A Personal Culinary Journey to Ancient Gastronomy

This is 'The Delicious Legacy' Podcast and I'm Thom Ntinas!


The first episode here is a personal journey and an introduction to the world of ancient cooking. Specifically what caught my eye from the foods and ingredients of Ancient Greece and Rome from 2500 years ago, and why I started cooking it! What foods did our ancestors eat? How did it all begin? Why am I so hooked on ancient recipes and ingredients? Is the food delicious? Wholesome? Do you need to know? I think so! With guest and co-host here Stephen Cerone!

Stephen he is a great friend and great baker and pasta maker, and of course a curious soul to all gastronomic endeavours from across the globe! We've eaten together great sushi, amazing Turkish food and exceptional cheeses and cured meats from Italy and Spain and argued for hours who makes the best cured pork; Italy or Spain!? But Stephen's passion for great sourdough is what makes him special! The passion and detail that goes into creating his home baked sourdough is something out of this world! We have also experimented together making ancient breads and also ancient Roman 'loukanika' (aka sausages) with great success!


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Om Podcasten

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. If you love to time-travel through food and history why not join us at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.