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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 d ...
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The History of Anchovy in the Western Culture - An Interview with Christopher Beckman
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Hello! Welcome to Season 7 of The Delicious Legacy! A New episode for you my dear archaeogastronomers! I had a fab time discussing with Christopher Beckman all things anchovies, in the West -well, the Western Europe and US- but also how far back our relationship with this small fish goes, how it has changed over the millennia and what does it tell …
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Hello! Excited to announce the inaugural Serve it Forth Food History Festival! Serve It Forth is a new festival devoted to food & drink history curated by Sam Bilton, Neil Buttery, Thom Ntinas & Alessandra Pino. Join us for Serve it Forth Food History Festival 2025 for a fantastic day of discussion, chat and learning about food history and traditio…
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***** Tickets for the Serve It Forth Food History Festival now available to buy with a 25% discount here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-forth-food-history-festival-2025-tickets-1490885802569?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl ***** Hello my hungry archaeogastro…
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A Short History of Breakfast in Britain Through the Ages, With Pen Vogler
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*** Exciting news announcement! *** The first Serve it Forth Food History Festival will take place on Saturday 18th of October 2025. Together with my food historians friends Dr Neil Buttery, Dr Alessandra Pino and Sam Bilton we have planned an exciting virtual day for you with talks inspired from past dinners, tables and places. Join us by purchasi…
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From The Archives - A Journey Through Ancient Mediterranean Food
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Hello! I'm excited to tell you that I am part of the Serve It Forth Food History Festival together with food historians Dr Neil Buttery, Sam Bilton and Alessandra Pino! Together we will be live and online only, on Saturday 18th of October 2025 for our very first food history festival! Stay tuned with news about the subjects we will cover, our fanta…
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History of Spanish Food - An Interview with María José Sevilla
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*********** Sponsor The Delicious Legacy Podcast on KO-FI by visiting https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcast ****************** She is a giant of the Spanish Food and Wine movement.... She probably single-handedly brought Basque Cuisine in the limelight of the English Speaking world... María José Sevilla has worked for many years in the field …
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Palestinian Food, Culture and Identity
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******* TW ****** THIS EPISODE DEALS WITH DEATH, VIOLENCE AND THEMES OF WAR THAT SOME PEOPLE MIGHT FIND UPSETTING!!! **** Hello, New episode is out. I hope you have a listen to a rather longer episode than normal, and please let me know your thoughts! Some Palestinian Dishes: Maqluba, Musakhan, Ka’ak, Maamoul, Knafeh Cookbooks by Palestinian author…
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Hello! It's heating up this summer! And what better way to cool down other than learning about the history of ice cream and sorbets?! Resources and further reading: "Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat" by Bee Wilson ISBN: 9780141049083 How Ice Cream Got Its Cone https://www.seriouseats.com/2019/06/ice-cream-cone-history.html The De…
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The Art and Science of Historical Cookbooks
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Hello! New episode for your archaeogastronomical delights , is out now! Today I have author, chef and food historian Jay Reifel in this episode as my guest, and we muse about all things "Baghdadical"! 10th century Baghdad the capital of the Islamic world in a sense it was a sensuous place. And it produced perhaps a cookbook, more than mere recipes …
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Ancient Greek Music with Pavlos Kapralos (Excerpt)
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Hello! On this exclusive episode for you, I'm discussing the music of the podcast, the themes written by my friend and musician Pavlos Kapralos. Over the past five years of the podcast I used a few of Pavlos's compositions, for my ancient Greek food themed episodes and for the Byzantium ones. Here we talk about his approach in creating the songs, h…
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Hello my curious & hungry archaeogastronomers! What is "oinos tethalassomenos" ? Where does one find the best eels? What was a highly regarded game meat? Let's discover a few of the many unknown delicacies of the ancient Greek world. What was in vogue? What was considered tasty, healthy and accessible to eat for the average citizen of the wider Gre…
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Spam - A Global History: Interview with Dr Kelly Spring
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Hello my hungry archaeogastronomers! Humans always wondered why food spoils, what makes it go off, and how to preserve it for longer, and keep it nutritious and healthy. Along the millenia we devised many ingenious ways to make fresh food last, and taste good but also provide us with calories and nutrients. Nicolas Appert was not a scientist, but a…
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Champagne - A Fizzy History! Interview with Becky Sue Epstein
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Hello my lovely archaeogastronomers! The Delicious Legacy has gone a bit drunk with the most snobby of drinks, champagne! On this weeks interview I've invited the author Becky Sue Epstein to tell me all about the fascinating history of Champagne. This fancy, fizzy wine from the north east of France, which became the staple of kings, queens royalty …
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Tracing the origins of the restaurant menu: An Interview with Professor Nathalie Cooke
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Hello! Menus. These little pieces of paper, seem to be so obvious and ubiquitous today, not worth thinking about, no further certainly aside from the restaurant. The new book from Nathalie Cooke, disproves this notion wholeheartedly. It provides glimpses into the meals enjoyed by royalty and the rogues, food prepared for the great and the good, adu…
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How Beer Changed Humankind. An Interview with Jonny Garrett!
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Hello! What is a craft ale? Who’s C.A.M.R.A? And what is a cask conditioned ale? What is the difference between a lager, a Pilsner, a bitter, a mild, and so on! The world of beer can be very confusing! All i want is to enjoy my beer with my friends in a cosy pub! The above are some important questions that you might have never thought about, but th…
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Wine in Ancient Greece - Myths, Legends and History
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Hello! Wine was always central in the life of Ancient Greeks. Both on day to day basis, but also as foundational myths part of the story of being Greeks, their ancient and mythical past and the sacred lores of Gods. For instance take this line from the mythical battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs. "For when Pirithous wooed Hippodamia he fea…
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Hello! New episode for you my lovelies! My interview with the lovely Jenny Linford, all about her new book, which is out on the 24th of April, Repast The Story of Food by the British Museum and Thames & Hudson. Get the book here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/repast-british-museum/jenny-linford/9780500481158 x Much love, Thom & The Delicious Leg…
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Hello! Italian food: What comes to mind first when you hear this? A Neapolitan pizza, warm with bubbly tomato sauce and mozarella? A cotoletta alla Milanese, or a Roman cacio e pepe pasta? A lovely bottle of chianti wine or a pasta pesto? But for all our knowledge -or lack of - how did the food of the Italian peninsula came to be? And why it become…
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The Ancient History of Potato in the Andes
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Hello and welcome back to another culinary adventure my curious and hungry archaeogastronomers! How, when and why the first potatoes were domesticated? Who were the people who did it? The tough, inhospitable terrain, the extreme climate and the improbably high altitude plateau of the Andean altiplano is the home of the potato. A tuber that was a st…
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Corfu's Cosmopolitan Foods- Byzantium, Venice, Jewish and English
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Hello! The island of Corfu was legendary since the homeric times for it's agreeable climate and the lush green forests. Food was abundant and the inhabidants wealthy. So what's the traditional food of Corfu and the influnces in the island? And how come and it has over five million olive trees and almost a million of them centuries and centuries old…
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Filthy Queens - A History of Irish Women & Beer
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Hello! In today's episode we have an Interview with Dr Christina Wade, author of the newly released book "Filthy Queens - A History of Beer in Ireland." Irish stories, myths and legends are full of spirits and ghosts. The history of beer in Ireland is no different; many of these shadowy echoes are still reverberating in the modern brewing history. …
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"The monks say the divine flavour befits quiet seclusion. The abundant fluttering leaves become a welcome guest. They would send a package to my prefectural office, But the brick well and copper stove would ruin its character. Worse yet, the spring teas from Meng Mountain and Guzhu Sealed in white clay, stamped in red, they travel dusty roads. If y…
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Lenten fasting became law at the Council of Aix in 837AD. Charlemagne was determined to see that it was observed, by force if necessary. Any baptised Lombard or Saxon chieftain who failed to do proper penance had his head cut off, an uninviting prospect for any budding Christian! Hello, Enjoy this updated version of an older episode about feasting …
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A Brief History of Turnip (And other Medieval Root Vegetables)
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Hello! 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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Hello 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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