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

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Slave family in colonial New York

Slave family making music in their cellar room of the Knickerbocker mansion, New York, 1700s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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