Young Chef Report 2017: Girish Nyak
Girish Nayak, one of the 2017 Young Chefs, reflects on his experience at the Symposium Please tell us about your career to date. I started baking when I was 18…
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Garden Seeds in Early Modern England
‘…Such as are old and withered, or else… such as are stark naught’ – Symposiast Malcolm Thick on the variable quality of garden seeds in early Modern England Without seeds…
New November Wikithon date announced
Food, Women and Wiki: A great opportunity to learn how to Wikiedit or hone your Wikiediting skills! On Friday 10th November the British Library is teaming up with the Oxford…
Food and Landscape: Recipes from an Armenian – Turkish Banquet
The Saturday evening dinner at the 2017 Symposium was ‘Landscape: Compliments of the Soil – Flavours from the Armenian and Turkish Borderlands organized by Gamze Íneceli and Íhsan Karayazi in…
Borlotti Beans in Burgundy
Image credit: Di Murrell Symposiast Di Murrell plants ‘Seeds’ in anticipation of next year’s Symposium We wondered at the significance of the borlotti beans and how they might have fitted…
Spotlight on a Meal: A Ploughman’s Lunch from Borough Market
Image credit: David Matchett Symposiast Jane Levi considers the politics of a ploughman’s lunch Every year for the last 35 years a group of food-obsessed scholars, cooks and others from…
Spotlight on a Meal: Boyne Valley Banquet
Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire introduces a banquet for the 2017 Symposium produced by the Boyne Valley Food Series, sponsored by Fáilte Ireland What was the inspiration for this meal? This…
Food and Landscape: The Olive Groves of Ayvalık
Symposiast Aylin Öney Tan traces the way in which olive groves have shaped a Turkish townscape Does the landscape that surrounds us define our culture? My answer would be a…
Bottling Status
Image credit (Anonymous: ‘Kuchemaistrey’, Nuremberg, 1485) The Portable Sauces of Medieval Germany Volker Bach continues his occasional series on German historical recipes. The recipe collection of Master Hans, court cook…
Food and Landscape: Inglourious Bustards
Image credit (Grouse butt on Marrick Moor) Symposiast Thom Eagle considers whether game is a wild or a farmed food There is no wilderness in Britain. The landscape which today…
