Cooking Collection (page 6)

BRONZE AGE BANQUET
A Bronze Age banquet with plenty of meat and drink Date: circa 2000 BC

NEOLITHIC FEAST / FIGUIER
A neolithic (Stone Age) feast Date: circa 3000 BC

OYSTER OPENER / ART JL1849
An oyster opener and instructions for use Date: 1849

15th century German military camp scene
A German military camp scene Date: 15th Century

Paris - The Kitchens of the Lycee Montaigne, a famous French public secondary school. It is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, near the Jardin du Luxembourg, and was founded in the 1880s

Two women cooking - near mosque, Uchisar, Cappadocia, Turkey
Two Turkish women cook food over an open fire beneath the walls and minaret of a mosque in Uchisar, Cappadocia, Turkey Date: 1992

Chef prepares a Peking Duck - floating restaurant, Hong Kong
A chef, stripped to the waist, prepares a Peking Duck in a floating restaurant kitchen on a sampan boat in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Date: 1982

Curry shop, Delhi, India
A chef squats by a huge cooking pot and cooks curry in an open air curry shop and restaurant in Old Delhi, India Date: 1987

Sandy Balls campers
Two men campers prepare breakfast at the Sandy Balls campsite beside their vintage Austin A40 Devon car. A dog walker and storm clouds in the background. First published in The Sunday Times Date: 1989

WW2 - Getting ready for the Troops - Somewhere in France. Date: circa 1939

Italian Infantry - Outdoor Military Camp Kitchens. Date: 1903

Haybox Cooking, Food Saving Exhibition, Institute of Hygiene
Hay Box Cooking Demonstration at the Food Saving Exhibition, Institute of Hygiene (which opened on 28th January 1918). A haybox, straw box, fireless cooker, insulation cooker

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Late XIV century. Tailor
Tacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Tailor. Miniature. Fol

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Late XIV century. Picking sour cherries
Tacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Picking sour cherries

Starry Gazey Pie, Ship Inn, Mousehole, Cornwall
A mouthwatering example of a Starry Gazey Pie, served up on Tom Bawcocks Eve (23 December) at Mousehole in Cornwall. The dish, with fish heads and tails sticking out of it, is unique to Mousehole

Blacksmith Shop Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA
A chef at work in the Blacksmith Shop Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA, specialising in lobsters, steaks, fish and chops broiled over the coals of the old forges. 1941

Patent Triplex Grate F Pattern with close-fitting mantel Best Grey Porcelain Enamelled finish Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grate A Pattern with Black Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s

The Super Chattanette Combination Grate. Catalogue for Nicholls and Clarke Ltd. London. Manufacturers and Merchants of Building Materials. Date: circa 1920s

Cooking the Chefs Goose - A Christmas Fantasy, Leon Heron
A rather bizarre illustration showing two huge geese flying away from a chef ridden by Father Christmas, a policeman and a flapper girl! Date: 1929

Alice in Wonderland, Duchess, cook and baby
Alice in Wonderland, Alice meets the Duchess, her cook and a screaming baby. Date: early 20th century

Chamorro people of the island of Guam.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Hawkins electric hostess trolley advertisement
Advertisement for the Hawkins Electric Hostess Trolley for gracious living, enabling you to entertain with dignity even when domestic help is not available

Cooking
Woman in the kitchen, 1910. She uses a stove but also has a gas cooker Date: 1910

Advert for Andrews Liver Salts
Andrews inner cleanliness comes first. Refreshes the mouth and helps clean the tongue. Antacid in action, Andrews settles the stomach and corrects digestive upsets

Triplex Grate [solid fuel]

Monkey pulling a cats tail on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Chef with pudding on a Christmas card
Chef in a kitchen with a pudding on a Christmas card -- Out of the frying pan into the fire. Date: circa 1890s

Two German boy scouts at camp with a pile of toasted bread between them

Two German boy scouts cooking at camp

German boy scouts enjoying a meal at camp

German boy scout cooking at camp

Boys of the Mussoorie Scout Troop, India
Boys of the Mussoorie Scout Troop, Uttarakhand, India, cooking over a campfire

General Strike 1926: Society women volunteers
In support of the General Strike ladies from society helped, photograph showing volunteers working in Hyde Park, London, in the open air peeling potatoes, Lady Quilter (with tray)

Humorous postcard, soldier on Western Front, WW1
Humorous postcard, British soldier on the Western Front -- I m amongst the Kitcheners, and very nice too. Date: circa 1915

Advert for Dobble, Forbes & Co stoves and ranges 1888
A selection of three matchless combustion heating stoves, kitchen ranges with self-setting and fuel saving and a new portable cast-iron washing copper

Algeria - Nomadic Women performing cooking and textile tasks outside their tent. Date: circa 1910s

WW1 poster, Food, don t waste it
Poster, Food... don t waste it, US Food Administration. circa 1918

Uzbekistan - Nomadic Uzbeks - Tashkent with Yurt and pot
Uzbekistan - Nomadic Uzbeks - Tashkent with Yurt, drying rack, horses and lare cooking pot. Date: circa 1908

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Meat aspic
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Meat aspic. Miniature. Fol. 76 r

Pan Catching Fire
A cautionary tale in the use of pans which are not made of aluminium branded with an official safety mark from the Societe Francaise des Metaux Ouvres ! Date: 1928

Cordon Bleu with its founder, Rosemary Hume
The Cordon Bleu School at a trade fair with its founder, Rosemary Hume Date: 1970

The co-proprietor of Blooms kosher restaurant
Mrs Bloom, co-proprietor with her husband of Londons iconic kosher restaurant. All around her, the bright, cheery, noisy and busy atmosphere which you were likely to find there in the 1960s

Patent Triplex Grate F Pattern with Best Black Porcelain Enamelled finish Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grates Pattern fitted with G Mantel with Black Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grate - Double Oven C pattern with Black Porcelain Enamelled Finish Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grate C Pattern with Black Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grate D Pattern with Grey Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s

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