Wild Food: Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2004

By Ken Albala

The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery continues to be the premier English conference on these topics, gathering academics, professional writers and amateurs from Britain, the USA, Australia and many other countries. Prospect Books has published these proceedings since 1981 with a short break in 2001-2003.The 2004 Symposium on Wild Food: Hunters and Gatherers received a large number of excellent papers. Forty papers cover subjects as various as ginseng; wild olives; seaweed; angelica; imitation game in nineteenth century Germany; wild mushrooms; the pike; eating insects and the Mexican maize fungus, cuit lacoche.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903018439
• ISBN13: 9781903018439
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Prospect Books (UK)
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.7"