‘Sitting the month’: Post-partum Confinement Practices in China
Image credit Georgine Leung reports on foods offered to new mothers in China and her experiences of the recent Wikithon at the British Library There is a Chinese saying for…
Author: Fiona Sinclair
Our Wiki-Food and (mostly) Women Project
It’s women who’ve been cooking the flaming thing for thousands of years [1].So why are they not on Wikipedia? Wikipedia – the free online encyclopedia – is now the default…
Hippophagie and the nutritional benefits of horsemeat
Image credit David Sutton, the Symposium’s Treasurer, investigates the increase in the consumption of horsemeat in 1890s France The nineteenth-century campaigners who advocated increased consumption of horse-meat, especially in France,…
Gaziantep, a UNESCO Creative City for Gastronomy
Image credit Claudia Roden, the Symposium’s President, reports on recognition recently given to Gaziantep’s culinary heritage Those of us who were present at the 2012 Symposium when the theme was…
The Offal Bore
Paul Levy, the Symposium’s former Chair, considers the lonely life of the offal enthusiast The offal bore knows that in London, Bellamy’s in Earl’s Court Road have the best brains,…
