188 Epizód

  1. Filthy Queens - A History of Irish Women & Beer

    Közzétéve: 2025. 03. 26.

  2. Tea - An Ancient History

    Közzétéve: 2025. 03. 19.

  3. The Diet of the First Desert Monks

    Közzétéve: 2025. 03. 15.

  4. A Brief History of Turnip (And other Medieval Root Vegetables)

    Közzétéve: 2025. 03. 12.

  5. Fish in Ancient Greece - Myths and Recipes

    Közzétéve: 2025. 03. 05.

  6. Dinner in Rome - A History of the World in One Meal

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 26.

  7. Monks and Monasteries: Fasting and Foods for Paradise

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 19.

  8. Bountiful Empire - A History of Ottoman Cuisine

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 12.

  9. Food and Revolution in South America

    Közzétéve: 2025. 02. 07.

  10. Crisps - A Short History of Crisps with Neil Ridley

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 29.

  11. The Culinary Treasures of the Ottoman Empire Part Two

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 24.

  12. The Culinary Treasures of the Ottoman Empire Pt1

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 22.

  13. My Personal Culinary Origin Story

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 17.

  14. A Short History of Beer with Pete Brown 2025 version

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 15.

  15. The History of the English Pub from Medieval Times

    Közzétéve: 2025. 01. 07.

  16. Favourite Christmas Foods

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 19.

  17. A Tudor Christmas Feast

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 11.

  18. Greece’s Rare & Wonderful Foods: Two Tasty Dishes

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 06.

  19. The Sublime Society of Beef Steaks

    Közzétéve: 2024. 12. 04.

  20. From the archives - A Philosophy of Indian Food

    Közzétéve: 2024. 11. 27.

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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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