Hello!

New episode for your archaeogastronomical delights , is out now!

Today I have author, chef and food historian Jay Reiffel in this episode as my guest, an we muse about all this Baghdadical!

10th century Baghdad the capital of the Islamic world in a sense it was a sensuous place.

And it produced perhaps a cookbook, more than mere recipes something extremely modern in some senses, and something that didn't exist in the West (if we want to put labels on things) for another 400 years or so!

This cookbook, "The Annals of the Caliph's Kitchen" contained a treasure of information and it was more than 500 pages long!

What's Jay's favourite recipes, what did the Abbasids loved to cook and eat and what were the ingredients that we might not know today?

Anyway I hope you'll enjoy today’s musings!

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Hello!

On this exclusive episode for you, I'm discussing the music of the podcast, the themes written by my friend and musician Pavlos Kapralos. Over the past five years of the podcast I used a few of Pavlos's compositions, for my ancient Greek food themed episodes and for the Byzantium ones.

Here we talk about his approach in creating the songs, his inspiration and what do we know of ancient Greek music: how it sounded, what instruments the ancients had and how do we recreate it today!

Plus what is the Byzantine music? Both secular and church hymns, and how its the link between the ancient and modern folk music in the East.

I hope you'll enjoy this different episode today!

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Hello my curious & hungry archaeogastronomers!

What is "oinos tethalassomenos" ? Where does one find the best eels?

What was a highly regarded game meat?

Let's discover a few of the many unknown delicacies of the ancient Greek world. What was in vogue? What was considered tasty, healthy and accessible to eat for the average citizen of the wider Greek world, two and a half thousand years ago?

Ancient Greeks were quite the foodies.

They recognised local specialities, and local food excellence appears to be an ancient Greek innovation, balanced by the equally novel idea that food preferences, also, vary from place to place. Several lists of local fine produce are quoted by Athenaeus, in Deipnosophistai, from texts of the sixth to fourth centuries BC.

Moreover, importantly, they were also practical; the food was seasonal obviously, in the age before the huge global networks of fast transportation and just 2000 years shy of electrical refrigeration!

So wine that needed to be sold and transported should be preserved and should taste good. As well as other perishable goods and foods too. So many innovations and styles were discovered.

What unusual herbs, salads, pickles, fish and meat, were in vogue, beyond the standard ones of olive oil, olives, grapes, figs, sheep and goat? What were they and how these were consumed in ancient world?

Enjoy!

Thom & The Delicious Legacy

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