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Gardens, Flowers, and Fruit
Toggle the cite modalProceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2024
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... Read more
Published: 2025
Pages: 440
eBook: 9781800506893
Paperback: 9781800506886
ePub: 9781800507159
Hardback: 9781800506879
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 significant stresses on our environment.
Highlights include papers on floating gardens in Xochimilca foodways, Tasmanian apples and ecological colonization, the blight of #Cottagecore, Virgil’s Tarentum and Pompeiian garden painting, cherry dishes and sensual imagination in medieval China, resilient Indigenous food systems in the Ecuadorean Amazon, Persian orange blossom jelly, and food and vitalism in The Broken Earth.