Merry Christmas to all!Happy holidays and a delicious New Year! So I have a festive episode for you! Out now, and the last one for the year!Christmas in the Emperor's Palace in Byzantine Constantinople...How did the Emperor entertained his guests in Christmas time? What food was advised to be eaten for the celebrations?Also, what is some traditional modern Greek dishes for Christmas from my home town of Veria?I have some exclusive and delicious recipes for your ears and only! Enjoy! The following talented human beings wrote the music for this episode: Music by Argyris Ottas, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/argymusic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/argymusic</a> Pavlos Kapralos<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzgAonk4-uVhXXjKSF-Nz1A" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzgAonk4-uVhXXjKSF-Nz1A</a> and Miltos Boumis.<a href="https://boumisfilms.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://boumisfilms.com/</a> 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.

Merry Christmas to all! Happy holidays and a delicious New Year! So I have a festive episode for you! Out now, and the last one for the year! Christmas in the Emperor's Palace in Byzantine Constantinople... How did the Emperor entertained his guests in Christmas time? What food was advised to be eaten for the celebrations? Also, what is some traditional modern Greek dishes for Christmas from my home town of Veria? I have some exclusive and delicious recipes for your ears and only! Enjoy! The following talented human beings wrote the music for this episode: Music by Argyris Ottas, https://soundcloud.com/argymusic Pavlos Kapralos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzgAonk4-uVhXXjKSF-Nz1A and Miltos Boumis. https://boumisfilms.com/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Merry Christmas to all!Happy holidays and a delicious New Year! So I have a festive episode for you! Out now, and the last one for the year!Christmas in the Emperor's Palace in Byzantine Constantinople...How did the Emperor entertained his guests in Christmas time? What food was advised to be eaten for the celebrations?Also, what is some traditional modern Greek dishes for Christmas from my home town of Veria?I have some exclusive and delicious recipes for your ears and only! Enjoy! The following talented human beings wrote the music for this episode: Music by Argyris Ottas, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/argymusic" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://soundcloud.com/argymusic</a> Pavlos Kapralos<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzgAonk4-uVhXXjKSF-Nz1A" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzgAonk4-uVhXXjKSF-Nz1A</a> and Miltos Boumis.<a href="https://boumisfilms.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://boumisfilms.com/</a> 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.

Byzantine Christmas Foods and Traditional Greek Christmas Recipes

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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