Current Programme

 

DRAFT of 2010 Symposium Programme (PDF 176K)

 

The 2010 Symposium, Cured, Fermented and Smoked Foods, will be held 9—11 July at St. Catherine’s College. Over 200 food enthusiasts and experts from 27 nations are expected.

Although the current programme is fully subscribed, please contact our Registrar, Patsy Iddison, to be added to our mailing list for information about 2011: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

The programme

Sidney Mintz, Harold McGee and Ivan Day will be plenary speakers. Forty further expert speakers will deliver papers about cured, fermented and smoked foods from across the globe.

 

Themed meals

This year's special meals begin with a Feast of Cockaigne cooked by Jeremy Lee of Blueprint Café, which will commemorate the far-spanning reach of this peasant myth with a menu that includes Prosciutto di Parma; Spanish salt cod from Brindisa, and rare-breed Middle White pork from Huntsham Court Farm in the Wye Valley.

 

Saturday's lunch will be an authentic Sichuan Province feast conceived by Fuchsia Dunlop and prepared by London's Barshu Restaurant.

 

On Saturday night, Páidric Óg Gallagher of Gallagher's Boxty House in Dublin -- with the help of Tourism Ireland, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire. Pauline Danaher, Grace O'Sullivan and a fleet of artisanal Irish producers who will bring the flavours of Ireland to us.

 

Last but not least, for Sunday lunch Ove and Svein Fossa will offer an astounding Norwegian buffet sailed to us on the on the 'Tres Hombres brigantine and prepared for us with the help of Pål Drønen and Margareth Tislevoll.

 

2010 papers

Registered symposiasts can download this year's papers from the members' area of the website. If you did not receive the mailing, please contact the Registrar, Patsy Iddison, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .