"The origins of this dessert are a bit murky, with the Catalan saying their Crema Catalana preceded France's Crème Brûlée."
"The world learned about the art of purifying and cultivating sugar from India."
"The black and white cookie, I don't specifically know the origins of it, but for decades, possibly even a century, it has been a classic baked good in the Jewish New York baking tradition."
"The first modern American meatloaf recipe consisted of chopped beef, salt, pepper, onions, milk-soaked bread, and eggs."
"They're Native American cuisine. The cuisine of the indigenous people of this land, made with ingredients you could once only find here and nowhere else, made by people who were here before colonists like this guy and children of immigrants like me."
"America's first dedicated Pizzeria is usually said to be Lombardi's in New York City."
"It's a message and as the story goes, it's a pasta that originates in Rome."
"There's a lot of history going on inside Disneyland and a lot of food history itself."
"Renaissance tables were reveries of sweetness."
"That's great 18th-century cookbooks are chock full of really interesting recipes they're a great way to kind of dig back into history and find out what it was really like through taste."
"The earliest forms of cornbread in colonial America were of an unleavened type."
"The Egyptians figured out how to make egg ovens 2,000 years ago."
"This is as close as anyone will ever have got to an authentic bread from the late 1830s."
"The entire point of the trial was to prove once and for all that tomatoes could be eaten as ordinary food."
"Spices were regarded as a condiment to dishes and as medicine, influencing European cuisine through trade routes."
"Admit that it is not the same thing but what I'm interested in is the history, and it is a historical recipe."
"How many years in life did we survive without blenders before blenders were invented?"
"Everything about this one versus Abraham Lincoln's, you can tell the class. Not only in the dough and the ingredients but even how it's molded. Like you gotta have money to have a mold like this."
"Caesar salad represents a unique point in history."
"Bessie Wallis Warfield is largely credited with bringing the caesar salad to Europe."
"Middle East is a really rich region with a really rich culinary history."
"So this ancient recipe it wasn't super specific, it had two bunches of stinging nettles, some venison, and a cup of barley."
"Yes, we are going back 8,000 years all the way to the stone age to recreate the oldest recipe ever."
"An interesting thing, the only apple that was native to America before Europeans settled was the crab apple."
"I'm just so grateful that he agreed to work with me on today's recipe from the 1831 'El Cosinero Mejicano' for quesadillas cernidas."
"This comforting winter meal is believed to have originated as a simple farmer's dish, which soon became a restaurant staple and a part of the national cuisine in Portugal."
"Chocolate chip cookie: the beloved chocolate chip cookie was born."
"The humble lobster climbed the social ladder and went from being cheap and disregarded to being one of the most decadent dishes on restaurant menus."
"Bread as plate, Helstosky says, puts pizza in the same lineage as pita, lavash, and tortilla."
"Chicken tikka masala is believed by many to have been created by South Asian immigrants in the United Kingdom."
"Richard's cookbook, the Forme of Cury, was written for him, 196 recipes from Blancmange to porpoise soup."
"Turkish cuisine is based on a fusion of all the surrounding cultures they were in contact with throughout history."
"Nutmeg shows up over and over and over again in 18th-century recipes."
"Rice was introduced into Europe by the Moors in the 10th century."
"The only way for the left to ever win on anything is ruthless solidarity."
"It's not the oldest in our puddings, you know. I think traditional Christmas pudding, plum pudding, it was another. George the First, his first Christmas as King of England in 1714, he ordered up plum pudding."
"Food is a part of that history, and I want to taste that history."
"What made this crustacean go from prison food to a well-known delicacy?"
"The excavations here are revealing a quite unfamiliar picture of Iron Age life. The people were living in a settlement that we recognize as a town, they were drinking wine, they were using olive oil, dill, and coriander in their cooking."
"The food we're making today is the love child of Spanish and Mayan cultures."
"We take a dish you may recognize and attempt to recreate one of the oldest versions of it to ever exist."
"Currants were a very important fruit in the time period. That's why we're encouraging you to try out these recipes."
"Cinnamon and pepper, two ordinary spices with an extraordinary past."
"Ice cream was never really invented, it more or less evolved on its own."
"Ice cream was a luxury of a sort that is almost impossible to even fathom today."
"Biryani itself, the word, is a Persian word. So that's the history of biryani."
"During World War II, fresh lobster was considered a delicacy and therefore was not rationed."
"Tamales are considered one of the world's first portable foods."
"What's the first pizzeria in the US? It's New York City!"
"Some historians say that the dish that you're going to make today was the beginning of what turned into a lasagna."
"Philippe's, the original here in downtown Los Angeles, this is the original spot where the French Dip sandwich was invented."
"Norway introduced salmon sushi to the Japanese in the 1980s, contributing to the popularity of the dish."
"First up on mac and cheese myths: contested history of macaroni."
"Food: birthplace of the California burrito and fish tacos."
"Potatoes were a very important part of the diet in the 18th century in Great Britain, then in North America. They were an important, especially for the poorer sort of folks who didn't have those expensive foods available to them."
"Sometimes when we think about English cookery in the 18th century we think plain cooking you know we think um in our terms today meat and potatoes but that's not necessarily always true."
"Welcome to 18th century cooking I'm your host John townzen today we're digging into a recipe from 1773 amazing fine sausages."
"Welcome to 18th century cooking I'm your host John Townson and today's recipe is well it's an 18th century creme brulee but with a Twist."
"Roasting is where cooking all began, dry heating methods."
"Quite unusual to get chefs in pictures of the late 19th century. Chefs were not socially quite the way they are today."
"This is the 89th recipe of the Lien Papyrus X, just one of over 200 recipes contained within it."
"Chicago should be proud of inventing the brownie."
"Excellent, AB Marshall stands for Agnes Bera Marshall born In 1855, she was an English culinary entrepreneur who became a leading cooky writer in the Victorian period and was dubbed the queen of IES for her works on ice cream and other frozen desserts."
"This is the story of Thai Fried Chicken, a local obsession with origins going all the way back to the creation of the dish."
"A dish created by the Scots, perfected by West Africans in the United States, and adapted to the palates of just about everyone everywhere."
"Well, I learned that French toast isn't truly French, that it has changed a lot since the medieval era, and that I actually prefer grilling my French toast before frying it."
"This recipe is from the medieval French cookbook, 'Le Viandier.' It's one of the earliest known European medieval cookbooks."
"To understand the foods of our present, we must first understand the foods of our past."
"How lobsters became a delicacy was because of the railroads. Didn't know that? Yeah, you're full of all the information."
"North Carolina barbecue sauce, the origins of it goes way back to our forefathers."
"Pepperoni is an Italian-American creation."
"In Jamaica, the barbecue tradition goes back over 1200 years to the Island's original inhabitants, the Arawak Indians."
"Generations of great Milwaukee culinary history."
"This is the most natural way to cook that they've been cooking in clay since ancient times."
"Swedish meatballs originated from a recipe King Charles XII brought back from Turkey in the early 1800s."
"People have been eating oysters in what is now the United States for at least nine thousand years," when harvesting technology improved in the 19th century, the price of the bivalves dropped at one point to half the price of beef per pound.
"The invention of the modern donut dates back to Dutch settlers coming to the New World in the late 1700s."
"People have been eating cheese since before recorded history."
"People 200 years ago were smart, yeah, they were. Let's take mashed potatoes, roll them in a ball with herbs and seasonings, and fry them, it's genius."
"My grandmother being a kosher chef, she said, 'Let's try this new concept of food. Kids like them, you know, I cook for children,' and in September of 1969, they opened the first kosher pizzeria in this neighborhood."
"Modern Mexican food we see today evolved from Mayan, Aztec, and Spanish cuisines."
"History informs us that mounds of long goose, team salmon galore on beds of crayfish, and Charlotte cakes Russian style adorned the dining tables."
"The passion for the first generations of restaurants was undeniable."
"These two traditions converged, creating a junction which would produce the great cooking tradition of the 19th century."
"Once Napoleon, who decreasingly endured formal dinners, started a culinary revolution by launching the idea of a buffet supper."
"Chili was introduced to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty and became popular among the people due to its appetizing advantages."
"There's nothing Scottish about Scotch eggs."
"Oysters have held an important place on our dinner tables for centuries."
"Throughout history, food and recipes have traveled through time and space."
"That is 800 years of Russian baking right there."
"It's because the slaves were forced to make do, and they had to use what they could find, and their love for their families' happiness during mealtimes came from their heart, and so their heart and soul went into preparation."
"That book was just a story of trying to find all the ingredients from a cookbook published by Auguste Escoffier in 1903."
"Adobo is like so many dishes from around the world that was really created through necessity."
"It's not a French pudding at all; crème brûlée is really Trinity burnt cream from Cambridge."
"I've started collecting old cookery books going back to 1920."
"I got to taste what celery Jello tasted like, something that's been discontinued for many decades, so that was awesome."
"The history of cast iron cookware is extremely important, not to mention the people who love using it."
"Pig fat has been used in cooking since prehistoric times."
"Linzer torte is one of the oldest known cakes and it was first documented in a cookbook that dates back to the 1600s."
"If memory serves me right, the first true evangelist of Chinese cooking to Japan was Iron Chef Chen Kenichi's father, Chin Kenmin."
"Food is history, as your title says, a taste of history."
"I just love the history of food and I love cooking as a hobby with my fiance."
"Cold golden fried rice is an imperial technique, these are the techniques that were found in emperor's kitchens in court kitchens."
"A chicken tikka is actually a Scottish invention."
"It wasn't until 1964 when buffalo wings came around, supposedly out of Buffalo, New York at Anchor Bar."
"Puddings were enjoyed by everybody; you could have been a very very poor farmer or you could have been the wealthiest Royal and you would have eaten puddings."
"This baked pork chop rice is a prime reflection of Hong Kong's 150-year history as a British colony."
"Charcuterie, which comes from the French term meaning 'the meat cooker,' was a culinary art from France that began back in the 15th century."
"Beef Stroganoff was originally created during Tsar time by a French chef in Russia."
"The ancient world was a bland, flavorless, unseasoned mess until the Tamils taught everyone the way of the spices."
"We're their descendants, so I think that's a very good thing to look to how they prepared these breads."
"The potato chip is even younger than the chocolate chip cookie... people absolutely loved the dish and they welcomed the first ever batch of chips with open arms."
"Ever since the beginning of time, people always tried to make food taste better."
"Many of the foods, dishes, and recipes that people eat today have actually been around for decades, if not centuries or even millennia."
"Long before pizza came around, Armenians were making savory flatbreads topped with meat and vegetables called Lahmajun."
"Faloodeh is the oldest ice cream in the world, dating back to at least 400 BC."
"Tantallon cakes are named after a castle in Scotland and they are a type of shortbread."
"Rice first arrives in Scotland in the mid-1300s and by the 1400s is fully integrated into Scottish cooking."
"Which sauce takes its name from the county where it was first made? Worcestershire, correct."
"That's the historic Russian recipe that transforms apples into marshmallows. Not technically exactly marshmallows, but very marshmallow-like."
"It's important for people who are barbecue people now, who have got into it, to understand where the style of barbecue that we cook now is really coming from."
"Caesar salad dressing was invented in Mexico."
"Fast food has come a long way since the days of the Earl of Sandwich."
"In Europe, they're potato kugel or noodle kugel, and of course, they weren't machine-made noodles; they were noodles that were cut and made by hand."
"The first hamburger in the U.S. was made in 1895 at Louis' Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut."
"Lobster Newberg, the epitome of seafood luxury, was whipped up by Ben Wenberg and became a sensation at Del Monaco's restaurant in New York in the late 1870s."
"The legacy of Jervaulx Abbey lives on because this was the first place anyone ever ate Wensleydale Cheese."
"I'd like to see what food was like when it was just simpler and how people ate maybe then."
"We're eating food that was gathered by Maria, who learnt it from her grandmother, so we're really touching history and touching the Ligurian issue."
"...gelato was invented in the 16th century in Florence, and so you should try all of the flavors."
"A good chef always finds out why every generation is so cherished."
"It is like silky smooth, rich, just like ancient almost, this dish has so much history."
"Steam buns have a history of 2,000 years."
"We are seeing the history. This is where, you know, people created their food."
"That was what they used as a sweetener, kind of like syrup or molasses."
"Every spoonful is not just a taste of delicate flavors but also a sip of ancient traditions."
"In 1938 we invented the chocolate chip cookie."
"Deep dish pizza was born in Detroit."
"These spiced cookies are so much a part of the ancient spice routes."
"A blend of ground spices remedied the deficiency, and curry powder was born."
"This is Louis's Lunch, the world's first Burger Restaurant established in 1895."
"Shark fin soup, a delicacy especially in Chinese cuisine, has origins dating back to the Ming Dynasty."
"From the Han Dynasty to the ancient Romans, from the English monarchs to the American cowboys, cast iron pans have been used for more than 2,000 years."
"Chocolate milk was first popularized by the Irish botanist named Hans Sloane in the 1700s."
"The Fluffernutter sandwich, created in the early 20th century, is a classic American dish."
"For centuries, the soybean has been enjoyed by people in Japan, each generation has harnessed ingenuity to prepare soybeans in different ways."
"We've been cooking with fire for at least 800,000 years, possibly more."
"There's just so much history in this cabbage roll; like you can just taste history when you eat this cabbage roll."
"The tasty history of Belgian chocolate begins in the 17th century when Belgium was ruled by Spain."
"Kebabs are thought to have originated with ancient Middle Eastern cooks."
"This is like when the British discovered chili, turmeric, and saffron; it just flipped the script and there was no going back."
"Our passion for what we eat and drink has altered the course of history in ways you have to see to believe."
"Strozza preti are wonderful ricotta dumplings, and they're called strozza preti because literally, a priest choked over this delicious dish."
"The origin of Japanese food, where it all began."
"Beignet, fried square doughnut in French-style. Introduced in Louisiana by the French Acadians in the 18th century, this light pastry is a delicacy in New Orleans."