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 d ...
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A Brief History of Turnip (And other Medieval Root Vegetables)
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32:17Hello! How did the ancient Greeks and Romans ate turnip? And what was the position of this vegetable at the dinner table? How important was it? And what the heck is a skirret, how do you cook it and why did we stop cultivating it on a large scale? All this and more on this weeks episode! This week's recommendations are A is For Apple Podcast: https…
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Fish in Ancient Greece - Myths and Recipes
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33:36Hello my lovely archaeogastronomers! A new episode is out! "Aedepsus in Euboea, where the baths are, is a place by nature every way fitted for free and gentle pleasures, and withal so beautified with stately edifices and dining rooms, that one would take it for no other than the common place of repast for all Greece. Here, though the 'earth and air…
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Dinner in Rome - A History of the World in One Meal
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47:48Hello! A brand new episode for your delight! How does one deconstruct a meal to it's historical components? What is the truth behind the myths of a dish, the stories we tell about its origins, and how interconnected is the world's history with the cuisines, the spices, the ingredients we use on each country of ours? On this episode I interviewed An…
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Monks and Monasteries: Fasting and Foods for Paradise
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39:37Hello! New week, new episode for you! We are soon approaching the period that is in Greek Orthodox (and not only) Church the Big Lent! Forty days of fasting before the Holy Week (more and severe fasting here!) and Easter Sunday. The abstinence of meat and dairy products it's something that the first monks practised; some of them for many years. Slo…
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Bountiful Empire - A History of Ottoman Cuisine
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1:03:11Hello my lovely archaeogastronomers! For this bonus episode I've interviewed the author and food historian Priscilla Mary Işın about her delightful book "Bountiful Empire - A History of Ottoman Cuisine" which is out now! I hope you'll enjoy our chat, trying to untangle the different strands of the origins of the Ottoman Cuisine through the centurie…
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Food and Revolution in South America
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55:09Hello and welcome to another episode of The Delicious Legacy! I’m your greedy archaeogastronomer Thomas Ntinas and I welcome you to my smoky and heavily perfumed with spices kitchen! Another adventure beckons! On today's episode we are travelling to South America and explore the connection between food and revolution! Food always of course played a…
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Crisps - A Short History of Crisps with Neil Ridley
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44:57Hello! New episode is out for you to enjoy! Today’s guest is Neil Ridley and will delve into the story of crisps, why we love them and what’s the kernel of truth behind the stories of its origin. This week's recommendation is the Guardian article "the weird, secretive world of crisp flavours by Amelia Teit" link: https://www.theguardian.com/food/20…
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The Culinary Treasures of the Ottoman Empire Part Two
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49:08Oh hello! The second part of our adventure in Ottoman food culture is here for all to enjoy! On today's episode we will talk about coffee, salep and street food in Istanbul. What are imarets, what was the social life for people across the Empire, and what was the culture and table etiquette of raki-drinking and meze-eating? My recommendations for t…
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The Culinary Treasures of the Ottoman Empire Pt1
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48:39Hello my lovely archaeogastronomers! What were the origins of the Ottoman Cuisine? What were the influences behind? And how the Roman and Greek history influence the Sultan and the Palace alongside the cuisine of the upper classes? If you went to Istanbul in the late 15th or 16th century what would be the "go-to" food? Join me on Part One, for an e…
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My Personal Culinary Origin Story
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29:27Hello my lovely archaeogastronomers! On this bonus episode today, I'm sharing with you my personal details of food, cooking and journey through food I had as a young child, teenager, young adult and beyond with the food, the cooking adventures and all that happened to me that shaped me and brought me here with you, passionate about food, history an…
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A Short History of Beer with Pete Brown 2025 version
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44:13Hello! This is one from the archives, updated and with added bonus content from the year 2022! My interview with author and beer historian Pete Brown Enjoy! The Delicious Legacy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. If you love to time-travel through food and history why not join us at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-delic…
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The History of the English Pub from Medieval Times
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1:02:17Hello! Happy New Year and a Happy New Season of The Delicious Legacy Podcast! Pubs. I love them! Who doesn't? Culturally and socially important spaces throughout the centuries, more so the past two hundred years. We mourn when one has closed down. We regularly hear about their supposed demise now or in the near future. But pubs, inns, taverns, aleh…
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Merry Christmas my lovely archaeogastronomers! The second bonus episode of this Christmas season is out! Just less than a week now till Christmas day, this is a special one, with friends of the podcast -and fellow podcasters- plus food historians, Neil Buttery, Sam Bilton, Brigitte Webster and Ali Pino talking to me about their favourite historic C…
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"Capons, hens, beside turkeys, geese, and ducks, beside beef and mutton must all die for the great feast; for in twelve days a multitude of people will not be fed with a little! Now plums, and spice, sugar and honey, square it among pies and broth...Youth must dance and sing and the aged sit...and if the cook do not lack wit, he will sweetly lick h…
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Greece’s Rare & Wonderful Foods: Two Tasty Dishes
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37:05Hello! Have you heard of Avgotaraho and Trahana? Two very different, interesting ingredients and dishes from Greece's vast menu. Let me take you into a journey with the nomadic transhumanism shepherds of the Balkans and down to the labyrinthine lagoons and wetland of West Greece in Messolonghi where Lord Byron made a heroic last stance giving his l…
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The Sublime Society of Beef Steaks
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27:02London. Mid eighteenth century. A busy, raucous city, capital of a growing economic power. Wars abroad. Art, theatre, music. Plotting. What better symbol of English manliness, in the face of all the difficulties, winning against all enemies, than beef? And what better meal than a steak? And where do you get your steak with your mates and your cigar…
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From the archives - A Philosophy of Indian Food
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49:04FROM THE ARCHIVES Welcome back to another episode! An exclusive interview with author, food writer and all around brilliant human Sejal Sukhadwala, where we talk about Indian food, Indian history, the word curry, and the spread of said food but also Indian cuisine around the world and especially UK. We've met at the British Library Member's Area -h…
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The Greek Charcuterie through the ages
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32:09Hello my lovely archaeogastronomers! Today we'll explore the traditional Greek charcuterie, how is it made, what meat is used, and what continuation and connection has with the Byzantine and the ancient past. I grew up eating bacon, ham, salami (danish style, milano style) and not much in the more traditional local Greek charcuterie. We were never …
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Strange Cheeses from Mysterious Greek Islands
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30:29Volcanoes... Ancient sacred rituals... Cheese matured at the bottom of wine barrels. Cheese steeped in olive oil for months. Today's adventure in the eastern Aegean islands of Greece, is an unusual one. The islands have their own unique, unusual and tasty cheeses that defy specific categorizations. Greece. Cheese. What can possibly else be said? En…
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Heart of A City: Food Markets in Ancient Greco-Roman Egypt
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47:22Hellenistic Egypt: A land of opportunity. A rich, ancient, fertile land where anything is possible. Hello! Welcome back to another episode of The Delicious Legacy Bustling and busy cities with their markets and food stalls, and sellers hollering theirs goods isn't a new phenomenon exclusive to our metropolis of New York or London. These markets and…
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The English Table - An Interview with Jill Norman
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56:33From Neolithic hunter-gatherers, to ordering food via an app on our phone and getting delivered with our groceries the English Table went through an extraordinary travel. For access on the extra content subscribe on my Patreon page... Food writer legend. Award winning author. Editor at Penguin Publishing. The lady is extraordinary! Elizabeth David …
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Of Cabbages and Kimchi, A History of Fermentation in Ten Foods
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57:00Hello! Fermented food is literally everywhere. Why do we love fermented foods so much? When did we start making them intentionally and crucially are they good for us? Today's special guest on the podcast is James Read, author of the book "Of Cabbages & Kimchi" James Read is on a mission to smuggle bacteria into our kitchens. In Of Cabbages & Kimchi…
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Hello! Sushi and sashimi are now global sensations. But how sushi begun? The book Oishii reveal the deep history of sushi which began perhaps in China and mostly as a sour fermented food. On this episode i have the honour to have as a guest Professor Eric C Rath of the University of Kansas to explain to us the history of sushi in Japan and how it c…
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History of French Cheese - Part Two
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1:07:04Hello! In any discussion of French cheese, it is impossible to avoid that exasperated question from President De Gaulle "how can you govern a country that has more than 246 varieties of cheese?" I'm Thom Ntinas and this is The Delicious Legacy Podcast! This week, continuing our adventure with Ned, we taste and explore through the cheeses some forgo…
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A Cheesemonger's Tour De France: History, Myths and Tastes
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1:01:26Cheese: A story of place and people. How is that cheese is so universal, yet so unique from one little place to the next few miles down the road? Ned went for an adventure all over France to find an answer on "what is French Cheese?" and "why do we love it so much?" while looking for the most representative cheeses that tell this story. Along the w…
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