The Delicious Legacy

The Delicious Legacy
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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.

  1. What is Humoral Theory? Healthy Eating in Ancient Greece Explained

    2D AGO

    What is Humoral Theory? Healthy Eating in Ancient Greece Explained

    The ancients, -Greeks and Romans alike- were equally worried about the relationship of health and food, and the balance between a healthy diet and a delicious one. More so than in our days, diet played a role in preventing and curing diseases, and in fact it was one of the main areas of study even a thousand years later at medieval European medical schools. Medical writers, doctors and philosophers of the ancient world, from Hippocrates to Galen and Oreibasius to Haly Abbas in Islamic Persia all obsessed and thought about the connection of diet and healthy body. The notion of humours and the idea that disease was related to some imbalance of them was only one of many theories in antiquity- some of which, completely ignored them. For Galen though the definitive theory was that articulated in the Hippocratic Nature Of Man. The nature of Man was made up of blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile, and it was through these that the body felt pain and maintained health. If their balance was unevenly disturbed the body experienced disease. To find out more, listen to the episode! The music on this episode was written and performed by the incredible Pavlos Kapralos. Find out more here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzgAonk4-uVhXXjKSF-Nz1A Enjoy, Thom & The Delicious Legacy Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcast https://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    49 min
  2. Conversations In Greek -Interview with Food Archaeologist Mariana Kavroulaki

    APR 15

    Conversations In Greek -Interview with Food Archaeologist Mariana Kavroulaki

    Hello! Today's episode is all about the lineage and heritage of ancient Greek Food. I had the honour to talk to experimental archaeologist and food historian Mariana Kavroulaki who for decades has the project "History of Greek Food" with centre the beautiful island of Crete. Our conversation today is entirely in Greek for the Greek audience. BUT the english version of this interview will be released in the next week or so. Just a little patience my darlings! Music by Pavlos Kapralos Love and Garum The Delicious Legacy Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcast https://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    38 min

  3. APR 11 ·  BONUS

    Zakynthos Oven Roasted Guinea Fowl

    Hello! Hello my curious archeaogastronomers! il fiori di Levante—the flower of the East—as the Venetians called it. Roughly 1000 kilometres south and west of Venice, as one sails the whole length of the Adriatic sea, and then all the ionian islands, south of Cephalonia, lay Zakynthos. Our destination today. The cuisine there, heavily influenced of course from the Venetians; in language, techniques ingredients and style. But one dish stands out for me that also send me to a couple of rabbit holes: Oven roasted Guinea Fowl in a tomato sauce and cheese. Enjoy today's recipe! x Thom & The Delicious Legacy Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcast https://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    13 min
  4. Traditional Yorkshire Food

    APR 7

    Traditional Yorkshire Food

    Hello! Welcome back to another episode of The Delicious Legacy! This time we are going to Yorkshire and explore some of it's most wonderful, unique, rare or delicious, or all the above ingredients, foods, recipes and traditions! Further reading on some topics mentioned on today's episode: Traditional Food in Yorkshire by Peter Brears: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/17049/9781909248335 Patrick Rance the famous chronicler of British Cheese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Rance https://archive.org/details/greatbritishchee0000ranc Derby Dale Pie Dish: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/denby-dale-pie-tin-flowerbed The story of the humble Havercake – historic Yorkshire fayre: https://theyorkshiresociety.org/the-story-of-the-humble-havercake-historic-yorkshire-fayre/ Whitby Kippers: https://www.thewhitbyguide.co.uk/whitby-kippers/ https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/25017173.whitby-smokehouse-famous-customers-marks-150-years/ Enjoy! Recommendations for the week: The Black Death’s counter-intuitive effect: as human numbers fell, so did plant diversity https://insideecology.com/2026/03/07/the-black-deaths-counterintuitive-effect-as-human-numbers-fell-so-did-plant-diversity/ Gone Medieval: A Complete History of Medieval Ireland https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-complete-history-of-medieval-ireland/id1564113746?i=1000756742956 BBC The Food Programme: Is Food Processing the “missing Middle’? https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-food-processing-the-missing-middle/id342927791?i=1000756213923 Music by Pavlos Karpalos Love and cheese The Delicious Legacy Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcast https://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    44 min
  5. Recipe of the Week; Lamb or Goat Kleftiko

    APR 3

    Recipe of the Week; Lamb or Goat Kleftiko

    Hello my curious archaeogastronomers! Welcome to another recipe of the week on a Saturday! I’m your hungry host Thom Ntinas, and this is The Delicious Legacy podcast!  Thanks for tuning in! On today bonus episode I’m leaving you with another lamb recipe and a little bit of a story behind the naming of it; Kleftiko, perhaps one of the most famous Greek recipes abroad.... The name of the dish derives from klephts, who were a group of Greek brigands or militiamen during the period of Ottoman rule over Greece between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. But how do you cook it? And did really thieves steal sheep and cooked them underground in the mountain hideouts? Listen and find out! Music by Miltos Boumis and Pavlos Kapralos Enjoy! The Delicious Legacy Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcast https://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    11 min
  6. Rare & Disappearing Foods of the Philippines

    APR 1

    Rare & Disappearing Foods of the Philippines

    Hello! An archipelago of more than 7000 islands. Tribes with more than 200 native languages and a population of 112 million people. Philippines is a rich ground to discover some amazing ingredients, some delicious food and ancient indigenous recipes! On this episode I'm relatively quickly touching some of the rarest and fast disappearing native ingredients. The losses are due to industrial products being cheaper and imports of cheap ingredients but also an uncertain climate. Here's the ones I'm touching on this episode: Alingo, Besaang, Buttog aka The Cordillera Native Black pig Darag Chicken of Panay IslandGumamela leavesInartem Balayang (Pickled Wild Banana)Kaong vinegarAsin tibuok sa Albur unbroken saltBudbud or Bamboo SaltTultul Artisanal Sea Salt How the unbroken salt is made: This 'Dinosaur Egg' Is One Of The Rarest Salts In The World | Still Standing | Business Insider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aY9noX3XOs My recommendation of the week links below: The Ancient Romans relied on a curious object to tell time: a sundial in the shape of an Italian ham; https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2017/01/20/parslowsundial/ Rare Roman “pigs” found in Welsh farm Two “exceptionally rare” Roman pig lead ingots dating back almost 2,000 years have been discovered on farmland in west Wales: https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/rare-roman-pigs-found-in-welsh-farm/157123 A is for Apple podcast: C is for Carbonado, Carrot, and Cabinet Pudding: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-is-for-apple-an-encyclopaedia-of-food-drink/id1743840806?i=1000756719333 Enjoy! Love, Thom Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcast https://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    33 min
  7. Recipe of the week - Ancient Greek Roast Lamb with Pearl Barley

    MAR 28 ·  BONUS

    Recipe of the week - Ancient Greek Roast Lamb with Pearl Barley

    Hello! Your recipe of the week on a Saturday is back and what have I got for you? A delicious, tasty, fantastic celebratory recipe from the ancient Greco- Roman world! A leg of lamb, or kid goat if your prefer, or even a shoulder of lamb for a slow roast, bathed overnight, in milk and honey, and cooked with a rich luxurious sauce of red wine, dates, and garum! If you want a list with the ingredients and the original recipe from Apicius join me on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/roasted-goat-kid-153951881?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Enjoy! Music by Pavlos Kapralos Much love, Thom Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcast https://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    15 min
  8. A Brief History of Nowruz and Iranian Food Culture

    MAR 20

    A Brief History of Nowruz and Iranian Food Culture

    Hello! Today is Nowruz, the Persian/ Iranian new year. So I'm re-sharing with you this episode about Persian Culinary History and Culture through the millennia. Thinking of all the Iranian people who are suffering and wishing them only the best and hoping for a swift resolution to all the destruction inflicted upon them currently. In the vast region from Anatolia to Central Asia, a rite or a festival ushering Spring, and marking the new year is celebrated at around 20th or 21st of March.  People in modern countries including  Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan historically observe the Nowruz celebrations. Enjoy! Love The Delicious Legacy Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcast https://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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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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  • Creator
    The Delicious Legacy
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    229
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Thomas Ntinas
  • Show Website
    The Delicious Legacy

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