"Taste" - Book signing & dinner
Author Kate Colquhoun will be with us to take us through her new book Taste: The Story of Britain through its Cooking,
Venue: The Vaults & Garden Café, Oxford
Cost: £25 per person (members £20), open bar
For once, we are going to have traditional British dishes, cooked from local and seasonal products. All in tune with the book to be talked about and signed after dinner.
In her new book Taste, Kate Colquhoun explores two thousand years of our rich culinary heritage, uncovering the ebb and flux of fashions that have both linked and distinguished different societies throughout the ages. Filled with unusual facts and beautifully illustrated, it is as much about the invisible hordes who influence cookery as about culinary stars and equipment. It is nothing less than an involving and immediate history of the British people, told through the ways we have prepared and shared food down the centuries.
Agenda for the evening:
7pm Greetings, mingling, drinks
7:30 platted dinner by Will
9pm Book talk and slide show - Kate Colquhoun
9:30 book signing
Kate Colquhoun is the author of A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton (2003). It was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2004 and longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2003. She reviews regularly for the Daily Telegraph and contributes to a wide range of other publications. Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking, published by Bloomsbury in October 2007 and in paperback in July 2008, celebrates every aspect of our cuisine from Anglo-Saxon feasts and Tudor banquets, through the skinning of eels and the invention of ice cream, to Dickensian dinner-party excess and the growth of frozen food..
Sign up using the link below, or by emailing Tamara, tschiopu@hotmail.com. Payment by cheque payable to Slow Food Oxon. Cancellation policy: because of some fixed costs, a £5 charge will be asked of those who sign up and fail to materialise on the evening.
