SC - Re: Trencher Request

[Elaine Koogler]

If you can get hold of the catalog from the Folger Library's recent "Fooles and
Fricassees" exhibit, there are pictures of trenchers in that.  I believe that
Devra, our wonderful denizen of Poison Pen Press, carries this book.

Kiri

alysk at ix.netcom.com wrote:

> 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
>
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