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…
This month we looked at findability (for our purposes, synonymous with discoverability). So, you’ve created a new article, or (more likely, and more achievable) you’ve improved or extended an existing…
This month we looked at biographies: articles about real people. Different and understandably much tighter rules apply to living subjects than to deceased ones. As with most Wikipedia articles, it…
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…
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…
This month we looked at images, principally photographs, but including maps, drawings, diagrams and graphs. The same principles hold true for any image you create, including original artwork such as…
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…
This month, given that it is the beginning of the year, we looked at how Wikipedia articles begin: the lead section, or introduction (a re-cap of the basics is at…
This month we looked at translations and languages. There are 195 countries in the world today, and approximately 6500 languages, depending on how you count them. The online encyclopedias that…
Dismantling inequality within our systems and elevating untextual embodied knowledge was the heart of the Kitchen Table conversation as Trustee Scott Barton welcomed Renni Flores of Sabor da Bahia with…
