Media & Conferences

Radio

Producer and host of “Gluttony” live show on Resonance 104.4 FM, The Thread, season 7 (Sin), 3 June 2013, with guests Dr. Emma-Jayne Abbotts, Carolin Young and Prof. Sami Zubaida. 

Pre-recorded guest segment on space food for “Storage of Energy” show on Resonance 104.4 FM, The Thread, season 6 (Storage), 26 June 2012, talking to Jacob Blandy.  or listen to entire show here.

Producer and host of “How to Cook” live show on Resonance 104.4 FM, The Thread, season 5 (How To), 26 April 2011, with guests Ivan Day, Jill Norman and Jake Tilson. Listen here.

Guest on “Here on Earth” live show on space food, Wisconsin Public Radio, 30 November 2007, with host Jean Ferrara, chef Homaro Cantu and astronaut Clay Anderson. Listen here.

Conferences

July 2012: Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery 2012, St Catherine’s College, Oxford (theme Stuffed & Wrapped). Made and presented a short film with Anissa Helou on stuffing and wrapping techniques from around the world. See the video here.

June 2012: Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) gastronomy conference. Presented “Engraved in the Mind: the Significance of Smell”.

September 2011: l’Université Français-Rabelais de Tours & l’Institut Européen de l’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation (IEHCA) Summer School, Tours, France.

April 2011: Science Museum, London. Presented two sessions on Space Food at the monthly ‘Lates’ evening.

July 2010: Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery 2010, St Catherine’s College, Oxford (theme Smoked, Cured and Fermented). Presented joint paper with William Rubel “Smoke Cured Milk of the Samburu”.

September 2008: Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery 2008 (theme Vegetables). Presented “Up on the Farm: the Role of Vegetables in Conquering Space” to an audience of academics, food writers, historians, chefs and others.

July 2006: Food and History: Health, Culture, Tourism and Identity Conference, University of Central Lancashire. Presented “Stranger than Fiction: The Reality and Fantasy of Eating in Space” to an academic audience.

September 2005: Hex Garden Festival at Hex Castle (Belgium). Presented on Cuitlacoche and prepared a tasting for an audience of plantsmen and gardening experts at the invitation of the Comte Ghislain d’Ursel.

September 2004: Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery 2004 (theme Wild Food). Presented “Cuitlacoche, Pest or Prize” to an audience of academics, food writers, historians, chefs and others.