Lecturer: Clive Stewart-Lockhart
Humans have been very good at recording how and what we eat through the ages and this talk looks at these themes starting with the frescoes of Pompeii and Herculaneum up to the modern day. The talk looks at the objects involved with the eating and presenting of food and wine beginning with a banquet in Pompeii where the guests seem to be wearing very little to the present day, where, in many houses, the tables are dressed with little other than a knife, fork and ketchup bottle. Even these, however, can be given a classy upgrade.
