# The Delicious Legacy Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953.md RSS feed: https://feed.pippa.io/public/shows/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad Official site: https://shows.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy Author: Thomas Ntinas Episodes: 244 ## Resource 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 "ba… ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-delicious-legacy-1206953 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953.md ## Episodes - [Odyssey: Food, Feasting and the meaning of 'Xenia'](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/odyssey-food-feasting-and-the-meaning-of-xenia) — 2026-07-14T23:00:00+00:00 - [Flint Dibble: Zooarchaeology, Ancient Greece and Food](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/flint-dibble-zooarchaeology-ancient-greece-and-food) — 2026-07-07T23:30:00+00:00 - [Recipe of the Week: Chicken stewed with onions, olives and feta](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/recipe-of-the-week-chicken-stewed-with-onions-olives-and-feta) — 2026-07-03T23:00:00+00:00 - [Protein, Poo and Power - A Rich History of Manure & Food](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/protein-poo-and-power-a-rich-history-of-manure-food) — 2026-06-30T23:00:00+00:00 - [Food and Traditions of Mani Peninsula -Tough landscape and tough people!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/food-and-traditions-of-mani-peninsula-tough-landscape-and-tough-people) — 2026-06-17T00:00:00+00:00 - [Recipe of the Week: Three Pontic Greek Dishes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/recipe-of-the-week-three-pontic-greek-dishes) — 2026-06-13T00:00:00+00:00 - [The Black Sea Greeks - Cuisine Food & Tradition (Reprise)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/the-black-sea-greeks-cuisine-food-tradition-reprise) — 2026-06-10T04:00:00+00:00 - [Food Traditions of Medieval Germany](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/food-traditions-of-medieval-germany) — 2026-06-03T00:00:00+00:00 - [Abgoosht - A fantastic & comforting Iranian stew](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/abgoosht-a-fantastic-comforting-iranian-stew) — 2026-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 - [Eating Like an Ancient Spartan: Black Broth, Hunting and the Helots](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/eating-like-an-ancient-spartan-black-broth-hunting-and-the-helots) — 2026-05-27T00:00:00+00:00 - [Food and Foodways of Classical Greece with Mariana Kavroulaki](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/food-and-foodways-of-classical-greece-with-mariana-kavroulaki) — 2026-05-19T23:30:00+00:00 - [The forgotten ingredient of our modern kitchens](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/the-forgotten-ingredient-of-our-modern-kitchens) — 2026-05-12T23:30:00+00:00 - [What's in a doughnut hole? A conversation with Suki Finn](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/what-s-in-a-doughnut-hole-a-conversation-with-suki-finn) — 2026-05-05T23:30:00+00:00 - [Traditional Foods of South-West England](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/traditional-foods-of-south-west-england) — 2026-04-28T23:00:00+00:00 - [Peaches in Greece -History and Recipes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/peaches-in-greece-history-and-recipes) — 2026-04-26T00:00:00+00:00 - [What is Humoral Theory? Healthy Eating in Ancient Greece Explained](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/what-is-humoral-theory-healthy-eating-in-ancient-greece-explained) — 2026-04-22T23:30:00+00:00 - [Conversations In Greek -Interview with Food Archaeologist Mariana Kavroulaki](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/conversations-in-greek-interview-with-food-archaeologist-mariana-kavroulaki) — 2026-04-15T03:00:00+00:00 - [Zakynthos Oven Roasted Guinea Fowl](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/zakynthos-oven-roasted-guinea-fowl) — 2026-04-11T00:00:00+00:00 - [Traditional Yorkshire Food](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/traditional-yorkshire-food) — 2026-04-07T23:00:00+00:00 - [Recipe of the Week; Lamb or Goat Kleftiko](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/recipe-of-the-week-lamb-or-goat-kleftiko) — 2026-04-03T23:00:00+00:00 - [Rare & Disappearing Foods of the Philippines](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/rare-disappearing-foods-of-the-philippines) — 2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 - [Recipe of the week - Ancient Greek Roast Lamb with Pearl Barley](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/recipe-of-the-week-ancient-greek-roast-lamb-with-pearl-barley) — 2026-03-28T01:00:00+00:00 - [A Brief History of Nowruz and Iranian Food Culture](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/a-brief-history-of-nowruz-and-iranian-food-culture) — 2026-03-20T00:00:00+00:00 - [In Memory of Daniel Newman - Medieval Arab Persian Cuisine](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/in-memory-of-daniel-newman-medieval-arab-persian-cuisine) — 2026-03-15T02:00:00+00:00 - [Greece's Salt Cod History and the Basque Connection](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/greece-s-salt-cod-history-and-the-basque-connection) — 2026-03-11T01:00:00+00:00 - [Ancient Roman Food Tasting in London](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/ancient-roman-food-tasting-in-london) — 2026-03-08T01:00:00+00:00 - [History of Food in Central Asia Pt2 - From Baku to Beijing!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/history-of-food-in-central-asia-pt2-from-baku-to-beijing) — 2026-03-04T01:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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