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Cooks

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  • Savour British flavours of the season / Fortnum & Mason.
  • Wormwood Scrubs prison, London: four cooks in prison uniform standing in a line in front of buckets and baskets. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.
  • Crimean War: A.B. Soyer's kitchen camp. Wood engraving, 1855.
  • Boer War: hospital cooks preparing food in the open air. Halftone, c.1900.
  • Savour British flavours of the season / Fortnum & Mason.
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    An obese doctor acknowledging the favours of a French chef in his kitchen; denoting their complicity, the chef's food providing patients. Coloured etching by C. Williams, c. 1815.

    Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830. | Date: c. 1815 | Reference: 10937i
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    Crimean War: Barrack Hospital kitchen, Scutari, Turkey. Wood engraving by Dalziel Bros after H.G. Hine.

    Hine, Henry George, 1811-1895. | Reference: 21103i
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    A woman inn-keeper and her cook stand outside the hotel watching the arrival of a coach in the high street. Coloured lithograph by A.J.L. Jazet, 1843.

    Jazet, Alexandre Jean Louis, 1814- | Date: [1843] | Reference: 30683i
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    A Paria cook and wife. Gouache drawing.

    | Reference: 28482i
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    Boer War: hospital cooks preparing food in the open air. Halftone, c.1900.

    | Date: 1900 | Reference: 23532i
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