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Gastronomy

Images

  • The Asylum for Female Orphans, Lambeth: the interior of the dining room. Coloured aquatint by Hill, 1808, after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner sits at table, eating soup, attended [?] by three others: all are disabled in various ways. Lithograph.
  • Chelsea Pensioners hearing the news of the battle of Waterloo, outside the Duke of York public house. Engraving by J. Burnet, 1831, after D. Wilkie, 1822.
  • A family sit around a table eating their Christmas meal and greet the arrival of the plum pudding which is being carried in on a large tray. Colour process print after Cecil Aldin.
  • Three types of hyena and many vultures surrounding a kill on the African plains. Coloured lithograph by W C Harris.
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Catalogue

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    Practical gastronomy and culinary dictionary, being a valuable guide to cooks and others interested in the art of cookery, containing sketches and quotations of culinary literature : a complete menu compiler and register of most known dishes in English and French, with practical observations on the same / by Charles Herman Senn.

    Senn, Charles Herman, 1862-1934. | Date: 1894
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    The handbook of dining, or, Corpulency and leanness scientifically considered : comprising the art of dining on correct principles consistent with easy digestion, the avoidance of corpulency, and the cure of leanness, together with special remarks on these subjects / by Brillat-Savarin ; translated by L.F.

    Brillat-Savarin, 1755-1826. | Date: 1865
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    Buon appetito, your holiness / Mariangela Rinaldi and Mariangela Vicini ; translated from the Italian by Adam Victor.

    Rinaldi, Mariangela. | Date: 2000
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    Essays, moral, philosophical, and stomachical, on the important science of good-living / By Launcelot Sturgeon.

    Sturgeon, Launcelot. | Date: 1823
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    Histoire de l'alimentation et de la gastronomie depuis la préhistoire jusqua'à nos jours : Illus. documentaires / [Alfred Gottschalk].

    Gottschalk, Alfred L. M. (Louis Moreau), 1873-1918. | Date: 1948
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