[Mid] Food, Pottery & Glass

Greetings! The Cleveland Museum of Art is having a show of still-life
paintings from the Netherlands (1550-1720) with some lovely depictions of
pottery and glass, and "tons" of food - vegetable, animal, and confections.
They sell a book with all the paintings in them, including color or black/white
details. Potters and glassblowers will find quite a few examples of beautiful ware.

Another book sold by the museum is _Still Life_ by Norbert Schneider and published
by Taschen. On the cooks' list there was discussion of waffles. Well, there's a
period (late 1500s) painting with a round waffle that has the usual square
impressions. Another painting includes a square waffle. There are at least two
pretzel pictures. One picture (from the early 1600s?) includes a grater hanging
up on the wall. This book sold for around $20, I believe.

There are several examples of "pies" - big standing pies with inedible crust that
is highly decorated; smaller pies with the contents spilling out; and one that
shows the texture of the crust on the side as it has been broken off. There are
a number of pictures showing various sizes and types of bread. One of the 1500s
pictures shows a large knob of butter looking much like a stuffed pouch turned
upside down. In the same picture are four small pies with the shells obviously
hand-made and not molded in a tin since they are unevenly round.

For folk with an interest in food of all types and containers of varying materials,
I heartily recommend looking at Dutch still life pictures.

Alys Katharine
From: alysk@ix.netcom.com
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Received on Sun Dec 12 19:53:19 1999