Publisher's Synopsis
Food & Imagination is the collected Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery (2021). The title refers to the creative process of inventing new dishes, which add to human happiness, as Brillant-Savarin commented, similar to 'the discovery of a new star'. The reader will find many luminaries of the food history world in this collection, including Christopher Grocock, the translator of Apicius, Paul Levy, Shana Worthen, Charity Robey and Susan Weingarten.