SC - ale/brewing

[Laura C. Minnick]

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
                
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