The Delicious Legacy

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149 Episodes

  1. Foodways of The Hittites

    Published: 31/01/2024

  2. Whiskey and Haggis- A Burns Night Dinner

    Published: 24/01/2024

  3. A (Pungent) History of Beans

    Published: 17/01/2024

  4. Celebrating 100 Episodes of The Delicious Legacy

    Published: 10/01/2024

  5. The Legendary Gourmet Apicius

    Published: 04/01/2024

  6. Byzantine Christmas Foods and Traditional Greek Christmas Recipes

    Published: 20/12/2023

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

    Published: 13/12/2023

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

    Published: 10/12/2023

  9. Episode Swap! The Haloa Festival of Ancient Athens

    Published: 06/12/2023

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

    Published: 29/11/2023

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

    Published: 24/11/2023

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

    Published: 15/11/2023

  13. Avocado - A Controversial History

    Published: 08/11/2023

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

    Published: 01/11/2023

  15. Bake Across Europe

    Published: 24/10/2023

  16. The Lost Supper - An Interview with Taras Grescoe

    Published: 18/10/2023

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

    Published: 11/10/2023

  18. A Forgotten Empire - Foods of Ancient Carthage

    Published: 04/10/2023

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

    Published: 27/09/2023

  20. A History of the World in Ten Dinners

    Published: 19/09/2023

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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.
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