2017: Food & Landscape Archives - Oxford Food Symposium

Young Chef Report 2017: Deborah Ryan

Deborah Ryan, one of the 2017 Young Chefs, reflects on her experience at the Symposium I first heard about the Oxford Symposium through my university lecturer, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire,…

Fiona Sinclair 23 February 2018

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Food and Landscape: Recipes from an Armenian – Turkish Banquet

The Saturday evening dinner at the 2017 Symposium was ‘Landscape: Compliments of the Soil – Flavours from the Armenian and Turkish Borderlands organized by Gamze Íneceli and Íhsan Karayazi in…

Fiona Sinclair 12 September 2017

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Food and Landscape: Recording for Posterity

Symposiast Len Fisher introduces his talk ‘Global Warming and the Changing Global Food Landscape: The Need to Preserve Diversity’ at the 2017 Symposium “Why should I do anything for posterity?…

Elisabeth Luard 17 July 2017

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Spotlight on a Meal: A Ploughman’s Lunch from Borough Market

Image credit: David Matchett Symposiast Jane Levi considers the politics of a ploughman’s lunch Every year for the last 35 years a group of food-obsessed scholars, cooks and others from…

Fiona Sinclair 4 July 2017

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Spotlight on a Meal: Boyne Valley Banquet

Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire introduces a banquet for the 2017 Symposium produced by the Boyne Valley Food Series, sponsored by Fáilte Ireland What was the inspiration for this meal? This…

Fiona Sinclair 26 June 2017

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Food and Landscape: The Olive Groves of Ayvalık

Symposiast Aylin Öney Tan traces the way in which olive groves have shaped a Turkish townscape Does the landscape that surrounds us define our culture? My answer would be a…

Fiona Sinclair 9 June 2017

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Food and Landscape: Inglourious Bustards

Image credit (Grouse butt on Marrick Moor) Symposiast Thom Eagle considers whether game is a wild or a farmed food There is no wilderness in Britain. The landscape which today…

Fiona Sinclair 21 May 2017

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Food and Landscape: Fields in Fulham

Symposiast Malcolm Thick finds the ghost of farmers’ fields in Fulham Many (many) years ago I slept on the floor of a friend’s house one August while doing some research…

Fiona Sinclair 14 May 2017

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Fumbling for Terroir

Volker Bach examines what Renaissance German beer culture can teach us about an elusive concept In 1575, the German lawyer and beer connoisseur Heinrich Knaust published Five Books on the…

Fiona Sinclair 13 February 2017

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