Monthly Archives: September 2007

 

Look both ways

Time is slipping by without my being able to keep up. I’ll finish off Oxford when I can, but meanwhile here is what happened last week. Monday night was a long awaited magazine launch reading at Foyle’s: Seam is an … Continue reading

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More Oxford

(**This post was lurking in my unposted half-finished back-(b)log and pertains to two previous posts from September 2007: apologies if it reaches and confuses current subscribers!) We went round the mulberry tree on Sunday. I don’t believe I’d ever eaten … Continue reading

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Saturday afternoon

Moving on from the already full morning, on Saturday afternoon I went to a talk by Rachel Laudan, on how food makes us moral agents – more or less virtuous. She presented two trays of foods representing opposing value systems: … Continue reading

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A long wordy account of the first morning of the Food & Morality conference

On Saturday morning I hopped a bus to Oxford at the unearthly hour of 7am on my way to the Oxford Symposium on Food and Drink, whose theme this year was food and morality. It was a gorgeous morning and … Continue reading

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London, Bristol, Bath and Bedford upon Avon

On Sunday I went into town and snapped this from the National Gallery’s front steps, on my way to the National Portrait Gallery. The BP Portrait Award show was on, always a winner for me, and I loved it. Then … Continue reading

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