The Delicious Legacy

A podcast by The Delicious Legacy - Wednesdays

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167 Episodes

  1. The History of Chocolate and Cacao Tree Part 3

    Published: 1/31/2023

  2. A History of Indian Food - Interview with Sejal Sukhadwala

    Published: 1/25/2023

  3. The History of Chocolate in the Mayan Civilization - Pt2

    Published: 1/18/2023

  4. The History of Chocolate in the Mayan Civilization -Pt1

    Published: 1/11/2023

  5. Traditional Food of Christmas around Europe

    Published: 12/20/2022

  6. A Saturnalia Feast! Feasting and Partying during winter, in the Roman World

    Published: 12/12/2022

  7. The Abbasid Caliphate's Pickles

    Published: 11/23/2022

  8. The History of Coffee

    Published: 11/19/2022

  9. The History of Sugar from Ancient India to the Caribbean Slave Plantations

    Published: 10/25/2022

  10. Wine in Europe in the Middle Ages, in a Christian, Post-Roman world

    Published: 10/19/2022

  11. Wine in North Africa and the Middle East: History of Wine Part Four

    Published: 10/6/2022

  12. History of Wine Part Three - Ancient Rome

    Published: 9/26/2022

  13. The History of Wine Part Two - Ancient Classical Greece

    Published: 9/15/2022

  14. The History of Wine Part One

    Published: 9/6/2022

  15. The History of Spice Trade Pt3

    Published: 8/30/2022

  16. The History of Spice Trade Pt2

    Published: 8/22/2022

  17. The History of Spice Trade Pt1

    Published: 8/16/2022

  18. The Ancient History of Beer with Pete Brown

    Published: 7/18/2022

  19. The curious search for Cyrenaic Silphium

    Published: 7/8/2022

  20. Magical Mastic From Chios and Other Eastern Spices

    Published: 6/23/2022

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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.