From Fire and Forks to Future Foods: We need to talk about our Fear of Technology
Food systems we live in have always been innately technological, even if not futuristic, going back to the flint knives and counting stones of the neolithic era, from the taming of fire,…
Wiki Club Meeting December 2022: Translation and Languages
We are delighted to invite, or invite back, the OFS community to participate in the Symposium’s monthly Wiki Club. Together, we are improving the content and raising the profile of…
Sifter: The Ask December 2022 – Searching Strategies
This session will start with the fundamentals of searching The Sifter and begin to explore the many ways that the information gleaned can be organized, including how to navigate its…
Bring your own Rules and Rituals to our mid-winter Potluck!
Midwinter in the northern hemisphere is a time for fire and feasting, but we all have many different ways of marking moments of change on our lives, whether joyful or…
Wiki Club Meeting January 2023 New Beginnings
We are delighted to invite, or invite back, the OFS community to participate in the Symposium’s monthly Wiki Club. Together, we are improving the content and raising the profile of…
Search Strategies for Newbies: Simplifying Search Results
This latest addition to our virtual Kitchen Table continues to meet on the first Wednesday of the month, next on January 4, 17.00 GMT. The first session of the new year will be dedicated to Search Strategies…
We need to talk about… Salt and Bitter.
We’ll be talking about the dance of tastes and flavours, with Jennifer McLagan, acclaimed author of many cookbooks, including Bitter, Blood, and Odd Bits, and with Naomi Duguid, author of…
Wiki Club Meeting February 2023 Images
We are delighted to invite, or invite back, the OFS community to participate in the Symposium’s monthly Wiki Club. Together, we are improving the content and raising the profile of…
Sifter The Ask February 2023 Getting Started : Searching for Foods in History
Please note: This month's gathering will exceptionally take place on February 8, instead of the first Wednesday of the month as usual. We will focus on how to start working…
We need to talk about… Food in Translation!
Language is wine upon the lips. — Virginia Woolf The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein The art of translation lies less in…
Wiki Club Meeting March 2023 Biographies
We are delighted to invite, or invite back, the OFS community to participate in the Symposium’s monthly Wiki Club. Together, we are improving the content and raising the profile of…
Sifter: The Ask March 2023 Searching for Foods in History
Please note: Once again, this month's gathering will exceptionally take place on March 8, instead of the first Wednesday of the month as usual. The Ask is a monthly session to…
