The second season of Heritage Malta’s Taste History has been launched, with short documentaries featuring historical recipes and beverages.
Following the resounding success of the first series, the first episode of the second ‘Taste Now, Visit Later’ series is a re-enactment of a three-day adventure at sea and on land embarked upon by six priests from Qormi in August 1760.
This six-minute documentary, entitled ‘To Sail and Make Merry,’ also recreates a wild rabbit stew recipe taken from an English recipe book of 1747. It will be streamed live on Heritage Malta’s Facebook page [1] on Friday, the 5th of November at 7pm.
In the second episode, Taste History’s team of curators, food historians, and chefs shed light on the various cereals that were ground to produce different flours at Ta’ Kola Windmill in Xaghra, Gozo.
Wheat and barley, for instance, were combined together to create il-hobza tal-mahlut (mixed bread).
This second episode, which is set in Gozo will be featuring a commentary by Daphne Sant Caruana, Principal Curator of this unique relic of breadmaking in Gozo, the Ta’ Kola documentary will also recreate and provide the recipe for this traditional bread.
Named ‘Malta never refused wheat,’ after the old Maltese proverb Malta qatt ma rruftat qamh, the second episode will be streamed live on Heritage Malta’s Facebook [1] page on Friday, the 10th of December at 7pm.
Both episodes are in Maltese, with English subtitles.