SC - Re: Trencher Request

[alysk at ix.netcom.com]

Besides _'Banquetting Stuffe'_ that Cindy mentioned, there are
two photos in the new book _Eat, Drink & Be Merry_, edited by
Ivan Day.  Page 46 has at least 4 trenchers (round ones) on the
Elizabethan banquet table.  However, they are hard to see and
would not be useable for much.  Pages 60-61 has a close-up of a
square trencher along with quite a bit of information about them,
as well as some of the poetry.  The close-up is good enough that
you might be able to re-create it.  The text mentions a possible
sugar plate trencher in a 1618 painting reproduced in _The 
Pleasures of the Table_, by Peter Brown and Ivan Day.  I haven't
seen that book.

The trenchers in _Eat..._ are on display with the tour of the
food display.  I've heard rumors that it will be in the US at
some point... NY and LA, I think, but I don't know when.  It
will be in London shortly, if it hasn't already arrived there
from York.  (Would make a great weekend trip!)

Alys Katharine, who took a weekend trip to go to the Leeds Food
History Symposium in April