Dr Svetlana Rodgers, Professor in Food, Hospitality and Culinary Arts and Head of Centre for Advanced Culinary Technology will host the inaugural lecture on Tuesday 20 May 2008 at 6.30pm at Ward Hall, Darley Road, Eastbourne, BN20 7UN. The abstract for her presentation is: Being so tantalisingly close to Caremé's kitchen at the Brighton Pavilion compels us to reflect on the logistical complexity of producing food for hundreds of guests at a time. To do this, Caremé, the Prince Regent's personal chef, combined art with food preservation. Using the modern terminology, he was a product developer and food system designer. He would undoubtedly find a clamour of TV producers looking to make him a celebrity chef. His skills would be valued in banqueting, conferences centres, casinos, stadiums, cruise ships and airlines. But in the twenty first century technically competent operators can match and extend his brilliance because of technological advancements borrowed from space exploration, military technologies, electronics, advanced engineering, medicine and nutrigenomics. RSVP to Marketing and Communications, University of Brighton 01273 643596 [email protected]