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Transcript/ScriptTasting History (TV) HEADLINE: Cooking Show Recreates Age-old Recipes TEASER: YouTube channel Tasting History explores history through food PUBLISHED AT: 04/21/2022 at 6:03 pm BYLINE: Mike O’Sullivan CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Los Angeles VIDEOGRAPHER: VIDEO EDITOR: Mike O’Sullivan SCRIPT EDITORS: MAS, BR VIDEO SOURCE (S): YouTube/Tasting History Channel, AP. Interview by Skype PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO __ TRT: 1:57 VID APPROVED BY: mia TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES:)) ((INTRODUCTION)) [[The COVID-19 pandemic has brought changes to the lives of many people, and for some, new jobs. Mike O’Sullivan spoke with Max Miller, whose love for history and food led to a post-pandemic career as YouTube creator.]]
((SHOW CLIPS FROM COOKING SHOW WITH INGREDIENTS, CHICKEN IN PAN, MAP ILLUSTRATING PARTHIAN EMPIRE)) ((MANDATORY CREDIT: YouTube/Tasting History)) ((NARRATOR)) Exploring ancient recipes and testing them in his kitchen.
One of Max Miller’s favorites uses caraway seeds, fermented fish sauce and other ingredients to recreate Parthian chicken, a Persian dish from people who lived on the edge of the Roman world. ((SHOW MUSSELS COOKING IN PAN)) ((MANDATORY CREDIT: YouTube/Tasting History)) Or mussels prepared according to a recipe from a late Roman era cookbook.
((BRING UP YOUTUBE NARRATION WHILE SHOWING MUSSELS COOKING IN PAN))
((NAT SOUND/Miller: "After about five minutes, take a look and if most of the mussels have opened, you're good to go."
((SHOW MILLER ON CHANNEL, ANCIENT REIPE BOOK, GRAIN CAKES, “TASTING HISTORY” LOGO)) ((MANDATORY CREDIT: YouTube/Tasting History)) Miller’s YouTube channel, Tasting History, has more than 1 million subscribers. Producing episodes is his full-time job, financed by YouTube advertising, donations from viewers and commercial sponsorships. ((SHOW AP CLIPS OF DISNEY STUDIOS)) Miller used to work in marketing and distribution at Walt Disney Pictures, but was furloughed when COVID hit, and his hobby, a cooking channel, became his job. ((Max Miller, YouTube Creator)) ((MANDATORY CREDIT: Skype)) “Because then I had plenty of time because I had nothing to do.” ((SHOW PASTRIES)) ((MANDATORY CREDIT: YouTube/Tasting History)) ((NARRATOR)) Pastries from ancient to recent times. If he can find the recipe, he’s willing to try it. ((SHOW MILLER ADDING CHOPPED BEETS TO PAN)) ((MANDATORY CREDIT: YouTube/Tasting History)) This 4,000-year-old Babylonian recipe for lamb and beet stew produces a dish surprisingly like traditional Slavic borscht. ((FOR RADIO: Max Miller.)) ((Max Miller, YouTube Creator)) ((MANDATORY CREDIT: Skype)) “It’s just interesting to see how these dishes, if they’re good, persist throughout time.” ((SHOW MILLER COOKING STEW)) ((MANDATORY CREDIT: YouTube/Tasting History)) ((NARRATOR))
Other dishes are less to his liking, like a stew of pork and blood from ancient Greece. ((SHOW SHOW BLACK BROTH STEW WITH MILLER’S NARRATION FROM CHANNEL)) ((MANDATORY CREDIT: YouTube/Tasting History)) ((NAT SOUND/Miller: “And here we are, Melas Zomos, Spartan black broth.” ((SHOW MILLER ON SHOW TASTING BLACK BROTH)) ((MANDATORY CREDIT: YouTube/Tasting History)) ((NARRATOR))
Exploring history through food, the good and the bad.
((Max Miller, YouTube Creator)) ((MANDATORY CREDIT: Skype)) “Food and history. You know, I don’t have a budget of any kind. I just sit at my kitchen counter in my too-small-to-even-film-in kitchen, and I did not think anybody was watching, but they are.” ((SHOW YOUTUBE CHANNEL SCREENSHOT, MILLER TASTING BEET STEW)) ((MANDATORY CREDIT: YouTube/Tasting History)) ((NARRATOR)) With hundreds of thousands of viewers joining his culinary adventures.
((Mike O’Sullivan, VOA News, Los Angeles)
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
NetworkVOA
Location (dateline)Los Angeles
Embargo DateApril 21, 2022 21:05 EDT
Byline((Mike O’Sullivan, VOA News, Los Angeles))
Brand / Language ServiceVoice of America - English
