{"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":"History of Food in Central Asia Pt2 - From Baku to Beijing!","slug":"history-of-food-in-central-asia-pt2-from-baku-to-beijing","published_at":"2026-03-04T01:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/history-of-food-in-central-asia-pt2-from-baku-to-beijing","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-delicious-legacy-1206953","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy/episodes/history-of-food-in-central-asia-pt2","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/e/699d69313a5156c5d2e77f74/media.mp3","summary":"Hello! This is part two of my conversation with the fantastic Anna Ansari about her book \"Silk Roads\" and the food of Central Asia. From Baku to Beijing! Origins, trade routes, influences, and what is the connecting thread behind it all? Plus a lot of personal stories, especially with melon! Personal dramas of melon! Find out more, here! You can buy Anna's book from my affiliate link at bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/17049/9780241694374 Enjoy! Thom & 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! This is part two of my conversation with the fantastic Anna Ansari about her book \"Silk Roads\" and the food of Central Asia. From Baku to Beijing!…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3808,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-delicious-legacy-1206953/episodes/history-of-food-in-central-asia-pt2-from-baku-to-beijing/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/history-of-food-in-central-asia-pt2-from-baku-to-beijing.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}