Bake Across Europe

Nights drawing in. It gets colder and wetter outside.We tend to stay in more. Cosy. Get to cook more warm foods. The autumn and winter seasons have many festivities and celebrations. These, need something special to mark the occasion. A cake, a dessert...But even a bread is something I'd consider baking now...In the summer? no way I would have that oven on! ahahaha!And what is a spit roast cake?!!?Let's explore some traditional, unique and quirky desserts from the corners of Europe together with Kristin, a curious baker, a baker who wants to eat her way across traditional European desserts, and between you and me, who can blame her?Kristins channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/@BakeAcrossEuropeEnjoy!Thom & The Delicious LegacySupport 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.

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Imagine yourself dining with Socrates, Plato, or Pythagoras... maybe even Cicero and Julius Caesar...being a soldier marching with Alexander's the Great army in the vast Persian empire 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? Why am I so hooked on ancient recipes and ingredients? Is the food delicious? Wholesome? Do you need to know? I think so! Recipes, 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 and imagine how it was to eat like a Greek Philosopher in a symposium in Athens, as a Roman Emperor or as a rich merchant in the last night in Pompeii......Lavish dinners, exotic ingredients, barbaric elements, all intertwined...Stay tuned and find out more here, in 'The Delicious Legacy' Podcast!Find all out, right here!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.