Tasting History with Max Miller — Season 2020
About this season
Love Food? Can't get enough of History? Then you've come to the right place. Every Tuesday, Max Miller shows you how to make a different historic dish while exploring the history surrounding it.
Episodes (48)
1. How to Make Medieval Cheese
Aired 25 February 2020 • 7 min
I'll show you step by step and give a bit of the history of cheese, from Egypt, to Greece, to WWII and Nixon. Learn how we went from curdled milk in a sheep stomach to the wide world of cheese we know today.
2. Baking A Medieval Cheesecake - The History of the Sambocade
Aired 3 March 2020 • 12 min
In this episode, I make a medieval elderflower cheesecake - a Sambocade. I explore how this dessert is the link between the ancient cheesecake given to Greek Olympians and the modern NY style cheesecake we love today.
3. Making 400 Year Old Buttered Beere
Aired 10 March 2020 • 9 min
In this episode, I show you how to make your own alcoholic (and non-alcoholic) Buttered Beere and we explore the importance of beer and ale in Medieval and Renaissance England.
4. Cooking Medieval Dessert for Lent: Bruet of Almaynne in lente
Aired 17 March 2020 • 10 min
I show you how to make your own almond milk and look at the medieval diet during Lent and other fasting. I also explore some of the ways people made sure they could still eat well while observing their fast, even if that mean considering a beaver a fish.
5. Apple Muse for the Plague - The Four Humors
Aired 24 March 2020 • 8 min
6. Weird Cures for the Black Plague - Candied Horseradish
Aired 24 March 2020 • 9 min
7. What does a 1920s BIRTHDAY CAKE taste like?
Aired 30 March 2020 • 11 min
8. How to Make a MEDIEVAL TRENCHER - Torte Bread
Aired 7 April 2020 • 8 min
9. Cooking A CAPON Dish For A Medieval King - Sweet Measure
Aired 12 April 2020 • 6 min
10. Making Medieval Fig Spread - Rapé - History of the Fig
Aired 17 April 2020 • 9 min
11. Making a Medieval TART DE BRY (Brie Tart) - Brie: The King of Cheese
Aired 28 April 2020 • 13 min
12. Anglo-Saxon Oatcakes - How Not To Burn King Alfred's Cakes
Aired 5 May 2020 • 13 min
13. The Softest Bread In England - How To Make 18th Century Sally Lunn Buns
Aired 12 May 2020 • 15 min
14. How to Bake Medieval Rastons - The Life of a Miller
Aired 19 May 2020 • 17 min
15. History's Fluffiest Dessert! - Everlasting Syllabub
Aired 26 May 2020 • 14 min
16. Cooking from THE FORME OF CURY: England's First Cookbook - Galyntyne Sauce
Aired 3 June 2020 • 14 min
17. I finally made GARUM - Ancient Rome's favorite condiment
Aired 9 June 2020 • 16 min
18. Oldest Cookbook in the West - APICIUS - Ancient Roman Mussels
Aired 16 June 2020 • 14 min
19. A Tart to Topple a King - Lombardy Custard
Aired 23 June 2020 • 16 min
20. A Dish for the First 4th of July... and why it should be on the 2nd.
Aired 30 June 2020 • 14 min
21. The Poisonous History of Tomatoes - Pomodori Farciti all’Erbette (1773)
Aired 7 July 2020 • 11 min
22. The Bread of ANCIENT ROME - Pompeii's Panis Quadratus
Aired 14 July 2020 • 13 min
23. Making Hippocras at Home - Medieval Spiced Wine
Aired 21 July 2020 • 18 min
24. Civil War Bread Pudding
Aired 28 July 2020 • 14 min
25. KYKEON - The Drink of Greek Heroes
Aired 4 August 2020 • 14 min
26. Payasam - Medieval India & Dessert for the King
Aired 11 August 2020 • 14 min
27. The Wonderful History of Pancakes
Aired 18 August 2020 • 16 min
28. Loseyns - Medieval English Lasagna!
Aired 25 August 2020 • 17 min
29. The Strange Flavor of Parthian Chicken from Ancient Rome
Aired 1 September 2020 • 17 min
30. FARTS OF PORTINGALE - A Shakespearean Treat
Aired 8 September 2020 • 12 min
31. Quesadillas Cernidas & Aztec Maize
Aired 15 September 2020 • 16 min
32. Yuanxiao from the Ming Dynasty
Aired 22 September 2020 • 17 min
33. Precedella - 1500's Pretzels made with Wine
Aired 29 September 2020 • 16 min
34. Spartan BLACK BROTH - Melas Zomos
Aired 6 October 2020 • 16 min
35. Scappi's Renaissance Herb Torte
Aired 13 October 2020 • 18 min
36. The History of Sugar Part 1 - Medieval Arabian Pistachio and Rose Candy
Aired 20 October 2020 • 18 min
37. The History of Sugar Part 2 - Victoria Punch
Aired 27 October 2020 • 19 min
38. Soul Cakes & Trick-or-Treating
Aired 30 October 2020 • 13 min
39. Silphium: The Lost Aphrodisiac of Ancient Rome
Aired 3 November 2020 • 19 min
40. Making Medieval Mead like a Viking
Aired 10 November 2020 • 19 min
41. Pumpion Pie from 1670
Aired 17 November 2020 • 17 min
42. What Did Medieval Peasants Eat?
Aired 24 November 2020 • 17 min
43. Figgy Pudding - A Victorian Christmas Tradition
Aired 1 December 2020 • 19 min
44. Unwrapping Aztec Tamales - The Tamale Wars
Aired 8 December 2020 • 20 min
45. Celebrating Saturnalia with Cato's Globi
Aired 15 December 2020 • 17 min
46. Making Medieval Gingerbread
Aired 20 December 2020 • 15 min
47. Eggnog: A Christmas History
Aired 22 December 2020 • 16 min
48. A 4000 Year Old Recipe for the Babylonian New Year
Aired 29 December 2020 • 18 min