From Past to Present: Iconic Chefs Who Shaped Cooking



Have you ever wondered who invented cooking or where it came from? While the origins cannot be precisely traced, most …

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  1. What a great tutorial. I worked in restaurants from age 16 to an early retirement at age 58 as a server. Yes, the BOH is so important. If you dont have a good chef…the party's over. I loved my job serving great food and meeting wonderful people. The only thing that's tough now is going out to restaurants and knowing all they're doing wrong. 😂

  2. Old Turks and Muslims cooked and have this long before us. Not sure which nation but they have had books where even recognised left side of animal from right hence one is more tender.

  3. Scuola Italiana di Greenwich Village. Look them up. Classes are on Zoom. You can learn the correct pronunciations. I have been a student there for years!! It is amazing how English speakers do not have the facial muscles developed enough to speak Italian or French correctly. But you can do it. .I love your recipes.

  4. Cool video. I've always considered the first one to eat the ingredient and wondered. Pineapple looks like it could hurt, but it's delicious. Lobster, durian, cheese and so on. How many people didn't survive their interactions with foods?

  5. That was a fun video with the history, dude 🙂

    I have a suspicion that is is among the top 5 (and would dare to say top 3) most work you did for a video. The research time… 🙂

  6. Interesting video. I was wondering since you have no doubt been to culinary school what would one learn by attending such a school versus watching videos such as yours and practicing. Clearly it takes longer to do it the self teaching way, but as you say it is all about the fundamental techniques which you teach very well.

  7. Interesting and fun video on european cooking. Is there any info or comparison of cooking in Asian countries for the same time frame? I'd be curious to see what philosophies are universal and what differences exist.

  8. Chef…Thank you for these great videos. Unlike most YT videos you take the time to teach. I learned great knife skills from you. Also, I never baked sourdough until I studied your Bread Series. And the simplicity of your Irish Soda Bread, yum!! You are a culinary gift. Thank you Chef 💚✌🏻

  9. This was a nice, approachable introduction to the history of culinary arts, however I do have a bit of feedback on the "earliest cooking" methods section. Recent research has found that the first cooking method used by humans was most likely smoking thin strips of meat next to the fire. The other candidate for the first cooking method would be the method that is still used in warmer regions of the planet, the earth oven or earth pot. By digging a hole, lining it with green leaves and then adding hot rocks from the fire you can bring water to a boil. The archeological records are now showing that this probably predated most other forms of cooking as it is a great way to stretch ingredients to feed more people. By boiling/simmering meats and veggies in water a group of individuals could turn a few meager into soup. Soups and stews most likely predate other forms of cooking simply because it's simple, requires few tools or skills and makes a little bit of food stretch much further. This process also enables the human body to make use of more ingredients through the process of gelatinaztion and denaturing.
    Grilling and raw fire cooking most likely didn't take off until after the advent of animal husbandry due to this vastly increasing the caloric density of meat in the human diet, enabling more individualized cooking and less "family stew pot" methods.

  10. Cooking was started in 14,000 B.C. when Thag Cook ate a leg steak from a Wooly Mammoth that had just been struck by lightning and liked it so much that he shared it with the rest of the tribe who all promptly proclaimed "Thag can cook!! Cook good!!".

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