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 'Melekounia'? And how do the Rhodians use cyclamen in their cooking?

Let's find out about here food here!

Enjoy!

Thom

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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!

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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 does this tell us about early modern English attitudes to foreigners? Was this something common across all strata of society?

One of the ways to explore these attitudes is to look at how foreigners are represented in plays particularly when it comes to food. I spoke to food historian and fellow podcaster Sam Bilton about this. Sam has recently released a cookbook called Much Ado About Cooking which looks at the food references in Shakespeare’s play.

On this episode then the above questions and a lot more regarding kitchen technology and implements of the time, measurements and terminology in the 16th Century, best recipes and dishes are answered. So join us onto another adventure through food and history!

Enjoy!

The Delicious Legacy

Recommendations of the week:

The UK Will Soon Be Home To The Largest Oyster Reef In Europe – As Four Million Oysters Are Being Dropped Into The North Sea As Part Of A Restoration Project To Help Restore Marine Ecosystems And Clean Water:

https://secretldn.com/uk-home-to-largest-oyster-reef-in-europe-norfolk-coast-restoration-project/#google_vignette

The importance of being malted: making malt and malt sugars from cereals in the Palaeolithic. 

https://merryn.dineley.com/2025/12/the-importance-of-being-malted-making.html?m=1

The Meaning of Borsch:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ne63nGnDvTYgT2OFiayzf?si=c0b1449fe848458b

Love

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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-britain-damaged-the-populations-health/

On contrarian history:

https://going-medieval.com/2025/11/25/on-contrarian-history/

Enjoy!

Much Love and Happy New Year to all!

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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

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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.

On today's episode I have as a guest the author of the book In The Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia, Tate Paulette.

Tate’s book has recently won two awards:

Felicia A. Holton Book Award, Archaeological Institute of America

This award is given annually to a writer or writers who, through a major work of non-fiction, represents the importance and excitement of archaeology to the general public. The work should have broad public appeal and be written for an adult lay audience in a clear and engaging style. It should convey the excitement of archaeological discovery accurately and responsibly. It should be well-researched and provide new insight for the general public. 

https://www.archaeological.org/2026-aia-awards-spotlight-felicia-a-holton-book-award/

And he also won the Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award, American Society of Overseas Research:

This award is presented to the author/editor of a book published in the last two years that offers a new synthesis of archaeological or textual evidence from the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean intended to reach an audience of scholars as well as students and the broader public.

https://www.asor.org/about-asor/honors-awards/previous-award-recipients/

Alright! Time for my delightful and interesting I hope recommendations for this week are the following:

Disco scallops:

Here’s a link:

https://www.discoscallops.co.uk/

A Spirit Never to Betray” before tequila and mescal there was another: David Lauer investigates the fate of a spiky ancient desert plant called sotol, and its alliance with generations of artisans who distil a fiery spirit from its heart.

https://dark-mountain.net/a-spirit-never-to-betray/

And finally the website https://www.ukrainer.net

A community and organisation that has been researching Ukraine and the Ukrainian context since 2016, telling stories to Ukrainian audiences and broadcasting them to the world in dozens of languages.

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Enjoy!

Photo credits : Book Tate Paulette, Cuneiform Tablets Justin Kase Conder, Portrait Kathryn Grossman

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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,

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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. Of course over the years I learned a lot about why these exist; what purpose and role fulfil in the society and the soul of the nation.

Who has one, who are they owned and maintained by, and crucially why people still insist having? What is the source of their popularity?

Importantly, can one person/family feed themselves with produce from an allotment? Is there any point on doing so?

Anyway I hope you'll enjoy my little potted allotment history here alongside with the interview with author and gardener Kathy Slack and nature conservationist, environmentalist and wildlife presenter Dr Sean McCormack!

Kathy's Substack and Insta:

https://kathyslack.substack.com/

https://www.instagram.com/gluts_gluttony/

Sean's media:

https://drseanmccormack.com/

https://www.instagram.com/thatvetsean/

Get his lovely children's book about rewilding

https://www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/beaver-believerspos=1&sid=f9e160ecd&_ss=r

Links about allotments and London's city farms and gardens:

Calthorpe Community Garden:

https://www.calthorpecommunitygarden.org.uk/about-us

Sitopia Farm

https://sitopiafarm.com/pages/about-our-farm

Community veg boxes:

https://growingcommunities.org/

Love,

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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 Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire.

A fascinating story of a troubled period for Greece, her story takes us from the 1920's to the end of WW2.

I recorded this about 17 years ago! It was 2009.

Enjoy

Thom

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Hello!

Your recipe of the week is here!

Every Saturday in The Delicious Legacy podcast

Enjoy!

Thom

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