Richard Hosking

Richard Hosking (centre left in white shirt) and participants at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2005. He was to edit the symposium proceedings under the title Authenticity in the Kitchen

Richard Hosking, a graduate of the University of Cambridge and emeritus professor of Sociology and English at Hiroshima Shudo University, has lived in London since 1998 and is a writer on Japanese food. His best known work is A Dictionary of Japanese Food: ingredients and culture (1996). He is a regular participant at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery and has edited five annual volumes of its proceedings.

Works

• 1996 : A Dictionary of Japanese Food: ingredients and culture. Totnes: Prospect Books^[1]
• 2000 : At the Japanese Table. New York: Oxford University Press

as editor

• 2004  : Nurture: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2003. Footwork. ISBN 978-0953505722
• 2006  : Wild Food: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2004. Prospect Books. ISBN 1903018439 Text on Google Books
• 2006  : Authenticity in the Kitchen: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2005. Prospect Books. ISBN 1903018471 Text on Google Books^[2]
• 2007  : Eggs in Cookery: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2006. Prospect Books. ISBN 978-1-903018-54-5 Text on Google Books
• 2009  : Vegetables: proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2008. Prospect Books. ISBN 978-1903018668^[3]

References

1. Amazon.com with brief biography
2. Nicholas Wroe, "A handsome feast" in The Guardian (10 September 2005)
3. Paul Levy, "Cherwell scholarship" in The Guardian: Word of Mouth (11 February 2008)