Expect wit, erudition and the view from the sharp end when Corby Kummer, our distinguished invited Speaker, addresses us all at the opening event of this year’s Symposium weekend at…
This month we looked at findability (for our purposes, synonymous with discoverability). So, you’ve created a new article, or (more likely, and more achievable) you’ve improved or extended an existing…
This month we looked at biographies: articles about real people. Different and understandably much tighter rules apply to living subjects than to deceased ones. As with most Wikipedia articles, it…
At our March gathering round the Kitchen Table, Trustee David Matchett hosted Shane Holland (Executive Chairman of Slow Food in the UK) and Zachary Nowak (US-based lecturer in environmental humanities and food studies) to discuss…
Greetings and good news, Symposiasts, old and new! We’ll be back at St. Catz July 8-10, 2022 (all things being equal) for the first time since our gathering in 2019. Although we’ve…
At our February 2022 Kitchen Table, Going with the Grain, Trustee Naomi Duguid hosted a discussion between baker and grain activist Dawn Woodward; UK farmer Fred Price who grows grain, keeps pigs and runs a bakery on the farm; and seed-scientist Prof. Kevin Murphy of Washington State…
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…
This month we looked at images, principally photographs, but including maps, drawings, diagrams and graphs. The same principles hold true for any image you create, including original artwork such as…
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…
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…
