The Delicious Legacy
A Greek Gourmand, travels through time...Imagine yourself dining with Socrates, Plato, or Pythagoras!
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Did Ancient Greek Women Have Parties? (opens the original)
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Hello my curious archaeogastronomers! New episode is out! Did women in the ancient Greek world had parties? Dinner gatherings? Symposia? Alone or with their men? And what did they do on their own? Especially in those famous festivals? So many questions to answer! Enjoy! Links for this episode: https://www.hellenic.org.au/post/the-thesmophoria-women-s-ritual-in-the-ancient-world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_Gynaecothoenas Hipparchia of Maroneia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchia_of_M
What's on the menu of Serve It Forth 2026? (opens the original)
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Hello! Here's the little teaser of what will the 2nd Serve it Forth Food History festival include on Saturday 17th of October 2026! Me and my colleagues Sam Bilton Neil Buttery and Alessandra Pino discuss some elements from our planned festive day! There’s a little taster of the other courses of my co-curators ( A Curious Appetite , Neil Buttery and Sam Bilton ) are serving up during the festival which features Eleanor Barnett , Paul Couchman , Sally Grainger , Sudi Pigott and and of course me a
A Traditional Jewish Greek Recipe from Thessaloniki (opens the original)
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Hello! Today's episode explores just a little the Jewish Greek community, culture and food through the centuries. OK recommendations of the week: Let’s start with the Cookbook of the Jews of Greece by Stavroulakis, Nicholas which you can find on the internet archive dot org and it has been released in 1986. Lots of useful history, cultural context and recipes with the Shepardic names and english translations too. Link in the show notes: https://archive.org/details/cookbookofjewsof0000nich/mode/2
To Season, To Cure, Το Heal: A Briny History (opens the original)
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In the year 1734 three miners were taken aback when they discovered a male body inside Hallstatt salt mine. The body was very well preserved, having been mummified by salt. Accounts of the time say that the dead body, completely embedded into the rock salt deposits, was discovered following a collapse in the Kilbwerk. His shoes and traces of his clothes had been preserved: 'One can even see a bit of cloth on his dress, and the remains of the shoes on his feet'. The mine workers assumed that it w
Naxos, Weeds, Cheese and Patience Gray (opens the original)
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Hello! Welcome back to another adventure my curious archaeogastronomers! Honey from a Weed, Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia the Cyclades and Apulia by Patience Gray is an iconic book about Mediterranean food, traditions centred around the simplest and most common dishes of everyday people. Patience Gray was an English cookery and travel writer of the mid-20th century. Her two most popular books were Plats Du Jour (1957) – written with Primrose Boyd, about French cooking – and Honey Fr
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