The Delicious Legacy

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.o...

Hello! Your recipe of the week on a Saturday is out! Thessaly. The flat and fertile land of Central Greece, famed since ancient times for their horses and cavalry that provided the strategic support for Alexander The Great's campaign on his conquest of the Persian Empire. Our task today -and recipe from the region- will be a lot easier than conquering a continent and subduing the world's mightiest...

Melons. Spinach. Sheep tail fat. Spices. Bazaars. Enough tales to tantalise even the most incurious mind! Hello my curious archaeogastronomers! A new episode is here for your enjoyment! This time I have the great honour to have the fantastic Anna Ansari as my guest. We talk all about food, history and cultures of the cultures in Central Asia aka "Silk Roads" and her own personal story. I hope you'...

Hello! Today's recipe on a Saturday is Salt Cod Dolmades with tomatoey avgolemono (egg lemon) sauce: A Delicious Peloponnesian recipe for the winter times. In the interior of the Peloponnese, where fresh fish was rare dried fish such as cod became staple. Enjoy! Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcast https://www.patreon.com/c/thed...

Hello my curious archaeogastronomers! A brand new episode is out, and it's all about the long history of fermented dairy foodstuffs from the vast regions of Central Asia. Fermented dairy products from Central Asia have been to space! Resilient and nutritious, and good for the bronze age and the space age, are truly interstellar travelers of our civilization! We all know yoghurt and kefir but have...

Hello! New recipe of the week is out! This one is called "Fasolakia Yahni" and it's a classic of the "lathera" family of dishes, usually vegetarian. The name means "oily" aka cooked in lots of great Greek extra virgin olive oil! With music from Miltos Boumis. Enjoy! Love Thom Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcast https://www.patr...

Hello! Brand new episode is out and I'm excited about it! World fermentation day was on February 1st, just three days ago. And what better way to celebrate with two amazing inventions of humankind? Is miso the most astounding transformation in the world of fermentation? From ancient Chinese meat and fish based pastes to Buddihst monks taking the craft to Japan the story of Miso and Soy Sauce has a...

Hello! What happened in Paris in 1669 that ushered the fashion of Coffee in France? What's the popular myth of the introduction of coffee in Europe and the cafe culture that has to do with the siege of Vienna? And how an Ethiopian goat herd named Kaldi is credited with the discovery of coffee? All this and more, exploring the long history of coffee and it's myths from the Cloud forests of Ethiopia...

Hello! New recipe of the week for you! 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.

Hello my curious archaeogastronomers! New episode is out for your delight! An interview with food writer Cathy Erway about the foodways and dishes from the beautiful island of Taiwan! You can buy Cathy's book here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/17049/9780544303010 Recommendations for the week: The Library of Ancient Wisdom by Selena Wisnom https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/443027/the-library-of-ancient-...

Hello! Your recipe of the week on a Saturday is out! And what better dish than a Greek Sunday favourite? Izmir, Smyrni or Smyrna: One city, three names, a shared history of three thousand years! Being “born” in such a place, in the crossroads of trade, our recipe for “Soutzoukakia Smyrneika” or Izmir kofte encompasses spices valuable for trade and meat and ideas from East and West. And thus making...

Hello! Rhodes is a rich history island with a lush landscape and an illustrious past. After the fall of Acre in 1291 CE, the Knights Hospitaller last stronghold in the East Med for the next two centuries was the island of Rhodes. Rhodes is the biggest island of the Dodecanese complex, and place of trade in the eastern Mediterranean for more than three thousand years! What is 'Souma', and 'Melekoun...

Hello! Happy weekend. Here's our recipe of the week; A Christmas pork stew from the island of Lesvos! I cannot quite shake away the Christmas feeling...! Enjoy! 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...

Hello! New episode for all my hungry archaeogastronomers! In Act 2, Scene 2 of the Merry Wives of Windsor Frank Ford says: ‘I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife with herself.’ Why do certain nationalities have close associations with certain foods? And what d...

Hello! Your recipe of the week is out! Recommendations of the week: Sarcophagus found at Church of St. Nicholas could be the tomb of “Santa Claus”: https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/12/sarcophagus-found-at-church-of-st-nicholas-could-be-the-tomb-of-santa-claus/154084 Roman occupation of Britain damaged the population’s health: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2508181-roman-occupation-of-brita...

Hello! Happy Christmas! Here's your recipe of the week this time from the beautiful Dodecanese island of Kalymnos! Enjoy! With music from Miltos Boumis Love 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-...

Hello my curious archeaogastronomers! Who were the first beer makers? Why did they even made beer in the first place? Can we even find a Civilization to be the clear winner in this "race"? What's the word for beer in ancient Sumerian? What role the priests and kings plaid in this? Who even drunk beer in the ancient Mesopotamian world? All this and many more questions were buzzing through my mind....

Hello! Every Saturday in The Delicious Legacy podcast your freshest "stocking filler" recipe of the week is out! This time I’m travelling to the delightful island of Ikaria in the Western Aegean sea! With a simple one pot veg recipe! If you want to know more about Ikaria, read my Patreon post here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ikaria-island-of-115744979 Music by Milts Boumis Love, The Delicious L...

Hello! New episode is out now! Why England and by extension all of UK is so allotment "obsessed" ? What does it all mean? Firstly, what is an allotment? When did it all started? As someone who moved in UK many years ago, seeing this lovely spaces in cities filled me with a sense of serenity, and an air of quaint old school happiness lets say, they evoked something romantic and from long lost era....

Hello! This is another episode in Greek, my little parallel series of getting some episodes out for Greek audience This time I thought I'll release a part of my conversation with my grandmother- my yiayia- my father's mother. From the mountainous north west Greece, her childhood up in the villages, where bandits and others where making life hard in the 1920's. Only a few years earlier this part of...

Hello! Your recipe of the week is here! Every Saturday in The Delicious Legacy podcast 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://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello! Christmas is approaching! Time for some recipes to inspire you in your Christmas cooking! (If you do cook of course! Otherwise, psssss, pass it on to your spouse!)   It's also the time the ‘Kalikanzaroi’ (goblins that live underground all year according to Greek folklore) are coming up to Earth to annoy humans. How do you distract them? What foods do they like? So I've got a little tre...

Hello! On this classic episode from the archives of The Delicious Legacy I decided to include some ten minute of extra content from my interview with Farrell and I have remastered the audio as it was a bit dodgy the last time round. Hope it's more pleasant and easier to listen now! I'm very excited about this episode! Farrell Monaco is a culinary & experimental archaeologist, and bread-baking...

Hello! New episode is out and I couldn’t be more excited about it! I've interviewed cookbook author Emiko Davies about her latest book "The Japanese Pantry" which came out in October this year. Emiko shares stories of her travels off the beaten track to meet the makers and pay homage to ancient traditions that have been around for centuries. Ingredients, dishes and recipes that are lost in th...

Hello! This episode is in Greek and it's the translation of the episode I recorded a couple of months ago with the food writer Olia Hercules about Ukrainian Food and Culture! The original episode can be found here: https://shows.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy/episodes/ukrainian-food-culture-with-olia-hercules Γεια σας! Το σημερινό επεισόδιο είναι μια συνέντευξη με την Ουκρανη συγγραφέα και σεφ Ολι...