Spotlight on a Meal: Boyne Valley Banquet
Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire introduces a banquet for the 2017 Symposium produced by the Boyne Valley Food Series, sponsored by Fáilte Ireland What was the inspiration for this meal? This…
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Food and Landscape: The Olive Groves of Ayvalık
Symposiast Aylin Öney Tan traces the way in which olive groves have shaped a Turkish townscape Does the landscape that surrounds us define our culture? My answer would be a…
Bottling Status
Image credit (Anonymous: ‘Kuchemaistrey’, Nuremberg, 1485) The Portable Sauces of Medieval Germany Volker Bach continues his occasional series on German historical recipes. The recipe collection of Master Hans, court cook…
Food and Landscape: Inglourious Bustards
Image credit (Grouse butt on Marrick Moor) Symposiast Thom Eagle considers whether game is a wild or a farmed food There is no wilderness in Britain. The landscape which today…
July 2017 Wikithon announced
This July the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery is teaming up with the Bodleian Library and the British Library for a WIKI-EDITATHON on the 7th July at St Catherine’s…
Invitation to The Oxford Food & Museum Project
The Oxford Food & Museum Project Foodwriters’ views on objects from Oxford University Museum Collections Linda Roodenburg and Laura Van Broekhoven invite all those attending our 2017 Oxford Symposium on…
It Tastes Green
Image credit The rise, fall and persistence of galium odoratum Volker Bach continues his occasional series on German historical recipes. Many colour-flavour combinations are intuitive. An orange or yellow drink…
2013 Symposium Proceedings Free on Google Books
We are pleased to announce that another volume of our proceedings is now freely available on Google Books: Food and Material Culture. Find out about turkish coffee, table manners or…
Symposiasts at Work: Naomi Duguid
Fiona Sinclair and Andrew Dalby introduce Symposiast Naomi Duguid Image credit: Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir A new book from Naomi Duguid is a reason to celebrate,” said David Tanis in the New…
Fumbling for Terroir
Volker Bach examines what Renaissance German beer culture can teach us about an elusive concept In 1575, the German lawyer and beer connoisseur Heinrich Knaust published Five Books on the…
