We used to do historical feasts at uni a loooooong time ago, so I thought it might be fun to try at Camp. For Bath I thought Roman or Regency seemed like the obvious choices. Regency food is awesome, too, (they were big into Weird Stuff in Aspic, for one thing) but if we wanted to dress up in period then we'd probably need to hire costumes. Whereas with Roman we can get everyone to bring a couple of cheap white sheets, and we're sorted.

Also, Regency women's clothes are hideous. It wouldn't be all bad, though, as we'd get to make the guys Mr Darcy it up in tight breeches :-)

But yes! There are lots of fun Roman recipes and ingredients. Sow's udders, flamingo tongues and dormice might be going a bit too far (also, you can't buy them, I looked) but there's lots of slightly unusual but not off-puttingly weird options, like oysters. Goat, rabbit, snails, ostrich, various offal, salt fish, sea urchin. They were very into turducken-style 'stuff things inside other things', too. Or maybe this could be the year that I finally get organized and order a sucking pig porchetta.