"The appetite and the eye" : visual aspects of food and its presentation within their historic context / edited by C. Anne Wilson ; with illustrations by Peter Brears.

"The appetite and the eye" : visual aspects of food and its presentation within their historic context / edited by C. Anne Wilson ; with illustrations by Peter Brears.

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1991.

ix, 162 p. : ill., facsims. ; 23 cm

Food and society ; 2

"Papers from the Second Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions, April 1987, with additional papers"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction
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.

Food and society ; 2.

Great Britain -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.

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