Spotlight on a Meal: The Power of Food in the Columbian Exchange
Sandra Mian describes, how during a fine dinner in Puebla, the idea of sponsoring a meal at the OFSC – Food and Power 2019 was born May 15th 2018: it…
Author: Fiona Sinclair
Happy International Women’s Day from the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery!
New Wikithon Date announced – 20th May 2019 On Monday 20th May for part of its Food Season, the British Library is teaming up with the Oxford Symposium of Food…
Spotlight on a Meal: The Sustainable Food Story’s Lunch
Abi Aspen Glencross and Sadhbh Moore of The Sustainable Food Story introduce their lunch from the 2018 Symposium on Seeds. 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself, your background…
Oxford Food Symposium featured on BBC Radio Four’s The Food Programme
BBC Radio Four’s The Food Programme recorded an episode at the 2018 Symposium on Seeds. Featuring stories from edible acorns and the links between amaranth and cannibalism to the importance…
2015 Symposium Proceedings Free on Google Books
We are pleased to announce that another volume of our proceedings is now available on Google Books for free: Food and Communication. Learn about the etiquette of slurping in Japan,…
First Impressions of the Oxford Food Symposium 2018
Symposiast Katrine Klinken has produced this video of her time at our Symposium on Seeds
Borlotti Beans
Symposium trustee Gamze Ineceli introduces a seed planting project started after last year’s Symposium on food and landscape This is a story of seven regions and seven landscapes where centuries-old…
The Jewels of Life : A Seed Atelier
We are delighted to introduce one of our evening activities at the 2018 Symposium: jewellery making from seeds and an exhibition led by Gönül Paksoy Gönül Paksoy, who’ll be conducting…
Wiki-Food and Mostly Women Event 23 May 2018
Help redress the Wikipedia gender imbalance by spending a day improving its coverage of food related topics, especially but not exclusively those related to women, in this Wiki-editathon on 23…
Having Friends for Dinner
The fraught history of Germans eating horses Volker Bach continues his occasional series on German historical recipes. Culinary history has not enjoyed great regard in German academia. Scholars long viewed…
