[Sca-cooks] Ivan Day to be at DIA

[Johnna Holloway]

Food historian Ivan Day will be appearing at DIA in Detroit in February.

Johnnae

Saturday, February 4, 2017, 10:30 a.m.–noon
Two-part Seminar
·      Featured Speaker: Ivan Day, Historian of Historic Food and Museums and Country House Consultant
Using traditional tools and techniques, famed British food historian Ivan Day demonstrates how to create sugar sculpture. Day, an authority on British and European culinary history, specializes in the development of sugar as a sculptural medium and is well-known for his recreations of historic meals and table settings.
Part 1: Using a set of original 18th-century wooden molds and equipment, Day will demonstrate how to make a sugar figure of Neptune.
Part 2: Using original molds and equipment Day will demonstrate how to make a Renaissance sugar tazza in the style of Giulio Romano, the Renaissance painter, architect and protégé of Raphael.
 
Saturday, February 4, 2017, 2 p.m.
Lecture: Eating the Edifice
·      Featured Speaker: Ivan Day, Historian of Historic Food and Museums and Country House Consultant
In this illustrated lecture, renowned British food historian Ivan Day will outline the evolution of sugar sculpture and other forms of table art from the Renaissance to the 18th century. Beginning with gilded sugar coins distributed at 15th-century Italian wedding feasts and continuing on to papal displays of sugar trionfi, Day will introduce the materials, equipment and methods used by past masters of such edible ephemera.