192 Episodio

  1. Part Two: A Compendium of Ancient Greek Food

    Pubblicato: 10/09/2025

  2. Serve it Forth: A Day in Life of Food Historians

    Pubblicato: 06/09/2025

  3. History of Fava Beans in Greece

    Pubblicato: 03/09/2025

  4. Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Food & The role of Inuits

    Pubblicato: 27/08/2025

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

    Pubblicato: 20/08/2025

  6. Serve It Forth Food History Festival

    Pubblicato: 13/08/2025

  7. The Discovery of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri

    Pubblicato: 06/08/2025

  8. A Short History of Breakfast in Britain Through the Ages, With Pen Vogler

    Pubblicato: 30/07/2025

  9. From The Archives - A Journey Through Ancient Mediterranean Food

    Pubblicato: 24/07/2025

  10. History of Spanish Food - An Interview with María José Sevilla

    Pubblicato: 10/07/2025

  11. Palestinian Food, Culture and Identity

    Pubblicato: 03/07/2025

  12. A Short History of Ice Cream and Sorbets

    Pubblicato: 26/06/2025

  13. The Art and Science of Historical Cookbooks

    Pubblicato: 22/06/2025

  14. Ancient Greek Music with Pavlos Kapralos (Excerpt)

    Pubblicato: 17/06/2025

  15. A Compendium of Ancient Greek Food

    Pubblicato: 04/06/2025

  16. Spam - A Global History: Interview with Dr Kelly Spring

    Pubblicato: 29/05/2025

  17. Champagne - A Fizzy History! Interview with Becky Sue Epstein

    Pubblicato: 22/05/2025

  18. Tracing the origins of the restaurant menu: An Interview with Professor Nathalie Cooke

    Pubblicato: 15/05/2025

  19. How Beer Changed Humankind. An Interview with Jonny Garrett!

    Pubblicato: 07/05/2025

  20. Wine in Ancient Greece - Myths, Legends and History

    Pubblicato: 30/04/2025

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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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