The Delicious Legacy

A podcast by The Delicious Legacy - Wednesdays

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167 Episodes

  1. A (Pungent) History of Beans

    Published: 1/17/2024

  2. Celebrating 100 Episodes of The Delicious Legacy

    Published: 1/10/2024

  3. The Legendary Gourmet Apicius

    Published: 1/4/2024

  4. Byzantine Christmas Foods and Traditional Greek Christmas Recipes

    Published: 12/20/2023

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

    Published: 12/13/2023

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

    Published: 12/10/2023

  7. Episode Swap! The Haloa Festival of Ancient Athens

    Published: 12/6/2023

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

    Published: 11/29/2023

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

    Published: 11/24/2023

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

    Published: 11/15/2023

  11. Avocado - A Controversial History

    Published: 11/8/2023

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

    Published: 11/1/2023

  13. Bake Across Europe

    Published: 10/24/2023

  14. The Lost Supper - An Interview with Taras Grescoe

    Published: 10/18/2023

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

    Published: 10/11/2023

  16. A Forgotten Empire - Foods of Ancient Carthage

    Published: 10/4/2023

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

    Published: 9/27/2023

  18. A History of the World in Ten Dinners

    Published: 9/19/2023

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

    Published: 8/23/2023

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

    Published: 8/12/2023

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A Greek Gourmand, travels through time...Imagine yourself dining with Socrates, Plato, or Pythagoras! What tasty morsels of food accompanied the conversations of these most significant minds in Western philosophy?Now picture yourself as you sat for a symposium with Cicero, or Pliny the Elder or Julius Caesar. The opulent feasts of the decadent Romans!Maybe, you're following Alexander the Great during his military campaigns in Asia for ten years. Conquering the vast Persian empire, while 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? Who was the first to write a recipe down and why? Sauces, 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 far and wide, reconstructing the diet, the feasts, the dishes of a Greek Philosopher in a symposium in Athens, or a Roman Emperor or as a rich merchant in the last night in Pompeii.....Lavish dinners, exotic spices, so-called "barbaric" traditions of beer and milk, all intertwined...Stay tuned and find out more here, in 'The Delicious Legacy' Podcast!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.