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Re: Yam, cultivate and cook

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Post by dccoolgai »

I've followed this channel for a few years. It's fun to watch his whole series from the beginning, because he builds on what he made in previous videos. Like one video will show how to make a kiln and the next will be pottery in the kiln.

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Post by Waterluvian »

dccoolgai wrote: post #2

I've followed this channel for a few years. It's fun to watch his whole series from the beginning, because he builds on what he made in previous videos. Like one video will show how to make a kiln and the next will be pottery in the kiln.

There was one video where in the same video he went from some very basic tool to an advanced version of that tool, using each iteration to build the next. I think it might have been a drill but I can't recall.

It was surprisingly inspirational.

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Post by beat »

There's a lot of sophistication in "primitive" agriculture. Humans have always been as intelligent and ambitious as they are today; they just didn't always have today's tools.

Yams always make me think of Gone with the Wind. The climax of Act III (not labeled as such, but stories are stories) is Scarlett O'Hara at her family's plantation. Yankee soldiers have come through and taken every scrap of food, but they didn't recognize the yams as food, because it's a Southern thing (yams in the South came over from Africa with the slave trade). So after they leave, she goes outside, digs up a yam with her bare hands, and starts eating it raw. And then she gives this amazing speech... (edited for book-quoted text)

"As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

And that's the Scarlett O'Hara of the rest of the book/movie, the relentlessly resourceful one who will never allow herself to be victimized by anything or anyone.

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Post by newnewpdro »

fouc wrote: post #5

He made it sound like his yams aren't that tasty, I guess it depends a lot on the strain and growing conditions.

Are yams ever tasty plainly roasted? Most people wouldn't enjoy eating a plain baked potato.

Some salt, paprika, and butter makes a world of difference.

Re: Yam, cultivate and cook

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Post by lazysheepherd »

Waterluvian wrote: post #3
dccoolgai wrote: post #2

I've followed this channel for a few years. It's fun to watch his whole series from the beginning, because he builds on what he made in previous videos. Like one video will show how to make a kiln and the next will be pottery in the kiln.

There was one video where in the same video he went from some very basic tool to an advanced version of that tool, using each iteration to build the next. I think it might have been a drill but I can't recall. It was surprisingly inspirational.

I definitely agree. I think this is the video you mentioned. I have watched it myself many times as well. "Primitive Technology: Cord drill and Pump drill" > https://youtu.be/ZEl-Y1NvBVI

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Post by whistlerbrk »

newnewpdro wrote: post #7
fouc wrote: post #5

He made it sound like his yams aren't that tasty, I guess it depends a lot on the strain and growing conditions.

Are yams ever tasty plainly roasted? Most people wouldn't enjoy eating a plain baked potato. Some salt, paprika, and butter makes a world of difference.

Paprika on a yam? Yeah, yams are unbelievably sweet when exposed to direct fire, like candy sweet. But I'm talking about the Garnet and Japanese varieties, this might just be a less cultivated specie he found locally and just went with it.
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