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    In our second literary musing relevant to this year’s theme, Portable Food: Food Away From The Table, our president Claudia Roden CBE describes a memorable outdoor feast

    It is part of the introduction to her book Picnics, first published by Jill Norman Ltd, 1981. “Visions of paradise have always been of the great outdoors, of trees laden…

    Ursula Heinzelmann 22 February 2022
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    We need to talk about… Social Justice in the Gastronomic World – a digest from the chatline

    At the first of this New Year’s Kitchen Table gathering, OFS Trustee Cathy Kaufman introduced a wide-ranging discussion of Social Justice in the Gastronomic World in the light of events…

    Ursula Heinzelmann 25 January 2022
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    We begin the New Year with a handful of literary musings relevant to this year’s theme, Portable Food: Food Away From the Table.

    The first of these is an edited extract from a privately-printed pamphlet by Lorenzo Millo Casas of the Spanish Gastronomic Academy dated Christmas 1987 (translated and edited with the author’s permission).   Elaboration on why the paella is never served at…

    Ursula Heinzelmann 24 January 2022
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    We Need To Talk About Street Food – a digest of the chatline

    Dismantling inequality within our systems and elevating untextual embodied knowledge was the heart of the Kitchen Table conversation as Trustee Scott Barton welcomed Renni Flores of Sabor da Bahia with…

    Ursula Heinzelmann 21 December 2021
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    Season’s Greetings from your friendly neighbourhood blog-hosts, OFS Trustees Elisabeth Luard and Gamze Ineceli, and the merriest-possible New Year to everyone who’s stuck with us through thick and thin throughout 2021.

    Our monthly gatherings at the Kitchen Table carry on apace (programme news will be on its way shortly).  And while we don’t record the actual talk-fests – what’s said at…

    Ursula Heinzelmann 21 December 2021
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    From the virtual OFS editing-suite with Elisabeth Luard and Gamze Ineceli: Final Volume

    Herewith we wrap up the series of edited chatlines from Food & Imagination at the 2021 Symposium Weekend From Keynote Speaker Eric C. Rath’s Chatline:   Defining “cuisine”:  How could anyone say…

    Ursula Heinzelmann 23 November 2021
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    From the virtual OFS editing-suite with Elisabeth Luard and Gamze Ineceli: Volume 3

    From the Chatline with Chef Skye Gyngell of Spring Restaurant in London, at the 2021 Symposium Weekend on Food & Imagination: Reconnecting to the Past:  I have a wonderful photo…

    Ursula Heinzelmann 27 October 2021
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    From the virtual OFS editing-suite with Elisabeth Luard and Gamze Ineceli: Volume 2

    Elisabeth Luard and Gamze Ineceli take another wander down memory lane with the chatlines from Food & Imagination at the 2021 Symposium Weekend From Keynote Speaker Rob Hopkins chatline:  If…

    Elisabeth Luard 29 September 2021
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    From the virtual OFS editing-suite with Elisabeth Luard and Gamze Ineceli: Volume 1

    This is a new series of questions and comments from this year's Food & Imagination chatlines. While we don't record the discussion-sessions, the chatl…
    Elisabeth Luard 12 September 2021
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    Elaine Mahon, recipient of one of the first Young Chef Grants, is organising a new venture, The Young Chefs Collective

    The idea of establishing an OFS Young Chefs Collective was born out of a discussion at the Symposium in 2020 among past recipients of the Young Chef's…
    Elisabeth Luard 31 July 2021
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