I Tried 1,000,000 Years Of Food

Shoutout to this guy for living 1 million years to film this

Fun fact: Hollandaise might only be a recognized mothersauce because of a mixup. Alex did the research and concluded that mayonaise should hold the title according to Escoffiers original work. I would wager that western cuisine is using more mayonaise based sauces then hollandaise sauces nowadays too.

I admire you very much. You are always a source of ideas and motivation for me to learn to cook and develop my passion for cooking This is the number of people who also admire you and consider you a driving force for development 👇

fun fact: hollandaise isn't one of the 5 mother sauces, it should actually be mayonnaise- It was a typo in the translation of Escoffier's book lmao

Okay, I get this is kind of an extremely dumbed down version of everything for YouTube, but honestly, you should try doing a collab with Tasting History or Townsends or something. It would be fun to see them make a historical dish, and then you do a modern hoity-toity version.

Dude who discovered fire, such a bro for that.

Josh, one thing that your great channel video collection lacks is a perfect Persian dish. We have lots of delicious recepies; you can make a research for yourself; I suggest maybe start with the most common Persian stew: Ghormesabzi.

Something is wrong at 2:55 . Wok didn’t appear until the Song dynasty since iron was still a stated owned resource and it was VERY expensive to get iron ores. Things changed at the Song dynasty due to a significant higher wealth among civilians and that was when both the wok and the food delivery service started in China

Fun fact: Korean red pepper originated (like all chili peppers) in Mexico. Then traveled to Japan through conquest of Mexico and then trade via Portugal. And then moved to Korea by a failed invasion by Japan. Fast forward a few centuries. Now we have the Mexican tortilla meeting back with its old friend the Korean red pepper in this wonderful quesadilla. Your welcome. (Also, Mexican Korean mixed foods are amazing. Me (Korean) and my brother in law (Mexican) come together and make combos we think of all the time and it’s amazing)

Joshua, I think you have your early timeline way out of wack. Hominins/hominids were using hand axes and other cutting tools as far back as like 1.75 million years ago. There's evidence of stone spears going back half a million years ago. Heck, by 100,000 years ago we became what's known as anatomically modern humans, and absolutely had mastery over stone tools. And, as one last thought, humans really emphasized the gathering part of hunting and gathering, as much as 90% of calories came from things like fruit, nuts, tubers, edible greens, etc. This made me a little dubious of the no spices part. You think early humans didn't think to eat combine things like onion grass, wild garlic, etc with meat?

Fun fact, there is no year 0 in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It goes from 1 BC to 1 AD. Other calanders do include a year 0 though.

Josh, you provide some of the most entertaining material on you tube, or tv in general anymore. Just tuning in to anything you put out there with your fun personality makes me smile!

If tasting history with max miller was in this video it would have been goated

“Respect traditional recipes, but learn how to break the rules” may be my new favorite cooking motto. You should collab with tasting history for another video about this subject! I’m sure he’d have a lot more to offer you on this subject :)

I liked the video idea and the execution was even better and I respect the dedication. Keep going man

It's obvious you put a lot of effort into creating your videos. You deserve the success Josh! Love your content and your humor, keep up the great work!

Dude accidentally made the best luffy meat on the bone of all time. Never seen one closer.

Dear reader, your mother.

"shoutout to farming practices that are questionable" literally had me in stitches.

Probably the best food and cooking video I've seen in my life! Very instructive and funny.