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…
This month, given that it is the beginning of the year, we looked at how Wikipedia articles begin: the lead section, or introduction (a re-cap of the basics is at…
This month we looked at translations and languages. There are 195 countries in the world today, and approximately 6500 languages, depending on how you count them. The online encyclopedias that…
Our monthly gatherings at the Kitchen Table carry on apace (programme news will be on its way shortly). And while we don’t record the actual talk-fests – what’s said at…
This month we looked at resources and citations. Wikipedia depends on reliable sources. (WP::RS.) Ideally, each factual assertion in every article should be backed up. This is where you come in. You…
Jake Tilson is an artist, author, typographer, graphic designer, self-confessed typography-addict and many-times-over Oxford Symposium Trustee. Jake’s artworks and books are held in many museums and public collections around the…
Our founding Symposiast Theodore Zeldin – Palestine-born Emeritus Fellow of St. Anthony’s College, philosopher, historian of all things French, seeker after happiness and intelligent conversation – provided an introduction to the Symposium’s 2011 cookbook, Celebrations, published to mark our 30th anniversary. As President of The…
Wind the clock back forty years to 1981. Assembled at St Antony’s College, Oxford, is random collection of philosophers, historians, scholars, non-scholars, readers, writers, scientists, biologists and (mostly) subscribers and…
