by Len Fisher | 6 Jul 2015 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing, News
My contribution to a panel discussion at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, Sunday July 5th, 2015. We don’t need to understand science to enjoy our food, but quite often we need science to provide us with food that we can enjoy, and understanding the science... by Len Fisher | 23 Sep 2013 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing
(with Jeremy Cherfas) It CAN be done – so long as the dough is held in a suitable earthenware or ceramic vessel. Watch the podcast on “Eat This Podcast” by Len Fisher | 26 Nov 2011 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing
Guardian Physicist and U.K. Guardian correspondent Jim Al-Khalili has offered to eat his boxer shorts if it turns out that neutrinos can actually travel faster than light, as recent experiments suggest. In this letter to the Guardian (publisher on November 26th) I... by Len Fisher | 10 Jul 2011 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing
Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, Oxford U.K., 8–10 July, 2011 The Aussie barbecue is a unique celebratory institution. From humble beginnings, with meat cooked on a ploughshare over an outback campfire, or on a shovel in the firebox of a steam locomotive, the... by Len Fisher | 20 Jan 2010 | Food & Gastronomy: Media and Writing
Daily Telegraph (UK) A great summary by food journalist Bee Wilson of a talk that I gave at the 2009 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. I described how the sense of smell is unique to each of us, and how this affects our enjoyment of a meal. Here is one example, as...