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Is that You, Daddy?IS THAT YOU, DADDY ? Propaganda for prohibition presupposes that every man who patronises a bar will become a drunken sot
Greedy HamsterA hamster with its pouches stuffed with food
Deep-Fat FryerAn oval shaped deep-fat fryer with removable basket for frying fish and chips, or perhaps I should say pomme frites as it is French
Cold Collation DishesCOLD COLLATION DISHES pigeon pie - game pie - cutlets and other meat dishes
16C Scandinavian BakingA baker and his wife in 16th century Scandinavia
The Brewer 1827Brewers sweat and toil as they stir and brew beer and haul heavy barrels up and down a ladder next to the sweltering heat of a kiln
Advert / Mustard / Keen sKeens Mustard - gives Keen-ness to the appetite
Fruit on Platters 1907Fruit displayed on platters
Playing with Cake MixA little girl plays with the cake mix with a wooden spoon
Cover design, Ovaltine ABC Rhyme Book - a happy family with a giant Ovaltine tin. Date: early 20th century
Teddy Bear (with hidden objects)
Hoisting HopsHoisting pokes of hops onto a drying platform. Despite modern advances such as mechanical hop presses, horses were still being used for hoisting the pokes (sacks). Date: 1930s
Four Japanese women amid bamboo with a young childFour Japanese women stand amid bamboo with a young child seated in the front and surrounded by hanging baskets of food and Japanese flags and figurines
Raleigh / Potatoes / IrelandSIR WALTER RALEIGH English navigator supervising the first planting of potatoes in Ireland
Ale Cures the FluTwo men, one in a flat cap, the other in a bowler hat, drinking glasses of ale, while looking at the punning pub sign: Try Our Old Ale: knocks the L out of FLU
From Pig to Pork 1897The slaughter process from pig to pork at Armours Chicago plant
Coffee House in LondonMixed company patronise a popular London coffee-shop, near the Olympic theatre, Wych Street, Strand
Dinner in an aristocratic French home, with servants attending to everyones needs
MORRISs HAM, 1919Morriss Baked Ham
Whites Butchers / PhotoG White, butchers shop in Bridgwater, Kent
Pig Eats Picnic FoodAn uninvited guest makes rather a pig of himself at a picnic
Meat Mincer 1889The Enterprise meat chopper, or mincer, is apparently the best in the world
Salting / Smoking FishFish is salted, dried and smoked
Mrs Beeton Front CoverFront Cover of Mrs Beetons Every Day Cookery and Housekeeping
Cuts of VealThe various cuts of veal
Shops / Butcher / Miss BonesMiss Bones the Butchers Daughter, from " Happy Families" devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861
Arriving home to SupperA couple arrive home to find their supper is ready in the Patent Triplex Grate
London Gin Shop 1836A London gin-shop
GRAPES PUB, LIMEHOUSESituated directly on the north bank of the Thames, this splendid pubs timeless appeal is invigorating in an area transformed by 1980s property development and yuppiedom. Date: circa 1912
Lin-Can advertisement, 1953Advertisement for Lin-Can tinned fruits and vegetables manufactured by Lincolnshire Canners of Boston, Lincolnshire, featuring two excitable housewives keen to demonstrate the endless possibilities
Discovery of America. Second Voyage of Columbus. Jamaica. 15Jamaica. 15th century. Second Voyage of Columbus. Jamaicans refuse to give food to Columbus and he, knowing that there will be a lunar eclipse, tells them that God will deny the light
Piper nigrum, pepper vinePlate 24 by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London
Cutout advertisement, Crawfords Pufflets - boy and girl with umbrella and biscuit boxes. early 20th century
Bear Feeds Fish to Cubs Date: 1948
View of the hill station of Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, India, with St Anthonys Church in the middle distance, and beef and mutton stalls on the left. Date: circa 1910s
Soho, London - 42 Great Windmill Street W1 - Nosh Bar delicatessen and hot salt beef bar, photographed at night. 1973
Gibbs Happy Families - Mrs Bun the Bakers wife. 20th century
The Florida. 16th century. Timucua Indian village. Food transportation by canoe. Engraving by Theodore de Bry (1528-1598). Brevis narratio floridae Eorum Quae in.... Frankfurt, 1591
Advert for Huntley and Palmers biscuitsAdvertisement illustrated by Pauline Baynes for Huntley and Palmers biscuits. Parade of servants holding a tin of Huntley and Palmers biscuits, loading up the sleigh for Father Christmas. Date: 1952
Advert for Follows & Bates winding machines 1900sVarious machines from the late 19th Century early 20th century, advertised in The Ironmonger Diary and Text Book, for Follows & Bates in Manchester. Circa 1900
Oxo advertisement - Scott Antarctic expedition endorsementAdvertisement for Oxo as supplied to Captain Scott on his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. The advert quotes a letter from Scott who wrote
Cats enjoying a dinner party on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Banquet Hall of King Sahla Sellasie, EthiopiaAfter Lent the King provided an open table to every free man in a banquet that lasted a week. Watercolour, 1842. Johann Martin Bernatz. 1842
Margaret Thatcher at Marazion Community CentreMargaret Thatcher, Prime Minister, enjoying a Cornish pasty and a cup of tea during her visit to Marazion Community Centre, Cornwall. Also present are David Harris MP and the Lady Dowager St Levan
WW2 poster, Merchant Navy Comforts ServiceWW2 poster advertising the Merchant Navy Comforts Service, which organised parcels of food, drink, clothing and other comforts during the war. Date: 1940s
Capsicum frutesceus, common chilliIllustration by by Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928). Held at the Natural History Museum, London
Advert for the Radiation New World Gas Cooker 1933Radiation porcelain enamelled New World Gas Cookers, the only gas cookers with regulo control. Ask to see the unrivalled Radiation New World Gas cooker at your gas showrooms
Christmas at the Front - Unpacking the Parcels from HomeA group of British soldiers share the contents of a hamper which has been delivered to them at the Front. A Christmas pudding is held aloft and the scene is of general jollity