We love chillies don't we? Hot sauces, spice mixes, spicy margeritas, chilli competitions...! Why? How did the chilli pepper became so popular globally?
Hello!
Brand new episode is out for your archaeogastronomical delight!
What an honour to have as my guest on this episode today, the one and only food historian Andrew Dalby!
I first came across Andrew in a dark basement office, very late one night in a bar in Veria, my home town, probably past two o'clock in the morning, 24 years ago…of course it wasn’t Andrew in flesh and blood but rather his work, and his words in the form of The Classical Cookbook, ancient greco-roman recipes written by him and Sally Grainger! A book that I found translated into Greek and it opened a completely new world for me, and made me fall in love with cooking historical recipes and exploring the culinary past ever since.
Andrew Dalby has written extensively about food in ancient Greece. He is the author of several books like Dangerous Tastes the story of spices, cheese, food in the ancient world from a to z, tastes of byzantium, Geoponika a Byzantine textbook which we can call farm work manual and was written in Greek and Latin being translated to modern English by Andrew; also siren feasts a history of food and gastronomy in Greece, gifts of the gods A History of Food in Greece, amongst many other.
But today we are here to discuss his latest and brand new book, freshly released all about the history of chillies called “Chilli Peppers: The True History of a World Conquest” published by Equinox and out now. I can thank Janet Joyce and Sarah Lee from Equinox publishing who put me in touch with Andrew, a lovely opportunity for me to speak with the food history giant himself.
You can get the book here
https://equinoxonlinelibrary.com/book/59522/chilli-peppers
Love and chilli peppers,
The Delicious Legacy
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