Following the unanimous recommendation of the Outreach Prizes Committee, we wish to deliver the exciting news that Max Miller of Tasting History has been awarded the 2024 Forum Prize by the SCS. Tasting History is a vibrant, engaging public resource on living history available to a mass audience. Max Miller’s artful synthesis of research, humor, and authentic engagement with ancient recipes has created and sustained a huge YouTube audience, both academic and popular. His Roman garum recipe draws on Miller’s real-life replication of that recipe from ancient source. With over 2.5 million views, the video demonstrates Miller’s commitment to tracing the threads of domestic history right through time, to a viewer’s current life, breathing life into ancient studies for many whose ability to access research or ancient texts is limited at best. Miller’s whole channel provides not just access, but hope for wide public interaction with the ancient world.
The SCS Forum Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to public engagement made by works about the ancient Greek and Roman world that have originated outside of the academy. To learn more about the prize and to see a list of previous recipients, visit the Forum Prize page.
