[Sca-cooks] Service and Kraut questions from Gwen Cat

[Johnna Holloway]

More on Table Settings

There are museum catalogues and exhibition catalogues and exhibits like 'Feeding Desire' At The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum which Devra and I toured in 2006. 
“Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005” is the book. 
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/press/2006/09/18/feeding-desire-design-and-tools-table-1500%E2%80%932005

I think you may have this one--

Die öffentliche Tafel: Tafelzeremoniell in Europa 1300-1900. by Hans Ottomeyer & Michaela Völkel. Deutsches Historisches Museum.
 
Philippa Glanville's Elegant Eating: Four Hundred Years of Dining in Style. V&A, 2004.

There are dozens of others. A number of books will contain just a chapter on the subject. 

The subject headings to look under are:
Subjects:	 Food habits --Europe --History --Exhibitions.
Dinners and dining --Europe --History --Exhibitions.
Dinners and dining in art --Exhibitions.
Table setting and decoration --Europe --History --Exhibitions.
or more broadly start with Table settings and decoration.

It's a good subject and I am sure that those asking the question can amuse themselves with it for several months.

Johnnae

On Feb 8, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Johnna wrote:snipped
> If what they want is something about the history of "table settings", well that is another subject.
> My latest book on the topic is called Table Settings but the subtitle reveals that it concentrates on
> The Material Culture and Social Context of Dining AD 1700-1900.
> 
> They may have to resort to looking in an Art Library and starting with something like The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art  By Gerald W. R. Ward
> 
> I'll be back with more suggestions. Mail has come finally.
> 
> Johnnae