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...religions, new foods and new ways of cooking. Food historian Sally Grainger and top gourmet cook Antonio Carluccio visit the Open Minds kitchen to tempt us with some tasty Roman treats. Whilst cooking Libum and Stuffed Kidneys, Sally demonstrates two Roman cooking tools. The Mortaria is much like a shallower version of a modern mortar, baked with grit in the base to make...

...religion as the opium of the people Popular Culture – the spectre of our imagination The mass appeal of ghouls, ghosts and uncanny creatures, may appear to be something of a present preoccupation. However, the 'popular culture' of the undead – various bloodless entities and supernatural beings, hovering between heaven and hell – has ebbed and flowed throughout...

...religion were odd too. He didn’t seem to set much store by the traditional stories about the Olympian gods. Most strangely of all, he claimed to have a guiding spirit or ‘daimonion’, who would warn him when he was about to do something wrong. Even compared to other intellectual figures of the time, Socrates was unusual. Other thinkers were busy speculating about the...