Tasting History with Max Miller

Episode 2

Baking A Medieval Cheesecake - The History of the Sambocade

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.

Episode 3

Making 400 Year Old Buttered Beere

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.

Episode 4

Cooking Medieval Dessert for Lent: Bruet of Almaynne in lente

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.

Episode 5

Apple Muse for the Plague - The Four Humors

Episode 6

Weird Cures for the Black Plague - Candied Horseradish

Episode 7

What does a 1920s BIRTHDAY CAKE taste like?

Episode 8

How to Make a MEDIEVAL TRENCHER - Torte Bread

Episode 9

Cooking A CAPON Dish For A Medieval King - Sweet Measure

Episode 10

Making Medieval Fig Spread - Rapé - History of the Fig

Episode 11

Making a Medieval TART DE BRY (Brie Tart) - Brie: The King of Cheese

Episode 12

Anglo-Saxon Oatcakes - How Not To Burn King Alfred's Cakes

Episode 13

The Softest Bread In England - How To Make 18th Century Sally Lunn Buns

Episode 14

How to Bake Medieval Rastons - The Life of a Miller

Episode 15

History's Fluffiest Dessert! - Everlasting Syllabub

Episode 16

Cooking from THE FORME OF CURY: England's First Cookbook - Galyntyne Sauce

Episode 17

I finally made GARUM - Ancient Rome's favorite condiment

Episode 18

Oldest Cookbook in the West - APICIUS - Ancient Roman Mussels

Episode 19

A Tart to Topple a King - Lombardy Custard

Episode 20

A Dish for the First 4th of July... and why it should be on the 2nd.

Episode 21

The Poisonous History of Tomatoes - Pomodori Farciti all’Erbette (1773)

Episode 22

The Bread of ANCIENT ROME - Pompeii's Panis Quadratus

Episode 23

Making Hippocras at Home - Medieval Spiced Wine

Episode 24

Civil War Bread Pudding

Episode 25

KYKEON - The Drink of Greek Heroes

Episode 26

Payasam - Medieval India & Dessert for the King

Episode 27

The Wonderful History of Pancakes

Episode 28

Loseyns - Medieval English Lasagna!

Episode 29

The Strange Flavor of Parthian Chicken from Ancient Rome

Episode 30

FARTS OF PORTINGALE - A Shakespearean Treat

Episode 31

Quesadillas Cernidas & Aztec Maize

Episode 32

Yuanxiao from the Ming Dynasty

Episode 33

Precedella - 1500's Pretzels made with Wine

Episode 34

Spartan BLACK BROTH - Melas Zomos

Episode 35

Scappi's Renaissance Herb Torte

Episode 36

The History of Sugar Part 1 - Medieval Arabian Pistachio and Rose Candy

Episode 37

The History of Sugar Part 2 - Victoria Punch

Episode 38

Soul Cakes & Trick-or-Treating

Episode 39

Silphium: The Lost Aphrodisiac of Ancient Rome

Episode 40

Making Medieval Mead like a Viking

Episode 41

Pumpion Pie from 1670

Episode 42

What Did Medieval Peasants Eat?

Episode 43

Figgy Pudding - A Victorian Christmas Tradition

Episode 44

Unwrapping Aztec Tamales - The Tamale Wars

Episode 45

Celebrating Saturnalia with Cato's Globi

Episode 46

Making Medieval Gingerbread

Episode 47

Eggnog: A Christmas History

Episode 48

A 4000 Year Old Recipe for the Babylonian New Year