All about the V-Symposium’s Visit to Istanbul’s Spice Bazaar
Symposium Trustee Gamze İneceli takes us on a journey of the senses to Istanbul’s Spice Bazaar Imagine, if you will, the waters of the Bosphorus at your back. Inhale the…
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2020: Our very first V-Symp
Update from our Chair, Elisabeth Luard It’s been a busy time since our Trustees took the decision a month and a half ago that we needed to go virtual. Organising…
Remembering Richard Hosking
From our former Chair, Carolin C. Young, with Patsy Iddison and Helen Saberi It is with great sadness that we inform the community of the Oxford Symposium on Food and…
Lifetime Achievement Award for Symposium President Claudia Roden
Symposium Chair Elisabeth Luard on Claudia Roden’s Lifetime Achievement Award Many congratulations to our President, Claudia Roden, on receiving her Lifetime Achievement Award at Observer Food Monthly’s annual award ceremony…
Post-Symposium News
A message from Symposium chair Elisabeth Luard Thanks to all Symposiasts and everyone involved in the success of 2019’s Oxford Symposium on Food & Power. Whether as paper-presenters, invited speakers,…
Spotlight on a Meal: The Power of Food in the Columbian Exchange
Sandra Mian describes, how during a fine dinner in Puebla, the idea of sponsoring a meal at the OFSC – Food and Power 2019 was born May 15th 2018: it…
Happy International Women’s Day from the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery!
New Wikithon Date announced – 20th May 2019 On Monday 20th May for part of its Food Season, the British Library is teaming up with the Oxford Symposium of Food…
Oxford Food Symposium featured on BBC Radio Four’s The Food Programme
BBC Radio Four’s The Food Programme recorded an episode at the 2018 Symposium on Seeds. Featuring stories from edible acorns and the links between amaranth and cannibalism to the importance…
2015 Symposium Proceedings Free on Google Books
We are pleased to announce that another volume of our proceedings is now available on Google Books for free: Food and Communication. Learn about the etiquette of slurping in Japan,…
First Impressions of the Oxford Food Symposium 2018
Symposiast Katrine Klinken has produced this video of her time at our Symposium on Seeds
