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Memories of Oxford Food Symposia

by Len Fisher | 1 Sep 2003 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing

“Memories of Oxford Food Symposia” – how does one disentangle them? Even though I have only attended two symposia, it feels like twenty because of the richness of the environment, both in terms of ideas and in terms of people. Others will have memories of ideas...

Fat and Flavour (with Philadelphia chef Fritz Blank)

by Len Fisher | 1 Sep 2002 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing

Oxford Symposium on Food and Cooking, St Antony’s College, Oxford, Sept 2002 The talk comprised two sections. The first was a brief scientific introduction (strictly for non-scientists!) outlining how oil-soluble flavour materials become distributed in the oily and...

Molecular Gastronomy and the Mafia

by Len Fisher | 1 May 2001 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing

Times Higher Education Supplement The Sicilian village of Erice, rumoured former home of the mafia, now plays host to a series of high-level scientific meetings in the ancient monasteries clustered in the village centre. Recently, though, it played host to a meeting...

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