The British Museum Podcast

The Museum podcast #16: Ice cream, olive oil and the Phrygian Sibyl

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1:05:02 | Jul 1st, 2020

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This month we're talking food history and Renaissance art. First up, Hugo talks to Alexandra Fletcher about the unlikely (to some!) combination of archaeology and ice cream. Inspired by this, and as t...Show More



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epekilis recommended:Dec 4th, 2020

Chewy but delicious Turkish ice cream that you can pull like bubble gum, hang from a hook and cut with a chain saw? Pop-up shop featuring 18th century Georgian ice cream? Lots of ice cream fun here.

I thought this episode was:

😊 Delightful
😲 Fascinating
💬 A great conversation
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epekilisDec 5th, 2020

There are 4 separate stories in this episode. Although I was first attracted to the first two on ice cream, they are all interesting. The third one on archeological investigations into olive oil in ancient Turkey and has an LOL description of why somebody became an archaeologist: “So I could driv...Show More

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rmmiller364Dec 5th, 2020

@epekilis I do find Raphael really interesting, but hard to teach. I’ll have to give this a listen!

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