Country houses were repositories of the finest food in the land, but their tables fell into decline around WW1. Chapters examine all parts of food production (including the game, fish, cereals, meat, fruit and vegetables produced on an estate) and consumption in a household, from dairy and still room to the servants’ hall and the batterie de cuisine; breakfast, lunch and tea, balls and parties. This will be fascinating and detailed.
Cooking & Dining in the Victorian Country House
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£36.00
Edition:Hardback978190924879318/10/2023From a Bookshelf nearby
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A Christmas house party at Chatsworth wouldn't be worth its salt without a séance... A cold case as well as cold cuts for Debo and Louisa Cannon.
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Lavish book on this magnificent house, by its owner, now the thirteenth generation of Sackvilles. Knole appears in Woolf's Orlando as her protagonist's vast Elizabethan domain, more like a t... read more
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On the Forth of Forth, near Edinburgh, Hopetoun belongs to the Marquess of Linlithgow. A handsome book with authoritative text and lavish pics.
Hopetoun: Scotland’s Finest Stately Home
Hardback £49.95 -
What exactly is it that we preserve - and pay for - so carefully? Stourton looks at various parks, buildings and collections and charts two particular periods of conservation - the 1880s and... read more
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past
Hardback £40.00