Wild Food

Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2004

Edited by Richard Hosking

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344 pp; 172 x 246 mm; paperback 

ISBN 1-903018-43-9 £30.00


Contents

Wild Food: The Call of the Domestic - Ken Albala
Umbles and the Eating of Humble Pie - Joan P Alcock
Fungi as Food - Josephine Bacon
Capering About - Rosemary Barron
Muskrats and Terrapins: The Forgotten Bounty of the Coastal
Marshlands of New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland - Fritz Blank
Cooking His Goose: Gender in American Wild Game Cookbooks - Bronwen E. Bromberger
Some Notes on Seakale: Crambe Maritima - Lynda Brown
Hunting in the Medieval Royal Forests 1066–1307 - Reva Berman Brown
The Hunting and Gathering of Wild Foods - Susan Campbell
La Ceuillette: Foraging for Edible Wild Plants in Southern France - Caroline Conran
Ginseng: Taming the Wild - Andrew Dalby
Walk on the Wild Side - Daphne Derven
Where the Wild Things Are: From Wild Olive to Present-Day
Cultivars and a Tasting of New World Feral Olive Oils - Anne Dolamore
Irish Seaweed Revisited - Elizabeth Field
The Significance of Samuel Pepys’ Predilection for Venison Pasty - John Fletcher
Angelica: From Norwegian Mountains to the English Trifle  - Ove Fosså
A Wild Herb Nursery in Alicante - Vicky Hayward
Wild About the UAE - Philip Iddison
The Taming of the ’Shroom - Cathy Kaufman
The Water Tiger: The Pike in English Cooking - Sam Kilgour
Entomophagy - Bruce Kraig
Tracking the Wild in ‘Wild’ Foods - Steven Kramer
Cuitlacoche: Pest or Prize? - Jane Levi
Some Like it Raw: Buffalo Cookery and Foodways in America - Walter Levy
Bamboo for Life - Pia Lim-Castillo
A History of Seafood in Irish Cuisine and Culture - Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire
Contemporary Novelists on GM Foods and Industrial Farming - Kathy Mathys
Some Thoughts on Wild Fruits - Robert Palter
The Game of the Caliphs - Charles Perry
The Edible, Incredible Cattail - Susan McLellan Plaisted
Wild Plant Foods: Panacea or just a Picnic? - Christopher Robbins
There are No Walls in Eden - William Rubel
The Forest Foodways of the Tribals of India’s Bastar District - Colleen Taylor Sen
The Fall and Rise of the Edible Turkey - Andrew F, Smith
Really Wild: Britain, Before Agriculture - Colin Spencer
The Artifice of the Hunter: Gathering Ancient Inspiration - Marshall Walker
Wild Foods in the Talmud - Susan Weingarten
Recipe for a Bacchanal - Carolin C. Young

 The 2004 Symposium on Wild Food: Hunters and Gatherers, held in September under the chairmanship of Paul Levy and Claudia Roden, attracted a great deal of attention, with a large number of excellent papers being presented. It was our first meeting at Oxford Brookes University and therefore involved much detailed planning and hard work to prepare for the new venue, both on the part of the staff of Oxford Brookes and the Symposium. The Symposium Organizer, Silvija Davidson, earned the deep gratitude of all for the outstanding job she did in bringing everything together, and for Brookes, Donald Sloan, Head of the Department of Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism Management, did all a good host should do in making us welcome and ensuring satisfactory arrangements for the success of the Symposium. Geraldene Holt, Chairman of the Trustees, championed and organized the move to Brookes, and all this involved much hard work.

On Friday night there was a wine and canapé reception to welcome new members and to celebrate the publication of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, edited by Andrew Smith, a regular symposiast.

On Saturday night, there was a champagne reception, generously organized by the Champagne Information Bureau, in honour of Theodore Zeldin, newly appointed a Patron of the Symposium. Following this, Paul Bloomfield, Visiting Fellow of Brookes University, with Scott Wilson, (both of the Fox Club in London’s Mayfair), together with Richard Watson, Head Chef of Brookes Restaurant, prepared and produced the excellent Symposium Dinner, planned and overseen with flair, enthusiasm and serious effort by Caroline Conran with the help of Elisabeth Luard and Anissa Helou, and carved and served with the help of students from Brookes. All these
deserve our hearty thanks.

On Saturday for lunch members picnicked in the grounds of Headington Hill Hall, the grand 1850s mansion now part of Oxford Brookes University. Sunday lunch was a Game Workshop, presented with great enthusiasm and insight by Nichola Fletcher, the game being generously provided by Rick Bestwick and the bread by Dan de Gustibus, to all of whom many thanks.

Richard Manning opened the Symposium with a provocative keynote speech on ‘Wild Food and Civilization’. There was also, on Sunday, a panel discussion on Foraging, in which Richard Mabey, Roger Phillips and Sinclair Philip took part.

The symposium papers presented here cover a very wide range of topics on the theme of “wild food” and all those who presented them are to be thanked for their efforts spent in producing and delivering them. Those who used audio-visual materials in their presentation were greatly supported by the patience and professionalism of the Brookes’ AV staff.

Once again Patsy and Phil Iddison are to be heartily thanked for raising valuable funds for the Symposium with their Bring and Buy stall. Moving to a new venue
put a great strain on all aspects of organizing the symposium, and required the help of many people, all of whom are to be thanked for their part in making it such an enjoyable event.

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