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FOOD IN OUR LIVES

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Organisation:	British Science Association History of Science Section
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Date of Event:	Start Date: 16/09/2010 End Date: 16/09/2010
Time of Event:	Start time: 13:00 - End time: 15:00
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Event Summary:	Explore some of the meanings we attach to food and the growing role of food in a geographical setting as part of culture, commerce and environment. The idea that we are what we eat goes back to the beginnings of Western and Asian medicine. Discover the surprising cultural and historical perspectives on the links between food and medicine, industrial science, and sustainability.
Audience level:	2. Families & teenagers (aged 12+)
Event Category:	Food and drink
Keyword:	Food; weekly pass
Booking information:	Included in weekly pass
Venue:	MB517, Aston University

Event Agenda

16/09/2010 13:00 - 15:15	William Buckland's oral history of deep time, or, things that made him go mmmmmmmmmm Dr David Allan Feller - University of Cambridge	Talk
	Perhaps because his fellow naturalists thought William Buckland’s personal habits a bit ‘showy’ for a professional, important aspects of Buckland’s fieldwork methodology have been labeled ‘eccentric’ and not taken seriously. Buckland’s eccentric eating habits included a vow to sample every member of the animal kingdom.

16/09/2010 13:00 - 15:15	Pioneers of food science: chemists and chocolate in interwar Britain Dr Sally Horrocks - University of Leceister	Talk
	During the interwar years scientists working for Britain’s leading chocolate manufacturers developed many new products such as the Aero and modified the production processes of existing lines including Cadburys Dairy Milk. Their efforts contributed significantly to a decline in the relative cost of chocolate and ensured that scientists in this industry were among the pioneers of food science.

16/09/2010 13:00 - 15:15	Delivering sustainable communities: reconnecting communities through local food Dr Julie Newton - Cardiff University	Talk
	Community resilience has received much attention within academia and policy in relation to debates on developing and maintaining sustainable rural communities. What does this involve and how can communities practically achieve and sustain resilience on the ground? We explore these issues in the context of local food by focusing on the concept of a community food hub.

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