An Oxford palate
Ahead of the Oxford Literary Festival, a look at food served through the ages, with a peek into a 1524 kitchen, a reminder that Oxford was one of the first places outside London where the avant garde sipped chocolate, and in the way that only food can puncture time, the complaint of a schoolboy about fish during Lent. For food-related events, click on 'See also.'
The Times (UK) 2008-03-14
Categories: ARTS, IDEAS & TRENDS, COOKING & EATING, History & Archaeology, Travel
Index: architecture, Aziz Pandesia, beehives, Cardinal Wolsey, Charles Dodgson, Christ Church, codified seating, coffee houses, college feasts, culture, deer parks, Donald Sloan, dovecots, economics, empire, fashion, Feller's butchers, fishponds, hares, High Table, horticulture, hot chocolate, Jill Norman, Kate Colquhoun, Latin graces, mallard, muntjac, Oxford marmalade, Paul Levy, politics, rabbits, Robert Burton, snipe, Sophie Grigson, Steven Berkoff, stone mortar, Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, swamp deer, Tamasin Day-Lewis, venison, wigeon, wild guinea hens