Let me apologize for my voice in this video- it's actually the reason we took on this topic this week; something I've been working on as a side project for quite some time but never fit it into our filming schedule. All three of us- Jaspar, Daria, and myself, got knocked out by this flu that's been kicking around Bangkok lately, and it meant we had to delay filming and readjust as a video we could do on a short production schedule. But in the end it did let us finally get to a subject that's been fascinating me since we got here. Thanks for your understanding! Here are the location pins from this video: Ba Chao Jungle Food: goo.gl/maps/5U4gt3WKwoc5nFkA8 Wraptor (Ari): goo.gl/maps/DQWCJLpFkSx5euXh7 Shree Khodiyar Kathiyawadi Dhaba: goo.gl/maps/VeWpn2zYokKPsZA17 Chuan Wei Fang: goo.gl/maps/bacWezd2N6GPqCut9
@mylesjude233
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing the locations ❤
@arnowillekes7979
Жыл бұрын
Almost like the same paraflu that was knocking around here in the Netherlands…oh no new pandemics!! More chillies!!!
@gagamba9198
Жыл бұрын
This was very well done and I didn't notice a voice problem. You ought to do a video on Asia's two chilli pepper outliers: Japan and the Philippines. In contrast to most of Asia, their cuisines barely feature the chilli pepper at all. Within the Philippines there in another outlier: the region of Bicol (southern Luzon), where the chilli is popular. Japan does have its shishito chilli pepper, but it's very mild.
@Menuki
Жыл бұрын
The reason I was taught about why chilies didn’t take hold in Europe was because of poor medical theory.and religious persecution. The “heat” would throw off your humors causing illness. While many others thought the spice induced lasciviousness and infidelity.the church cracked down on that
@Enkaptaton
Жыл бұрын
What is wrong with your voice? I am watching this as the first of your videos. Is your voic usually different?
@gosnooky
Жыл бұрын
It's weird to think that 500 years ago: There were no potatoes in Ireland There were no tomatoes in Italy There were no chilies in Thailand
@TheSuperRatt
Жыл бұрын
And all it cost was my peoples' destruction ;_;
@utej.k.bemsel4777
Жыл бұрын
No popcorn, no pizza, no chocolate, no vanilla ice, no pineapple pie, no avocado mole and many, many more! My respect for the American Natives which bred and cultivated this plants!
@aviancypress5181
Жыл бұрын
The world should thank the Americas
@jimurrata6785
Жыл бұрын
And beans And squash And peanuts And.....
@krisragu4685
Жыл бұрын
Yeah bizarre..1000 years ago what did they eat in India, Thailand, Ireland etc? Must have been boring lol
@ryhol5417
Жыл бұрын
The native Americans really came out swinging for the best of food category: chocolate, chilis, tomatoes corn potatoes squash.
@skyworm8006
Жыл бұрын
I agree but note that these things aren't really that unique in a culinary sense. They spread more because of their higher yield. Can feed more people and make more profit. For example many things similar to potatoes exist all over the world but none could ever be staples like potatoes. And for chillis, there's plenty of things that add heat to dishes. The only difference is heat from chillis persists longer. Probably more unique is the non-heat flavours from chillis, which there isn't equivalents of. Because you can get the heat, for most applications, even just by using a lot of pepper if it's ground fine. But you would have to use a lot for very hot dishes so chilli would be cheaper to do that and the natural choice. Never mind mustard, horseradish, etc. South America didn't have these things but had chilli.
@nunyabiznes33
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, they were only somewhat missing with draft animals and a few livestock. Do they chickens pre-contact?
@utej.k.bemsel4777
Жыл бұрын
@@nunyabiznes33No, they had llamas, dogs, guinea-pigs, ducks and turkeys.
@@utej.k.bemsel4777 but interesting thing is they had Chickens already!! Spanish documented seeing Chickens, Chickens originate from southeast asia but it is believed to have been traded between polynesians and native south american tribes just like the sweet potato which comes from South America
@AMLVPUK
Жыл бұрын
Interesting to note, Som Tam (green papaya salad) is arguably Thailand's favorite dish for locals, many of its key ingredients like papaya, chili, tomato, and peanuts actually trace their origins back to the Americas. Global influences have always played a role in shaping local cuisines! No culture exists in isolation.
@OTRontheroad
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic comment and truly interesting to think about. Would love to do a deep dive into whatever "Tam Som" might have included pre-1500s.
@SoonLeeNZ
Жыл бұрын
No lie detected. Some Italian purists demand Italian recipes are prepared "The Traditional Way", but when you look, many of those recipes contain tomatoes, which originated in the Americas. Pre-Christopher Columbus, tomatoes were unknown in Europe (same with a bunch of ingredients we now take for granted, including potatoes...) So really, Italian cuisine is a fusion cuisine, and as for tradition, well that's all dependent on how far back you go. After all, traditions have to start somewhere. @@OTRontheroad
@vassanab4243
Жыл бұрын
And that’s the reason why the origin of Som tum should be from Siam aka Thailand not Laos, because most of the ingredient are from foreign countries, Ayutthaya as a big international city while Laos is a landlocked land.
@vassanab4243
Жыл бұрын
And this can apply to many Thai food that our neighbor countries love to claim and this channel always tell it’s from them like Som Tum from Laos or Hormok from Cambodia😂
@OTRontheroad
Жыл бұрын
@@vassanab4243 and there's the nationalism argument! Nope, still Lao. I don't really need to go too deep into it because it's a fairly easy thing to research- if you spend 15 minutes on it you should have a pretty good understanding. Although (watch our Khao Yam video for this rant) it IS likely that papaya entered Siam first. So the argument becomes technique vs. ingredients and when you consider a dish a dish. But please don't use this as a cudgel to claim credit for a dish that does have Lao origins.
@prashanthreddy3326
4 ай бұрын
Today, chillies are so much an integral part of the Indian cuisine that we can't imagine most of our recipes without Chillies (be it green chillies or the dry red chillies). We from the Southern Central part of India(Telangana) use chilli in most of our recipes and we take pride of the fact that we eat the most spiciest(pungent) food in India because of the amount of the spicy pungent chillies that we use in our cuisine.
@santusanturohit4832
4 ай бұрын
Have you tried Naga king chili or Bhut jolkia?
@zurielsss
3 ай бұрын
It’s interesting to know that most of the famous Indian dishes wouldn’t have happened if it’s not for colonisation bringing chillies into the sub continent
@windhoek_stallion8455
2 ай бұрын
The first trans pacific trade route was between the Philippines and Mexico in the 16th century. During that trade, Mexico gave Asia chillies, tomatoes, corn, vanilla, chocolate but in return, mexico got from Asia the limes, cinnamon, cumin, bay leaves, cloves, tamarind, mangos... if you remove the meat, Mexican stews and Indian curries are almost cousins and out of all the Latin Americans, Mexicans are the only ones who sincerely enjoy or "understand" Indian flavors. Both nations already had rich culinary traditions that were supercharged with transpacific trade and today are regarded as amongts the best in the world. I grew up in Mexico and I thought tamarind was from Mexico. We make spicy candy from tamarind paste. Tamarind is from India.
@janithl
Ай бұрын
In Sri Lanka, we call the spicy Capsicum frutescens varieties කොච්චි (Kochchi) in Sinhala, perhaps in reference to the city of Kochi.
@balashibuyeeter2704
Ай бұрын
@@zurielsss colonization has nothing to do with this. Chilli would've arrived to india by trade just like it did to china, korea, japan or thailand.
@jamesgreen5431
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the history Adam. Today we can't imaging Thai or especially Korean food without chilies but for thousands of years they were not there. Corn, chilies, and tomatoes all came from the New World and changed the rest of it.
@SoonLeeNZ
Жыл бұрын
Potatoes too!
@shakiMiki
Жыл бұрын
This is true of everywhere outside of central & South America.
@Alexxxxx945
Жыл бұрын
And chocolate also native to mesoamerica
@panterpanterpanter993
Жыл бұрын
@@shakiMiki JAJA JAJAJAJAJA CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA DOESNT EAT CHILES AT ALL , IS MEXICAN DEAR MEXICAN CHILES AND SAUCES ARE THE BEAST
@David-ol6fw
Жыл бұрын
@@panterpanterpanter993 Yes, the chili tradition is luckily one that managed to survive the Spanish and European invasion in Mesoamerica. Even rich white people in Mexico eat chili pepper and I wonder if they ever consider the irony of such a thing.
@JoeMaza
Жыл бұрын
14:32 Something that I've seen food historians omit is the fact that the sauce (Tabasco) derives its name from the peppers which in turn is derived from the Mexican state of Tabasco, named after a prominente, pre-contact, Chontal Maya leader of the region, Tabscoob. Tabasco also is the state in which the progenitor of Meso-American civilizations originated, the Olmec, alongside with the southern areas of neighboring Vera Cruz. The Olmec were quite possibly first to cultivate the pepper and the cacao plant. I plan on returning to Tabasco's capital, Villahermosa, later this year.
@OTRontheroad
Жыл бұрын
That's a great note and thank you for pointing it out.
@JoeMaza
Жыл бұрын
@@OTRontheroadI'm glad I could help by adding this footnote. You videos are great! I binged on several over the past couple of weeks because they're written so well. I've rewatched a few because they're also very informative. Keep up the great work.
@alexcontreras6103
Жыл бұрын
interesting
@John.Flower.Productions
11 ай бұрын
_Tabasco also is the state in which the progenitor of Meso-American civilizations originated, the Olmec…_ I hope you realize that Amerindians are recent arrivals to the Western Hemisphere, having walked from Asia.
@19ars92
9 ай бұрын
@@John.Flower.Productions What do you understand from “RECENT ARRIVALS”???
@kc10man
2 ай бұрын
My archeology professor at Sichuan University, in China, insisted that rice was only from China, despite originating in places around the globe. He proudly claimed that pepper was from Sichuan, though we know the Europeans introduced it. And was so audacious as to say that corn was from China. I argued with him constantly. He tried to give me a D since students are not supposed to disagree in their culture. My American professor changed the grade to an A+.
@OTRontheroad
2 ай бұрын
I always tell the story of visiting China's national museum for the first time when I moved to Beijing and seeing a display on the greatest Chinese heroes- and one of them was Genghis Khan
@lauraqueentint
Жыл бұрын
It's always fascinated me how the regional cuisines in China differed from spiciness. For example, my native Guangzhou cuisine is not very spicy, but given its historical place as a major port I'd have expected chillis to arrive and had longer to incorporate into the local cuisine! Now it all makes sense, that the ruling elite were not interested in adding the spice into their cuisine, but instead the mountain dwelling regions took to it via the silk road first instead! Amazing video, love the history content!
@zurielsss
3 ай бұрын
Mountain dwellers also need spices for their rotting meat to be edible probably 😂
@stefthorman8548
Ай бұрын
@@zurielsss mountain dwellers also ate mushrooms and herbs that city folks wouldn't be able to afford.
@kamolhengkiatisak1527
Жыл бұрын
For those who like spiciness of curry but does not like coconut cream with curry, "jungle curry" or "Gaeng Pa" in Thai is the one to go to. The first time I tasted Gaeng Pa more than 5 decades ago as a student in intermediate school about 55 years ago at the school cafeteria, I immediately knew that this is the one for me. It is full of favors with a variety of spices mixed in, so refreshing. Since that day, other curry can only be a second or third place. Gaeng Pa always holds the first place. It goes well with newly cooked jasmine rice.
My favorite after jungle curry is แกงรัญจวน but it's hard to find. I've only eaten it a few times.
@siddhiratana
Жыл бұрын
แถวบ้านมีแกงระแวง ไม่รู้จะแปลว่าอะไร suspicious and alertness curry
@mjz16
11 ай бұрын
Does all curry have turmeric? I can’t seem to train myself to like turmeric so I’ve avoided all curry.
@rdizzy1
11 ай бұрын
@@mjz16 No, I also have this issue, but I also do not like the other spices in curry powder, such as mace, cardamom, or cumin. Also do not like cinnamon in non-dessert foods. So I just eat stew instead, same shit.
@nadkudo1798
11 ай бұрын
It gives me this weird sense of pride knowing so many things loved all around the world (like chocolate, tomatoes, chillies, tobacco sadly, corn, potatoes, and now even tapioca) originated so close to where I'm from :)
@cloudchaser907
6 ай бұрын
Vanilla, sunflowers, and if you look far back enough.. camels.
@wykamix358
3 ай бұрын
@@cloudchaser907also horses originate in the Americas
@samwaldorf8777
Ай бұрын
@@wykamix358 lol wtf? there may have been some sort of ancient horses that died out in the americas before the "natives" migrated there, but europeans brought modern horses to the americas. along with pigs, sheep, goats, cows and chickens.
@cuseyeti_one8three
13 күн бұрын
This history is all tied into imperialism and the Triangle Trade including the Slave Trade. Some of it is interesting history, taking pride in it requires too much ignoring the reality to interest me.
@cuseyeti_one8three
13 күн бұрын
@@wykamix358How were the Romans and the Medieval knights getting around before “American horses?” I believe you have this one backwards.
@jeremycline9542
Жыл бұрын
Korea's national food turned red after the Portuguese brought peppers to Asia.
@frisco9568
6 ай бұрын
The Portuguese brought the peppers from Mexico. They are native to the Americas not Europe.
@jeremycline9542
6 ай бұрын
I'm aware of that fact@@frisco9568
@inisipisTV
5 ай бұрын
Spanish from New Spain, present day Mexico.
@marw9541
4 ай бұрын
@@frisco9568 Bruh we all watched the video, why are you repeating the video when no one said peppers come from Europe?
@Mattropolis97
2 ай бұрын
@@frisco9568He didn’t say they were from Europe, he just said the Portuguese brought them over from Europe 😂
@yasmin7903
Жыл бұрын
I remember being shocked when I first discovered a couple of years ago that chilli peppers were nonexistent outside the americas pre Columbus! I mean, I knew from childhood that Corn, Potatos, Tomatos and Tobacco all came from there. but even chillis? I somehow assumed that there have always been variants all over the world. Both African and asian cuisine rely heavily on it. I cannot imagine a world without chilis!
@citrusblast4372
Жыл бұрын
Did u know also tabacco vanilla and cocaine came from there?
@luiskp7173
Жыл бұрын
@@citrusblast4372On cocaine, it’s the prototype drug that all local anesthetics are derived from, we wouldn’t have local anesthetics!
@cloroxbleach9222
11 ай бұрын
There were actually variants of peppers that we used before chilli's arrived, in Indonesian the word we have for chilli (cabe) is actually older than chili itself and it used to refer to a type of long pepper
@John.Flower.Productions
11 ай бұрын
@@luiskp7173 There were various other -caines before the introduction of cocaine.
@carlosm.3426
5 ай бұрын
@@cloroxbleach9222 all chile peppers have their origin in Mexico
@olyomune556
Жыл бұрын
OTR team, Thank you for doing this fantastic journalistic piece. Appreciate the research work going into making this highly educational video filled with interesting facts. Well done to Adam and the entire team!
@WushuTaz
Жыл бұрын
I consider myself a chili head but I never took the time to understand the full history and migration of the chili pepper but I had always wondered. Thank you so much for putting this together! The Thai jungle curries can really light you up but so far an Isan style Som Tum with more raw chilies than green papaya had wrecked me the most. Phet Phet For Life!
@jatc11yey
Жыл бұрын
While the Silk Road may have been a route of spread, the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade surely played a role too 😊😊
@OTRontheroad
Жыл бұрын
100% but it’s just all about timing in terms of what happened first- I’d have loved to have gone another 20 years with this story to talk about the Philippines and South Korea and a ton of other stories but it would have been endless
@nunyabiznes33
Жыл бұрын
Definitely played a role in sweet potato spread to mainland from what I heard. Saw a vid saying that it's just one pair of Chinese merchants who found it while trading in Manila and thought it'll be good to bring home.
@cruzergo
Ай бұрын
Interesting that majority of Filipino dishes are not spicy although the islands were first exposed to chilis among Asian countries.
@lapulapupintado2892
29 күн бұрын
@@cruzergo The Philippines are a bunch of 7,000 plus Archipelago/Islands & Islets with very diverse ( 130 Proto-Austronesian Ethnic groups/tribes ) each have their very own specialty of dishes some regions like it mild and some regions like it hot and some regions like it super duper Hot🔥 We are very culturally & ethnically diversed here.
@pimvanlotringen4344
Жыл бұрын
In Dutch, if we want to refer to something luxuriously expensive we refer to it as "peperduur", referencing black pepper being expensive during the dutch indian trading company times
@OTRontheroad
Жыл бұрын
wow that's really cool to know! thank you
@gabork5055
Жыл бұрын
This phrase exists in Hungarian: 'Borsos ára van'. Don't know if other countries picked up on it.
@ekredel
3 ай бұрын
@@OTRontheroadIn Croatia, Serbia and other south European Slavic countries it is the same. We say that the price is “paprena” (peppery).
@peterkiedron8949
Ай бұрын
In Polish it is about salt. High price, cost is salty.
@RoshanRawal
3 ай бұрын
As a teen when I learnt chilis and patotoes are not native to India I was shocked. Still think how our food may taste without chilies and get chills. 😅
@mrgriffin_peter
Ай бұрын
We have some native chilli varities and also our food was made with Black pepper !
@justin522
Жыл бұрын
I'm not a lightweight when it comes to spice. I lived in Thailand, including the Isaan. I've eaten a whole raw ghost pepper. But the phrase, "spiciest restaurant in all of Bangkok" scares me!
@WanderingVincent
3 ай бұрын
I truly appreciate how much effort and respect you give to every culture discussed here when it comes to food. We have so many food snobs or people with weird ethnocentric biases it's hard to get a proper introduction to anything history or sociology related. This is one of the best videos I've seen paying homage to the unique culinary traditions and a fantastic summary of just how global our civilisation has been all these years. I'm sure the likes of Anthony Bourdain would appreciate the content you've been creating. Cheers and Bon Appétit!
@boulderbash19700209
Жыл бұрын
One thing that made chili so widespread was its easyness to grow. It's a shrub that can bears fruit within months, while black pepper is a tree that needs years until it can bears fruit. So it's the cheaper alternative to black pepper.
@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands
2 ай бұрын
black pepper is a vine, chili is a plant much like potatoes or tomatoes, you put seeds in the ground every season..
@minhducnguyen9276
2 ай бұрын
@@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands On tropical climate chili is a perennial plant. They can last for around 5 years.
@heavymellow333
Жыл бұрын
Man this channel is a hidden gem. You guys will hit a 100k very soon. Amazing amazing research, great images and slides, and love the trail you're making.
@lelandunruh7896
Жыл бұрын
My wife is Swiss and I'm a Texan. Our respective ideas of what constitutes "spicy" vary more than a little bit!
@life_sized
Жыл бұрын
Phew, finally someone able to fill in a missing gap I'd been looking for post-Columbus Exchange, which was, how did chillies spread through SE Asia, which is related to your search to find how they arrived in Thailand! Thanks for doing the heavy lifting and making such an informative video! If you are ever back in the States, give me a shout and happy to give you a tour of NYCs Chinatowns and whatever is going on over here.
@kuyakaleb
Жыл бұрын
Seriously, this was one of my favorite episodes! Huge thanks and respect to your hard work on this video. 🙏
@dnapolren
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video.. being an Indian from South I have always wondered how chillies entered our cuisine because we use black peppers a lot for spice in traditional dishes like kootu (coconut gravy based veggie dish)
@troystpaul100
Жыл бұрын
Grew up on the Caribbean Islands Brids Eye were everywhere in the wild
@introtwerp
Жыл бұрын
@@troystpaul100really
@scottgrohs5940
4 ай бұрын
So Fluffy had it backwards: Indians love hot and spicy; Mexicans invented hot and spicy.
@gaara-0172
3 ай бұрын
Spicy 🌶 - Guntur chilli, India ❤❤
@minhducnguyen9276
2 ай бұрын
@@scottgrohs5940They still had black pepper. India has always been a major exporter of black pepper and long pepper.
@brione2001
6 ай бұрын
I grew up in the midwest, and like you, hadn't had hot Chinese food before. When I moved to Seattle, that changed. I ordered something called 5 Vegetable Chicken and when it came, I counted the vegetables. Sure enough, there were five of them, including the red peppers. So I started eating it all. I went through wave after wave of plateauing at higher levels. I finished the dish and when the waiter came I mentioned that it was amazingly hot. They looked at my plate and said, "You ate the peppers! You're not supposed to eat the peppers." That was a revelation right there. Another time I went to an Indian restaurant and ordered a Vindaloo curry dish. I'd had mild Vindaloo before and tolerated it, so this time I ordered medium. That dish nearly floored me. I broke in a sweat, then had chills and was shivering. The waiter noticed my distress and suggested that I go outside and walk in the heat of the evening and I would soon recover. They were right and I felt better a while later. Thanks for reading.
@woolfel
Жыл бұрын
When I eat a very spicy dish, I thank native american farmers for cultivating chili peppers. Without their skill and instinct, every cuisine wouldn't be as exciting or interesting. Sichuan la zi chicken is an awesome dish. My first memory of loving chili spice was a hot & sour soup that melted my brain. I had boring toned down hot & sour soup hundreds of times in Taiwan and LA. Then one time we went to a place in southern CA that made it extra hot and that got me addicted to spice :)
@oirampeceda2409
11 ай бұрын
@@John.Flower.Productionsbullshit
@NMWanderings
Жыл бұрын
Here in New Mexico roasted green chili is the thing, with Hatch chili's being the most famous. Peppers are also allowed to ripen and turn red, then dried, and used to make red chili sauce. You can ask for your dish "Christmas Style" and it will have both green and red sauces, in stripes.
@Misscleooo
4 ай бұрын
🤍🤍🤍 NM native here!! Hatch green chili is the bestestttt 🌶️💚💚💚 I moved to Arizona 5 years ago and I’m not sure why because it’s close close to NM but the “green chili” here is a joke, so is most of the Mexican food… maybe I’m just bias because I grew up n the best roasted green chili and best dried red chili sauces… I’m sure you know 😋 🤤 I need to come back and just load up during roasting season and freeze a ton to bring back here lol It’s cool too see a fellow New Mexican in the comments 💚
@NMWanderings
4 ай бұрын
Yes, NM chilies, sauces and food can be great, but unfortunately restaurants where I live in SE NM are pretty mediocre. Santa Fe, Albuquerque, or Las Cruces are a different story.
@GR8APE69
11 күн бұрын
New Mexican red and green chile is a way of life! Red and green chile are two things I literally can not live without! Glad to see other New Mexicans in here!
@bullfrogger1208
Жыл бұрын
I lived and worked in the border region of Argentina and Bolivia. What I missed most from home in California was chili. The food was excellent and fresh but was rarely spicy. Working in agriculture, I roamed the area, checking crops, meeting locals, and eating local food, mostly grilled beef and chicken, potatoes, and bread. The local tribal groups had peppers picked from the wild and all were small and round and very hot. I think they only cooked with them because the ones I ate tasted terrible. I just noticed how you described northern Bolivia as a variety hot bed. The south seemed quite the opposite.
@HayTatsuko
Жыл бұрын
Chillis are the best berries, and black pepper peppercorns are the second-best for me~ Love the presentation you all made. I'm so glad I randomly stumbled across your channel! And you are correct -- eating capsaicin on a regular basis literally retrains the receptors for it to become less sensitive to its presence, allowing the diner to take on ever-hotter peppers and concoctions!
@zzzzzz69
Жыл бұрын
What are we gonna do without berries
@mikewhocheeseharry5292
Жыл бұрын
Black peppercorns don’t have capsaicin like chilis. Their heat actually soothes digestion instead of upset it.
@bidoofismyking8962
Жыл бұрын
@@mikewhocheeseharry5292do you have more info on this actually, have been curious about that for a while
@krono5el
Жыл бұрын
Agreed! without Asia, Hindustan, and the Americas, we would all be eating pretty lame foods.
@tornado1730
11 ай бұрын
@@krono5el why did you switch to hindustan for India while writing the rest of the comment in English 😂😂
@robertopena8645
Жыл бұрын
In Mexico he have Chiltepin Jalapeño Serranos Chilaca Poblano Yahualica De arbol Puya Manzano Habanero And the list goes on the phenotypes are crazy so much variation in the same strain
@setoman1
6 ай бұрын
Habanero’s and Manzano’s are not chilis.
@robertopena8645
6 ай бұрын
@@setoman1 in Mexico they are called chile habanero and chile manzano
@setoman1
6 ай бұрын
@@robertopena8645 Botanically, this is incorrect.
@BenedictoLagardeJr.-it3bw
Ай бұрын
@@setoman1incorrect for whom?
@GR8APE69
11 күн бұрын
@@setoman1 Habenero's are absolutely a kind of chile. It's a spicy pepper of the capsicum family. How is it NOT a chile?
@RoshanRawal
3 ай бұрын
Very well researched and presented.
@arifnh_
Жыл бұрын
Bruuuh. This is quality doc production. Enjoyed it.
@Onionbaron
Жыл бұрын
Factual, no click baits, historical, explaining and from the heart... Subd and recommended!
@simmysims9209
Жыл бұрын
This was nice. I have grown 100+ different varieties and Piri Piri was my 2nd chili to grow back in 2009. Didn't know that it is that old chili. Was very easy plant with plenty harvest 🙂
@juliandco
Жыл бұрын
Really interesting video, Adam! The idea here that archaeologists, linguists, and botanists all tell different stories of the origins of the chili pepper is fascinating in broad contexts, showing how history isn't just one perspective. All the side stories you share make the story even more engaging.
@EllisWR
Жыл бұрын
Now THIS is my type of video mate!! 🌶️❤️ I can't imagine a life without chilli ever again.
@twinflowerfioretta
Жыл бұрын
Wow, fantastic content - i cant imagine a world without this little spicy "fruit" , the Chili peppers ! Thanks for another amazing research, i appreciate your work and love it ! my compliments for this historically spiced vid.👍👋🙏
@Herr_Artago
6 ай бұрын
Actually paprika powder was created by the Spanish in the XVI century (pimentón), the Hungarians loved it and started using it a lot in their cuisine almost 300 years later, but they didn't invent it.
@munak992
Жыл бұрын
As a chef, i say thanks for the in depth exploration in chilli, love it. Next is tomato?
@froggystyle642
7 ай бұрын
its pretty much the same story lol. no potato, no chili, no tomato, no corn. Probably involved the silk road at some point.
@nicolasbertin8552
11 ай бұрын
One tiny part that you're forgetting is the piment d'Espelette, from Basque country. They started growing chilies in Espelette in 1650. And it is today a staple of French south-western cooking. Basquaise chicken, pâtés, piperade and the classique chocolate and chili pie. In that region, it is as revered as paprika in Hungary : in september houses are covered with pepper braids, like onions.
@codyfraser7140
Жыл бұрын
I'm so happy this ended up in my feed. As a foodie and history nerd this was a delight, what well researched and brilliantly done video, thank you!
@HarshSingh-iu3xs
Жыл бұрын
Really informative video. I knew that chillies came to India via Portuguese in 16th century along with a lot of other stuff like tomatoes etc which are now an inseparable part of Indian cuisine.
@drpk6514
Жыл бұрын
The question is why in the last 20 years those who couldn't eat chili started to eat more and more spicy food? (including me) And as you start to eat chili you keep eating hotter food. The funny thing is the hot taste was developed in chili to deter mammals. Why on earth we kept eating it after getting burned the first time !?
@TheRedKnight101
Жыл бұрын
At least in "western countries" "ethnic food" has generally become more widespread and more culturally acceptable to eat. Thai restaurants, Mexican restaurants, Indian restaurants, etc are all more common then they were in the 90s. Spicey snack food's such as flaming hot Cheetos, Takis, and more are easy to get and expose people to spice at a young age. Now that spicey food is easier to get it is easier to build up a tolerance.
@evadebruijn
11 ай бұрын
Great question! ✌️
@johnwebber750
2 ай бұрын
Well, it shows that we humans do not tend to follow nature too much! We consider ourselves 'ingenious' when we go againts nature. Earth would be much relieved (and prospers) the sooner we are gone until the earth itself is no more... which may be soon with what we are doing.
@keshavchintamani
28 күн бұрын
Dude you rock. I eat bodh jhalokia pickles because of my wife's origins from assam. I'm South Indian and now have a new respect for the roots of the pepper. Keep it going.
@josephaugustine4876
11 ай бұрын
I am from kerala the southern state of India. You analysis is interesting the birds eye chillies grow wild in this part of kerala and is widely usd in chudneys and pickling. We call them 'Kandari'. But when preparing curries kashmiri chillies are commonly used.
@lauracamargo3229
Жыл бұрын
It’s really interesting that Spain brought chilies to Europe and they had very little influence in Spain’s cuisine. I’m telling ya, there are no spicy dishes here hahah
@higashirinchiah1013
Жыл бұрын
Pimenton?
@lauracamargo3229
Жыл бұрын
@@higashirinchiah1013 it’s true we have 2 varieties , and one of them is “spicy” , but no one really uses that one that much. I didn’t know what was spicy until I went to Thailand
@higashirinchiah1013
Жыл бұрын
@@lauracamargo3229 it's more likely the South East Asia's varieties are blow your mind spicy. I guess this part of the world, we pick the spiciest ones to propagate 🤣 and Spain chose the less spicy varieties but both came from similar origin. If you run through most South East Asian recipes, chili is only used in small quantity in comparison to the ridiculously long list and amount herbs used
@_colonial_
Жыл бұрын
As an American (with European family) I'm always disappointed by how tame European food is. (Except for the desserts. European desserts are awesome.) Britain is especially bad - every now and again you'll see videos going around of British people being unable to handle the "hot" offerings of US chains, which most Americans would consider a notch or two above mild. Then again, you could probably just argue that our tastebuds are fried from putting hot sauce on everything... 😅
@TheGero95
11 ай бұрын
Good topic and good research. You could make the voice over less worded though
@boomerix
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for mentioning Hungary, the country that out of all Europeans probably adopted the plant most strongly in Europe, using it in pretty much every dish and having it's own unique varieties. When people talk about Europe they tend to concentrate on the western countries and tend to overlook places further east.
@thomasfolio7931
11 ай бұрын
Great to stumble upon this video. I just finished my annual return home to New Mexico to get 300 lbs of XXX Hot Hatch Chiles. As a kid we would get it and after roasting and peeling them bag them and freeze them. Now my brothers sisters and I get our sacks, roast and peel, pluck off the stems and dehydrate them, avoiding freezer burn or the danger of a freezer going out. We now know we can save the peels, dry them and powder them in a big commercial blender for soups and stews, even the stems can be dried and used like hickory to smoke meats and other edibles. There are folks who bring truckloads out to Calif but it's better to visit and get all the chiles processed (300 lbs dehydrates down to 100 lbs) in the New Mexican equivalent to a sewing bee.
@GR8APE69
11 күн бұрын
Yup! It's just not the same getting it out there in California. I had no choice but to buy it out there one year when I lived there for a short while away from home in Albuquerque, and the guys roasting it had no idea what they were doing. It physically pained me to watch them absolutely butcher the roasting process. I ONLY buy my red and green chile in New Mexico. Truthfully, I tend to prefer the harvests that come from the Central Rio Grande Valley farmlands surrounding Los Lunas and Belen even more than the Hatch Valley. I get at least a sack of Lumbre XXXtra Hot green chile every single year and can't live without it.
@marktaylor4458
Жыл бұрын
I love this story. When I was a kid, you would see birds eye peppers growing wild all over south Texas. They were often used mixed with vinegar, bottled and found on restaurant tables. It was often used to give a simple spinich receipe more flavor.
@chess_on_toilet
11 ай бұрын
It’s strange this vid doesn’t even refer to the birds eye pepper aka the chiltepin, because botanists many say is the original pepper
@SageOLeannan
11 ай бұрын
Same! You can still find tabasco peppers in vinegar on most store shelves here. I keep a bottle of it around for when I make collard/mustard/turnip greens and cornbread.
@guypehaim1080
Жыл бұрын
If you notice, the chili pepper is used in the foods of many people who live on and near the equator. When you eat the spicey food, you tend to sweat. The sweating is the body's way of cooling. Therefore, it makes sense that people living in the warnest parts of the world would eat chilies to keep cool.
@hectorcardenas2171
Жыл бұрын
The New World gave and continues giving, so much to the World. Amazing.
@JoannaHammond
Ай бұрын
One of the things I love most about capsaicin is that it's primary precursor is vanillin, the molecule that gives us the vanila taste :D So many plants developing so many interesting chemicals. Oh, on a side note, even onions produce small amounts of capsaicin!
@wattanaKh
Жыл бұрын
In Thai restaurants or street food vendors you might notice some of them has free veggies/sliced cucumber. Eat them while having spicy menu. It'd help you dealing with the spiciness better.
@phil_matic
8 ай бұрын
Crazy to think that in the 90s, the Habanero was the highest tier pepper spice in the world, nowadays it's about mid-tier.
@rafaperezdiaz
Жыл бұрын
There are a few relevant omissions. The main route Mexican chili arrived in Asia was through the "Nao de China" that started trade from today's Philippines and Mexico from 1565 onwards. The red bell pepper is the adaptation of the poblano chile to Spain, that pepper turns sweet just after a few generation (about 2 years) Spaniards' also found out that some other varieties of chiles would remain hot when grown in their north African colonies (I.e. Morocco and the Canary Islands). The only Latin-American countries that have chili in their typical food are México, Perú and to a lesser degree Guatemala. Capsicum Annuum has a Mexican origin and Capsicum Frutescens origin is Peruvian. Chesse dip is not Mexican food, it is a US thing you don't find in Mexico unless you're in an US restaurant food chain. Portugal got access to chili in Africa from the Spanish colonies trough trade and the rest is history, The Portuguese didn't really go inland n Brazil, they remained mostly close to the sea (check the location of most of the city's they founded) and it's really unlikely they had access to the wild chilis from deep in the Amazon.
@lilac_hem
10 ай бұрын
i love the whole peppers ≠ chilies thing studying old Asian cuisine to find out how they made spicy foods before the introduction of the chili was so enlightening and fun. there are actually SO many different kinds of pepper that are native to Asia, but they are not chili peppers. it's so nifty. :3 love how much the amazing foods of the "New World" impacted the rest of the globe.
@Becausing
Жыл бұрын
Excellent episode- one of your best! Bourdain would be proud.
@ambercrombie789
Жыл бұрын
This is so well researched, written and presented. I rarely watch a 32 min. vid front to back. (short span of attention, perhaps) This was so well done.
@khingzakub
Жыл бұрын
at this point, I just watch your video without caring about context. Love your work as always. Ps. maybe you should open a membership. I really love to support you guys for making this quality content.
@OTRontheroad
Жыл бұрын
Incredibly kind of you, really appreciate it. Will look into the membership idea- for now, Patreon really keeps us going. That would be the best way to help us if you felt inclined. www.patreon.com/OTRontheroad is the link
@andrewgoss49
2 ай бұрын
Oh my god that Sichuan dish is my family and I’s favorite dish of all time. Anytime we all fly to our hometown, we go and eat that dish, sometimes multiple days in a row bc we’re addicted and can’t get it in many places in the US. Cool to see it’s so impactful to you too
@timanctil8225
Жыл бұрын
Seeds don't have much capsaicin, it's the white ribs/membranes they are connected to that contain the heat...
@petercarioscia9189
Жыл бұрын
Underrated channel for sure. Glad the algorithm blessed me
@romedeiros70
Жыл бұрын
My dude! Birds are a CLASS, with thousands of species. Good video with lots of good information. Thanks for sharing.
@OTRontheroad
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I said "species" in the colloquial sense and it didn't hit me when I was writing how misleading that is (given the actual meaning of the term). Just bad writing on my part, not an intentional misstatement
@mr22guy
11 ай бұрын
I am forever entertained by the fact that these once coveted and world-shaping spices are now abundantly available from any fast food restaurant and thrown away constantly (salt, black pepper, crushed red pepper).
@pardismack
Жыл бұрын
In North Africa, we (still) call the Mexican chili pepper (the thin long red one) "felfel barlaabid", which literally translates to "pepper from the land of the Slaves" (since it came from the americas)
@OTRontheroad
Жыл бұрын
Wow- that’s interesting! Had no idea.
@randangbalado
9 ай бұрын
but africa was the land of slave too
@pardismack
9 ай бұрын
@@randangbalado there was slavery everywhere, enslaving all sorts of races, but I guess from the African perspective, ships come to take slaves to America, so America must be filled with slaves
@maidsua4208
5 ай бұрын
@@pardismack They didn't take them, they bought them for weapons and liquor. It was black Africans who went far into the African continent to collect people who they sold as slaves. Unfortunately, slavery still happens in Africa.
@AquarianMorningstar
3 ай бұрын
It feels ignorant and disrespectful, surely it can be called what it is since you know better. Not everyone here at that time was a slave. If many cultures had slaves why are their areas not also called "Land of Slaves"? We should maintain our consciousness.
@lostinsydney
Жыл бұрын
I addicted to this channel!
@JamesJones-cx5pk
11 ай бұрын
If you get a chance, visit the Tabasco company in Avery Island, Louisiana. Its a monster pepper farm and factory. They give great tours in beautiful south Louisiana. I think they produce like a 3 million bottles per week.👍
@JakeKirsch
Жыл бұрын
Not sure why you don't have more subscribers. This channel is amazing, great job
@christiancowles9436
Жыл бұрын
A friend of mine heard the birds were immune to the heat from chilies, so he fed some old chilies flakes to his chickens, which greatly distressed the chickens. It seems that not all birds are entirely immune to the heat from chilies.
@grajiv1979
8 ай бұрын
Don't tell me that chickens that are fed with Chilly died and cooking them is what the history of Chilly Chicken
@dmon007
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, KZitem algorithm. For I have discovered this channel thanks to you, and I immediately subbed. Great video on chili peppers; I was also blown away by chinese spicy flavours back when I used to live in Beijing. Mad props, man!
@eswillie
Жыл бұрын
Great episode, Adam. All I know is that I took a tiny bite out of the "Ring of Fire" Thai chili I'm growing and the burn lasted for more than an hour, even after a couple of beers. I've eaten just about every chili pepper available from Thailand to the US, and that has to be one of the hottest I've ever tasted. I'm waiting for the peppers to turn red, hoping for a smokier flavor to balance the heat, but we'll see. Let Daria know that the best way to deal with the peppers in that Jungle Curry is to have a bottle or more of beer standing by, and never drink water to soften the heat. I'm glad you posted this one since it goes well with the history of Southeast Asia I just finished, and the Henry Kissinger volume next, and I'm in the middle of a comprehensive history of China, all of which make mention of the trade routes over the past several millennia. Without chili peppers, it's certain that life would be much more boring, and I have to thank our avian friends.
@newgabe09
Ай бұрын
Interesting you mention birds liking and spreading chili. I have dozens of chili bushes in my garden in north Qld, Australia. I haven't planted any, but the birds have! They then come to eat them.. so in effect, the birds are gardening :)
@whatthedeuce47d68
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for the interesting history of the awesome chilli. I'm from Cape Town South Africa which is where we had Portuguese and Dutch merchant ships stop along their routes to the middle east, the British then eventually claimed the territory which is why you then mainly mention Mozambique as the Portuguese waypoint as it remained a Portuguese colony.. I love the Birdseye chilli and had it growing in my yard requiring very little upkeep.
@markbrown2749
Жыл бұрын
Wonderfully comprehensive and informative. Well done!
@chairilanwarkorompot335
6 ай бұрын
I don't think sambal is Malaysian. The word sambal itself is from the Javanese language.
@RadioYui
Жыл бұрын
Amazing work! It reminds me to Anthony Bourdain's early videos, with great research, great content and best of all, great food.
@diarmuidking
Жыл бұрын
great content - its always beena amazing to me how chilies transformed so many cuisines so far from their origins
@markaustin4370
11 ай бұрын
So truly amazing! Thanks for your intellect and research. I'm blown away
@Krend3r
Жыл бұрын
Excellent video, I especially enjoyed the origin of how "pepper" became the English name of the fruit. A little fun fact: I live in Hungary and the name of Cayenne-pepper was mistranslated because of this. I assume they only saw the powdered form.... well anyway...
@RamenNoodlePackets
Ай бұрын
I've always been a chili head, I'm almost 40 now and I'm happy to see everyone globally now enjoying chili peppers mainstream. Everyone especially in the West was missing out big time. On a side note, grow your own pepper plants. They are bullet proof plants and all you need to do is shake the plants when they have flowers and voila, free peppers. If you take good care of your pepper plants, they essentially grow into a small tree and can live for many years constantly producing free fruit. Give it a try!.
@geoffas
Ай бұрын
I've tried growing my own chili plants several times and they always ended up getting destroyed by aphids 😞
@kenhaupt1865
Жыл бұрын
That restaurant is definitely on our list for our trip in January. The jungle curry looked amazing!
@troyclayton
Жыл бұрын
I'm 53, I never learned that rhyme about Columbus, excepting hearing the first line in media. I looked it up, the author is my mom's age- guessing it only took off with Millennials. edit: Thank you for the video, most people don't understand that the diet in Europe, Asia, and Africa had no potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes, chillies, or corn (and others) until the 'Americas' were 'discovered'. Still not sure how a place where people already live can be discovered.
@Lord.Kiltridge
11 ай бұрын
Wow. I had no idea that sweet peppers owe their ancestry to chilis. New subscriber. Really interesting channel. Over The Rainbow!
@kaveirinhaz
3 ай бұрын
Congratulations on your investigations. It´s not usual to see such an informotive video due to your own hard work investigating these questions. As a Portuguese I´m very proud of our historic importance in the world history. One can say that the stomach rules our life and we cannot doubt how food had such importance in our world culture! Thank you for your work!
@septonovic
Жыл бұрын
Let’s appreciate how hard work and insidious research they did on these channel vids. Ngl, not everyone know about this regionly-good places in Thailand at the very beginning.
@DD-sr9xm
11 ай бұрын
Lived in Thailand for 5 years, Singapore for 20 years. Chili pepper came from the Americas and the Thais turned it into a super star. But also the antidote to Chili came from the Americas as well … papaya. If you love Thai spice, the trick is to eat large amounts of papaya at breakfast each day. It solve the Chili.
@hebilicious
Жыл бұрын
What an utterly fantastic video. I loved every second of it, instantly subscribed to your channel. I would really appreciate if you could add Thai subtitles, so that I can share this gem with my Thai friends. I will look forward your next video ! Another minor request would be for you to write down on the screen the name of the dishes and the places you are at.
@JihouGijutsu
9 ай бұрын
so i recently tried something and i dont know why this isnt talked about more but, drinking vinegar to curb spice.... like literally chase spicy food with a tasty fermented or pickled food and i found it helps immensely.
@tw1nzor
Жыл бұрын
When i saw OTR noti Beers = ready Snack = ready After i finish ur vids I need to order jungle curry😂😂
@stonefly69
8 ай бұрын
Columbus affected more cuisines around the world than anyone else and not just with chilli peppers: add in potatoes and tomatoes, chocolate, corn and more. Important man.
@observerobserver2240
Жыл бұрын
You deserve more follows, I will push your videos on my Twitter. If it means anything, I just want you to know a rando recognizes your talent.
@OTRontheroad
Жыл бұрын
Very kind. Thanks so much.
@seansakprasit7111
Жыл бұрын
Outstanding content coupled with excellent presentation! I can see you being the next Bourdain without his snarky comments.
@henri0
Жыл бұрын
11:36 As a Mexican it hurts for you to refer to the cheese dip and hard shell quesadilla you had in Bangkok as Mexican cuisine 🤣 that's of course the US take on Mexican inspired flavors but definitely not representative (as in Mac&cheese refered as Italian food). Still of course, nice piece and amazing story but please come to (southern) Mexico, you'll die on the use and varieties of chilis, uses and flavors @OTR
@Mechanical3000
10 ай бұрын
How does this channel not have 10 million subscribers I just don’t know. Well done!❤
@travellolo
11 ай бұрын
People argue against Mexico having the best food. Let Italians and indians cook without chilis, corn, tomatoes or chocolate.
@dollartreeshark6786
4 ай бұрын
Chilies tomatoes potatoes rice peanuts wheat are all imports into India … not native…but pepper, cinnamon and other species are. India is the biggest producer of chilies.
@zjeee
2 ай бұрын
Europeans brought livestock with them to the Americas. Perhaps mexicans can try cook without beef, pork, chicken and lamb? Lol
@dollartreeshark6786
2 ай бұрын
@@zjeee Bison is pretty much beef and was available in plenty already. Turkey bird was already there.
@travellolo
2 ай бұрын
@zjeee North Americans had bison and deer meet. We have many birds, including turkey. We don't need any ingredients for the food to be the best.
@joebombero1
2 ай бұрын
The best thing about going to England is the Pakistani food- very hot, super delicious. I don't know how those people don't weigh 300lbs.
@thefootballpunnedit
4 ай бұрын
Love that the food shots at the start have som tam in it
@michaelblaes9847
8 ай бұрын
Anyone who ever screams about cultural appropriation needs to watch this. It's not appropriation it's appreciation.
@josephseidman9074
7 ай бұрын
Yes 🙌🏻
@hardheadjarhead
6 ай бұрын
Exactly. And some of those same people smoke tobacco, appropriated from indigenous Americans and turned into a slave based industry for 400 years.
@lookoutforchris
4 ай бұрын
Anyone using that term is already a helpless moron.
@BMWE90HQ
2 ай бұрын
To appropriate is to appreciate.
@paulj.l.9696
Ай бұрын
Not always.
@stephenselby4252
Жыл бұрын
This neatly answers a question I’ve had for a long time. Thanks!
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