At the last official Kitchen Table before the Symposium, trustee-director Ursula Heinzelmann led a wide-ranging discussion on how to avoid fake news in the food world at a time of…
Dr Lizzie Collingham, our distinguished Plenary Speaker on Saturday at the Oxford Symposium Weekend – July 8th-10th 2022, as if you didn’t know! – is one of the UK’s most respected…
At the Kitchen Table on April 12th, New York Times cookery-columnist Melissa Clark hosted Writing Recipes: The Art of Communicating How to Cook. Joining her at table were Francis Lam, host of The Splendid Table and editor-in-chief at publishers Clarkson…
Expect wit, erudition and the view from the sharp end when Corby Kummer, our distinguished invited Speaker, addresses us all at the opening event of this year’s Symposium weekend at…
At our March gathering round the Kitchen Table, Trustee David Matchett hosted Shane Holland (Executive Chairman of Slow Food in the UK) and Zachary Nowak (US-based lecturer in environmental humanities and food studies) to discuss…
Greetings and good news, Symposiasts, old and new! We’ll be back at St. Catz July 8-10, 2022 (all things being equal) for the first time since our gathering in 2019. Although we’ve…
At our February 2022 Kitchen Table, Going with the Grain, Trustee Naomi Duguid hosted a discussion between baker and grain activist Dawn Woodward; UK farmer Fred Price who grows grain, keeps pigs and runs a bakery on the farm; and seed-scientist Prof. Kevin Murphy of Washington State…
It is part of the introduction to her book Picnics, first published by Jill Norman Ltd, 1981. “Visions of paradise have always been of the great outdoors, of trees laden…
At the first of this New Year’s Kitchen Table gathering, OFS Trustee Cathy Kaufman introduced a wide-ranging discussion of Social Justice in the Gastronomic World in the light of events…
The first of these is an edited extract from a privately-printed pamphlet by Lorenzo Millo Casas of the Spanish Gastronomic Academy dated Christmas 1987 (translated and edited with the author’s permission). Elaboration on why the paella is never served at…
