Smells Nasty and Nice: How they guide us in the kitchen and at the table
A conversation with Harold McGee and Fuchsia Dunlop that will explore cross-cultural differences in smell preferences, ways of using smell to judge ingredients and doneness, and the many complex smells…
Tending the Garden: How Microbes Feed Us
If you think of bacteria as something to be feared and wiped away with spray and cloth, now may be the time to change your mind! Did you know that…
Is the kitchen the new venue of foreign policy? The Conflict Cuisine Project.
At our seventh Kitchen Table, we'll be discussing the effect of diaspora cuisine on host-countries with Johanna Mendelson Forman, leader of the Food Security Program at the non-profit, Washington-based Stimson…
Sowthistles, pignuts and chickweed – is forage the new wild farming?
Take a walk on the wild side on Thursday May 27th at 18.00 BST with gathering-guru Roger Phillips, author of all the identification manuals you'll ever need, whose latest The…
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…
