{"podcast":{"title":"The Delicious Legacy","slug":"the-delicious-legacy-1206953","podcast_index_feed_id":1206953,"rss_url":"https://feed.pippa.io/public/shows/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/1670771377279-da6c71ec14ab9ec15278584ef3ff50fb.jpeg","author":"Thomas Ntinas","episode_count":244,"summary":"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…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T10:20:00.171064+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953"},"episode":{"title":"Ancient Roman Food Tasting in London","slug":"ancient-roman-food-tasting-in-london","published_at":"2026-03-08T01:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/ancient-roman-food-tasting-in-london","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy/episodes/ancient-roman-food-tasting-in-london","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/e/69aacdeeb49eecc0b7a43ac4/media.mp3","summary":"Hello! Something a little different this weekend instead of a recipe... On today's episode, I'm talking about the recent ancient roman tasting event I went at the Hellenic and Roman Library in Senate House in central London. I'm discussing the menu that was served by Sally Grainger a prominent food archaeologist specialising in ancient Mediterranean cooking and ingredients. She also talked about her research all these years about Garum and Silphium two of the most well known but equally misunderstood ingredients of the ancient Greek and Roman table. Overall in my opinion and Sam's opinion the food was tasty and the audience/guests all seem to enjoy it and those who had a negative opinion about ancient food have changed their minds! From a room of 50 or so attendees I think only three or so weren't keen in the tastes of the food. Anyway it was fascinating and I hope I'll get the chance to interview Sally for this podcast soon! Love & Garum The Delicious Legacy Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcast https://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacy Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Hello! Something a little different this weekend instead of a recipe... On today's episode, I'm talking about the recent ancient roman tasting event I wen…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":908,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/episodes/ancient-roman-food-tasting-in-london/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/ancient-roman-food-tasting-in-london.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}