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  1. China in Seven Banquets Part1 -An Interview with Thomas DuBois

    Publicerades: 2024-07-24

  2. The Culinary Treasures of Persia: Part Two

    Publicerades: 2024-07-17

  3. The Culinary Treasures of Persian Empire

    Publicerades: 2024-07-10

  4. Burmese Food Culture

    Publicerades: 2024-06-26

  5. Medieval Table Manners and Food Hygiene

    Publicerades: 2024-06-19

  6. Rice and the history of biryani; one dish that conquered the world!

    Publicerades: 2024-06-12

  7. Myths and superstitions of tomato and potato's introduction in Greece and Europe

    Publicerades: 2024-06-05

  8. Tselementes - The father of modern Greek Cuisine

    Publicerades: 2024-05-29

  9. Food of the Aztecs Pt2

    Publicerades: 2024-05-22

  10. The Foodways of the Aztec Empire Pt1

    Publicerades: 2024-05-17

  11. History of Irish Food with Regina Sexton Pt2

    Publicerades: 2024-05-01

  12. A History of Food Culture in Ireland with Regina Sexton Part 1

    Publicerades: 2024-04-24

  13. A Short History of Ancient Mesopotamian Food (From the archives)

    Publicerades: 2024-04-17

  14. The Cuisine of the Black Sea Greeks

    Publicerades: 2024-04-10

  15. A Feta Fetish: Towards a better feta cheese for all

    Publicerades: 2024-04-03

  16. From the archive: Traditional Easter Food in Orthodox Greece

    Publicerades: 2024-03-27

  17. The birth of Modern Greek Cuisine

    Publicerades: 2024-03-20

  18. A History of Food Waste and Preservation

    Publicerades: 2024-03-13

  19. Honey: A sweet history. Food of the Gods, first food of Humankind

    Publicerades: 2024-03-06

  20. Minoan Cuisine: The Foods of Bronze Age Crete

    Publicerades: 2024-02-28

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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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