Category: 2014: Food and Markets

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…