Food in the Greco-Roman World
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
When we think of the modern Mediterranean, delicious and vibrant food is one of the first things that come to mind. But how much has the regional food changed over the last two millennia? In this episode Tristan is joined by host of 'The Delicious Legacy' Thomas Ntinas to discuss just how much the food has changed and helps by providing Tristan with some mouth-watering home made recreations of just what they would have eaten. The importance of fresh produce, who would've eaten an extravagant meal just like the one Tristan is served, and the importance of honey and wine, Thom takes us on a flavoursome journey through history.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the ancient's on history hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in |
| 0:15.9 | today's podcast where we're talking all about food in ancient Greece and Rome |
| 0:20.0 | finally we're talking about the all-important parts of our lives of human lives |
| 0:25.8 | through history. Food and it's about time we talked about food in ancient |
| 0:29.7 | Greece and Rome in particular today we're going to be shall we say focusing in on |
| 0:33.3 | some recreated dishes now what do I mean by that well I'll explain because our |
| 0:38.1 | guest today is a friend of history hit is someone he also works at history |
| 0:42.9 | hit this guest is Tom Tom Dinas Tom now I love this about Tom Tom is absolutely |
| 0:51.6 | fascinated really interested in ancient food but he doesn't just talk the |
| 0:56.9 | talk he walks the walk to because Tom recreates dishes from ancient history |
| 1:03.0 | he's got his own podcast the delicious legacy podcast he's got his own YouTube |
| 1:07.3 | channel where he releases really cool videos of him recreating ancient dishes |
| 1:12.1 | and having a let's say an ancient dinner party in the modern world and so we have |
| 1:19.3 | Tom right on our doorstep we have Tom at history hit so we at the ancient |
| 1:23.2 | team we just like okay Tom we got to get you on the podcast we'd love to come |
| 1:26.2 | over to your house we'd love for you to recreate some ancient dishes for us |
| 1:31.2 | for a very special podcast all about food and ancient Greece and Rome and Tom |
| 1:35.6 | he was absolutely delighted in fact I can't deny he came up with the idea and |
| 1:40.2 | I'm so glad to be pants on it Elena Annie and myself Annie and Elena they're |
| 1:44.8 | key parts of the ancient steam we headed over to Tom's we tried a variety of |
| 1:49.4 | dishes that Tom created early cooked up for us that have their origins in the |
| 1:54.3 | ancient Mediterranean world and here is the podcast that we recorded at the |
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