Drink Collection (page 90)

Cooking an Old Lady
When the natives run short of food, they strangle the oldest and least useful woman of the tribe and smoke her; when shes cooked, they consume her slice by tasty slice

Dinner with a Dog C1815
A lady of the French aristocracy - thought to be la princesse de Vaudemont - dines en tete-a-tete with her dog, to whom she is offering a leg of chicken

French Cellar Cafe 1822
A Parisian Cafe d Enfer or Infernal Cellar, a low-life night-spot where the wine flows free but frolics are apt to end in fisticuffs

Sugar-Cane-Making Sugar
A Representation of the SUGAR-CANE and the Art of Making Sugar

Picnic with Biscuits
Biscuits seem to be the feature of this picnic in Epping Forest, north of London - and not just any old biscuits, but Huntley & Palmer s, of course !

Pipe, Pint of Beer, Cane
A pint of foaming ale, a pipe, cane, hat and gloves; items befitting the country gentleman of leisure. The Old Albion Inn, Newquay is seen in the background

Picnic by a River
A group of men and women enjoy a picnic by a river

Children Picnic in Field
A group of children have a picnic in a cornfield

Royal Banquet 1508
A sumptous array of dishes is on offer at a royal banquet

Social / Germany / Aristos
Aristocratic scene showing a feast and other activities

Joyful Banquet 1549
A joyful banquet in full swing offers plenty of food and wine for all

Neolithic Feast / Figuier
A neolithic (Stone Age) feast

Quick Supper Bite 1922
An amorous fellow steals a kiss from his companion, before they have even sat down to eat!

Men Dine on Capons 1840
Men eat tasty capons in a dining-room

Monks at Mealtime
Friday Though they have vowed to eat no meat on Friday, monks are allowed plenty of wine with their Friday meal of fish

1905 Dinner Party
A conversation in progress during a dinner party

Futuristic dinner party
A futuristic chemical dinner party -- a few tablets are served for each guest. Just think -- no washing up!

Dinner Table Collapses
During a meal, the dinner table collapses because of the sheer weight of food on it!

Ladies Afternoon Tea
Ladies enjoy a tea party indoors, sitting around the fireplace for warmth

Family Breakfast 1885
Presently her husband came into the room and she handed him the letter ; a typical Victorian husband examines a letter at the breakfast table

Breakfast in Bed 1908
A woman enjoys a cup of hot chocolate in bed

Breakfast in Elec. Home
Breakfast in the electric home is facilitated by a coffee percolator, hot plate, and radiator. Hubby reads paper, wife stirs her coffee, and pussy looks rather left out

Breakfast in Bed 1910
Le petit dejeuner du matin The housemaid brings the young mistress her breakfast in bed

Jonathans Coffee House, Change Alley, London, the informal venue for commercial transactions that became the London Stock Exchange

French Skiers Refreshed
A skiing couple enjoy a freshing drink after a long day on the piste

Advert / Dulcemona Tea
Dulcemona Tea: a tempting invitation

Couple Boozing 1823
PERFECT FELICITY A couple of drinkers in their element with glasses of booze and bottles in either hand

Ancient Forks
A fork from c. 8th-9th century (left) - British. A German fork from the 16th century surmounted by a jester figure (centre). A silver fork c.1650 (right)

Various Inn Signs
Inn signs showing; Three Squirrels, Hand & Star, Cheshire Cheese, Kings Porter & Dwarf, and Royal Oak

Salt Flats in France
A birds eye view of a salt production area in the marshes, showing the areas where the salt is cultivated to the boat that will export it

Lady Raises Glass
A lady stands and raises her glass to drink a toast at a festive occasion

Roman Satyricon Feast
The absurdly extravagant feast given by the Roman parvenu Trimalchio, in the Satyricon of Petronius

Customs / Scotland / Burns N
Brown entertains his friends wi a haggis by stabbing it and splattering them all as they sit around the table on Burns Night !

Tea, Kensington Gardens
Fashionable folk take tea during the Season, in Kensington Gardens, London

Guests Take Places
The guests take their places

Twisting Vine, Medoc
Women workers twisting the vines in the Medoc (Bordeaux) region

Grace Saying / England
A countryman and his wife, with their three children, prepare to enjoy a meal

Americans Barbecue Fish
European travellers in America find that the native Americans are accustomed to smoking fish

Gem Freezer
THE GEM FREEZER (American) is the best in the world - the maker says so !

Meal at Time of Jesus
This is a probable depiction of a meal around the time of Jesus : guests would more likely have been lying than sitting up at table

Pasteurs Apparatus
Original apparatus used by Pasteur for the cooling and fermenting of the beer wort

Beer Barrel at Fanta
Quart, barrel used to house beer during its second fermentation, as used at the Fanta brewery, Paris

Allsopps Brewery
ALLSOPPs BREWERY, Burton-upon-Trent

Chocolate or Love Letter
A French lady takes her bath (partly clothed) while her maid bringing in a tray offers her the choice of the drink of chocolate or the love letter

ICE-BOX
The Spanish, it seems, use their ice-boxes chiefly to keep their wine cool and their fruit fresh

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