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Hello!Brand new episode for your pleasure!Amy Palmer and Deborah Albon, are my guests on today's episode and we are discussing their new book "First Helpings: A History of Children and Food".How childhood and food have shaped each other through history – and still do:What was common "wisdom" to feed and nourish infants and children in past societies in Britain but in other European countries too? How did we progress to reach today's concepts and morals about childhood? And can we eliminate childhood hunger once and for all?Join me for this and many more fascinating subjects on today's discussion!Recommendations for the week:Palestinian Wines in UKhttps://shop.nabeeth.co.uk/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=24415788679Chronicle - Tomb of the Lost King:https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Farchive%2Fchronicle--tomb-of-the-lost-king%2Fzbbf7nbA is For Apple Podcast: C is for Castle episode:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-is-for-apple-an-encyclopaedia-of-food-drink/id1743840806?i=1000799188890Much love,Thom & The Delicious Legacy

Hello!Brand new episode for your archaeogastronomical delight!Out there lies the strange island with the verticalstone walls. How lovely it is here. Down therebeneath one’s feet, the great, great sea, seeminglyboundless with high mountain islands, swimming ingrey mist, and up here a tiny little world unto itself.Jørgen Falk Rønne, 1921 This tiny wild speck of land in the north Atlantic Ocean...Home to a family for 8 generations. Growing food in the harshest of natural environments. Perhaps one of the most challenging places to be a farmer. What humans started doing ten thousand years ago... How and why this family are still there? And what does that tells us about our food system today?Enjoy the fascinating conversation I had with journalist and author Tim Ecott about his lovely new book Eva and the Island.Recommendations for the weekOvernight, everything was dead’: the Teesside fisherman turned activist dubbed the Mr Bates of the seas:https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/23/overnight-everything-was-dead-the-teeside-fisherman-turned-activist-dubbed-the-mr-bates-of-the-seasFood, identity and how climate is already changing Europe’s sense of itselfhttps://yiannisbaboulias.substack.com/p/food-identity-and-how-climate-is?r=1dfo2&shareImageVariant=cardBuy the book here:https://www.waterstones.com/book/eva-and-the-island/tim-ecott/9781837733767Much loveThom

Hello!Brand new episode for you my curious archaeogastronomers!On this episode we explore the traditional foods of Egypt. My recent interview with Suzanne Zeidy and Rawah Badrawi is about their journey across Egypt tasting and discovering the ancient and traditional tastes of the various Egyptian cuisines!From the Mediterranean zone of Alexandria to the Monastic mountains of Sinai, across the Nile and down to the Nubian tribes in the southern borders with Sudan! A culinary exploration of Egypt that haven't happened in such scale and ambition before!Get the lovely book by Rawah and Suzanne here:https://www.waterstones.com/book/egypt/rawah-badrawi/suzanne-zeidy/9781848994478?sv1=affiliate&sv_campaign_id=626889&awc=3787_1792617498_697af4441e5d1aae2ec6d8f3183ac991&utm_source=626889&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=adstrongEnjoy!Love and bottargaThom & The Delicious Legacy

Hello!A brand new archaeogastronomical adventure beckons! Welcome back my curious archaeogastronomers!What is perry? How is it made? Where do we hear about it firstly? And crucially, why has been almost lost, and now rediscovered, what does the future hold?Listen and enjoy our latest episode here! With perry and cider maker Barry Masterson!Links to Barry's work:Perry: A Drinker's Guide by Adam Wells - published by CAMRA Books - https://shop1.camra.org.uk/product/perry-a-drinkers-guide/and all good book stores.On Bluesky, spamming about pears and border collie pics: https://bsky.app/profile/barmas.bsky.socialOn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kertelreiter_cider/Cider Review: https://cider-review.com/CR on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/cider_review/Love and pears,Thom & The Delicious Legacy

Morcilla in Spain, Stornoway Black Pudding in Scotland, Mustamakkara in Finland, Sângerete in Romania...This ancient tradition of using the blood as an ingredient in food and dishes persists in our modern world, despite the rules, regulations and war against artisanal produce from the modern food industry...Hello!I'm excited to give you the latest episode of The Delicious Legacy!And what an epic adventure it is!I'm talking to Kate Ryan author of "Blood, Guts, and Black Pudding; Ireland’s Dying Art of Blood As Food" a new, comprehensive and the first of it's kind! Documenting the Irish tradition and food history, of consuming blood as nutritious, sustainable food source!I tell you I was surprised to know many of the facts in the book. I thought live bleeding was a technique that only existed in nomadic cultures of Africa. But apparently it was alive and kicking in Ireland too, till very, very recently!Join me and Kate and find out all about blood, black pudding, the different variations of pudding (what is dirsheen?) and how this ancient tradition, started dying slowly, and where are we now!You can get Kate's book and find out more here:https://ninebeanrowsbooks.com/en-gb/products/blood-guts-and-black-puddingLove and guts and blood and glory!Thom

Hello my curious archaeogastronomers!New episode is out!Did women in the ancient Greek world had parties? Dinner gatherings? Symposia? Alone or with their men? And what did they do on their own? Especially in those famous festivals?So many questions to answer! Enjoy!Links for this episode:https://www.hellenic.org.au/post/the-thesmophoria-women-s-ritual-in-the-ancient-worldhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_GynaecothoenasHipparchia of Maroneia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchia_of_Maroneiahttps://thestoicmom.substack.com/p/a-role-model-for-saying-no-and-doinghttps://www.worldhistory.org/Hipparchia_of_Maroneia/Seclusion, Separation, and the Status of Women in Classical AthensDavid Cohen https://www.jstor.org/stable/643180This episode was also heavily influenced and drew info from these two papers:WOMEN'S COMMENSALITY IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD By JOAN BURTON 1998DINING LIKE DIVINITIES: EVIDENCE FOR RITUAL AND MARITAL DINING BY WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE Laurie Ann Kilker 2008Recommendations for the week:Gareth Eoin Storey's substack: https://garethstorey.substack.com/p/we-work-in-marketingHow apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruithttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-apple-detectives-solved-the-mystery-of-an-ancient-tree-and-rewrote-the-history-of-fruit/UN report: Global hunger levels ease for third consecutive year as regional disparities persisthttps://www.who.int/news/item/21-07-2026-un-report--global-hunger-levels-ease-for-third-consecutive-year-as-regional-disparities-persistDarren Turpin from orchard notes, has links library, to highlight the work of fellow fruit-focused writers, organisations, food and drink producers, and anything else of interest he might find out there on t’Internet. Anyway go here:https://orchardnotes.com/about-notes-from-the-orchard/Love and lentil soupThom & The Delicious Legacy