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I finally made GARUM | Ancient Rome's favorite condiment

3.6M views · Jun 9, 2020 · 16:02 · 1 HN recommender · 4 mentions · discussed 2020–2021

Max Miller of Tasting History makes garum, the fermented fish sauce of ancient Rome, using a same-day recipe. He covers the history of the condiment along the way.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN cites it in threads on Roman food and fish sauce as a hands-on demonstration of making garum.

“Worth a watch if you’re into cooking, or history, or both.”HN comment, 2021

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Recommendsel_benhameenMay 2021

“Worth a watch if you’re into cooking, or history, or both.”

Channel cooking dishes from antiquity, including garum

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There’s a fellow on youtube who makes dishes from antiquity, including garum. Worth a watch if you’re into cooking, or history, or both. this video

in “Stuffed Dormouse and Fish Gut Sauce: The Flavors of Pompeii (2019)” · view on HN
Cites iteindiranJul 2020

“This video covers how you can make garum using a modernized version of a surviving recipe from the Geoponica”

Makes garum from a modernized surviving Roman recipe

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This video covers how you can make garum using a modernized version of a surviving recipe from the Geoponica: this video

in “Did fish sauce in Vietnam come from ancient Rome via the Silk Road?” · view on HN
Cites itvirtue3Jul 2020

“It smells like death, so it would be unlikely anyone would necessarily want to eat it in the first place”

Shows garum smells awful, so unlikely discovered casually

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I mean... sure, programming is just putting together 0 + 1 and calling it a day too. I think you're severely downplaying how unlikely it is that this was just "done". It smells like death, so it would be unlikely anyone would necessarily want to eat it in the first place: this video

in “Did fish sauce in Vietnam come from ancient Rome via the Silk Road?” · view on HN
Cites itMichaelMoser123Jul 2021

“Max Miller on youtube says he knows how to make Garum”

Claims to know how to make garum from Byzantine sources

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Max Miller on youtube says he knows how to make Garum - the fish sauce that is often referenced. this video Now sure if that is genuine, i previously read that the recipe for this stuff has been lost (but the Author says his receipe is based on Byzantine sources) More about the author here: link it says his historical cookbook will be published next year, in 2022.

in “What did the ancient Romans eat?” · view on HN