Sam Bilton

Next month on the 17th of October, it will be the Serve It Forth Food History Festival 2026.

It's the online food history festival that I curate along with me colleagues, Sam Bilton, Thomas Dinas, and Alessandra Pino.

This is a little extra bonus mini episode that we have recorded together to help give you a little bit of a taste of what is to come in this year's Serve It Forth.

Tickets, by the way, are available via Eventbrite for 12 pounds plus booking fee.

And not only.

So yeah, with my food historian friends Sam Bilton, Alessandra Pino, Neil Battery, Eleanor Barnett and Sally Granger as well, Alexandra Seals and many others, we have this amazing day of talks and events happening.

So yeah, do join us online.

The festival is happening online only.

It's going to be all day.

And I'm organizing this together with my friends and fellow food historians, Sam Bilton, Neil Battery and Alessandra Pino.

And our guest speaker... will be Eleanor Bannert another food historian and my guest for my part of the festival will be Alexandra Sills where we're going to talk about the food and the diet of gladiators in the ancient Roman and Greek world and food and diet of Olympians Olympic athletes and find differences and similarities and what was the myth and reality Remember, if you liked this episode, to share it with a few friends.

And if you want to help me keep doing this podcast, you can subscribe to my Patreon page, which you can become a patron from $3 a month, and where you get exclusive recipes, videos, and writings about ancient food, but also you get the podcasts ad-free and earlier than normally released.

It's going to be all day.

And I'm organizing this together with my friends and fellow food historians, Sam Bilton, Neil Battery and Alessandra Pino.

And our guest speaker... will be Eleanor Bannert, another food historian.

And my guest for my part of the festival will be Alexandra Sills, where we're going to talk about the food and the diet of gladiators in the ancient Roman and Greek world and food and diet of Olympians, Olympic athletes, and find differences and similarities and what was the myth and reality.