Apart from the parties (see Library Celebrations from two days ago) there's not really much food and drink in the library, apart from the endless amounts of coffee that I drink solely to survive.
But as you might be aware, there is currently a glorious giant pineapple outside our museum.
This is the key emblem of our fantastic exhibition "Feast & Fast", which is about food, material culture and the art of food 1500-1800. Sadly, it's going to have ended before the museum can reopen, so if you didn't get to go then your best bet is buying the sumptuous catalogue that accompanied it (I'll put a link here if anyone's interested once the museum's online shop is up and running again) - obviously there's a copy for perusal in the library too, once we're back!
One thing people might not know is just how far in advance some of the work is done for these exhibitions. Here is a tweet I wrote nearly 3 years before the exhibition opened, about some of the sources we used for research!
This is the key emblem of our fantastic exhibition "Feast & Fast", which is about food, material culture and the art of food 1500-1800. Sadly, it's going to have ended before the museum can reopen, so if you didn't get to go then your best bet is buying the sumptuous catalogue that accompanied it (I'll put a link here if anyone's interested once the museum's online shop is up and running again) - obviously there's a copy for perusal in the library too, once we're back!
One thing people might not know is just how far in advance some of the work is done for these exhibitions. Here is a tweet I wrote nearly 3 years before the exhibition opened, about some of the sources we used for research!
Someone please tell me how you are supposed to catalogue books about food without getting hungry? #EatExhibition @FitzMuseum_UK pic.twitter.com/B0YkVe1RSb— Diana Caulfield (@dsw26) August 24, 2017
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