{"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":"Conversations In Greek -Interview with Food Archaeologist Mariana Kavroulaki","slug":"conversations-in-greek-interview-with-food-archaeologist-mariana-kavroulaki","published_at":"2026-04-15T03:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/conversations-in-greek-interview-with-food-archaeologist-mariana-kavroulaki","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy/episodes/conversations-in-greek-interview-with-food-archaeologist-mar","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/e/69dea595964c5cf31649569a/media.mp3","summary":"Hello! Today's episode is all about the lineage and heritage of ancient Greek Food. I had the honour to talk to experimental archaeologist and food historian Mariana Kavroulaki who for decades has the project \"History of Greek Food\" with centre the beautiful island of Crete. Our conversation today is entirely in Greek for the Greek audience. BUT the english version of this interview will be released in the next week or so. Just a little patience my darlings! Music by Pavlos Kapralos Love and 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! Today's episode is all about the lineage and heritage of ancient Greek Food. I had the honour to talk to experimental archaeologist and food histor…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2305,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/episodes/conversations-in-greek-interview-with-food-archaeologist-mariana-kavroulaki/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/conversations-in-greek-interview-with-food-archaeologist-mariana-kavroulaki.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}