Panel 5 – Women as Agent, Women as Object (Riverside Room 1)
Fertility, sin, sexualization, domesticity. . . these are just a few of the tropes associated with women and fruit. These papers approach these tropes, and more, by probing literary depictions…
Panel 6 – Floral Cuisines: Flavor, Health, Culture (Riverside Room 2)
The use of flowers as significant ingredients, used both for flavor and health, is especially pronounced in non-European cuisines. This panel considers the values ascribed to flowers (amongst other plants)…
Panel 7 – The Literary Aesthetics of the East: Chinese Stone Fruits (Riverside Lecture theatre)
Premodern literature in China is resplendent with lyrical descriptions of stone fruits that can serve as metaphors for politics and society. So, too, in India, where the literature garden becomes…
Panel 8 – The Cultural Politics of Preservation (Riverside Room 1)
Folk tradition versus modern science. Working within the home versus employment outside. Thrift versus luxury. Technological innovation and the ascendency of 'expertise,' if occasionally misguided. Even the threat of sabotage…
Post-prandial Diversion A: ‘Cordially Yours’, led by Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Long-time symposiast and expert culinary alchemist Gerhardus Geldenhuis will lead a workshop in cordial making
Post-prandial Diversion B: ‘Join the rabbits!’ An evening stroll through the Botanical Gardens of the FoodMuseum with Linda Roodenburg
Creative genius behind the FoodMuseum, Linda Roodenburg will escort us through a delightful romp of the museum's Botanical Gardens
