Wikipedia:GLAM/Oxford Food Symposium

The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery is an annual conference about food and cooking in Oxford. Wikipedia editing and training happens there and also at associated events at the British Library.

PURPOSE: Our group aims to improve and expand Wikipedia’s coverage of food related topics, especially but not exclusively those related to women. We are part of a broader effort led by Wikipedia to redress imbalances in its current content. We embrace the need to more generally address neglected personalities and topics as well as to correct popularly received falsehoods that are rife in a field that has only recently received serious scholarly attention. We welcome participants of all backgrounds and experience levels. Our hope is that by doing so every contributor, from expert to student, can not only learn why and how to contribute to Wikipedia but also initiate an important dialogue between all involved in an area of study that after long neglect has so prominently entered into popularity.

Calendar of events

7 July 2017 – a wikithon in Oxford at the Symposium
10 November 2017 – a wikithon at the British Library

Pages created and improved

Food Subjects

Charcoal in food

National Training School of Cookery Postpartum confinement (Chinese) – special foods

Food People

Joan P Alcock Balfour, Evelyn Barbara (Lady) Banerji, Chitrita Carter, Susannah Charcoal in food Child, Lydia Coady, Chantal Coe, Sophie Conley, Sue Davidis, Henriette Del Conte, Anna Dubois, Mrs. Fitzgibbon, Theodora Glanville, Philippa Glasse, Hannah Goldstein, Darra Goodfellow, Elizabeth Gray, Patience Grey, Elizabeth, Countess of Kent Hardyment, Christina Heaton, Rose Henniker Henry, Diana Hesser, Amanda Heuwer, Herta Hollingsworth, Dorothy F. Howland, Esther Allen Kamman, Madeleine Kippenberger, Susanne Knight, Charlotte (horticulturist) Ladies’ ordinary Laudan, Rachel Leach, Helen Leslie, Eliza Longone, Jan(ice) MacLean, Veronica (Lady) Medici, Catherine de’, Mères Lyonnaises Morphy, Countess Nestle, Marion Orrey, Jeannette Pomeroy, Naomi Prunier, Madame Randolph, Mary Richman, Phyllis Robins Pennell, Elizabeth Rogan, Simon Rogers, Judy Smith, Eliza Simnel Cake Thirsk, Joan Tudge, Colin Vieyra, Beatrice Walker, Caroline Wecker, Anna Welserin, Sabina White, Florence Wilson, Bee

Participants

Choosing a topic

We ask that this entry fall under the umbrella of our mission to expand and improve Wikipedia’s food-related content, especially (but not exclusively) those about women. We interpret “food-related topics” in the broadest sense. We include wine, beer, coffee, tea, and other beverages; table-related objects (“material culture”); and dining institutions and traditions, from cafés to Tupperware parties, into our scope. We also encourage contributions that address women’s roles not only in cooking but also in transforming raw agricultural products into comestible form (for example, grinding corn into flour).

Suggestions

Abramson, Julia Acton, Eliza Adamson, Melitta Weiss Allen, Patricia Althusen, Dorothy (1877—1965) Andoh, Elizabeth Aris, Pepita Arnt, Alice (1941—2007) Aureden, Lilo Avdeeva, Ekaterina Alekseevna (1789—1865) Ayrton, Elizabeth Bareham, Lindsey Bates, Margaret Baxter, Ena (mentioned under Baxters) Bianchi, Luciana Biss, Kathy Bissell, Frances Bitting, Katherine Golden Black, Maggie (food historian) Blech, Sonia Blumenfeld, Agnes Bollinger, Lily mentioned under Bollinger Boni, Ida Boni, Ada Books for Cooks Boucher, Florine Boxer, Arabella Bradley, Alice (1875—1946) Bradley, Martha Brissenden, Rosemary Brown, Catherine Bryan, Lettice Burneleit, Doris Capalbo, Carla Carrini, Rose Cathie, Kyle Clark, Sam(antha) Clarke, Sally Conran, Caroline Contini, Mary Cook, Wendy E. Corey, Helen Costa, Margaret (cookbook author) Crenn, Dominique Daguin, Ariane mentioned under : D’Artagnan Davenport, Philippa Davis, Clara de Moor, Janny Dimbleby, Josceline Driver, Elizabeth Eales, Mrs. Mary – under: Mrs. Mary Eales’s Receipts Evans, Meryle Eyton, Audrey Ferguson, Clare Ferguson, Giana mentioned under Gubbeen Farmhouse Cheese Ferguson, Prscilla Parkhurst Fitzgibbon, Theodora Forbes, Leslie Fussell, Betty Genlis, Mme. De Grant, Doris Greenberg, Florence (British cookery author on Jewish cuisine) Guinaudeau Franc, Zette Hahn, Mary (German cookery author) Hahnemann, Trine Halici, Nevin Hannaford, Kathryn Harbutt, Juliet Harmon Jenkins, Nancy Hazelton, Nika Standen Hegarty, Patricia Heidke, Lisa Henniker Heaton, Rose Heyl, Hedwig Hibben, Sheila (1888—1964; née Cecile Craik) Hirsheimer, Christoper Hobhouse, Caro Holle, Luise Holt, Geraldene Hooper, Mary Ann Hooper, Allison Hope, Annette Howard, Josephine Hutchins, Sheila Infanta D. Maria Irwin, Florence Jack, Florence Johnson, Nancy (inventor of 19th-c ice cream maker) Johnson, Mrs. (tavern cook/proprietor of Devereux Court, Strand, 1730s) Johnston, Christian Isobel Kalins, Dorothy Kapoor, Sybil Keil, Teresa Keller, Janet Kellogg, Ella Ervilla (1853—1920) Kindersley, Juliet King, Niloufer Klicka, Mary V. Lane, Gertrude Battle Langseth-Chrstiansen, Lillian Lawrence, Felicity Le Roy, Anita Leach, Margaret Lehmann, Gilly Levi, Jane Leyel, Hilda Llanover, Lady Llewellyn, Pat(tricia) Lousada, Patricia Lowinsky, Ruth Luard, Elisabeth Lutes, Della (1872—1942) Mackinnon, Georgina (1884—1973) McLagan, Jennifer Maclean, Virginia Malouf, Lucy Manfield, Christine Maxwell, Maggie McNeill, F M (1895—1973) Merigot, Madame mentioned under: Antoine-Augustin Parmentier Meyer, Erna (1890—1975) Miller, Lee Modesto, Maria Lourdes Molokhovets, Elena Ivanova (1831—1918) mentioned under: Gift to Young Housewives Molyneux, Joyce Morgan, Joan (writer; authority on apples and other orchard fruits) Murcott, Anne Murphy, Patricia (restaurateur) Muscatine, Doris Newcomer Kitchen Nicholson, Asenath (1792—1855) Norman, Jill O’Neill, Molly Ortiz, Elizabeth Lambert mentioned under: Huevos rancheros Owen, Sri Panjabi, Camellia Parades, Mika Parker, Margaret (wife of the Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew) Pinedo, Encarnación (1848—1902) Plat, Judith (d. 1635) mentioned under: Hugh Plat Plum, Camilla Popendieck, Jan(et) Quicke, Mary Raffaid, Elizabeth Rammachandran, Ammini Ray, Elizabeth (food writer) Reardon, Joan Renyer, Charlotte-Jacquéline Rhode, Eleanour Sinclair Riley, Gillian Ripe, Cherry (Australian food writer) Risley, Mary Roden, Claudia Rutledge, Sarah mentioned under: John Rutledge Saadat, Shayma Sabban, Françoise Saberi, Helen Sack, Celia Sahni, Julie Salvoni, Elena Santich, Barbara Sargeant, Kate Savill, Joanna Schreiber, Sophie Wilhelmine Schellhammer, Maria Sophie Schouten, Diny Sevilla, Maria Jose Shapiro, Laura Sheraton, Mimi Shire, Lydia Simeti, Mary Taylor Smart, Diana So, Yan-Kit Spang, Rebecca Spary, Emma Spear, Shirley Spray, Zona St John of Sevenoaks (MSS cookbook) Steven, Maisie Tamalada Thanegi, Ma Toussaint Sama, Maguelonne Turgeon, Charlotte Vollenvieder, Alice Wells, Patricia Welser, Philippine Welser(in), Sabina White, Florence White, Merry Welser, Philippine Wheaton, Barbara Ketcham White, Merry Wiener, Sarah Wilson, C. Anne Winnington, Ursula Wooledge Salmon, Alice Yates, Lucy H Young, Carolin

US women who are food writers selected by the Schlesinger Library