Culinary History Gallery

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A Convicts’ Home (1877), from Street Life in London by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith: “In Dru
Advertisements in The Helena Daily Herald (Montana, March 30th,1878).
vaznetti:mediumaevum:Medieval Food PreservationFruits were often dried, but a far more tasty method
Excavationsin a 16th-centuryTara house (Omsk Oblast, Siberia).Tarawas founded in 1594 as a military
“Mush Fakers” and Ginger Beer Makers (1877), from Street Life in London by John Thomson and Ad
Drying jars for canning time in the Ozarks (Missouri, May 1936).
WRNS with the Fleet Mail (England, November 1944):Just visible through the grid of sorting compartme
A German officereats C-rations in the ruins of Saarbrücken, a German city andstronghold along the Si
Everyday life in liberated Paris (spring 1945):A large group of civilians queueing outside a bakery-
A woman shopping in wartime London has coupons removed from her ration book after buying her groceri
A ration book and clothing coupon book for British civilians during WW2.  Clothes rationing was anno
Inside a cabin in the Ozarks that houses six people (Missouri, May 1936).
Potato ring (Sheffield, England,c. 1790 – 1805).
The Seller of Shell Fish (1877), from Street Life in London by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith: &ldqu
Higsons Brewery (Liverpool, 1960s).
We have a fairly extensive oenology collection within our Chef Louis Szathmary Collection in Special
Women shelling walnuts at Covent Garden Market (London, c. 1890).
A tea plantation in Ciwidey, Bandung (Indonesia).  The Dutch first began growing tea around the Band
In 1945, one cookbook introduced America to the exotic–and delicious–world of Chinese fo
Congratulations to Michael W. Twitty’s The Cooking Gene—winner of TWO James Beard Foundation Awards
The ice man delivering blocks of ice for household iceboxes (1923).
jennlevo: President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama made culinary history when they served home
A Georgian-era inlaid partridge wood tea caddy (early 1800′s).  “Partridge wood” is so named because
Medieval pottery ale jug (1380 – 1450) with a mottled olive glazedecoration.  It is 12cm high, and w
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