Food can be a marker of national, regional or local identity, and can also maintain strong ties to home for diasporic populations. These papers investigate different ways in which food…

Whether in traditional technologies, such as home-based food preservation, laboratory efforts to create plant-based alternatives to animal foods, or theories in the fields of of psychology and neuroscience dealing with…

Teaching about food is hot. Whether on a vocation level in helping  students to imagine their relationship to food, providing a template for the experienced chef to first create dishes…

Presenter: Roberta Wedge Host: Polly Russell A Friday pre-symposium Oxford tradition is a wiki training session with wiki editing maven Roberta Edge. Read some background information and then work directly…

Gastronomy is constantly evolving, and the speed of change has been magnified in our globalizing world. This panel explores how traditional and iconic dishes in Indian, Singaporean, and Persian culinary…

Diplomatic gastronomic gifts (whether consumed literally or only with the imagination), productive exchanges between French and Russian chefs based on the political Franco-Russian Alliance of the turn of the twentieth…

Literature is replete with culinary references and descriptions, some of quotidian life, others of questionable, or at least unusual, connections to reality. All of these culinary images contain underlying messages…

Just as food can unite people in shared identities, it can also erect walls that define The Other, as this panel demonstrates. How does a food move from one enjoyed…

The modernist adage, ‘form follows function,’ implies that design is teleological, a mechanical application of obtaining an efficient result. But what is the role of imagination? This panel explores contemporary…