The Delicious Legacy

Hello!First of all, my thoughts go to all wildfire victims, the world over. It seems that Europe and North America are burning all summer with no end in sight. It is heartbreaking to watch it on the news in real time. The deadly wildfires wept through Hawaii recently, and even though I had this episode researched and recorded for a few months, I kept thinking about the release last week, since the catastrophic wildfires in Maui swept through a whole town. I was in two mind releasing it but in the end the rich, beautiful gastronomic history and myths of these islands needed to be told and appreciated by as many people as possible. Hawaiian Pineapple: Sliced, Crushed or Grated. “Picked ripe, canned right”The kindly sun of the tropics, tempered by the trade winds of the pacific; the gentle rain that brings bloom and fruit to almost every inch of soil in Hawaii. The dew of morning and the mellow evening light- all these you will find in a can of Hawaiian pineapple.Always ask for Hawaiian Pineapple - no matter what brand so long as it comes from Hawaii. Sold everywhere. Sliced, grated or crushed. - Saturday Evening Post, May 3, 1913.What are the images you firstly get when you hear Hawaii? Pineapples? Well forget them! Pineapples came from Brazil. So why is Hawaii so much in our imagination wedded with pineapples and tiki?In this episode we'll get to grips with the colonial recent past and how still resonates in the islands, but most importantly, we'll dive into the ancient Polynesian culture.What is taro, breadfruit and the famed "ahupua'a"? Join me to explore the ancient myths of creation of Hawaii and her foods!The Delicious LegacySupport the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcasthttps://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacySupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Flint Dibble is an archaeologist whose research focuses on foodways of ancient Greece.Animal bones: Once discarded by archaeologists as more or less useless, in recent years they have become an essential part of modern research. Current scientific analysis can shed a lot of light on many aspects of every day ancient life. Simply, by studying what bones our ancestors left behind, i.e. what was consumed, how, and when. With isotope analysis of human and animal remains we can also find out their diet and how this diet varied from season to season! All incredibly detailed and exciting stuff which we have only scratched the surface of!On this Part 2 of our discussion Flint dives deeper into the ancient Athenian world. What did they eat? How did they butcher their animals, what was the difference between sacrificial feasts and home cooking? How's the urban eating habits and technology change from the 1st millenium BCE going towards the classical period and Athens's hygemony in the years of the Delian League?Flint's current project, ZOOCRETE: The Zooarchaeology of Historical Crete: A Multiscalar Approach to Animals in Ancient Greece, combines archaeological, textual, and biomolecular evidence for the human management and consumption of animals. From animals herded in the landscape to large-scale sacrificial feasts, animals were a central component to the development and resilience of citizen-states during the first millennium BCE.Enjoy, share and as ever let me know your thoughts!Much love,Thom & The Delicious LegacyMusic by Pavlos Kapralos.Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcasthttps://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacySupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Animal bones: Once discarded by archaeologists as more or less useless, in recent years they have become an essential part of modern research. Current scientific analysis can shed a lot of light on many aspects of daily ancient life. Simply, by studying what bones our ancestors left behind, i.e. what was consumed, how, and when and then discarded. With isotope analysis of human and animal remains, we can also find out their diet and how this diet varied from season to season! All incredibly detailed and exciting stuff which we have only scratched the surface of!Dr Flint Dibble is an archaeologist whose research focuses on foodways of ancient Greece.On today's episode, Flint takes us on an exploration of ancient Greece, and makes a case for the importance of zooarchaeology in studying the foods and what animals were consumed in the past. Crucially, how the literary evidence from surviving ancient texts gives us one picture of food in ancient Greece, and how this isn't the whole complete one. While we discover more, a more highly complex portrayal of the diet of the every day person emerges for men, women, slaves and children. Importantly, we discuss, why is our conception of past peoples diet wrong and how?Flint's current project, ZOOCRETE: The Zooarchaeology of Historical Crete: A Multiscalar Approach to Animals in Ancient Greece, combines archaeological, textual, and biomolecular evidence for the human management and consumption of animals. From animals herded in the landscape to large-scale sacrificial feasts, animals were a central component to the development and resilience of citizen-states during the first millennium BCE.Enjoy, share and as ever let me know your thoughts!Much love,Thom & The Delicious LegacyMusic by Pavlos Kapralos.Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcasthttps://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacySupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Archestratus of Gela or Syracuse, the Sicilian who circumnavigated the world (ie the Med) to satisfy his hunger..."Was he a poet, a gourmand, a philosopher, a traveller? In the final part of our trilogy we explore the last of the Athenaeus quotes in Deipnosophistai - aka Philosophers at Dinner- the only literally source we have surviving quotes from the legendary poem of Archestratus,"Hydipatheia" or The Life of Luxury where as an ancient version of Anthony Bourdain goes around the Greek world finding where the best fish, the best wine, the best bread comes from, how to eat it, and, crucially how not to ruin said ingredient.Plus a recipe or two for parrotfish.Enjoy!Music by Miltos Boumis and Pavlos Kapralos.This episode comes with the welcome support of Maltby and Greek, UK's No1 Greek Delicatessen!The Delicious LegacySupport the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcasthttps://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacySupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Archestratus who sailed round the inhabited world for the sake of his belly says: [...]""Archestratus the Daedalus of tasty dishes in his Gastrology (for such is its title according to Lycophron in his books on comedy...."Hello! I'm happy to say that part2 of The Life of Luxury is here!I've started the episode with Archestratus doing imaginary trip in the Black & Aegean seas, 2330 years ago. This was part of my first episode about Archestratus back in Season 1 Episode 11.I hope you'll enjoy, and please let me know your thoughts!Music by Pavlos KapralosSupport the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcasthttps://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacySupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello! New episode is out!Archestratus was the man who supposedly we own the word 'gastronomy' to!What else can I say other than enjoy all that we know of, from my favourite ancient foodie hero!Archestratus of Gela! Let's find out what has he left for us, mere whispering echoes from 23 centuries ago!Any sound advice I wonder?Music by Pavlos KapralosThis episode was brought to you with the welcome support of Maltby and Greek UK's No1 Greek Delicatessen!https://www.maltbyandgreek.com/Enjoy!The Delicious LegacySupport the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcasthttps://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacySupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alexis SoyerMarie-Antoine CarêmeAuguste EscoffierFamous Chefs. Culinary Inventors.Who were they?How did they become famous and celebrated, in a pre-internet world, where news travelled slower and printing press was still relatively expensive?What were their origins, their motives and their legacy that still lives with us today?Enjoy!The Delicious LegacyThis episode is brought to you with the welcome support of Maltby and Greek. UK's No1 Greek delicatessen.If you want to shop and get a 15% discount click the link below and enter the code "delicious" at the checkout.https://www.maltbyandgreek.com/Music by Pavlos Kapralos and Motion Array.Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcasthttps://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacySupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire were highly urbanized societies.In order to function, the hungry citizens must be fed at all times. So what did the Roman Citizen eat every day? How did they procure their foods in their busy cities?How did the food of the slaves, the workers, the craftsmen and the senators differ? What was popular and cheaply available for the masses?What was for dinner? And do we have any tasty recipes from 2000 years ago?All this and more, answered in the latest archeogastronomical adventure!Enjoy!The Delicious Legacy podcastThis episode is brought to you with the welcome support of Maltby and Greek. UK's No1 Greek delicatessen. If you want to shop and get a 15% discount click the link below and enter the code "delicious" at the checkout.https://www.maltbyandgreek.com/Music by Pavlos Kapralos and Motion Array.Support the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcasthttps://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacySupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lo, it is nearly 350 years that we and our fathers have inhabited this most lovely land, and never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race, nor was it thought that such an inroad from the sea could be made. Behold, the church of St. Cuthbert spattered with the blood of the priests of God, despoiled of all its ornaments; a place more venerable than all in Britain is given as a prey to pagan peoplesAlcuin, a senior adviser to Charlemagne – the most powerful man in Europe – was writing to the king of Northumbria to express his shock and horror at the attack“...the woeful inroads of heathen men destroyed God’s church in Lindisfarne island by fierce robbery and slaughter’. Writing in the next century, the chronicler Symeon of Durham wrote: ‘They miserably ravaged and pillaged everything. They trod the holy things under their polluted feet, they dug down the altars, and plundered all the treasures of the church. Some of the brethren they slew, some they carried off with them in chains, the greater number they stripped naked, insulted, and cast out of doors, and some they drowned in the sea.”Well pillaging and destroying it's a tough work that makes men hungry!OK, besides the joking, who were the Vikings and what was their food like? Let's do some popular myth busting plus lets check some traditional Norse food of the time.Whey Pickles, Lutefisk, Skyr dairy, hares and rabbits, stews, nuts and berries, game meat, ale and mead.For ad free version of the episodes with extra content why don't you join me on Patreon?https://www.patreon.com/thedeliciouslegacyEnjoy!Thom and The Delicious Legacy Music by Motion ArraySupport the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcasthttps://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacySupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is your favourite sandwich? How do you make it?Many myths and delicious recipes for a sandwich exist through the ages!Who was the first who made a sandwich? Why?And what does a small town in the Kent coast has to do with naming this culinary concoction across the globe?And are we addicted to plasticky, fridge-cold supermarket sandwiches?This Episode was brought to you with the welcome suport of Maltby and Greek UK's No1 Greek Delicatessen. Get your hands in some delicious Greek food here:https://www.maltbyandgreek.com/Music by Cloudcub https://cloudcub.bandcamp.com/musicand Pavlos Kapraloshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzgAonk4-uVhXXjKSF-Nz1AEnjoy!Thom & The Delicious LegacySupport the podcast on Ko-Fi and Patreon for ad-free episodes! https://ko-fi.com/thedeliciouslegacypodcasthttps://www.patreon.com/c/thedeliciouslegacySupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.