188 Episodes

  1. The History of Anchovy in the Western Culture - An Interview with Christopher Beckman

    Published: 20/08/2025
  2. Serve It Forth Food History Festival

    Published: 13/08/2025
  3. The Discovery of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri

    Published: 06/08/2025
  4. A Short History of Breakfast in Britain Through the Ages, With Pen Vogler

    Published: 30/07/2025
  5. From The Archives - A Journey Through Ancient Mediterranean Food

    Published: 24/07/2025
  6. History of Spanish Food - An Interview with María José Sevilla

    Published: 10/07/2025
  7. Palestinian Food, Culture and Identity

    Published: 03/07/2025
  8. A Short History of Ice Cream and Sorbets

    Published: 26/06/2025
  9. The Art and Science of Historical Cookbooks

    Published: 22/06/2025
  10. Ancient Greek Music with Pavlos Kapralos (Excerpt)

    Published: 17/06/2025
  11. A Compendium of Ancient Greek Food

    Published: 04/06/2025
  12. Spam - A Global History: Interview with Dr Kelly Spring

    Published: 29/05/2025
  13. Champagne - A Fizzy History! Interview with Becky Sue Epstein

    Published: 22/05/2025
  14. Tracing the origins of the restaurant menu: An Interview with Professor Nathalie Cooke

    Published: 15/05/2025
  15. How Beer Changed Humankind. An Interview with Jonny Garrett!

    Published: 07/05/2025
  16. Wine in Ancient Greece - Myths, Legends and History

    Published: 30/04/2025
  17. Repast - The Story of Food

    Published: 22/04/2025
  18. Al Dente - A History of Food in Italy

    Published: 16/04/2025
  19. The Ancient History of Potato in the Andes

    Published: 09/04/2025
  20. Corfu's Cosmopolitan Foods- Byzantium, Venice, Jewish and English

    Published: 02/04/2025

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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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