{"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":"Eating Like an Ancient Spartan: Black Broth, Hunting and the Helots","slug":"eating-like-an-ancient-spartan-black-broth-hunting-and-the-helots","published_at":"2026-05-27T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/eating-like-an-ancient-spartan-black-broth-hunting-and-the-helots","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy/episodes/ancient-spartan-food-black-broth-slaves-and-hunting","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/e/6a14176f942fd18754bb5366/media.mp3","summary":"Hello! The ancient Spartan society still has a grip in our culture. We use the words laconic, and Spartan to describe austere, frugal things, and people who don't use many words, just the right ones and the exact ones. The ancient Sparta was a very weird place and certainly a lot more cruel rather than heroic. It is time to see what their society truly was, how it functioned and what the warrior class do to survive. Of course we can't forget their infamous black broth soup, the dish that only -supposedly- Spartans loved! How was it made? What it consisted of, and was it really tasty? Join me to find the origin myths of Sparta, and dispel any myths that are still pervasive to this day. Read Plutarch's Live of Lycurgus here: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Lycurgus*.html You can buy the books discussed on the podcast here: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/thedeliciouslegacypodcast My recommendations for this week include: Eat Like an Ancient Greek Philosopher Before attending third-century dinner parties, readers consulted this “marvelous feast of words.” https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eat-like-a-greek-philosopher-oldest-fish-recipe Yucatán Peninsula Xunankab Bee Honey https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/slow-food-presidia/yucatan-peninsula-xunankab-bee-honey/ north by sud- ouest charcuterie  Northern curing, schooled in South-West France: https://www.northbysudouest.com/about Music by Pavlos Kapralos. Love & Garum Thom 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! The ancient Spartan society still has a grip in our culture. 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