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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…

Fiona Sinclair 7 March 2019

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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…

Fiona Sinclair 27 August 2018

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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,…

Fiona Sinclair 26 July 2018

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First Impressions of the Oxford Food Symposium 2018

Symposiast Katrine Klinken has produced this video of her time at our Symposium on Seeds

Fiona Sinclair 17 July 2018

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Borlotti Beans

Symposium trustee Gamze Ineceli introduces a seed planting project started after last year’s Symposium on food and landscape This is a story of seven regions and seven landscapes where centuries-old…

Fiona Sinclair 3 July 2018

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The Jewels of Life : A Seed Atelier

We are delighted to introduce one of our evening activities at the 2018 Symposium: jewellery making from seeds and an exhibition led by Gönül Paksoy Gönül Paksoy, who’ll be conducting…

Fiona Sinclair 22 June 2018

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Wiki-Food and Mostly Women Event 23 May 2018

Help redress the Wikipedia gender imbalance by spending a day improving its coverage of food related topics, especially but not exclusively those related to women, in this Wiki-editathon on 23…

Fiona Sinclair 14 May 2018

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Unleash Your Inner Gourmet, Feed Your Intellectual Hunger – The British Library’s forthcoming Food Season

Polly Russell, OSFC Trustee and British Library Curator introduces a series of events at the British Library April – May 2018 Late last year a colleague from the Events team…

Fiona Sinclair 23 March 2018

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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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Oxford Food Symposium 2018: Grants for Young Chefs

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Harold McGee, a trustee of the Symposium, introduces the 2018 Young Chef Grant It’s time to spread the good word again: the Oxford Symposium invites young…

Fiona Sinclair 8 February 2018

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