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Remembering Harlan

Image credit: Philip Walker The Symposium’s President, Claudia Roden, pays tribute to Harlan Walker who passed away on 16th December 2017 Harlan Walker was the much loved angel of the…

Fiona Sinclair 31 January 2018

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Beloved of Kings and Kindergartners

Image credit The deep history of humble apfelmus Volker Bach continues his occasional series on German historical recipes. In modern German cuisine, apfelmus is a ubiquitous staple usually served with…

Fiona Sinclair 21 January 2018

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2014 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 Markets. Learn about the Egyptian Bazaar in Istanbul, the…

Fiona Sinclair 2 January 2018

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2017 Symposium Feedback

The Trustees report on feedback from the 2017 Symposium After the Symposium this past July, we asked Symposiasts to leave us feedback in our online Visitor’s Book. Thank you to…

Fiona Sinclair 29 December 2017

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Young Chef Report 2017: Girish Nyak

Girish Nayak, one of the 2017 Young Chefs, reflects on his experience at the Symposium Please tell us about your career to date. I started baking when I was 18…

Fiona Sinclair 20 December 2017

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Garden Seeds in Early Modern England

‘…Such as are old and withered, or else… such as are stark naught’ – Symposiast Malcolm Thick on the variable quality of garden seeds in early Modern England Without seeds…

Fiona Sinclair 31 October 2017

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New November Wikithon date announced

Food, Women and Wiki: A great opportunity to learn how to Wikiedit or hone your Wikiediting skills! On Friday 10th November the British Library is teaming up with the Oxford…

Fiona Sinclair 13 October 2017

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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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Borlotti Beans in Burgundy

Image credit: Di Murrell Symposiast Di Murrell plants ‘Seeds’ in anticipation of next year’s Symposium We wondered at the significance of the borlotti beans and how they might have fitted…

Fiona Sinclair 3 September 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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