{"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":"Food and Traditions of Mani Peninsula -Tough landscape and tough people!","slug":"food-and-traditions-of-mani-peninsula-tough-landscape-and-tough-people","published_at":"2026-06-17T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/food-and-traditions-of-mani-peninsula-tough-landscape-and-tough-people","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy/episodes/food-and-traditions-of-mani-peninsula-tough-landscape-and-to","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/e/6a31cb6dc26a46aaa58a378d/media.mp3","summary":"Hello! Brand new episode is out for all of you lovely subscribers! This time we are going to the hard and unforgiving landscape of Mani Peninsula in Southern Greece. Peloponnesos! Vendettas lasting decades... Towering villages in inhospitable mountains...Rocky and barren peninsulas with crystal clear azure waters. The landscape of Mani is unique, and so are it's people! We are looking for the traditional foods, recipes and ways of cooking as well as ingredients, the simple, hearty things that these unconquerable people ate the past few centuries! What is the role of olives and olive oil in their life, economy and cuisine? What is 'Syglino'? what is 'Sfela'? What was the role of quails in people's diets? How do you bake a whole quail in bread and how to preserve it in olive oi? Why so many writers and artists fell in love with the landscape of Mani? From Patrick Leigh Fermor and Nikos Kazantzakis to many others! On top of all this I will be going through some fantastic recipes from the region, some vegetarian, some vegan, some meat dishes and some local desserts! All of course feature copious amounts of the regions fantastic extra virgin olive oil! Links, books and further reading about Mani: https://archive.org/details/deepintomanijour0000gree/page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/journeytomorea00kaza/page/n7/mode/2up More about Patrick Leigh Fermor https://thelondonmagazine.org/article/remembering-patrick-leigh-fermor/ https://patrickleighfermor.org/video/ https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jun/10/patrick-leigh-fermor-obituary All this and more on today's episode! Enjoy! 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://s…","meta_description":"Hello! Brand new episode is out for all of you lovely subscribers! 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