The appetite and the eye : visual aspects of food and its presentation within their historic context
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The appetite and the eye : visual aspects of food and its presentation within their historic context
Classmark: Cookery A WIL
Additional creator(s): Wilson, C Anne (Editor); Brears, Peter C D (Illustrator); Wilson, C Anne (Former owner)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication city: Edinburgh
Date(s): [1991]
Language: English
Size and medium: ix, 162 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/173988
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016228099705181
Collection group(s): Cookery Collection
Description
"Papers from the Second Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions, April 1987, with additional papers"--Title page verso.
"The rationale behind 'nouvelle cuisine' is, in fact, nothing new; for centuries the appearance of both food and its surroundings have contributed to please the eye and enhance the appetite. This collection of papers looks more closely at the ways in which food has been presented, and the underlying significance of the communal meal from Medieval times to Victorian Britain."--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ritual, form and colour in the mediaeval food tradition / C. Anne Wilson -- From mediaeval great hall to country-house dining-room : the furniture and setting of the social meal / C. Anne Wilson -- Decoration of the Tudor and Stuart table / Peter Brears -- Ideal meals and their menus from the Middle Ages to the Georgian Era / C. Anne Wilson -- Keeping up appearances : the genteel art of dining in middle-class Victorian Britain / Dena Attar -- Illusion and illustration in cookery-books since the 1940s / Lynette Hunter.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Anne Wilson Collection 027: From the C. Anne Wilson Collection, gifted in 2022.
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