Cuisine Collection

Entrance to Cal-Neva Lodge, Nevada, USA
Entrance to Cal-Neva Lodge, spa resort on Stateline Road, Crystal Bay, Nevada, USA, near Lake Tahoe. circa 1930

Chef with Snails
A French chef preparing snails for eating. Date: early 1930s

Restaurant Frascati, Oxford Street, London W1
Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, London W1, with people dancing on the dance floor. Frascatis was a large, luxury restaurant offering cosmopolitan cuisine. Date: circa 1920s

Poster, French Line CGT, Plymouth to New York
Travel poster, French Line CGT, designed by Rodmell, Harry Hudson (1896?1984), Plymouth direct to New York, lithograph in colours backed onto linen. Printed by EDIA, Paris. 40ins. 25ins

Wartime cuisine - fish and chips
Wartime rashioning during the Second World War. A plate of steak and veg is a dream, but at least there is still fish and chips to keep the spirits up and the bellies full! Date: circa early 1940s

Japan - Fishmonger
Fishmonger, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Japan - Parched Soybeans Store
Japan - A mother carrying her baby on her back stands in front of a store selling Japanese traditional Parched Soybeans. Date: circa 1920s

Japan - Spice Dealer
Spice Dealer, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Japan - Tangle Dealer - Kelp Seaweed Shop
Tangle (Kelp Seaweed) Dealer, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Japan - Sobaya or Buckwheat Vermicelli House
Sobaya or Buckwheat Vermicelli House (Noodle Restaurant), Japan. Date: circa 1920s

English gentleman and sleeping woman in a hotel room
English gentleman with candlesticks in both hands tries to remove a bell rope from the bosom of a sleeping woman. The inn at Marseilles

Elephant apple or chulta, Dillenia indica, Dillenia speciosa, Dillenie elegante. Handcoloured steel engraving by Alphonse-Leon Noel after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar

Perilla, shiso or jasoyup, Perilla frutescens (Balm-leaved perilla, Perilla ocymoides). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis

The Kitchen of the Bratwurstglocklein in Nuremberg, Germany
The Kitchen of the most famous purveyor of traditional Nurnberg Bratwurst sausages, the Bratwurstglocklein (Little Sausage Bell)

Le Cafe Arnold, Central Park South, New York City, USA, offering French cuisine. Date: circa 1930

Joe Kings Rathskeller, New York City, USA
Joe Kings Rathskeller, 17th Street and 3rd Avenue, New York City, USA -- a retro-style restaurant serving old-fashioned German-American-Irish food. Date: circa 1950s

Soho, London - Old Compton Street and Dean Street W1
Soho, London - Old Compton Street W1, corner of Dean Street, with busker outside La Colombina D Oro restaurant (61 Dean Street). 1973

Mobile Chinese Street Food Cook and Vendor - preparing lunch - Beijing, China. Date: circa 1910s

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

Halfords Curry sauce, 1900
An advert for Halfords curry sauce-makes a perfect curry immediately, of hot or cold meat. Date: 1900

German Beerhouse Waitress, carrying a mass (!) of beer tankards. The card is flanked by turnips, sausages and pretzels to complete the Germanic flavour.... Date: circa 1937

Montparnasse, Pars, France - Le Dome Restaurant Date: 1930s

International Exhibition at Amiens - Senegalese Village
International Exhibition at Amiens, France - Cooking in the Senegalese Village. Date: 1906

Advert for Marshalls curry powder 1899
Mrs A. B Marshalls curry powder, from India. Date: 1899

A sketch of a Parisien gourmet, 1922 Date: 1922

Wine Room, Pierres Restaurant, New York City, USA
Wine Room, Pierres Restaurant, East 53rd Street, New York City, USA, offering French cuisine. circa 1950s

Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel, Kitchens. Date: 1889

Cookery Class 1930S
A cookery class for brides-to- be (and one man in an apron, presumably one of the teachers!), Paris, France. Date: early 1930s

A Snail in the Hand
A snail in the hand.. Date: early 1930s

A Plate of Snails
A plate of edible snails. Date: early 1930s

Japan - Geisha Girls eating noodles Date: circa 1905

Mexico - Outdoor Catering - Food Stall, producing a wide variety of red-coloured stews, sauces and soups (?). Date: circa 1910s

Simpsons Quick Grill Room and Bar - Paris, France
Simpsons Quick Grill Room and Bar - 3 Rue Taitbout et Rues Des Italiens, Paris, France Date: circa 1910s

Boulogne Restaurant - Gerrard Street, London
Boulogne Restaurant - 27 Gerrard Street, London. See 10586806 for the Full Menu and 10586807 for the advert for the restaurant on the reverse of the menu. Date: 1936

Boulogne Restaurant Dinner Menu - Gerrard Street, London
Boulogne Restaurant Dinner Menu for the 22nd August 1936 - 27 Gerrard Street, London. See 10586805 for a promotional postcard (interior photograph of the restaurant)

The fashionable restaurant du Boeuf
The fashionable bull restaurant. 1792. Patrons make small talk whilst waiting for their meal. 1792

Chez Fleck restaurant, The King of the Sauerkraut
" The King of the Sauerkraut" Chez Fleck restaurant, 39 Boulevard Du Temple, Paris. 1930s

Port Arthur - Varieties of Chinese Vegetables
Japanese card depicting three varieties of Chinese cabbage and other vegetables (possibly beetroot) - at Port Arthur. A panoramic view of Lushunkou (a district in the municipality of Dalian)

Calfs head for carving
Diagram showing how to carve a calfs head. Calfs head had many culinary uses in the Victorian kitchen, including a key ingredient in mock turtle soup

Cooks presenting three delicacies
A wonderful postcard showing three French cooks presenting three delicious delicacies - a jelly, a terrine and a basket countaining who knows what delicious morsels for ones dining delectation

Restaurant Frascati Orchestra, Oxford Street, London W1
Restaurant Frascati Orchestra, 32 Oxford Street, London W1, with Madame Cecile Couturier, Director, on the violin, and her happy band of men on their various instruments

Cookery lesson, 1885
A French cookery lecture, held at the Grand Amphitheatre de Physique de la Faculte des Sciences at Rouen. A keen audience, composed mostly of women, look on and take notes

Sketch of the Chef at Guillaume-le-Conquerant restaurant, near Deauville. Artwork by Wynn Date: 1929

Colombo - The Bristol Hotel
Colombo, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) - The Bristol Hotel, boasting the " Best Cuisine in the East - Curries a speciality"

Poster advertising Fraissinet & Cyprien Fabre cruises
Poster advertising Fraissinet & Cyprien Fabre luxury cruises to the West African coast via Marseilles

Cooking the Cabbage
The cabbage is - or was once - the staple vegetable of English cuisine, and its cooking - whole - is an important part of any meal worthy of the name

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