Max Miller’s Tasting History: The Board Game

Tasting History with Max Miller is must-watch YouTube for me. Miller is a wonderful storyteller, and his show melds interesting history lessons with period-appropriate recipes. As it turns out, he’s also a fan of board games. His new game is now live on Kickstarter. If you haven’t watched the show before, you should give it a try. Before jumping in, you might want to know more about hardtack and garum. The “clack clack” sound of smacking two pieces of hardtack together comes up regularly. It’s from an early episode: “How to Eat Like a Pirate: Hardtack & Grog”. One of the first hit episodes on the channel described the process of making garum. The ancient fish sauce was covered more recently in “Ancient Roman Garum Revisited”, and then once more in “The History of Fish Sauce - Garum and Beyond!”. I highly recommend the episode “What it was like to visit a Medieval Tavern”. The story of how Osbert of Elstow died by misadventure amuses me much more than it probably should. All that said,…