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Sun May 28 20:04:55 PDT 2006


presentation of food.  Speakers will consider the decoration of
porcelain, china and silverware, and the artistry of setting the
table and of both the serving and content of the food.  The day will
conclude with a visit to Fairfax House (a restored
eighteenth-century townhouse) to see the current food-related
exhibition.

Presenters include: Howard Coutts ("Setting the table, 1500-1850);
Ivan Day ("Dining with King James II); Phyllis Benedikz ("Silver
tableware from the colletions of the Birmingham Assay Office");
Brenda Hosington ("The medieval table", full title to be announced
later); Peter Brown ("Introduction to Fairfax House and the summer
exhibition").

Send enrollment form and fee to C. Anne Wilson, c/o Brotherton
Library, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, 9JT as soon as possible
and no later than 22 March 2002.  Form includes: your name, address,
telephone and whether you would like or not like to contribute a
dish for a communal lunch.  If you would, specify a savoury dish, a
salad, or a pudding.  Cheques payable to Leeds Symposium on Food
History.  (Get traveler's checks in pounds and send one to her.)

The attached page tells about some of the places to contact for
spending the night in York.

Being Queen will be nice, and is a committment I made, but w-h-y!?!?
did the Leeds conference have to be _that_ weekend???

Alys Katharine, sobbing quietly about missing this symposium!




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