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The Delicious LegacyAncient Cuisines Around the World Author: The Delicious Legacy
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. Language: en Genres: Arts, Food, Places & Travel, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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What's in a doughnut hole? A conversation with Suki Finn
Episode 6
Tuesday, 5 May, 2026
Hello!Brand new episode is out and it's all about philosophy this time...!The menu is a little different today...Suki Finn is the author of a brand new book which will be released by Icon Books in two days time, Thursday 7th of May 2026, called "What's in A Doughnut Hole? And other philosophical food for thought" where she takes us into a journey of the mind talking, and making us thing about philosophical questions in a fun and foody way! The book explores many philosophical issues from various traditions broadly falling within the themes of metaphysics (on the nature of being and reality), epistemology (on truth and knowledge acquisition), value theory (on ethical and aesthetic judgements), and logic (on formal reasoning and mathematical concepts).Find out more on today's episode!Also you can get the book here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/17049/9781526679734On this weeks recommendations I have three things for you; An article, a cookbook, and a video.World Crust — Pork Scratchings and Making Meat of the Scrapshttps://www.pelliclemag.com/home/2026/4/14/world-crust-pork-scratchings-and-making-meat-of-the-scrapsA Taste of Madagascar: Culinary Riches of the Red IslandBy Emmanuel Larochehttps://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/A-Taste-of-Madagascar/Emmanuel-Laroche/9798895650141How Tudor Sailors Survived a 7 Month Journey | Salt Pork Experiment:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tWQpJ8kR5UMusic by Pavlos Kapralos.love,ThomSupport the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcasthttps://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacySupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
