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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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Classical Hellenic food and Hellenistic foodways with Mariana Kavroulaki
Episode 8
Tuesday, 19 May, 2026
Hello!Happy Wednesday and hope all is well my curious archaeogastronomers!I've been talking, thinking, cooking ancient Greek food and culture for years now but it struck me that I haven't had the chance to speak with many experts from Greece (and Greek experts for that matter) in the subject! Or at least bring them on the podcast as guests. I am more than curious to know had they think and what have they discovered. One person I was always interested to talk to, and I know of is Mariana Kavroulaki who's work I've been following online for over a decade.So here's my interview with the amazing Greek archaeologist and food historian Mariana Kavroulaki!I've include some extra links of the topics covered in our conversation today:Beer in ancient Greece:https://beer-studies.com/en/world-history/Birth-of-brewing/Archaic-beers/Crete-GreeceFranchthi Cave:https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/147874.pdfhttps://www.travel.gr/en/experiences-ee/unknown-greece/franchthi-cave-and-the-dolines-of-didyma-in-the-peloponnese/Garos episode of The Delicious Legacy and other links about the topic:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-delicious-legacy/id1494707127?i=1000535608061https://www.costatropical.net/almunecar/almunecar-monuments-fish-factory.phphttps://costieraamalfitana.com/colatura-di-alici-di-cetara/https://www.eyeonspain.com/blogs/luislopezcortijo/19372/a-sauce-with-a-lot-of-history-in-southern-spain.aspxhttps://fuegoysal.com/en/producto/flor-de-garum-of-cadiz-andalusia/Mariana's website:https://historyofgreekfood.eu/about-2/The menu from the Hellenic Centre Dinner in London in 2024:https://helleniccentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Feast-Menu-4.pdfLove,The Delicious LegacyThomSupport 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.
