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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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A Global History and The World Conquest of the Chilli Peppers
Episode 29
Wednesday, 11 November, 2026
Hello!Brand new episode is out for your archaeogastronomical delight!What an honour to have as my guest on this episode today, the one and only food historian Andrew Dalby!I first came across Andrew in a dark basement office, very late one night in a bar in Veria, my home town, probably past two o'clock in the morning, 24 years ago…of course it wasn’t Andrew in flesh and blood but rather his work, and his words in the form of The Classical Cookbook, ancient greco-roman recipes written by him and Sally Grainger! A book that I found translated into Greek and it opened a completely new world for me, and made me fall in love with cooking historical recipes and exploring the culinary past ever since.Andrew Dalby has written extensively about food in ancient Greece. He is the author of several books like Dangerous Tastes the story of spices, cheese, food in the ancient world from a to z, tastes of byzantium, Geoponika a Byzantine textbook which we can call farm work manual and was written in Greek and Latin being translated to modern English by Andrew; also siren feasts a history of food and gastronomy in Greece, gifts of the gods A History of Food in Greece, amongst many other. But today we are here to discuss his latest and brand new book, freshly released all about the history of chillies called “Chilli Peppers: The True History of a World Conquest” published by Equinox and out now. I can thank Janet Joyce and Sarah Lee from Equinox publishing who put me in touch with Andrew, a lovely opportunity for me to speak with the food history giant himself. You can get the book herehttps://equinoxonlinelibrary.com/book/59522/chilli-peppersLove and chilli peppers,The Delicious LegacySupport 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.
