Food:drink Gallery

Country life in medieval Europe

Country life in France in the late Middle Ages.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a 1517 edition of Virgil published in Lyons

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Deacon Giless Distillery temperance cartoon, 1830s

"Bringing back the rum," temperance cartoon showing liquor barrels labeled with forms of death, Salem, Massachusetts.
Hand-colored woodcut from an 1830s temperance pamphlet

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Spices of historical significance: nutmeg, green cardamon pods, coriander, and allspice (counterclockwise from front left).
Digital photograph

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