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Food Rules & Rituals
Food Rules and Rituals includes selected papers from the 2023 Oxford Food Symposium. Grounded in a number of different disciplines, writers from around the globe consider how rules and rituals structure the experiences and meanings of consuming foods in a wide variety of contexts.
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Gardens, Flowers, and Fruit
Gardens, Flowers and Fruit includes selected papers from the 2024 Oxford Food Symposium. Grounded in a number of different disciplines, writers from around the globe consider the precariousness of our fragile lifestyles, celebrating the joys of the natural world while conscious of the si...
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Celebration
The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2011. In keeping with this happy event, celebration was the subject of the meeting that year.
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Food & Communication
The Oxford Symposium on Food on Cookery is the premier English conference on this topic, gathering academics, food professionals, writers and food enthusiasts from around the world to discuss contributions on a single agreed topic. In 2015 the topic was communication and Symposiasts considered fo...
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Food & Landscape
One may expect a symposium on landscape, or terroir, to be a celebration of rolling hills, majestic mountain ranges, mighty rivers, green valleys and fields and the foods that these afford us. Some of the papers in the 2017 Proceedings certainly celebrate the fruits of the earth, but climate chan...
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Food & Material Culture
The thirty-second Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery discussed food and material culture from every possible angle, and from every possible geographical perspective.
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Food & Markets
The thirty-third Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery discussed food and markets from every possible angle, and from every possible geographical perspective.
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Herbs & Spices
The Oxford Symposium 2020 was the first gathering to happen entirely online. In addition to virtual presentations, delegates managed to cook a meal together with Sri Owen’s turmeric lamb curry, a memorable achievement for all. We heard about making curry with the spice known as stone-flower, Parm...
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Offal: Rejected and Reclaimed Food
This year’s theme – offal, rejected and reclaimed foods – when taken in the broadest sense is a subject well-suited to the explorative ethos of the Oxford Symposium, not least because there’s no universal agreement on what actually qualifies as offal. Each culture has its own views on whether foo...