Celebrating 40 Years: Memories and Visions of the Oxford Food Symposium
This will be a very special Kitchen Table for all Symposiasts, old and new. We'll look back to the very first visionary gatherings at St Antony’s and hear the memories…
Wiki Club Inaugural Meeting: How to Get Started
We are excited to invite the OFS community to join us in a new endeavour to improve the content and raise the profile of food-related articles on Wikipedia. Meeting on-line…
Time to change the plate: The challenge of communal catering
For those of us fortunate enough to have a choice, cutting out animal-derived protein - whether in part or altogether - is top of the student agenda (never mind the…
Wiki Club Meeting November 2021: Resources and Citations
We are excited to invite the OFS community to join us in a new endeavour to improve the content and raise the profile of food-related articles on Wikipedia. Meeting on-line…
Wiki Club Meeting December 2021: Translations and Languages
We are happy to invite the OFS community to join forces in this new endeavour to improve the content and raise the profile of food-related articles on Wikipedia. Meeting on-line…
We need to talk about… Street Food!
Buying and eating food on the street is a tradition as old as our first cities, providing customers with a (usually) inexpensive way to sate hunger and vendors with a…
Wiki Club Meeting January 2022: the Lead Section
We are happy to invite the OFS community to join forces in this new endeavour to improve the content and raise the profile of food-related articles on Wikipedia. Meeting on-line…
We need to talk about… Social Justice in the Gastronomic World!
The crises of the past several years—Covid, racial and economic inequality, lack of diversity, to name just a few—have triggered a global rethinking about issues of social justice in the culinary…
Wiki Club Meeting February 2022: Illustrations
We are happy to invite the OFS community to join forces in this new endeavour to improve the content and raise the profile of food-related articles on Wikipedia. Meeting on-line…
Going with the Grain
We all depend on grains. They’re the plant-based calories that feed the world. A dynamic movement in the UK and North America is working to rebuild local and regional grain…
Wiki Club Meeting March 2022: Biographies
We are happy to invite the OFS community to join forces in this new endeavour to improve the content and raise the profile of food-related articles on Wikipedia. Meeting on-line…
We need to talk about. . . Protected Designations of Origin and similar trade regulations: Legally “authentic” or terroir-ism run amok?
A recent court decision in the United States held that French and Swiss makers of Gruyère cheese could not trademark the name “gruyère” as exclusive to their alpine-made cheeses because…