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The Delicious Legacy
The Delicious Legacy
Frequency: 1 episode/12d. Total Eps: 177
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!
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The Art and Science of Historical Cookbooks
Season 6 · Episode 27
dimanche 22 juin 2025 • Duration 49:56
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 something extremely modern in some senses, and something that didn't exist in the West (if we want to put labels on things) for another 400 years or so!
This cookbook, "The Annals of the Caliph's Kitchen" contained a treasure of information and it was more than 500 pages long!
What's Jay's favourite recipes, what did the Abbasids loved to cook and eat and what were the ingredients that we might not know today?
Anyway I hope you'll enjoy today’s musings!
Love,
Thom & The Delicious Legacy
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Ancient Greek Music with Pavlos Kapralos (Excerpt)
Season 6 · Episode 26
mardi 17 juin 2025 • Duration 07:10
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, his inspiration and what do we know of ancient Greek music: how it sounded, what instruments the ancients had and how do we recreate it today!
Plus what is the Byzantine music? Both secular and church hymns, and how its the link between the ancient and modern folk music in the East.
I hope you'll enjoy this different episode today!
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Pavlos's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@pavloskapralos3969
Love,
Thom & The Delicious Legacy
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The Ancient History of Potato in the Andes
Season 6 · Episode 17
mercredi 9 avril 2025 • Duration 01:00:39
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 staple of the diet of the Andean people for thousands of years; then went not only to conquer the world, but be the friend of peasants, farmers, poor people too and save millions from starvation around the world! How did that come about? And what was the genius systems of the Incas that helped grow this amazingly tasty and nutritious food?
Let's find out on today's epic adventure!
Recommendations for the week:
The Puratos Sourdough Library
https://www.questforsourdough.com/puratos-library
People | Planet | Food, a Scigest podcast series exploring the intersection of sustainability, agriculture, and our global food system.
https://www.plantandfood.com/en-nz/people-planet-food
Cradle of Gold:
The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu
https://www.christopherheaney.net/cradle-of-gold/description
Enjoy!
The Delicious Legacy
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Sandwich - A Stuffed between two Slices of Bread History!
Season 3 · Episode 18
mardi 23 mai 2023 • Duration 41:55
What is your favourite sandwich? How do you make it?
Many myths and delicious recipes for a sandwich exist through the ages!
Who was the first who made a sandwich? Why?
And what does a small town in the Kent coast has to do with naming this culinary concoction across the globe?
And are we addicted to plasticky, fridge-cold supermarket sandwiches?
This Episode was brought to you with the welcome suport of Maltby and Greek UK's No1 Greek Delicatessen. Get your hands in some delicious Greek food here:
https://www.maltbyandgreek.com/
Music by Cloudcub https://cloudcub.bandcamp.com/music
and Pavlos Kapralos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzgAonk4-uVhXXjKSF-Nz1A
Enjoy!
Thom & The Delicious Legacy
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The Moorish Arab Cuisine of Iberia
Season 3 · Episode 17
mercredi 17 mai 2023 • Duration 43:18
What made the Umayyah descendants to flee Damascus and the Caliphate there almost overnight and travel all the way to the westernmost tip of the known world in the Iberian Peninsula?
And how in turn succeeded in creating a flourishing cultural and culinary paradise?
Let's find out some amazing recipes from the period and the secret ingredients in the highly sophisticated cuisine of Moorish Spain!
Enjoy!
Find out more about
Nawal Nasrallah:
https://nawalcooking.blogspot.com/
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/9/13/medieval-arabic-cookbooks-reviving-the-taste-of-history
On today's episode the music featured is from Motion Array and the song "Thessaloniki" from Pavlos Kapralos! If you want to find out more check his YouTube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzgAonk4-uVhXXjKSF-Nz1A
This episode comes with the welcome support of Maltby and Greek UK's No1 Greek delicatessen!
Get shopping some delicious Greek wines, cheeses, honey and herbs here:
https://www.maltbyandgreek.com/
And don't forget to use the discount code delicious for 15% discount!
The Delicious Legacy
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Ambergris, Musk and Pomegranate
Season 3 · Episode 16
mardi 9 mai 2023 • Duration 41:25
Hello!
New episode is out!
Whale excrement anyone? Deer glands?
Not keen? What could not entice you to taste these?
Where did these ingredients come from? And what is the allure?
Aside from perfumes, how do we eat these mysterious spices from the depths of the oceans and the farthest corners of Siberia?
Let's delve a little deeper and find out the history and use of the above aromatics to our recipes through the centuries.
This episode was brought to you with the welcome support of Maltby and Greek Uk's No1 Greek delicatessen, supplier and distributor of premium Greek product.
get your order here: https://www.maltbyandgreek.com/
Enjoy!
The Delicious Legacy
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Interpreting Medieval Recipes for the Modern Kitchen with Dr Christopher Monk
Season 3 · Episode 15
mercredi 3 mai 2023 • Duration 58:30
Dr Christopher Monk is a specialist consultant in medieval culture and texts, working freelance in the heritage sector and with creative professionals. He is also a cook.
A cook of Medieval food and recipes, re-worked for our modern kitchens. The feasts of kings usually cooked over open fire, for 100's of guests and with the help of countless cooks, spit-turns, kitchen assistant's and many others now reworked for your family table!
What are the barriers for us when trying to cook an ancient recipe? What does the language and the translation of the texts tell us and how do we interpret the texts?
What recipes can be found in the early Anglo-Norman kitchen?
Let's dive in and get a chance to find out recipes, language and techniques of the past going back nearly a thousand years in Medieval Europe.
Do we need a glossary - a medieval culinary glossary- to better understand the ingredients of our old English kitchens?
On his YouTube channel Dr Christopher Monk brings to you recipes from the fourteenth century Fourme of Cury ('Method of Cookery'), King Richard II's official cookery treatise (c.1390), as well as other early cookery works.
If you want to find more about Dr Monks forthcoming book as well as watching some of the fascinating recipes he re-creates check his website and YouTube channel here:
https://modernmedievalcuisine.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@MonksModernMedievalCuisine/about
This podcast comes with the welcome support of Maltby and Greek UK's No1 Greek delicatessen!
Get your hands to some delicious cheese, wine and herbs here: https://www.maltbyandgreek.com/
Music was composed by Pavlos Kapralos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzgAonk4-uVhXXjKSF-Nz1A
Thank you for listening!
The Delicious Legacy
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European Medieval Cuisine and Food Part 4- The Culinary Legacy of Constantinople
Season 3 · Episode 14
dimanche 23 avril 2023 • Duration 33:12
Hello!
Brand new episode is out!
Part 4 of our Medieval European Cuisine tour!
How did Byzantium played a role to create the first ever French cookbook? Who was Anthimus? And what foods did the Frankish kings ate?
And how we could leave out the legendary empire of Byzantium and its influential court, palace life, writers, doctors and physicians who went to establish trends across the medieval Mediterranean and European world with their food habits. And how in turned they were influenced by outside factors and the spice trade from Arab merchants.
Enjoy the latest archeaogastronomical adventure here!
With music from the immense Pavlos Kapralos and Miltos Boumis!
The Delicious Legacy
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European Medieval Cuisine Part 3 - Foods and Recipes of Medieval England & Italy
Season 3 · Episode 13
dimanche 16 avril 2023 • Duration 33:11
Hello!
A new archaeogastronomical adventure beckons!
Come with me and explore the complex flavours of England and Italy a thousand years ago. Let's find out how our ancestors used spices, and what was the common and traditional dishes for the folk of the continent of Europe so many centuries ago.
Where do we find our sources from? What recipes and cookbooks have survived? And what archaeology tells us?
Listen now and find out!
Thom
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European Medieval Cuisine Part 2 - A History through recipes
Season 3 · Episode 12
mardi 11 avril 2023 • Duration 28:35
On the second part of our exploration of Europe's Medieval Cuisine and the regional recipes, we are delving to the amazing, rich and complex foods of Al-Andalus: The medieval Arab Iberian peninsula and the heady mix of spices, fruits from the East, and the mix of Arab, Jewish and Roman cuisines to create something out of this world!
The Almohade Cookbook’s 220 recipes have no counterpart in Middle Eastern cookery of the time; this speaks for the unique character of Muslim Spain’s cuisine. Will check some mouthwatering recipes too.
And from there we go to to Catalonia and then Medieval Germany!
Enjoy!
Thom and The Delicious Legacy
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