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Author: David Matchett

Meet the 2025 OFS Guest Chefs

Food and drink are vital elements of the Symposium; the lunch and dinner menus are designed to reflect and expand on the years topic.  This year’s communal meals are masterminded by…

David Matchett 15 May 2025
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Meet the 2025 OFS Keynote Speakers

(Left to right) Marion Nestle is one of the individuals most responsible for creating the discipline of Food Studies in the United States. Co-founder of New York University’s Department of…

David Matchett 13 May 2025
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Cheers to Spring!

Winter has finally started to loosen her grip where I live in the northern US, and color is returning to the landscape. Buds have begun to appear on the trees,…

David Matchett 22 March 2024
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Holiday Greetings, Readings, and Eatings

It’s hard to believe that we’ve reached the end of 2023. Looking back on all of our Kitchen Table activities, from the monthly Conversations, Kitchen Labs, Sifter Asks, and Wiki Club to the…

David Matchett 21 December 2023
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The First-Time Symposiast as Gardener

It all begins so humbly: a tiny seed, a little kernel of an idea. The hopeful symposiast has her eye on the perfect spot for a garden, er… I mean,…

David Matchett 1 November 2023
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