EMMY! She gets everywhere lol.
Because she makes such amazing things! We loved working with her :)
This would be my dream job. To be among ancient and rare books all day long, I would be in heaven!!
Take a look at the channel Objectivity, where in almost each video they take a look at random objects, books and letters from the archives of the Royal Society
I am absolutely floored that an actual librarian would date this work to a COPY of a book that is generally recognized as a ROMAN cookbook. It is true that there is some evidence it was Late Empire - that is, around the fourth century, but it most certainly was not WRITTEN in that monastery anymore than the copies of the Bible that were probably produced in the same place (Laurioux: "The text itself was not set before the fifth century""- Cuisiner à l'Antique : Apicius au Moyen Age, Médiévales Année 1994. p. 18 - Bruno Laurioux). Nor is it known today as the Apicius, a shorthand term which misleadingly suggests it was written by a Roman epicure - by scholars, it is more precisely known as De Re Coquinaria (Of the Realm of Cooking). Plus, I see Atlas Obscura has propagated the same errors to another video. - I can't believe an actual librarian doesn't actually know all this, so I can only think she was being careless in her language. Unfortunately, the end result will be thousands of Atlas Obscura readers thinking this is an eighth century work and that its actual title is "Apicius". And that people in the Middle Ages ate flamingo, which they almost certainly did not (mainly because it was a southern bird; they did eat crane.)
Arlene isn’t a muggle
Using hair? Oh, using hare 😂
Easy mix-up ;)
Emmy is awesome....just one thing: flamingo: four legs?
(I think I screwed that up.)
Pretty sure she was mentioning the section of “quadripeds” in the same sentence, not that they are the same.
@@Dawn_Hannah yeah, sorry. I think she was.
These two women basically sum up the identity of the average female New Yorker
It's a shame that book isn't where it belongs though: In Germany.
"...sauce for any kind of a well hung bird"
Welp. Not for me, I guess.
Not wearing gloves whilst handling an ancient book is giving me anxiety
Often the best way to handle books and manuscripts is with clean, dry hands. Wearing gloves can mean the books are more likely to become damaged as you cannot feel what you are doing. Minimal touching is best.
Sophie H very right. also, depending on the material of the paper and the type of gloves, either can catch on the other and cause damage that way.
wouldn't de cocinaria be the oldest book in the west
Aren’t they supposed to wear white gloves when they are handling this kinda stuff to protect it????!
If you're surprised by the lack of gloves, you're not alone! We asked the curator, and she mentioned that gloves can dull the sensitivity of the handler's fingers, so books usually sustain more damage when being handled with gloves.