Welcome to The Festival Nerd

The Festival Nerd is officially live.

This site is an independent research project documenting the full history of the EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival — from its earliest roots in 1982 to today.  Recent years are fairly well documented across social media but the early years are a bit of a mystery. Join me as I go down rabbit holes looking for timelines, booth histories, menus, special events, milestones, and the stories of the people who were there.

Hope to get the first piece – about how the festival came to be – up in the near future.

In the meantime, if you've attended the festival, worked it, or have materials from any year, I’d love your help.

— Festival Nerd