{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/64164d3eb789ea001151205a?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Celebrity Chefs of Ancient Greece and Fragments of Ancient Recipes","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5e0dcf0c36fdf5a65ebe67ad/1679183204175-0b87b8297a10b06c45709a0de61abfa3.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The ancient Greek chef, was the first of the genre we know today as \"Celebrity Chef\".</p><p>Competitive, highly sought after, creative, innovator...Feuds and fights and fish, gossip and satire! They had it all!</p><p>Who were they? What did their contemporaries thought of them? What did survive of their fame, of their recipes and their books?</p><p><br></p><p>Take for example, the only surviving recipe by Europe's oldest cookbook author, Mithaecus, from Sicily, is an instruction for dealing with this fish. 'Gut, discard the head, rinse,. slice; add cheese and oil. Cepola rubescens, a long, ribbon-like fish. Now not much sought after, this was a delicacy to classical Greeks...</p><p>The recipes the fragments of which I'm sharing with you today will delight you, excite you, mystify you...and hopefully will inspire you too!</p><p><br></p><p>Find out more, on today's episode....</p><p><br></p><p>Enjoy!</p><p>Thom &amp; The Delicious Legacy</p>","author_name":"The Delicious Legacy"}