Netherton Foundry and the historians: Serve it Forth a brand new food history festival
Save the date – Serve it Forth a brand new food history festival will be taking place, on-line, on 18th October.
Stop and think for a moment about the food of your childhood. Whilst much will depend on your age and, to some extent, your background, you will still be able to see that food and food culture evolves just as much as clothes fashion, furniture design or transport solutions.
Our forebears would have had no more idea of lab raised meat than of space travel and we have come a long way from roasting meat over open fires……….or have we? Food history reveals far more to us than reminisces of tea at grandma’s house, school dinners and packets of Spangles (look them up, kids!). Advances in technology, medicine and agriculture sit alongside cultural changes, the development of communication and travel, socio-economic shifts and political upheavals, all of which have an impact on what and how we cook and consume.
Food historian and author, Dr Neil Buttery is as entertaining as he is erudite and has teamed up with fellow food historians Sam Bilton, Thomas Ntinas and Alessandra Pino to bring you a food history festival. And we are delighted to be sponsoring the event.
Sam Bilton, Alessandra Pino, Neil Buttery, Thomas Ntinas
It all kicks off with a conversation between Dr Buttery and special guest, Tom Parker Bowles, talking about Tom’s love of traditional and classic British cooking and how we can keep it alive and relevant today. We are looking forward to their peek at the food cooked and enjoyed by British Monarchs, from Queen Victoria to Charles III.
Tom Parker Bowles
Throughout the day Thomas Ntinas will be presenting A Life of Luxury: The famous chefs of the Ancient Greek world. Dr Alessandra Pino The River Remembers: A Journey Through London’s Lost Larder. Sam Bilton’s section is entitled Gourmand or Glutton? Feeding Falstaff.
The podcaster ‘chefs’ will be cooking up four delectable courses for you to virtually savour.
And if that’s still not enough to whet your appetite, there will also short interviews in between sessions.
And, drum roll please, one of those interviews is with Netherton Foundry’s very own Neil and Sue, nattering about our traditional cookware and our connections with the industrial history of Shropshire.
This is an all day event running from 10:30am to 4:30pm, but all ticket holders will be sent links to recordings of each event, in case you can’t attend all in one sitting.
