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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
At the Kitchen Table on April 12th, New York Times cookery-columnist Melissa Clark hosted Writing Recipes: The Art of Communicating How to Cook. Joining her at table were Francis Lam, host of The Splendid Table and editor-in-chief at publishers Clarkson…
Expect wit, erudition and the view from the sharp end when Corby Kummer, our distinguished invited Speaker, addresses us all at the opening event of this year’s Symposium weekend at…
At our March gathering round the Kitchen Table, Trustee David Matchett hosted Shane Holland (Executive Chairman of Slow Food in the UK) and Zachary Nowak (US-based lecturer in environmental humanities and food studies) to discuss…
Greetings and good news, Symposiasts, old and new! We’ll be back at St. Catz July 8-10, 2022 (all things being equal) for the first time since our gathering in 2019. Although we’ve…
At our February 2022 Kitchen Table, Going with the Grain, Trustee Naomi Duguid hosted a discussion between baker and grain activist Dawn Woodward; UK farmer Fred Price who grows grain, keeps pigs and runs a bakery on the farm; and seed-scientist Prof. Kevin Murphy of Washington State…
