The Delicious Legacy

A podcast by The Delicious Legacy - Wednesdays

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Society & Culture

122 Episodes

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

    Published: 12/10/2023

  2. Episode Swap! The Haloa Festival of Ancient Athens

    Published: 12/6/2023

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

    Published: 11/29/2023

  4. What have the Romans ever done for us? Food of Roman Britain

    Published: 11/24/2023

  5. Around the Ancient Roman Kitchen - Cooks, Bakers, Cheesemakers

    Published: 11/15/2023

  6. Avocado - A Controversial History

    Published: 11/8/2023

  7. Salt of the Earth -Secrets and Stories from a Greek Kitchen

    Published: 11/1/2023

  8. Bake Across Europe

    Published: 10/24/2023

  9. The Lost Supper - An Interview with Taras Grescoe

    Published: 10/18/2023

  10. Biryani - A Short History. (Bonus taster)

    Published: 10/11/2023

  11. A Forgotten Empire - Foods of Ancient Carthage

    Published: 10/4/2023

  12. Eating with the Tudors - An interview with food historian Brigitte Webster

    Published: 9/27/2023

  13. A History of the World in Ten Dinners

    Published: 9/19/2023

  14. Hawaiian Food- Islands of abundance in pre-European contact

    Published: 8/23/2023

  15. Food in Ancient Greece -An Interview with Flint Dibble Part 2

    Published: 8/12/2023

  16. Food in Ancient Greece -An Interview with Flint Dibble Part 1

    Published: 8/8/2023

  17. Archestratus The Life of Luxury- Quotes from Athenaeus Pt3

    Published: 8/1/2023

  18. Archestratus The Life of Luxury- Quotes from Athenaeus Pt2

    Published: 7/30/2023

  19. Archestratus Life of Luxury Pt 1 -Quotes from Athenaeus

    Published: 7/25/2023

  20. The Rise of Celebrity Chefs in Modern Era

    Published: 7/14/2023

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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.