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  1. Repast - The Story of Food

    Publicerades: 2025-04-22

  2. Al Dente - A History of Food in Italy

    Publicerades: 2025-04-16

  3. The Ancient History of Potato in the Andes

    Publicerades: 2025-04-09

  4. Corfu's Cosmopolitan Foods- Byzantium, Venice, Jewish and English

    Publicerades: 2025-04-02

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

    Publicerades: 2025-03-26

  6. Tea - An Ancient History

    Publicerades: 2025-03-19

  7. The Diet of the First Desert Monks

    Publicerades: 2025-03-15

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

    Publicerades: 2025-03-12

  9. Fish in Ancient Greece - Myths and Recipes

    Publicerades: 2025-03-05

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

    Publicerades: 2025-02-26

  11. Monks and Monasteries: Fasting and Foods for Paradise

    Publicerades: 2025-02-19

  12. Bountiful Empire - A History of Ottoman Cuisine

    Publicerades: 2025-02-12

  13. Food and Revolution in South America

    Publicerades: 2025-02-07

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

    Publicerades: 2025-01-29

  15. The Culinary Treasures of the Ottoman Empire Part Two

    Publicerades: 2025-01-24

  16. The Culinary Treasures of the Ottoman Empire Pt1

    Publicerades: 2025-01-22

  17. My Personal Culinary Origin Story

    Publicerades: 2025-01-17

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

    Publicerades: 2025-01-15

  19. The History of the English Pub from Medieval Times

    Publicerades: 2025-01-07

  20. Favourite Christmas Foods

    Publicerades: 2024-12-19

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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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