Food and landscape : proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2017
Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery (Creator), Mark McWilliams (Editor)
The proceedings of the 2017 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery includes 43 essays by international scholars. The topics included agro-ecology, food sovereignty and economic democracy in the agricultural landscape, argued by Colin Tudge, James Rebanks on family life as a hill-farmer in the Lake District, and many talks that illustrate Catalan historian Joseph Pla's axiom that 'Cuisine is the landscape in a saucepan'
Print Book, English, 2018
Prospect Books, London, 2018
Conference papers and proceedings
448 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9781909248625, 1909248622
1031562309
Foreword / Mark McWilliams
Plenary papers
A challenging landscape : Scotland's food and drink assets / Catherine Brown
Microbial landscapes / Joshua Evans
The future belongs to the gourmet / Colin Tudge
Exploring aeroir, or the atmospheric taste of place / Nicola Twilley
Symposium papers
'Practically only an English grazing farm' : the Irish landscape and English beef / Juliana Adelman
Eating into the countryside : the case of Hamburg / Volker Carlton Bach
Singapore : landscape of loss, cuisine of comfort / Lucey Bowen
Landscaping food and identity : rice paddy art in Japan / Voltaire Cang
Stories of Rice Lake
stewards, settlers, and storytellers / Nathalie Cooke
From nature's garden : reimagining North African landscapes through food in female French colonial literature / Edwige Crucifix
Coming in to Graze : the fall and rise of hill-reared mutton / Jessica Fagin
Dining outdoors in Renaissance art / Allison Fisher
Global warming and the changing global food landscape : the need to preserve diversity / Len Fisher
The landscape of food and memory : cuisine and cultural identity in the Sephardic Jewish diaspora / Sara Gardner
'Bigger was better?' The interplay of new technologies, field size, and basic commodity production in the Roman occupation of Britain, c. 100 BCE
400 CE / Christopher Grocock
Maple moon : landscapes of the sugar maple in a time of climate change / Naomi Guttman
Agriculture without fences / Hilary Heslop
Imaginary landscapes and virtual terroir / Ben Houge
From Kaluga to Chak-Chak : eating locally along the Trans-Siberian tracks / Sharon Hudgins
Nice day in the driftless / Tom Hunter
'A way of seeing which we learn' : food as resistance / Fozia Ismail
The Terraces of Kea : producing food for subsistence shaped the Cycladic landscape / Aglaia Kremezi
Ghost in the cane fields / Michael Krondl Pasture and pastoralism : the inextricable links between food, culture, and landscape in Samburu district, Northern Kenya / Jane Levi and William Rubel
Steps toward an ecology of the cookbook : landscape in the cookbook and the cookbook in its landscape / Don Lindgren
Terraced landscapes : farming and performing on balconies / Morna Livingstone
Cuscuz Paulista : how an African staple became the gastronomical symbol of Sao Paulo / Sandra Mian
The contested origins of the Presniz between myth and reality / Giulia Nicolini
Mapping food in France under the first Empire / Guillaume Nicoud
Moveable terroir : from liquid stability to rock-solid ephemerality / Thomas Parker
Climbing butter mountain : how food law has affected the British landscape, in and out of the EU / Olivia Potts
A creature of salty estuaries and glacial till : the history, remarkable qualities, and incomparable flavour of the wild Peconic Bay scallop / Charity Robey
Americans and the landscape of wine / Laura Shapiro
'Le mariage entre mets et vins' : on the geographical and historical origins of pairing a food with a particular wine in France / Richard Warren Shepro
Lines in the landscape : how the olive-line, the date-line, and the vine-line have defined Mediterranean culture / David C. Sutton
Turkish tea for liberty : changing the landscape of a region and the drinkscape of a nation through political choice / Aylin Öney Tan
Brandenburg-Prussia's cultivated natural food landscape / Molly Taylor-Poleskey
Minnesota's hearty plums : the story of a fruit and its ties to rural and urban landscapes / Emily S. Tepe
Reading the English countryside : a thousand years of English agriculture etched on the surface of the land / Malcolm Thick
Tejate, Tejateras, and the taste of place : a sensory excavation / Amy B. Trubek
Fratelli Ingegnoli : reshaping the landscape of Italian cooking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Anne Urbancic
Food in the context of first-century Galilee : the Mishnah and the so-called 'Jesus diet' / Susan Weingarten
Feasting is the finest prayer : dreams of the Holy Land in the Pots of the Ashkenaz / Michael Yashinsky