Twenty-Fifth Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions

Leeds Symposium 24th April 2010

CRUNCH

This year, while the credit crunch continues and price-crunch labels assail us in every supermarket, we are theming our symposium on crunchy foods. Biscuits and similar confections have been eaten since medieval times, and today we shall consider some aspects of their history.

PROGRAMME

9.50 am  Registration and coffee
10.30   Anne Wilson: Introduction
10.40   Anne Wilson: Textures and teeth: a brief history of crunch
11.00   Interval
11.20   Malcolm Jones: Love, death and biscuits
12.00   Ivan Day: Biscuit-makers and their books
12.40 pm  Lunch
2.25     Robin Weir: The Bath Oliver biscuit
2.40     Interval
3.00     Anastasia Edwards: Biscuit nostalgia
3.40     Margaret Poole: Music bread: Ann Rycraft: Cracknels
4.10     Questions and discussion
4.20-5.00    A closer approach to crunch

Venue: Friends Meeting House Friargate, York

 

Enrolment: Enrolment forms are available from:
C. Anne Wilson, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT. Please return the completed forms as soon as possible and not later than 2nd April 2010.