Highlights from the Kitchen Lab…
Our January Kitchen Lab, hosted by Birgitte Kampmann, brought people together to cook, learn and reflect on the work of Sri Owen. With Sri’s rendang already simmering on her stove,…
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UPDATE and Great News from the Kitchen Table!
Everyone who attended recent Kitchen Tables will already be aware that we are now recording the live discussions, and that they are available to all those who bought tickets, whether they attended the event event or not,…
Talking of Rules and Rituals as practised in the past
This time of the year deserves a rest from the present. Talking of Rules and Rituals as practised in the past, none more useful that those laid down by Rev…
Remembrance of Christmases past
By way of an introduction to our pot-luck Kitchen Table on December 15, Elisabeth Luard remembers three of her own Christmases past: Upsidedown Christmas in Uruguay Fireflies in mimosa trees,…
Talking about our Wiki-Editathons with Roberta Wedge
An important element in the Oxford Food Symposium’s on-line presence (we started in earnest in July 2020 – no need to explain why) are the regular Wikipedia training sessions run…
Oxford Food Symposium and The Sifter
As its name suggests, The Sifter, a database for the analysis of cookbooks that allows searchers to sift out the information they actually want, first saw the light of day in…
Oxford Food Symposium Trustee Carolyn Steel sums-up our 2022 theme of Portable Food/Food Away from the Table
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…
We need to talk about… how to find reliable sources of information when writing about food – a digest from the chatline
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…
Chair Elisabeth Luard introduces Dr Lizzie Collingham, invited speaker for our upcoming Symposium on Portable Food
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…
Wiki Club Gathering May 3, 2022: Roberta’s Sum-Up of the Bottom of the Page
This month we looked at the various elements at the bottom of the page. This end matter is equivalent in many ways to the standard appendices and footnotes of a…
