Sam Bilton

Join me, @mrssbilton.bsky.social
@alessandrapino.bsky.social
@neilbuttery.bsky.social for a day food history festivities!
18th of October, online!

Excited to be part of the team organising the first @serveitforthfest.bsky.social taking place on 18 October 2025. Take a look at the website for further details! serveitforthfest.wixsite.com/info

Serve It Forth is a new festival devoted to food & drink history curated by @alessandrapino.bsky.social @mrssbilton.bsky.social , @neilbuttery.bsky.social @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social

So looking forward to this. We've got some great things organised for it. Announcements soon.

Give our account a follow to keep up with news.

Gooseberry Buckle Cake (courtesy of Sam Goldsmith & @goodfoodeveryday.bsky.social

I did seriously consider making a fool but decided to go with this cake instead. The tangy gooseberries are sandwiched between vanilla scented sponge & an oaty crumble topping - genius!

🌿 B is for Bay Leaves is live!

@mrssbilton.bsky.social joins @neilbuttery.bsky.social & @alessandrapino.bsky.social on @aisforapplepod.bsky.social to unpack the misunderstood magic of bay.

From stews to sweet puddings, you’ll never look at it the same way again.

Got a clever use? Tell us! 🍮✨

S2E7 B is for Boiling, Bayleaf & Bloody Mary A is for Apple: An Encyclopaedia of Food & Drink · Episode

The final episode of Season B of @aisforapplepod.bsky.social has dropped! It's the now traditional Listener's Choice episode.

@mrssbilton.bsky.social , @alessandrapino.bsky.social and I will be back soon!

Did your choice get a mention?
open.spotify.com/episode/2V7G...

British Saffron with Sam Bilton The British Food History Podcast · Episode

If you want to know more about Saffron in Britain. Here's an episode of The British Food History Podcast on the subject with guest @mrssbilton.bsky.social who has written a book about it, called Fool's Gold: a History of British Saffron.

open.spotify.com/episode/4YNE...

It tastes better than it sounds

Congrats @mrssbilton.bsky.social your book looks great and makes so much literary sense

In honour of this month’s bonus podcast episode I decided to make a Tomato Soup Cake from Lee Miller: A Life With Food, Friends and Recipes. Link in bio.

Fried rice ‘thing’ with roasted cauliflower. No idea what to call it but it was bloomin’ lovely.

Thank you!

Very excited to reveal the cover of my next book in collaboration with The Globe published by welbeck in October 2025.

It features recipes inspired by the food mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays & was a pleasure to research & write.

#shakespeare

It’s so disturbing….

So this happened last night!!!! (Still pinching myself)

Have you caught up with the latest @aisforapplepod.bsky.social episode? B is for Blue & it was a tricky one!

@neilbuttery.bsky.social talked with Joe Schneider of Stichelton Dairy

@alessandrapino.bsky.social looked at blue corn

@mrssbilton.bsky.social focused on borage

Available on all apps🎧

It only went and won the award last night! What an honour!!!!

Great potluck lunch at the Leeds Food Symposium (in York) yesterday. This is just the dessert table (gingerbread galore)

Fantastic line up of speakers too for the Food in Literature theme.

S2E5 B is for Blue Cheese, Blue Corn & Borage A is for Apple: An Encyclopaedia of Food & Drink · Episode

A new episiode of @aisforapplepod.bsky.social has landed. The theme was a tricky one: "BLUE".

I talked with Joe Schneider of Stichelton Dairy; @alessandrapino.bsky.social looked at blue corn; & @mrssbilton.bsky.social focussed on borage.

Available on all apps.

open.spotify.com/episode/1ifa...

Chocolate & prune cake

Rich & decadent - perfect for Easter Sunday.

#chocolatecake

I contacted the Times archive some time ago about this very subject. I’m afraid they weren’t terribly helpful so that avenue of research had been abandoned for the time being

People used to eat plum pudding with roast beef so why not orchard pudding (I guess it could work?!)

This is excellent news! Comfortably Hungry has been shortlisted in the audio category for the @fortnumandmason.bsky.social food & drink awards!

A huge thank you to Thom at @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social for mixing the episodes & of course to Dr Peggy Brunache for being such a superb guest.

It is generally thought that at least 400 distinct varieties of potato are grown in the Andes, in the "Altiplano" with height averages about 3,750 meters! (~12K feet!) The Incas, and others before them,cut terraces into the hillsides, progressively steeper, from the valleys up the slopes!

I ate some with cream cheese & smoked salmon.

This was great fun but I also learnt heaps from you both.

I so enjoyed recording this episode with Caroline Crampton & @orlandomurrin.bsky.social

Borodinsky Bread

It’s been years since I attempted a rye sourdough but pleased with the result. I love the flavour of rye and it combines beautifully with coriander seeds, barley malt extract & molasses (I used carob molasses) in this loaf.

Leicester cathedral with a tree covered in blossom

Fried egg on top of a mushroom hash

Happy spring equinox!

Cracking breakfast @craftystmartins & a brief mooch around Leicester this morning in the beautiful spring sunshine.

#leicester
#spring
#equinox