Resource Guide for Food Writers


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The Resource Guide for Food Writers represents the first comprehensive listing of resources for food writers and culinary enthusiasts. A feast for all who love food, it is both a research tool for finding out facts about food and a guide to food writing. Author Gary Allen presents an impressive menu of relevant resources, ranging from specialty libraries and booksellers to periodicals, organizations, and web sites. Allen goes on to provide genuine guidance on how writers can utilize those resources for writing about food and getting published. This authoritative reference and handbook is essential for every epicurean who wants to learn more about food, from the food­service professional to the ambitious home gourmet.







Food on the Move


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The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery has been held annually since 1981. This volume of more than 40 essays presented in 1996 includes pieces on food suitable for travelling, food written about by travel writers and travellers, and food that has itself travelled from its place of origin. The topics range from the domestication of western food in Japan, cooking on board ship in the 17th and 18th centuries, the transmission of the Arabic culinary tradition to medieval England, the influence of travel writers on modern Australian cooking, and the travels of the peanut.




Cooks & Other People


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Oxford Symposium 1981


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Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, 1988


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The history, evolution and use of cooking pots from diverse places, such as Syria, Papua New Guinea, China and Spain are discussed.




The Fat of the Land


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Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cooking for the year 2002. The subject is The Fat of the Land.