The Delicious Legacy

A podcast by The Delicious Legacy - Wednesdays

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119 Episodes

  1. The Cuisine of the Black Sea Greeks

    Published: 4/10/2024

  2. A Feta Fetish: Towards a better feta cheese for all

    Published: 4/3/2024

  3. From the archive: Traditional Easter Food in Orthodox Greece

    Published: 3/27/2024

  4. The birth of Modern Greek Cuisine

    Published: 3/20/2024

  5. A History of Food Waste and Preservation

    Published: 3/13/2024

  6. Honey: A sweet history. Food of the Gods, first food of Humankind

    Published: 3/6/2024

  7. Minoan Cuisine: The Foods of Bronze Age Crete

    Published: 2/28/2024

  8. A Short History of Pistachio

    Published: 2/21/2024

  9. A History of Saffron - The most expensive spice in the world

    Published: 2/14/2024

  10. Nutmeg, Cloves, Vanilla; A quest for the most expensive spices in the world!

    Published: 2/7/2024

  11. Foodways of The Hittites

    Published: 1/31/2024

  12. Whiskey and Haggis- A Burns Night Dinner

    Published: 1/24/2024

  13. A (Pungent) History of Beans

    Published: 1/17/2024

  14. Celebrating 100 Episodes of The Delicious Legacy

    Published: 1/10/2024

  15. The Legendary Gourmet Apicius

    Published: 1/4/2024

  16. Byzantine Christmas Foods and Traditional Greek Christmas Recipes

    Published: 12/20/2023

  17. Elizabeth Raffald, Hannah Glasse, Eliza Smith, Ann Cook

    Published: 12/13/2023

  18. Sausages: Preserving Meat in Antiquity - A Long, long History

    Published: 12/10/2023

  19. Episode Swap! The Haloa Festival of Ancient Athens

    Published: 12/6/2023

  20. Ancient Egypt - Food of the Pharaohs, Dishes for the Afterlife, Feasts for Workers

    Published: 11/29/2023

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Imagine yourself dining with Socrates, Plato, or Pythagoras... maybe even Cicero and Julius Caesar...being a soldier marching with Alexander's the Great army in the vast Persian empire discovering new foods... or try and picture the richness of fruits and vegetables in the lush Hanging Gardens of Babylon...what foods did our ancestors ate?How did all begin? Why am I so hooked on ancient recipes and ingredients? Is the food delicious? Wholesome? Do you need to know? I think so! Recipes, ingredients, ways of cooking. Timeless and continuous yet unique and so alien to us now days. Staple ingredients of the Mediterranean world -as we think now- like tomatoes, potatoes, rice, peppers, didn't exist. What did they eat? We will travel and imagine how it was to eat like a Greek Philosopher in a symposium in Athens, as a Roman Emperor or as a rich merchant in the last night in Pompeii......Lavish dinners, exotic ingredients, barbaric elements, all intertwined...Stay tuned and find out more here, in 'The Delicious Legacy' Podcast!Find all out, right here!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. If you love to time-travel through food and history why not join us at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.