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.
- ix, 162 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Food and society ; 2 .
- Food and society ; 2. .
"Papers from the second Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions, April 1987"--T.p. 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 1940s / Lynette Hunter.