Hey folks - thanks for watching! A bit of a different energy this time, I hope it chills you out. Thank you thank you to the Masumoto Farm for letting me spend the day! I'm still not 100% sold on raisins but I used the ones I brought home to make a batch of keshmesh polow and a bunch of scones and that may have have turned things around for me. Very curious how many people like raisins vs do not...

Can we all agree that Sean is basically Lo-fi music in human form.

There is a really beautiful message of intergenerational friendship and dedication in this video. Thanks for sharing this journey with us.

What a lovely story and film. ATE has quickly become one of my favorite channels for the artistry and consistency of your impressive content.

Mas Masumoto is also an author of several books including "Epitaph for a Peach". His organic heirloom peaches have been featured in restaurants such as Chez Panisse and the French Laundry.

Now we need a video from Andrew “how I used 5lbs of raisins”

It's so cool how you found out your grandparents were all friends with each other 🙂

not just info, personality-focused, or a spotlight, this is a damn good piece of creative non-fiction/video essay. more of these, yall should be proud!

I am also in the I-hate-raisins camp, but maybe that's because I've only tasted the mass produced, generic industrial raisins. 🤔 I learned a lot from this video! Would love to try raisins from the Masumoto farm. Mas and Nikiko are great! ❤

So nice to feature Matsumoto family and their farm operation in raisin raising. Thoughtful narrative given by Sean.

I don't usually comment but I have to say, I loved this video! Incredibly chilled but so fascinating with the family connection just being the icing on the cake. Thank you for sharing this story with us :)

Sorry for the belated viewing, but as a second generation Japanese-American (nisei), this really hit home for me. Like many immigrant Japanese men in California, my dad was (and still is) a gardener, so his relationship to the soil runs very deep. It's wonderful that you were able to connect with your grandparents via this journey. When we were younger, we had often gone cherry picking up a little Northeast of L.A. Wondering if this would be something you'd be interested in trying? Thanks for the great vid, Sean!

the dedication into this is immaculate. that's why this is my all time fav channel!

i love his gentle soul

This is one of ATE’s best videos, good work!

Had such a stressful week and this video soothed it all! The chill vibes are immaculate, and the way this video incorporates both the story of the produce and the lives of people 👏 It's like a warm bowl of comfort food in front of old Sunday TV shows

the story behind this video is simple but very beautiful. thanks sean for sharing this lovely story!

I went to Palestine and could not BELIEVE the dried fruit I ate there- a friend in Bethlehem I was visiting put out a plate of raisins, dates and dried apricots, and it's as if I'd never had them before, they had such layers of fruitiness, ranging from light to darkly caramel. this episode made me miss my friend. thank you for making such a beautiful video!

really one of the best vids the channel has done. Love the connection and also the Masumoto's, who are not only super passionate about what they do but seem like the loveliest people on the planet.

This was special in many ways. Thanks so much, Sean. You need to come back up for the stone fruit drive-throughs as well as the blossom baths next year. Scrumptious!

I love this video and thank you Sean for sharing this story. This was truly thought out, and I would love more videos like this please.

i loved this video, sean! my family also has a farm 5 minutes away from the matsumoto farm. my dad went to the same high school as mas! my grandparents probably knew yours as well!

i love this video so much! i was born in a raisin-city in California and i have loved raisins all my life. my family puts raisins in rice, we love a sweet and savory moment. i recently got to try freshly sun-dried raisins for the first time from my father in law's farm in Palestine. they had that caramel taste you described and it was an incredible experience to enjoy and pick them off their stems.

I respect anyone with this much dedication to food

This is a series that's needs to survive. I want more of this

I was actually named after (middle name) Nikiko Matsumoto! My mother fell in love with the name after reading Epitaph for a Peach which David dedicated to her. I’m hapa like her as well 😊🍑

Wow. This was beautifully produced. Great job!

A rare and beautiful story of one of the few JA farm families to continue to work the land despite WWII. My family's farm was on the Central Coast.

So awesome to see Masumoto Farm getting the attention and love they deserve!

Great story to help me appreciate CA raisins, and the stories of this family and of your grandparents. I wish them all the best in the days to come. Thank you.

This is such a beautiful video

Took me on a trip down memory lane. Great video of the process a lot of people would have no idea about and take for granted.

Amazing, love it. Thank you for taking us on that journey.

This is a really beautiful video. Thank you for sharing, Sean!

this was an incredible journey. thank you. keep up the great work.

This was such a moving video. Thank you for sharing Sean 🫶

this was so beautiful, thank you for sharing this story

this video was so wholesome and educational🥺❤️ i have been loving this channel, and really enjoyed the more relaxed vibe with this one (i still enjoy the upbeat ones too tho!) and the touching stories about the families. :)

This video is not only entertaining, but somehow... It feels deep. Makes me understand more about food before it comes to our table. Thank you for such a great entertainment 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

So beautiful. Love the archive reference on this one.

Absolutely loved watching this video 💜 Thank you so much for sharing!

That's so sweet. It's always nice and such a privilege to be able to walk through lands our grandparents and beyond also walked on!

This was just...so lovely. Thank you. ♥️

Lovely video mate. Really inspired by your research and follow-through. Really wanna go to a local raisin farm now

Really appreciate the artistry both of the farmers and of the story teller. Also, congratulations Nikiko!!!

This was melancholic and sweet in the best way, thank you

Really beautiful video! Thank you Sean!

Sean, this was a really special video. Thanks!

I really enjoyed this mini documentary. Thank you for making it.

This is one of my favorites video that ATE has done so far. You can really feel the thought and passion that went into this. Thank you for sharing this journey with us, Sean! And thank you to the Masumoto farm for sharing your beautiful story with us!

Hey Sean - This was wonderful - loved going along for another visit to the Matsumoto Farm - and also to hear about your family history. It would be great to have recipes for the images you showed for using the raisins. Thanks!

what a beautiful journey. i loved it

Far and away the best content yet from sean. I feel like he's been taking notes from andrew. Very thoughtful and well spoken throughout. As informative and emotional as it was enjoyable. Thank you

This is so good. Thank you for sharing~

Love the video! And Sean, you’re such a good storyteller!

This was such a sweet video! Thanks for sharing Sean 😭

This was excellent. Small family farms are amazing.

Thank you for this beautiful video! Hope to see more of the same kind

Such amazing story telling. Those scones! Hope to visit masumoto farm one day!

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Really nice. This was time well spent. Thank you.🤗🤗🤗Also, I am glad you got to have this experience.👍🏻💯🤗🤗🤗💐💐💐🫶🏻💋

Loooved this-hope it becomes a series 😍

I know this is a very small thing, but I loved that you showed the name of all the dogs.

I love this episode. Such a good story

As a sansei loved hearing this story and your personal connection

I believe the german heave-ho would be "Hau ruck!" This is a fantastic video by the way! :D

I really enjoyed watching this, thank you :)

wow what a joy i loved this video

This channel is quite honestly too good for UKposts. Great video

Simply beautiful.

Yonsei fourth generation to touch this soil! Amazing, considering Japanese ‘relocation’ in USA during WW2! Love. Thank you for sharing this with us.

In Australia we call raisins 'sultanas'... Best use of raisins is in chutney for sure!

really well done this one

such a lovely video. super cool! i wish you would so more such videos

Looks like such an amazing place and story. Thanks for sharing. I wish I lived close enough to do their Blossom Bathing event in spring. Sigh...

Thank you for featuring farmers, farm workers do the most to provide for our food yet experience the most workplace abuse and exploited wages. There has been such a strong history of labor organizing for farmworkers in California, it’s so important to recognize where our food comes from and how the people who do the labor for it get treated so they have their human rights.

Really loved this video

You Andrew and Inca should do a video fetchering Raisins. Very interesting video

Halcyon farms in Arroyo Grande, California is perfect for this channel. Worth a visit.

So sweet! 🥰💜

Beautiful video! Very, very enjoyable profile - and you have a wonderful cadence to your voice 😊

I love this video!!

I loved this video it was so sweet!! I’m not a fan of raisins either but ngl these ones look good

As a Central Valley girl, thanks for this beautiful video. Also, try grapes / raisins from Afghanistan. They will open your mind about what a raisin can be.

this was beautiful

Oh, and there's a couple things to experiment with raisins. Of course firstly, they are essential in rice pudding. And second, if you simmer or sautee them, they plump up again, they will absorb a bit of moisture and re-hydrate and get plumper. Sautee some raisins in butter and sprinkle a few over top some vanilla ice cream. Can do the same with prunes, stewed prunes are divine.

This was so wholesome :)

amazing video

Was born and raised in central Ca and my Grandpa grew Thompson seedless grapes for raisins and did the same process with light brown looking sheets of paper. After they were dried he drove them to Fresno to be boxed up and sent to retailers. I’m 76 so I was a little taken back that the process is still the same.

Sean's pretty cool

You are a very good videographer, the content turned out great, keep it up. ;)

This is cool. I had no idea

beautiful video sean!!!!!! do some raisin recipe videos!

That was a lovely story. It made me smile seeing your connection to your bachan’s and jichan’s story. ❤

So one thing I think people still don't appreciate or realize nearly as much is - those raising on the farm are absolutely covered in natural yeast. That's why when Sean you're talking about the second stage grape around 4:00 the wine-like note is the yeast probably at peak influence, and of course these yeasts likely do produce some alcohol as a byproduct of their fermentation. If you crushed up those grapes, juiced them, added them to a bread mix, you would get leavened bread from the natural yeast alone, that's how potent natural yeast is, and how involved it is in creating and altering the flavour profile of grapes. Eventually as most of the moisture leaves the grapes you get less yeast because it does need some moisture to thrive on, but it still coats the skin. I wonder if that's why you didn't taste anything on the driest grape though - the yeast doesn't taste like anything when it's gone dormant on a desiccated grape.

I actually love raisins even the mass produced ones so these look delicious! They are a delicious ingredient to add to your dishes.

german equivalent to "hoo sha" or what eh said, might be HAU RUCK, phentically "hau" like "how" and ruck like in rucksack

I just love your presence. And you are now waaaay more comfortable in front of the camera, with the smiles and wink. Oh dear, the other commenter was right : you're a lo-fi sound in human form. Edit : As a Filipino, I love raisins since it is present in our staples, both in sweet and savory dishes.

more Sean's videos !!

Sean is such an ikemen 😍

Usually don't comment but that was a great video.