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All about the V-Symposium’s Visit to Istanbul’s Spice Bazaar

Symposium Trustee Gamze İneceli takes us on a journey of the senses to Istanbul’s Spice Bazaar Imagine, if you will, the waters of the Bosphorus at your back. Inhale the…

Fiona Sinclair 5 May 2020

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2020: Our very first V-Symp

Update from our Chair, Elisabeth Luard It’s been a busy time since our Trustees took the decision a month and a half ago that we needed to go virtual. Organising…

Ursula Heinzelmann 25 April 2020

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Remembering Richard Hosking

From our former Chair, Carolin C. Young, with Patsy Iddison and Helen Saberi It is with great sadness that we inform the community of the Oxford Symposium on Food and…

Fiona Sinclair 7 November 2019

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Lifetime Achievement Award for Symposium President Claudia Roden

Symposium Chair Elisabeth Luard on Claudia Roden’s Lifetime Achievement Award Many congratulations to our President, Claudia Roden, on receiving her Lifetime Achievement Award at Observer Food Monthly’s annual award ceremony…

Fiona Sinclair 28 October 2019

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Post-Symposium News

A message from Symposium chair Elisabeth Luard Thanks to all Symposiasts and everyone involved in the success of 2019’s Oxford Symposium on Food & Power. Whether as paper-presenters, invited speakers,…

Fiona Sinclair 1 August 2019

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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…

Fiona Sinclair 19 June 2019

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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…

Fiona Sinclair 7 March 2019

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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…

Fiona Sinclair 27 August 2018

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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,…

Fiona Sinclair 26 July 2018

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First Impressions of the Oxford Food Symposium 2018

Symposiast Katrine Klinken has produced this video of her time at our Symposium on Seeds

Fiona Sinclair 17 July 2018

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