Hello!How did the ancient Greeks and Romans ate turnip? And what was the position of this vegetable at the dinner table? How important was it?And what the heck is a skirret, how do you cook it and why did we stop cultivating it on a large scale? All this and more on this weeks episode! This week's recommendations are A is For Apple Podcast:<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s2e2-b-is-for-buttery-bistro-bournville/id1743840806?i=1000691341726" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s2e2-b-is-for-buttery-bistro-bournville/id1743840806?i=1000691341726</a> Kentwell medieval gardens<a href="https://www.kentwell.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.kentwell.co.uk/</a> Charlie Taverner Street Food<a href="https://charlietaverner.com/street-food/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://charlietaverner.com/street-food/</a> Chiara Vigo: The last woman who makes sea silk:<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33691781" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33691781</a> Music on this episode by Pavlos Kapralos and Miltos Boumis Enjoy!Much love,Thom Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy">http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy</a>.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Hello! How did the ancient Greeks and Romans ate turnip? And what was the position of this vegetable at the dinner table? How important was it? And what the heck is a skirret, how do you cook it and why did we stop cultivating it on a large scale? All this and more on this weeks episode! This week's recommendations are A is For Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s2e2-b-is-for-buttery-bistro-bournville/id1743840806?i=1000691341726 Kentwell medieval gardens https://www.kentwell.co.uk/ Charlie Taverner Street Food https://charlietaverner.com/street-food/ Chiara Vigo: The last woman who makes sea silk: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33691781 Music on this episode by Pavlos Kapralos and Miltos Boumis Enjoy! Much love, Thom Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello!How did the ancient Greeks and Romans ate turnip? And what was the position of this vegetable at the dinner table? How important was it?And what the heck is a skirret, how do you cook it and why did we stop cultivating it on a large scale? All this and more on this weeks episode! This week's recommendations are A is For Apple Podcast:<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s2e2-b-is-for-buttery-bistro-bournville/id1743840806?i=1000691341726" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s2e2-b-is-for-buttery-bistro-bournville/id1743840806?i=1000691341726</a> Kentwell medieval gardens<a href="https://www.kentwell.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.kentwell.co.uk/</a> Charlie Taverner Street Food<a href="https://charlietaverner.com/street-food/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://charlietaverner.com/street-food/</a> Chiara Vigo: The last woman who makes sea silk:<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33691781" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33691781</a> Music on this episode by Pavlos Kapralos and Miltos Boumis Enjoy!Much love,Thom Support this show <a href="http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy</a>. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

A Brief History of Turnip (And other Medieval Root Vegetables)

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 "barbaric" traditions of beer and milk, all intertwined...Stay tuned and find out more here, in 'The Delicious Legacy' Podcast! Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy">http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy</a>.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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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 "barbaric" traditions of beer and milk, all intertwined... Stay tuned and find out more here, in 'The Delicious Legacy' Podcast! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 "barbaric" traditions of beer and milk, all intertwined...Stay tuned and find out more here, in 'The Delicious Legacy' Podcast! Support this show <a href="http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy</a>. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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