192 Epizód

  1. Alliums, Actually!

    Közzétéve: 2023. 03. 24.

  2. The Celebrity Chefs of Ancient Greece and Fragments of Ancient Recipes

    Közzétéve: 2023. 03. 20.

  3. Salt- A Brief History

    Közzétéve: 2023. 02. 28.

  4. A Very Short History of Cheese -Updated Version 2023

    Közzétéve: 2023. 02. 23.

  5. Wassail - The Ancient Traditional Blessing of the Apple Tree!

    Közzétéve: 2023. 02. 08.

  6. The History of Chocolate and Cacao Tree Part 3

    Közzétéve: 2023. 01. 31.

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

    Közzétéve: 2023. 01. 25.

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

    Közzétéve: 2023. 01. 18.

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

    Közzétéve: 2023. 01. 11.

  10. Traditional Food of Christmas around Europe

    Közzétéve: 2022. 12. 20.

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

    Közzétéve: 2022. 12. 12.

  12. The Abbasid Caliphate's Pickles

    Közzétéve: 2022. 11. 23.

  13. The History of Coffee

    Közzétéve: 2022. 11. 19.

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

    Közzétéve: 2022. 10. 25.

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

    Közzétéve: 2022. 10. 19.

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

    Közzétéve: 2022. 10. 06.

  17. History of Wine Part Three - Ancient Rome

    Közzétéve: 2022. 09. 26.

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

    Közzétéve: 2022. 09. 15.

  19. The History of Wine Part One

    Közzétéve: 2022. 09. 06.

  20. The History of Spice Trade Pt3

    Közzétéve: 2022. 08. 30.

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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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