Devon, Cornwall & Wales delicacies—Gastronomic map—Whitbread calendar—March 1948
£110
SKU: P-7-028121
Dishes & Delicacies of the United Kingdom—March 1948 [Devon, Cornwall and South Wales]
These wonderful maps are gastronomic archaeology: a playful ode to—and record of—Britain’s lost regional food culture. While some of the dishes and delicacies shown on these plates have since gone on to be major export products, others were already becoming rare by 1948 and have since been forgotten. Many were hyper-local, made by hand in specific parishes or counties and dependent on locally sourced produce. They belonged to an oral, working-class food culture, passed down by habit rather than written recipes. Two World Wars—especially prolonged wartime rationing of ingredients—broke culinary continuity, making many dishes difficult to prepare for a decade or more. Post-war industrial food production and supermarkets replaced many regional specialities made by hand from locally sourced ingredient with standardised, factory made, internationally sourced alternatives. Some foods were consciously abandoned as reminders of poverty or hardship, and tastes have changed over the decades. Geographic coverage: Cornwall—Devon—Somerset—Dorset—Isles of Scilly—Pembrokeshire, Glamorganshire, Carmarthenshire. Delicacies include: Eel Pie—Star-Gazy Pie—Cornish Pasties—Heavy Cake—Devonshire Cream—Lamb’s Fry—Devon Flats—Pickled Pilchards—Mutton Cowl—Boiled Salted Duck—Sally Lunns—Bath Buns—Cornish Pasties—Spiced Ale and Gingerbread—Widecombe Fair—Thunder & Lightning—Lobster Beds—Vinegar
Size 36 x 27 cm | 14.0 x 10.5 inches
Date Published: 1948
Type: Vintage colour pictorial gastronomic map
Author: Anonymous
Publication: Whitbread's Dishes & Delicacies of the UK
Condition: Good |
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