January 2015
Young Chef's Award: A Winner's Experience!
From Keelin Tobin, recipient of the 2014 Friends of the Oxford Symposium Young Chef’s Grant: “The Oxford Symposium – ’tis a weekend not to be missed! It was a great…
November 2014
Tasting and the Brain
Len Fisher A recent paper in Nature (LINK to article) tells us for the first time how taste sensations on the tongue are transmitted to the brain. It turns out…
October 2014
Symposiast Food Blogs
Len Fisher Here is a brief alphabetical listing of food blogs by symposiasts and followers of the symposium Facebook page – a fascinating and unique fund of food lore. More…
October 2014
Food Blogs
Len Fisher The culinary magazine SAVEUR (“for people who experience the world food first”) each year hosts the “Best Food Blog” awards, with blogs nominated by readers from the many,…
October 2014
Food and Communication Quotes
Len Fisher Trawling through the large collection of quotes that I might one day use in my writing, I found some off-the-wall examples and examples from unusual sources that are…
October 2014
Tacit Knowledge
Len Fisher One prominent theme for a meeting on Food and Communication must surely be the notion of tacit knowledge – that is, know-how that is only, and sometimes can…
July 2014
The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery’s 34th annual gathering
This is what we ate for lunch and dinner at The Oxford Symposium on Food Cookery this year. Menu-cards by Trustee Jake Tilson. www.jaketilson.com All meals thanks to Head Chef…
June 2014
Trine Hahnemann
Trine Hahnemann – chef, teacher, author of 9 cookbooks (3 published in English) – is the founding-mother of caterers Hahnemann’s Køkken, a practical cook’s response to the need for high…
June 2014
Russian Revels
Saturday’s Russian lunch in honour of our Saturday Plenary Speaker, Anya von Bremzen, will be masterminded by a couple of Londoners who set up a catering company, Russian Revels in…
May 2014
Fuchsia Dunlop
Esteemed Hon. Sec. and Trustee Fuchsia Dunlop has just triumphed at the James Beard Awards with no less than two best-in-show: International Cookbook of the Year for Every Grain of…
March 2014
Joseph Patricio
Sunday Lunch at The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery. “Pepe’s Social Stew of Leftovers” “For Sunday’s Leftover Lunch at the Oxford Symposium,” says performance artist Joseph Patricio, “I…
March 2014
Darina Allen
And our Friday evening speaker is the great Darina Allen – author, tv presenter, teacher and founding-mother of Ireland’s farmers’ market movement. She’ll be with us on the evening of…
March 2014
Allegra McEvedy
And our Friday chef is the multi-talented Allegra McEvedy MBE. Columnist, author and chef-proprietor of small-is-beautiful restaurant Blackfoot in Exmouth Market, Allegra has agreed to join Tim Kelsey in the…
February 2014
D.H. Lawrence explores a market in Sardinia in the 1920’s
Found tucked away in Topography in the London Library, a young D.H. Lawrence writes of the market in Cagliari in Sea and Sardinia (Secker 1923) “It was Friday: people seemed…
January 2014
2nd Biennial Dublin Gastronomy Symposium
“Dublin diary date: June 3rd-4th 2014 are the dates of the 2nd Biennial Dublin Gastronomy Symposium” … says long-time OSFC Symposiast Mairtin Mac ConIomaire (see his account of the OSFC’s…
January 2014
Anya von Bremzen
The fabulous Anya von Bremzen, author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking, will be Saturday’s plenary speaker on markets as a means of survival – provisional title, The Double…
January 2014
Ursula Heinzelmann's Viennese market
Trustee Ursula Heinzelmann works up an appetite for Vienna’s Naschmark. Vienna’s largest open-air market is situated in the 6th district of Mariahilf, between Secession and Kettenbrückengasse. While the market itself…
December 2013
Priscilla White, our Registrar, shares her memories of morning coffee in a busy market in Brazil
Last year, not long after our 2013 Symposium, I headed to the southern Brazilian city of Porto Allegre to watch my son Edward, compete in the World Masters Athletics Championships.…
December 2013
My Preferred Market, says Trustee and Performance Artist Alicia Rios, is Madrid’s Mercado de Maravillas:
Of all the lively and wonderful markets existing in Spain, I prefer the nearest to home, the Mercado de Maravillas in the Barrio de Tetuan in Madrid. You’ll find it…
October 2013
Stevie Parle’s Implement-led Recipes
In Stevie’s do-it-yourself menu, the ready-ground spices were placed on the table to be blended with pestle and mortar. Chaat masala salad Serves 4-6 Spice mix: 2 tsp amchoor* 1/2…
October 2013
Marcia Zoldaz’s feijoada for the Brazilian dinner
Marcia says: “In the recipe for the feijoada, the meats will presented either separate from the beans or with a little bit of the beans in order to keep them…
April 2013
Material Culture: A Review of the 2013 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery
Dr. Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire The focus of this year’s Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery was on the stew stove but not the stew; the knives and not the…
