Richard Hosking

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
• 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
• 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

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