{"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 Traditions of Medieval Germany","slug":"food-traditions-of-medieval-germany","published_at":"2026-06-03T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/food-traditions-of-medieval-germany","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy/episodes/food-traditions-of-medieval-germany","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/e/6a1ea083335cf85f9cc78438/media.mp3","summary":"* Enjoy some great olive oil discounts if you buy your oil from here: https://www.citizensofsoil.com/OLIVE10TDL and use the code OLIVE10TDL * Hello! Today's interview is with the master of German Historic Food, Volker Bach! And I'm so exciting to share it with you! What was medieval Germany? When and where do we find the first ever recipes in the German language? What would you eat as a peasant or as an elite? And what are the influences to modern German cuisine? Find out all the about and a lot a lot more, in today's episode! More about Volker Volker Bach website: The history of German food in Europe and the world https://www.culina-vetus.de/ Kuchenmaistrey: A 15th-Century German Cookbook https://a.co/d/043L6kZO Landsknecht-Cookbook https://www.zinnfigur.com/en/Books-Media/Books/Middle-Ages/Bach-Volker-Landsknecht-Cookbook.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqOLTUT7AsJsNF--bOsu7OdP4AfA1eL9h-fUiaoTAQzQOT5UZDH My online food recommendations for this week: Oyster farmer quits after pressure from royal landowner: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2k7n2jv29o The Silk Road Gourmet https://silkroadgourmet.com/ Fare issue 19: Athens https://faremag.com/collections/single-print-issues/products/issue-19-athens Importantly, enjoy some great olive oil discounts if you buy your oil from here: https://www.citizensofsoil.com/OLIVE10TDL and use the code OLIVE10TDL Enjoy! x 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":"* Enjoy some great olive oil discounts if you buy your oil from here: https://www.citizensofsoil.com/OLIVE10TDL and use the code OLIVE10TDL * Hello! Today…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3843,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/episodes/food-traditions-of-medieval-germany/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/food-traditions-of-medieval-germany.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}