by Len Fisher | 11 Jul 2017 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing
The video of my talk to the 2017 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery is now available on YouTube. complete with questions, comments and the occasional joke. Pity I kept mispronouncing TAnzania as TanzAnia; maybe a side-effect of speaking to such a distinguished... 
by Len Fisher | 5 May 2017 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing
Commissioned by the Guardian a while ago, but then spiked on the basis that it was too “sciencey” [sic]. I wonder what else they expected from a scientist? At any rate, here is my guide to the quirkier side of vegetables (from fresh and juicy to saggy and... 
by Len Fisher | 30 Jan 2017 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing, Mini Stories from Science
The Chinese New Year, which began this year on January 28th, is a big deal in Sydney, which has a large and vibrant Chinese community, some of whose families go back to the gold rush days of the 1850s. As part of the celebrations, the Art Gallery of New South Wales... 
by Len Fisher | 10 Nov 2016 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing, News
Do you have a passion for food and cooking? Do you want access and guidance on the best in culinary literature? Former molecular biologist Matt Cockerill has an answer, in the form of a new web-based project called 1000 Cookbooks (www.1000cookbooks.com). As a start,... 
by Len Fisher | 16 Jun 2016 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing, News, Stray Thoughts
At Theodore Zeldin’s suggestion, supported and promoted by Paul Levy, here is a letter that I and 59 others signed, with food-related reasons for Britain to stay firmly in the EU. Sir, As people engaged in the food world, concerned about the cultural,... 
by Len Fisher | 25 May 2016 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing
In celebration of the “offal” theme at the 2016 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, here is the wonderful brain cutlet story from Lawrence Durrell’s Prospero’s Cell, a semi-fictional diary of his time on Corfu. The Count is “Count D” (probably an invented character,...