Views : 484,986
Genre: Education
Date of upload: Dec 26, 2023 ^^
Rating : 4.987 (93/27,677 LTDR)
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Whenever I think about "HOW on earth did anybody see THAT and thought: I'm gonna taste that!" I remind myself that people are all children at heart and somebody at some point looked at this abomination of fish sludge they propably had forgotten, looked at his friend and went like "5 Schmeckles if you taste it!"
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MAX! THANK YOU! For my whole life, my family would serve an appetizer for holidays called, well said as, "spaghetti a leech" that I had no clue what the proper spelling or origin was. It was made with a small tin of anchovies, sliced garlic, and pepper flakes fried together for a minute before being tossed in pasta. That brief mention of colatura di alici cleared everything right up, and now I know where it came from! Even the smallest details you put into your videos are important and appreciated, so thank you again.
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Regarding fermented fish, you can find them in North America, too. Indigenous Americans from way north, Alaska and thereabouts, will make something called -- I am not joking -- stink heads. You take the heads of fish, bury them at the water's edge, leave them there for a while, then come back and eat them. It's not that popular with younger people anymore, but the elders still like it, so it still gets made. (When grandma wants her stinky fish heads, she gets her stinky fish heads.)
Actually, indigenous foods from that area might be kind of interesting. A decent amount of that cuisine has survived -- agudaq is an interesting thing to try as well. It's not dissimilar to other European sweet-savory things where you take fat, fruit, and animal of some kinds and combine them. In England, it was suet, currants, and beef. In Alaska or Canada, it was blubber, berries, and fish. (A lot of times nowdays, people replace the blubber with crisco.)
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Tip that probably wasn't done in the original recipe, but will make it better: after mashing the pears, strain and squeeze them dry in a cheesecloth, collecting the liquid into a saucepan. Then reduce the liquid into a syrup, and add it back into the mash. That prevents it from being too watery, while still keeping the flavour.
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Long pepper in Tamil is called Thippili/pippali(this is where the word pepper comes from) which was used to make Thirikadugam - a mixture of long pepper, regular pepper, and dry ginger thought to cure all kinds of ailments. The Tamil cuisine uses pepper and dry ginger a lot and when you mentioned long pepper I realized that India, despite being the land of origin of long pepper uses very little of it nowadays. On a side note, the Mulligatawny soup which is popular in the West is actually Milagu(pepper) thanni(water) popularly known as Rasam. Today we make Rasam with regular pepper, garlic, and cumin. I wonder how it would taste if I substituted long pepper with regular pepper. Max, I wish you make a video on this.
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