1 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the food Stuff. I'm Anyries and 2 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: I'm Lauren Volcabam and today we're talking about one of 3 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: my favorite herbs too. Oh yeah, well, I think it's 4 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: basically like everyone's favorite herb worldwide. Basically we're talking about basil. Basil. 5 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: I really hesitated because I almost said basil. Uh. Basil is, 6 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: according to baby center dot com, the two thousand six 7 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 1: most popular name for babies this year. Moving on up, 8 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: I guess it's actually moving on down. It was more 9 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: popular last year. But that's too bad. I wonder where 10 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: herb are herb? It's on that list. Research for another day, yes, 11 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: but no, today we are talking about basil and what 12 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: is it? Well, basil is a tender flowering plant with 13 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: oblong leaves that are highly aromatic. The species Akamum basilicum 14 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: is in the same family as mints and lots of 15 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: other culinary herbs like sage, a, regular, lavender, and thyme. 16 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,759 Speaker 1: There are over sixty types of basil. Oh my gosh, 17 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 1: I'm saying basil and I don't know why or how. Okay, 18 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: I mean, just roll with it, okay. I you know, 19 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 1: some days you say basils, some days you say basil. 20 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: Some days you probably say a completely different pronunciation. Anyway. 21 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: There are over sixty types shades of green to purple 22 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: to red, depending on the variety. Basil plants may grow 23 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 1: about one to three ft tall that's up to a 24 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: meter and taste wise, basil can have notes of lemon 25 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: and a cinnamon, clove, liquorice, citrus, jasmine, and thyme. Most 26 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: basil grown in Asia typically has a stronger clove flavor. 27 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: I feel like I need to go in to a 28 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: room and like some kind of speech therapy. I genuinely 29 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: can't tell if you're doing this on not doing it 30 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: on purpose. I don't know what's going on. This is 31 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: a terrific like Madonna moment. It really is. It really is. 32 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: Here we go. According to what I read, it's best 33 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: to pick basil leaves before the plant flowers, which means 34 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: I'm s o l because mine has beautiful, bright white buds. Um. 35 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: To prevent this, growers are advised to pnch it back. Yeah. 36 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: For for optimal herb leaf growth, You're you're gonna want 37 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: to trim off flowers as they start to grow. However, 38 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: basil flowers are also edible. Lots of herb flowers are edible, 39 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: google to be share before you eat something. But yeah, 40 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: basil buds and flowers are a little bit more peppery 41 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: than the leaves and are a pretty delightful addition to 42 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: like salads and cocktails stuff like that. Bees and other 43 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: pollinators also do like them, So leaving flowers on your 44 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: outdoor plants can help out some of those local pollinator populations. 45 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 1: And all is not lost for me because I also 46 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,559 Speaker 1: read that apparently basil keeps away cockroaches, flies, and mosquitoes. 47 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,559 Speaker 1: It's a plant thinking that can grow pretty well without pesticides, 48 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: because yeah, a lot of a lot of bugs don't 49 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: like it. Mine grows pretty well in general, because I'm 50 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 1: really bad with plants, and I had I had eleven 51 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: like herbs last year and now I have only two, 52 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 1: the basil and the parsley, and they like I've forgotten 53 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: to water them for weeks and they are still kicking. Yeah, 54 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: and they're both lovely and delightful and probably about the 55 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: only thing I can grow. I've done that with mint. 56 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, ment is tough. Oh yes, it's it's gonna 57 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: outlast all of us, Yes it will. Um an African 58 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: legend asserts that basil keeps away scorpions. On the other hand, 59 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: because something we learned during the research for this is 60 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: that basil is full of contradictions throughout history. Um In 61 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: the sixteen hundreds, English botanist Nicholas Culpepper, referring to a 62 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: French physician, suggested that it was understood that smelling too 63 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: much basil would turn your brain into a breeding ground 64 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: for scorpions. So it either keeps scorpions away or merely 65 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: smelling it will make scorpions appear in your in your 66 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: brain cavity one or the other. Basil has a surprising 67 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: amount of connections throughout history to scorpions. Another superstition of 68 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: the time was that if you left a leaf of 69 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: basil underneath the pot, it would transform into a scorpion 70 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: after enough time had passed. A sixteenth century Flemish doctor 71 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: warned that if you crushed a basil leaf between two bricks, 72 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: you'd have a scorpion on your hands. Where people doing 73 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: this on mass leaving basil between bricks, and I think 74 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: it just gets left there and sometimes scorpions show up later. 75 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 1: I'm you and your logic, Lauren, Sorry, speaking of logic 76 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: basil nutrition, Yeah, yeah, okay. In the amounts that you 77 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: eat basil, Um, it's essentially nutritionally moot. Okay, I mean 78 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: you know, I guess it's it's got some fiber. Uh. 79 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 1: If you eat about two chopped tablespoons of basil, you're 80 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: giving yourself about five percent of your daily recommended in 81 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: take a vitamin A to chopped table spoons. Okay, that 82 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 1: might be yeah, depending on how much you're eating. I'm 83 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 1: not sure. Um. Herbs in general are a wonderful addition 84 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 1: to foods because they pack a lot of flavor without 85 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: adding sugar or fats. I have been known to just 86 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: I guess it's not like I'm not frying them, but 87 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: I'll make them crispy, like I'll just oh yeah, pan, 88 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: I'll just eat the leaves. Oh sure. Um. Chemically, basil 89 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 1: has a lot of interesting stuff going on. That hint 90 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: of clove comes from u genal, the same chemical that 91 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: gives clove its clobiness. There's higher levels of citral or 92 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,039 Speaker 1: lemon all along with the terpene chemical lemonin um. And 93 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: this is the same thing that's behind lemon peel sent 94 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: Those chemicals are present in high levels, and lemon and 95 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: lime basil. The same is true for the chemicals behind 96 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,279 Speaker 1: liquorice for liquorice, basil, cinnamon for cinnamon basil, so on. 97 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: There are so many types that have kind of similar yeah, 98 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: flavor profiles to something else exactly. Throughout history, basil has 99 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: been used for a plethora of medicinal purposes. Bronchitis, insect bites, 100 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: cold muscle pains are vedic medicine employed basil seeds. Current 101 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 1: studies are looking into basil's potential anti cancer, antimicrobial, anti accident, 102 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: and anti viral properties as well as um while it 103 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,479 Speaker 1: also has unknown carcinogen called estra jol. But studies and 104 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: rodents show that you need to take in about one 105 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 1: thousand times what's considered a normal amount of basil before 106 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: we give you cancer and entry. I found on the 107 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 1: supernatural uses of basil included love, wealth, cheerfulness, flying, production, 108 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: and exorcism. Oh yeah, so let's let's talk about some production, 109 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: shall we, Yeah, if you want to get all of 110 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 1: those all of those benefits. Although basil plants will survive 111 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: year to year, as you have found annie in will 112 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: in warm climates or kept indoors, they are generally treated 113 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: as an annual crop for production. We're plant replanted every year, 114 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: they will not survive a frost. Farmers can harvest up 115 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: to five crops from the same plants in a single 116 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: growing season. Once harvested, basil has to be treated pretty 117 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: carefully to avoid damage. It's usually refrigerated immediately like in 118 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: the field if possible, um after harvest. Even when it's dried, 119 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: it is treated very gently heated to no higher than 120 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: about ninety degrees fahrenheit about thirty two degrees celsius to 121 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: preserve the oils in it for growing at home. Uh 122 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: if you ever buy fresh basil that you really like, 123 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: try trimming like a centimeter or so of the stock 124 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 1: off of off of a sprig and then just putting 125 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: it in water in a sunny spot. Basil is pretty 126 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: good at a growing from from cuttings. Once a couple 127 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: of centimeters worth of roots grow, you can just planted 128 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: in soil. But it also does grow pretty well without soil. 129 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: It's one of the plants being experimented with in hydroponic 130 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: and aquaponic studies investigating alternatives to traditional farming, which could 131 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: become more important as climate change affects our farmlands. Indeed, 132 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: One study I found was testing out basil's growth in 133 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: water inhabited by crawfish, and it did really well. Ah 134 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: food stuff, food stuff past and present into twine. And 135 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: speaking of hydroponics, one of the best ways to keep 136 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: basil fresh once it's been cut off of a plant 137 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: is to place the stems in water and keep the 138 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,679 Speaker 1: like vase of basil that you've got at that point 139 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: in the fridge. Just change out the water every day. 140 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: You might want to cover the whole thing in plastic. 141 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: Your results may vary. Uh. Separate leaves once they're d stemmed, 142 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: can be layered with paper towel to keep them fresh 143 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,199 Speaker 1: with a little bit longer. Some guides say that the 144 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: paper towel should be damp. Again. Your results may vary 145 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: h by the numbers. Basil numbers are difficult to track 146 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: because a lot of it is fresh um and that's 147 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: generally used locally, like pretty quickly after the harvest. But France, Italy, India, Thailand, 148 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: and Egypt grow a lot, producing just amongst themselves thousands 149 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: of tons per year. Hundreds of tons of dried basil 150 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 1: are imported to the United States and various European countries 151 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: every year. And basil oil is also a major production. 152 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 1: As of the mid nineteen nineties, about forty three tons, 153 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,319 Speaker 1: that's two point eight million dollars worth of basil oil 154 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: were in production every year. Basil is used in various 155 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: delicious ways and cuisines all around the world. Tai Laotian, Vietnamese, Italian, Meterranean, Chinese, Indonesian, Indian, 156 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 1: but chicken, pestoke, praise a um all. My favorite pizza, 157 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: the margarita. Deep fried basil alongside fruits in desserts, in cocktails. 158 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: That dessert we had a food and wine. It had basil. Yeah, yeah, 159 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: the key lime and watermelon was so good. And it's 160 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: an ingredient in shot truss. It's one of the things 161 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: that makes it green. I did not know that. I 162 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: have no idea what I thought shar Trouse was, but 163 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:24,079 Speaker 1: I never would have guessed that add basil in it. 164 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 1: Basil seeds are also eaten. If you soak them in 165 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 1: water for like a couple of minutes up to thirty minutes, 166 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: they'll they'll plump up with a gelatinous coating the same 167 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: way that the chiese seeds do. What's happening here is 168 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: that the the outer layer the outer skin of the 169 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: seed contains a mucilage or musilage perhaps, uh, the sticky 170 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: stuff that that expands and becomes sort of jelly like 171 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:49,959 Speaker 1: when it absorbs water. And this is helpful to seeds 172 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: because it means that when they encounter moist soil that 173 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: that mucilage grabs up water for the seed to use 174 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: and and also kind of sticks it in to the soil. 175 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:03,079 Speaker 1: It's also ad for eating because it's textually interesting. You 176 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: get a little bit of chew and like this burst 177 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: of mild floral flavor and then a crunch from the 178 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 1: seed within um. Bloomed basil seeds are incorporated into cold 179 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: drinks and chilled and frozen desserts in India and Southeast Asia. 180 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: I bet that's good. Oh yeah, so it's sort of 181 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: like a like tapioca bubble t. Yeah. I have a friend. 182 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: This reminds me because I was thinking about this like 183 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 1: two days ago. I have a friend who is She 184 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: used to have a pretty substantial um fear of eating 185 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: anything with seats, like she won't eat strawberries. Wow, okay, 186 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:44,079 Speaker 1: because the little tiny because she thought she knew it 187 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: was ridiculous, but she said she couldn't shake the idea 188 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: that like sprout, nurse stomach and kill her um. And 189 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,079 Speaker 1: I've been made to follow up because I was eating 190 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: pumpkin seeds the other day and I was like, I 191 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: wonder if this counts or if it's a specific type 192 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: of seed. I like to know more about people's fears 193 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: of things. I'm one of those weird people, So I'm 194 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 1: glad I have this reminder to follow up, to follow up, 195 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: to follow up. I just want to understand if it's 196 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: only whole seeds or yeah, if you crunch the seed, 197 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: then clearly you're killing it, I think, right. I mean, yeah, 198 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: how how far does this seed phobia go? That's all 199 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: I need to know. But that's that's a project. That's 200 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: a side project I'll do on my own time. Absolutely 201 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: for now. Yeah, we're we're talking about Basil, which has 202 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: been a symbol of love in Italy and on certain 203 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 1: Portuguese holidays it makes up a part of a gift 204 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: to a loved one. Please, if there's any listeners in Portugal, 205 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: I'd love to hear more about that. But throughout its history, 206 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 1: as we sort of alluded to, Basil has represented everything 207 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:53,079 Speaker 1: from hatred to royalty to satan sometimes all at once. Yeah. 208 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 1: So we're going to get into that confusing mash of 209 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: legend and history. But first we're going to get in 210 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: a quick break for a word from our sponsor, and 211 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: we're back. Thank you, sponsor, Yes, thank you. All right. 212 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: So basil history is tough to track down, it is, UM, 213 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: but we have tried to make sense of the confusing 214 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: history that we have uncovered, UM, and we will present 215 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:37,560 Speaker 1: it to you as as unconfusingly as possible. That that 216 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: is what we promised, that is the foodstuff, guaranteed, We 217 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 1: do our best. So basil has been cultivated for about 218 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: five thousand years or so and most likely originated in 219 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: India or around there. It was found in the tombs 220 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: of mummies, and historians think it was used in embalming 221 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: and preserving an ancient Egypt. Some of the first records 222 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: written records of basil came out of Hunan, China in 223 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: eight hundred and seven CE, So that's pretty newish um, relatively, Yeah, relatively, 224 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: I'm used to like back in six thousand BC, whatever 225 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: whatever happened, UM. The ancient Greeks associated basil with mourning, 226 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: referring to it as the royal herb possibly because of 227 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: the Greek word basilius, meaning king, and the French still 228 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: call it the herb royal. Yeah, the the ancient Greek 229 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: term for basil was basilicon phyton royal plant. The Oxford 230 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: English Dictionary entry on basil recounts it might have been 231 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: um quote some royal ungent bath or medicine, and that 232 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: might be where the name came from. Another possible etymological origin, 233 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: though less likely, suggest that the Latin basilicus as the 234 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: root word for basil basilicus meaning dragon, the same root 235 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: word for basilisk. Uh. Yeah, this is the last less likely, 236 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: but anytime we can bring up a basilisk in a show, yeah, 237 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: it's it's probably definitely not the root of the word basil. 238 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: But at one point the Latin term for basil and 239 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: the Latin term for basilisk were the same, the basiliskus. Yes, 240 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: the French words for basil and basilisk are still the same, 241 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:30,479 Speaker 1: basilic And this might be where the connection to scorpions 242 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: comes in. Okay, So, the ancient Greek word basiliskos, meaning 243 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: little king, was the term for a for a type 244 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: of bird that had this golden crest of feathers on 245 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: its head. The word could also refer to a kind 246 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: of poisonous snake that had a spot on its head 247 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: that supposedly resembled a crown. Plenty talked about this and 248 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: might have been referring to king cobras. From these creatures 249 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: we got the mythological basilisk, the venomous lizard or serpent 250 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 1: type being. And part of the myth of the basilisk 251 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: was that basil was a cure for its venom. Oh 252 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: herbalists were already using basil oil topically to treat insect bites, 253 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: and furthermore, the basilisk and the scorpion were associated with 254 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: one another because they were both venomous. Oh. So, if 255 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: if Harry had had basil in his fight with the basilisk, 256 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 1: he would have been fine. He would have been like, Begune, 257 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: I've got my basil. No venom from you will do 258 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: me any harm. I really don't understand why j K 259 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: didn't didn't didn't go that way with the phoenix Phoenix here, 260 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: We'll never know. Maybe the phoenix cries tears of basil. 261 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: You got there before I did. We think, like j K, 262 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: friend of the show, I wish if you happen to 263 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: be like saying, just you know, confirmed tonight if you 264 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: have any extra time. Yeah. A Greek legend gives Basil 265 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: it's scientific name after a Greek warrior, Achamus, was killed 266 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,360 Speaker 1: by gladiator, Basil grew where he fell. There's a similar 267 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 1: Ish legend that has basil growing on the spot where 268 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: Helen and St. Constantine found the Holy Cross. Yes, some 269 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:19,479 Speaker 1: medieval legends describe Helen following a trail of basil up 270 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,399 Speaker 1: to the cross um as the herb had apparently sprung 271 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: up wherever Jesus blood had fallen to the earth. Um. 272 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 1: And one legend in particular says that basil was growing 273 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,719 Speaker 1: on the cross itself. Uh. This might have come from 274 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 1: what what John wrote was inscribed on the cross Jesus 275 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: of Nazareth, king of the Jews. The Greek version of 276 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:43,400 Speaker 1: that inscription uses the word the silius for king m hmm. 277 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: And another name for Basil is St. Joseph's Wart, named 278 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: after Mary's husband. I didn't know that. I feel like 279 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: a fool. St. Joseph warty. It's Basil, Yeah, not St. 280 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 1: John's Wart, which is totally okay, that's what I have 281 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 1: to go. Okay, few. Yeah, the one with all the 282 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,640 Speaker 1: mental properties is St. John's word. The one that's basil 283 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 1: is St. Joseph's word, the one, the one that's basil. Okay, 284 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: that makes more sense. From India and through the Middle East, 285 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: basil made its way to Europe in the sixteenth century, 286 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 1: although European accounts of it of it exists before then. 287 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: From there it made the jump across the pond to 288 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 1: the America's in the seventeenth century. Yeah, and I think 289 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:32,120 Speaker 1: it was definitely in southern Europe way before that. By 290 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: northern Europe it made its way out too, Yes, yeah, exactly. Um. 291 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: Basil shows up in Jewish folklore granting strength during fasting. 292 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 1: European lore took a slightly different track, occasionally using basil 293 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: as a symbol of Satan. Ancient Greeks and Romans believed 294 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:53,439 Speaker 1: that basil only flourished when abuse was a factor, and 295 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: because of that belief, they associated it with hate, bad fortune, poverty, 296 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,879 Speaker 1: and Satan himself. This connotation with basil was so strong 297 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: that some Greek farmers may have let curse words fly 298 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 1: when planting basil um and inspired the French to come 299 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: up with the phrase similar basitica as a slang for slander. Ah, 300 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: I can only hope there were farmers just cussing out 301 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: their basil plants as they were sewing. Yeah, I can 302 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 1: only hope. Uh. This whole satan thing stuck around two 303 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: in the six hundreds Natural History published by Lord Francis Bacon. Uh. 304 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: He posited that a basil plant left in the sun 305 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: for too long would turn into time courtesy of the devil. 306 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,360 Speaker 1: It's time like evil or something. I'm not sure. That's 307 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: a whole other episode. Yeah, I was like, I want 308 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 1: to know, but I must focus my efforts on basil. 309 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 1: I suppose related is the practice of giving young on 310 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 1: had women a basil leave to carry around if it 311 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: withered before the lady got hitched. Well, I don't want 312 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: to tell you. I think I think you do. What 313 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 1: What did it? What did it mean that they were unchased? 314 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 1: Obviously you couldn't marry them? Oh okay, I guess that 315 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 1: wasn't very obvious. They had different beliefs back than about 316 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 1: basil than we do now. Um. In Hinduism, tols, our 317 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: holy basil is believed to have a connection to the 318 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: gods Vishnu. One of them, holy basil was used in 319 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: the preparation of holy water in the Greek Orthodox Church, 320 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: and rumors of history say that it might have been 321 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 1: found near the tomb of Christ post resrection, so not 322 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: satanic like that non holy basil. Yeah. By the sixteen hundreds, 323 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: people in England would hang basil in doorways to ward 324 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: off flies and perhaps evil spirits. Basil is still used 325 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,959 Speaker 1: when preparing holy water and the Serbian, Macedonian and Romanian churches, 326 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: and some churches have base the pots under the church altars. 327 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: When the British controlled India, Tulsi basil was sometimes used 328 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,159 Speaker 1: in the place that the Bible is something to swear 329 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: on in court. This spiritual aspect of basil meant that 330 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 1: it showed up in a lot of rituals and ceremonies. 331 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 1: The ancient Greeks and Egyptians thought that basil was the 332 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: key to opening the gates of heaven and allowing the 333 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: dead passage. It was sort of I think I read 334 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: somewhere a seven as your passport to get in. Both 335 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: the Europeans and Indians have traditions of placing basil and 336 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: the hands our mouth, respectively, of the dead or dying 337 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: to ensure their safe journey in the afterlife. It was 338 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: at one point in greaser Rome considered a sacred herb 339 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: to be picked only by men under the guidance of priests. 340 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: Priests like wearing new outfits who had not been hanging 341 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 1: around with with women, unchased women, well with women who 342 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,959 Speaker 1: could have been menstruating, because you know, that's the worst. 343 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: It's true, super unclean. That's true. You have to be 344 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 1: careful when you're picking your baby sel you too. It 345 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,479 Speaker 1: was once believed that a woman on her period who 346 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: called a man would cause him to die. Oh, there 347 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: have been some interesting theories and history about that. But 348 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: well speaking speaking, sort of related in The Dreds, The 349 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 1: d Cameeron by bocca Chio included a pretty dark tale 350 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 1: where Basil played an integral role. The story centers around Elizabetta, 351 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 1: whose lover was murdered by her brothers. The lover's spirit 352 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 1: appears to her one night in a dream and informing 353 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,679 Speaker 1: her of where he's buried. She recovers his head and 354 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,359 Speaker 1: hides it in a pot of basil that is freshly 355 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: watered with her tears and her lover's demise. When her 356 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 1: brothers find out, they take the pot from her and 357 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 1: soon after she dies, overwhelmed by grief. M that's that's 358 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: chipper it is, and it spawned the equally chipper John 359 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 1: Keats Keats Isabella, or the pot of basil. And here 360 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 1: I mean spoiler alert, here are the last two two 361 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: bits of that piteous She'd look on dead and senseless things, 362 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: asking for her lost basil, ammorrise Ley, And with melodious 363 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,120 Speaker 1: chuckle and the strings of her lorn voice, she oftentimes 364 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 1: would cry after the pilgrim in his wanderings, to ask 365 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 1: him where her basil was and why twas hid from her? 366 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 1: For cruel tis said she to steal my basil pot 367 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 1: away from me. And so she pined, and so she died, forlorn, 368 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: imploring for her basil to the last. No heart was 369 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: there in Florence, but did mourn in pity of her 370 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: love so overcast, And a sad ditty of the story 371 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,919 Speaker 1: born from mouth to mouth through all the country past, 372 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,199 Speaker 1: still is the Burthen sung, Oh, cruelty, to steal my 373 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:51,479 Speaker 1: basil pot away from me. This also morphed into another 374 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: bit of cultural symbolism in Italy. If a woman placed 375 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 1: a pot of basil on her balcony, it might mean 376 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 1: that she was ready for her suitor to arrive, and 377 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 1: if he showed up with a sprig of basil, she 378 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: should know that he was serious. Well, clearly, I mean 379 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 1: obviously he had to go get the basil. Yeah, show up, 380 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 1: two step process. And speaking of tragedies and basil, if 381 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 1: we skip away ahead to the ninety eighties, a bulletin 382 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: on herbs from the British Ministry of Agriculture labeled basil 383 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:30,119 Speaker 1: as being of quote little or no importance, little or 384 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: no importance. Right, that is tragic, it is why would 385 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,440 Speaker 1: why would you say that the British Ministry of Culture? 386 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:44,360 Speaker 1: What what what are you doing? Oh? I think we're 387 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: proving them wrong every day, every day of our lives. 388 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: You and I are when one could praise a salad 389 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: at a time on Margarita pizza per day. Oh yeah, 390 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 1: that's that's the kind of interesting, Miss Mash. I had 391 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,880 Speaker 1: no idea, oh me either, that we're gonna be talking 392 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: about scorpor been so much as satan. Yeah, well there 393 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: you go, there you go, now, you know, and knowing's 394 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:24,199 Speaker 1: half the basil. Oh, I'm just gonna crawl under the 395 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: desk after that one. I'm sorry, guys, Dylan is a 396 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: plotting quite enthusiastically. He is thank you, thank you, Dylan. Well, 397 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 1: that brings us to more or less the end of 398 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: our Basil episode. But we've got some listener mail for 399 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: you right after. We've got a quick break for a 400 00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: word from our sponsor, and we're back. Thank you sponsor, Yes, 401 00:25:56,080 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: thank you, Yes, it is time for some um man. 402 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: That's kind of satany sure, yeah, yeah. Sometimes I've been 403 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: listening to creepy music sound checks on my desk all day. 404 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of day this is turning 405 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: out to be for me, but maybe this explains why 406 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 1: you are possessed by the spirit of Basil. I feel 407 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 1: like I almost had a mental break and I need 408 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: to consider My theory is that perhaps I'm a sleeper 409 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 1: agent and that was I'm going to be leaking out. 410 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: It's yeah, it could be triggered at any moment, or 411 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: maybe I'm alternate. Oh oh gosh, my whole life is 412 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 1: a lie. Thank you Basil or Basil for helping me 413 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:03,400 Speaker 1: realize how much I have to to ruminate on. Yeah, 414 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: to reconsider m well anyway, Listener male Kenna wrote growing 415 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 1: up in the nineties and early two thousand's. Everyone I 416 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: knew ate peanut butter sandwiches. However, since my grandfather was 417 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: a beekeeper, our family recipe was a little different. We 418 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: always ate peanut butter and honey. My younger brother was 419 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,439 Speaker 1: an alarmingly picky eater, so my mother, trying to sneak 420 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: more protein in diets, would add wheat germ. If all 421 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: else failed, she would use cookie cutters to make a 422 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: sandwiches with stars, hearts, or other sheeps in the middle, 423 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,639 Speaker 1: which would guarantee that we would eat the crust around 424 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: it to free the fun shape in the center. Very 425 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 1: wise of your mom. I obviously had peanut butter and 426 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 1: jelly sandwiches at other people's houses, and we would occasionally 427 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,919 Speaker 1: have them at home when we were out of honey. 428 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: But I had no idea that anyone else didn't eat 429 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 1: peanut butter and honey sandwiches until I changed school in 430 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 1: the third right and swapped sandwich has with children who 431 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 1: hadn't grown up with me and my mother's take on 432 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 1: the peanut butter sandwich for the first time. The reaction 433 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 1: of a third grader raised on creamy jiff and smuckers 434 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: on white bread to whole wheatbread, amber, honey wheat germ, 435 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: and crunchy peanut butter sandwich was something to behold. Needless 436 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 1: to say, very few of my third grade friends tried 437 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: to swap lunches with me. Again, I would have right, 438 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: that sounds delicious. I was also a very picky eater 439 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: around the third grade, but I don't think I would 440 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,199 Speaker 1: have appreciated that. But that sounds great right now, So 441 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 1: it does. I forgot about the the wondrous combination that 442 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 1: is peanut butter and honey. Oh yeah, M peanut butter 443 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 1: and clever for nut sandwiches. Yeah, liberty sandwich, Liberty sandwiches. 444 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 1: Kara or Kara wrote, all of your Kentucky related episodes 445 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 1: have been hitting right at home with me, as I 446 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: went to the University of Louisville go Cards and fell 447 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: so deep in love with Kentucky that I stayed an 448 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: extra six years after graduation. Please promise to go to 449 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: Louisville on your next trip, as there's just so much 450 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: food and drink to be had in my favorite city. 451 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: While I had to leave Kentucky for my career, I 452 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: hope to come back some day. And I have always 453 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 1: wanted to be a distillery tour guide. As Kentucky lover 454 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 1: and Bourbon lover, your bourbon episodes were especially wonderful. Thank you. 455 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,719 Speaker 1: I have two anecdotes related to bourbon, but neither of 456 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 1: them occurred in Kentucky. First, the summer before my freshman 457 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,960 Speaker 1: year of high school, I went on a particularly tortuous 458 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 1: road trip with my parents from southern Illinois to the 459 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 1: Grand Canyon. Being fourteen and hating everything was bad enough, 460 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: but my dad was determined to have every roadside attraction 461 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 1: experience possible. In Missouri, we stopped at Barrels O Fun. 462 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: There we learned that they make the overwhelming majority of 463 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: the world's barrels and got to tour the Cooperridge. It 464 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 1: was a hokey tourist trap, and my teenaged angst equated 465 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: it to basically torture. In my family, It's no Barrels 466 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: O Fun is now my family's gauge of all vacation experiences. 467 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: You can imagine our jokes years later when we visited 468 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: a distillery when my parents visited me in Kentucky and 469 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: saw the miles and miles of barrels. Second, a few 470 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: years ago, I visited the Jameson Distillery in Dublin. I 471 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 1: was fresh off a red eye flight wearing a Louville shirt. 472 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: They asked me many questions about the bourbon trail, and 473 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 1: throughout the tour they made sure to point out the 474 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 1: Kentucky bourbon barrels they have in the distillery. In the 475 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 1: tasting room, I impressed them with my ability to recognize 476 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 1: Jim Beam by taste. After their insistence of several shots 477 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 1: and taking a few selfies with the Kentucky girl, I 478 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: just didn't have the heart to tell them I was 479 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: born in New York. I left Dublin a little drunk 480 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 1: and as a whiskey sister of the lovely folks at Jamison. 481 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: That's so fun. That is terrific. Duly noted barrels of 482 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 1: fun should be how we all judge vacations. Is it? 483 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 1: Is it? Barrels so fun? Fun? Mm hmm? Are not 484 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: barrels oh fun? Goodness. We're going to have a few 485 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: trips to gauge these vacation experiences on on this on 486 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: this scale are Yeah, we could make a chart. I 487 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 1: like making charts. Yes, So if you have any suggestions 488 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,640 Speaker 1: of where you would like us to go or you 489 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 1: think would be good and also places that would be 490 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: good within those places. Yes, yes, please send them our 491 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 1: away our first such field trip or second. I guess 492 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 1: Kentucky was our first. It's going to be Asheville, Asheville, 493 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: North Carolina. So um so if y'all know any terrific 494 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 1: places or people in Asheville who make or talk about food, yeah, 495 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 1: right in and let us now, we'd love to would 496 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,480 Speaker 1: love to hear from you absolutely. Our email for such 497 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: writing in is food Stuff at how stuff works dot com. 498 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 1: We're also on social media. You can contact us there. 499 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: On Facebook and Twitter, we are at food Stuff. Hs 500 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: W stands for how Stuff Works. Over on Instagram, we 501 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 1: are simply at food Stuff. We do hope to hear 502 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: from you. Thank you as always to our super producer 503 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 1: Dylan Fagan, who puts up with us. He is barrels 504 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 1: so fun, he is so many barrels so fun, And 505 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: thank you to you for listening. We hope that lots 506 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 1: more good things are coming your way.