Remembrance of Christmases past
By way of an introduction to our pot-luck Kitchen Table on December 15, Elisabeth Luard remembers three of her own Christmases past: Upsidedown Christmas in Uruguay Fireflies in mimosa trees,…
Author: Ursula Heinzelmann
Talking about our Wiki-Editathons with Roberta Wedge
An important element in the Oxford Food Symposium’s on-line presence (we started in earnest in July 2020 – no need to explain why) are the regular Wikipedia training sessions run…
We need to talk about… Culinary Identities and Chefs’ Choice with Harold McGee, OFS Young Chefs, Jeremy Lee and Billy Wagner – digest from the chatline
What follows is an edited chatline from October 19th’s Kitchen Table on the reality behind choosing a career in the professional kitchen. If cheffing needs to be more than cooking,…
Oxford Food Symposium and The Sifter
As its name suggests, The Sifter, a database for the analysis of cookbooks that allows searchers to sift out the information they actually want, first saw the light of day in…
Food & Memory: the Personal and the Political – a digest from the chatline
What follows is a digest of the chatline from Food & Memory: the Personal and the Political, a discussion around the Kitchen Table on September 20, 2022, first of the new season. Symposium Chair Cathy Kaufman hosted, culinary…
Oxford Food Symposium Trustee Carolyn Steel sums-up our 2022 theme of Portable Food/Food Away from the Table
What follows is extracted, with her permission, from Trustee Carolyn Steel’s summing-up as delivered on the final day of our 2022 Symposium. We met this year at St. Catz…
Let’s get together, and take stock – a digest from the chatline
The last Kitchen Table before the Symposium Weekend was hosted by OFS trustee David Matchett and guests, including rather a lot of familiar faces, so we could all take stock of…
Wiki Club Gathering June 7, 2022: Roberta’s Sum-Up of the Top (and Side) of the Page
This month we looked at the various elements at the top of the page, and in the side bar (on the left-hand of each Wikipedia page). Last month we looked…
We need to talk about… how to find reliable sources of information when writing about food – a digest from the chatline
At the last official Kitchen Table before the Symposium, trustee-director Ursula Heinzelmann led a wide-ranging discussion on how to avoid fake news in the food world at a time of…
Chair Elisabeth Luard introduces Dr Lizzie Collingham, invited speaker for our upcoming Symposium on Portable Food
Dr Lizzie Collingham, our distinguished Plenary Speaker on Saturday at the Oxford Symposium Weekend – July 8th-10th 2022, as if you didn’t know! – is one of the UK’s most respected…
