{"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":"Flint Dibble: Zooarchaeology, Ancient Greece and Food","slug":"flint-dibble-zooarchaeology-ancient-greece-and-food","published_at":"2026-07-07T23:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/flint-dibble-zooarchaeology-ancient-greece-and-food","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy/episodes/flint-dibble-zooachaeology-ancient-greece-and-food","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/e/6a4d4f716ae7b13bb28da849/media.mp3","summary":"Hello! Ugly stuff? Broken Bones? The earliest archaeologists a century ago ignored these. But not my guest today!  Flint Dibble is an ancient historian and archaeological scientist who studies people, animals, and the environment in the ancient Greek world. According to his words, his goal is to make real archaeological research accessible to everyone. With the publication of \"The agropastoral debate in context: the relationship between the consumption and management of animals at Azoria on Crete\" I wanted to share this conversation I had with Flint about the food in Ancient Greece. What do we know? What does the archaeological evidence tells us that is the same, similar or diverges, from the literary sources that survived the passage of time? What animals were eaten in ancient Greece? How did the ancient Greeks prepared them? And what was the difference between home cooking and sacrificial, professional butchering and cooking for public feasts? How were the poor and the elite different in their eating habits, and how was the food cooked at home and in mobile situations? What does the isotope analysis of teeth and bones tells us about the climate through a millennia of ancient greek history, and how that affected the agropastoralism and transhumanism? When were the first chickens eaten in the Greek context? All the above and a lot more are discussed in our conversation with the fantastic Flint Dibble! The write up about Flint's article can be found here: A goat’s tooth may have solved a 100‑year debate about ancient Greek farming https://theconversation.com/a-goats-tooth-may-have-solved-a-100-year-debate-about-ancient-greek-farming-285839 The article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-026-02512-7 Flint's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@flintdibble…","meta_description":"Hello! Ugly stuff? Broken Bones? The earliest archaeologists a century ago ignored these. But not my guest today! Flint Dibble is an ancient histori…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4799,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/episodes/flint-dibble-zooarchaeology-ancient-greece-and-food/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/flint-dibble-zooarchaeology-ancient-greece-and-food.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}