Byzantine Christmas Foods and Traditional Greek Christmas Recipes

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/argymusicPavlos Kapraloshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzgAonk4-uVhXXjKSF-Nz1Aand Miltos Boumis.https://boumisfilms.com/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.

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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.