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Oxford Symposium On Food And Cookery
The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery is an annual weekend conference at which academics, food writers, cooks, and others with an interest in food and culture meet to discuss current issues in food studies and food history. Overview The Symposium has taken place every year since 1983, with the proceedings published in an annual volume about a year later. Since 2006 the annual venue has been St Catherine's College, Oxford.''Petits Propos Culinaires'' no. 80 (2006) pp. 7-8. The Oxford Symposium has been a Charitable Trust since January 2003. Influential in its field, the Oxford Symposium is the oldest such annual meeting in the world, though a series of scientific conferences on the anthropology and ethnology of food began in the 1970s. The Oxford Symposium is a registered charity in Britain, with a group of distinguished Trustees, and there is a support group called Friends of the Oxford Symposium. "Science and Cookery": the 1979 seminars The origin of the Symposium is traced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OSFC 2007 1 Tilson
Oldham Sixth Form College is a government-funded college of further education in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Opened in 1992 as a specialist centre for advanced-level study, the Principal of the college is Jayne Clarke. Despite being a relatively new college, the college has managed to gain an excellent reputation; with good reports coming from both OFSTED and the local paper. Courses The college offers over 100 courses that include academic, vocational and even GCSE courses. Students may take between two and four A level subjects to study; but some students have been known to take five subjects due to various reasons. Students who take three subjects study in the college for around 18 hours each week whereas students who take four subjects study in the college for around 22.5 hours. Students at the college are also able to take enrichment courses which are held once a week on a Wednesday afternoon. These enrichment courses can be vocational or academic. Some enri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accum - Culinary Chemistry (1821)
Accum may refer to: *Friedrich Accum (1769–1838), a German chemist who worked mostly in England * The Japanese EV-E301 series and EV-E801 series The is a two-car battery electric multiple unit (BEMU) train type operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) on the Oga Line in Akita Prefecture in northern Japan since 4 March 2017. Overview The train is derived from the experimental ... trains, branded "Accum" * Accum, Lower Saxony; see List of windmills in Lower Saxony {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josephine Bacon
Josephine may refer to: People * Josephine (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Josephine (singer), a Greek pop singer Places *Josephine, Texas, United States *Mount Josephine (other) * Josephine County, Oregon, a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon Film and music * ''Josephine'' (2001 film), an English-language Croatian film directed by Rajko Grlić * ''Joséphine'' (2013 film), a French film directed by Agnès Obadia * ''Josephine'' (album), album by Magnolia Electric Co. Songs * "Josephine" (Wayne King song), a 1951 song, recorded by many artists including Les Paul and Ray Charles *"My Girl Josephine", by Fats Domino, also known as "Josephine" and "Hello Josephine", recorded by many artists *Josephine (Too Many Secrets)", a song by Jon English, 1982 * "Josephine" (Chris Rea song), a 1985 song * "Josephine" (Terrorvision song), a 1998 song *"Yes Tonight Josephine", a 1957 song by Johnnie Ray *"Josephine", a 1955 song from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Blech
Sonia, Sonja or Sonya, a name of Greek origin meaning wisdom, may refer to: People * Sonia (name), a feminine given name (lists people named, Sonia, Sonja and Sonya) :* Sonia (actress), Indian film actress in Malayalam and Tamil films :* Sonia (singer), British pop star Sonia Evans :* Sonia, pen name of Ottavia Vitagliano (1894–1975), an Italian writer :* Sonia, code-name of Ursula Kuczynski, also known as Beurton, a spy for the USSR :*Queen Sonja of Norway :*Sonia Ben Ammar, French fashion model, actress and singer known mononymously as SONIA * Sonia people, an ethnic group on the Great Papuan Plateau of Papua New Guinea Other * Sonia, the allied code name for the Mitsubishi Ki-51, Japanese WW2 era bomber * SONIA Sonia, Sonja or Sonya, a name of Greek origin meaning wisdom, may refer to: People * Sonia (name), a feminine given name (lists people named, Sonia, Sonja and Sonya) :* Sonia (actress), Indian film actress in Malayalam and Tamil films :* Sonia ..., Sterlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's College, Oxford
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to provide a source of educated Roman Catholic clerics to support the Counter-Reformation under Queen Mary. St John's is the wealthiest college in Oxford, with a financial endowment of £600 million as of 2020, largely due to nineteenth-century suburban development of land in the city of Oxford of which it is the ground landlord. The college occupies a site on St Giles' and has a student body of some 390 undergraduates and 250 postgraduates. There are over 100 academic staff, and a like number of other staff. In 2018 St John's topped the Norrington Table, the annual ranking of Oxford colleges' final results, and in 2021, St John's ranked second with a score of 79.8. History On 1 May 1555, Sir Thomas White, lately Lord Mayor of London, obt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kai Brodersen
Kai Brodersen (born 6 June 1958) is a contemporary ancient historian and classicist on the faculty of the University of Erfurt. He has edited, and translated, both ancient works and modern classical studies. His research focuses on "Applied Sciences" in antiquity, geography, historiography, rhetoric and ancient jokes, mythography and paradoxography, Septuagint studies and Aristeas, inscriptions and curse tablets, early Greek and Hellenistic history, Roman provinces (including Britannia), women and men in the Ancient World, turning points of Ancient History, history of classical scholarship and reception, often with twist (including Asterix) - plus a book for children. Biography Kai Brodersen read Ancient History, Classics and (Protestant) Theology, funded by the "Stiftung Maximilianeum" and the Studienstiftung, at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), and the University of Oxford. From LMU Munich he holds a Dr. phil. (1986) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berthe Meijer (food Writer)
Berthe Meijer (21 April 1938 – 10 July 2012) was a Dutch Holocaust survivor and author. In her memoir of her time imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, she wrote of knowing Anne Frank, which was corroborated by other camp survivors. She was also a culinary journalist and published a cookbook. Early life Meijer was born in Amsterdam to a Jewish family in 1938. Before World War II, she lived on the same street where Anne Frank attended a Montessori school. However, they were acquaintances before, because the members of both families had fled Germany during the rise of Adolf Hitler's regime and had begun to reside in the tightly-knit Jewish community in Amsterdam. They were caught by Nazis in early 1944 and deported from the Netherlands in March 1944. They were also both imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen at the same time. However, Frank and her older sister, Margot Frank, died in a typhus epidemic two weeks before the camp was liberated, while Meijer was released in April 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Owen
Sri Owen (born 31 March 1935) is an Indonesian cooking teacher and food writer, based in London for most of her life. She is the author of the first English-language recipe book dedicated to the food of Indonesia, and is recognised as a leading authority on Indonesian cuisine. Early life Owen was born in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra, in what was then the Dutch East Indies, on 31 March 1935. She was born to a Minangkabau family, in a town at the heart of that culture. She was the eldest of six children, all girls. Her childhood was disrupted by Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies; during World War II, millions of Indonesians died of famine, forced labour, and the disruption of society. Her parents worked as teachers, and the family lived briefly in Jakarta, before settling in Magelang, Central Java in 1949. Sri continued her education in Yogyakarta and studied English Literature at Gadjah Mada University. After graduating, she taught at the university and became head o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Lambert Ortiz
Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz (17 June 1915 – 27 October 2003) was a British food writer who popularized Latin American cuisine in the United States and the United Kingdom. Initially a writer of poetry and fiction, she began working in the culinary field upon moving to Mexico City with her second husband, and continued to work on the cuisines of the areas to which he was posted as a diplomat. She was nominated for three James Beard Foundation Awards, winning twice. Early life Elizabeth Lambert was born 17 June 1915, in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, United Kingdom, she was the middle child of three sisters. Her father was a marine engineer, and because of his job, the family moved to Jamaica when Lambert Ortiz was 8 and then later on to Australia. Her writing career began there, first as a poet following the publication of three books on poetry. She also worked a court reporter in Sydney, before writing reviews of films and television. Lambert married, but her first husband died duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Grigson
Jane Grigson (born Heather Mabel Jane McIntire; 13 March 1928 – 12 March 1990) was an English cookery writer. In the latter part of the 20th century she was the author of the food column for ''The Observer'' and wrote numerous books about European cuisines and traditional British dishes. Her work proved influential in promoting British food. Born in Gloucestershire, Grigson was raised in Sunderland, North East England, before studying at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1953 she became an editorial assistant at the publishing company Rainbird, McLean, where she was the research assistant for the poet and writer Geoffrey Grigson. They soon began a relationship which lasted until his death in 1985; they had one daughter, Sophie. Jane worked as a translator of Italian works, and co-wrote books with her husband before writing ''Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery'' in 1967. The book was well received and, on its strength, Grigson gained her position at ''The Observer'' after a rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Roden
Claudia Roden (née Douek; born 1936) is an Egyptian-born British cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist of Sephardi/Mizrahi descent. She is best known as the author of Middle Eastern cookbooks including ''A Book of Middle Eastern Food'', ''The New Book of Middle Eastern Food'' and ''Arabesque—Sumptuous Food from Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon''. Early life Roden was born in 1936 in Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt, the daughter of Cesar Elie Douek and his wife Nelly Sassoon. Her parents were from prominent Syrian-Jewish merchant families who migrated from Aleppo in the previous century; she grew up in Zamalek, Cairo, with two brothers, the surgeon Ellis Douek, and Zaki Douek. She was Egypt's national backstroke swimming champion at the age of 15. In 1951 Roden moved to Paris and went to boarding school for three years. In 1954 she moved to London where she studied painting at St. Martin's School of Art. She shared a flat with her brothers Ellis Douek and Zaki Douek. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
