Study Day

Wednesday 26th October 2011

Culford School

11.30am

FOOD ART and TRAVEL in the 18TH CENTURY

Ian Kelly, award winning biographer, actor and TV food-historian spent a day detailing with lavish illustrations, the travelling experiences of two of the most influencial food writers of the Georgian period - Marie-Antoine Caeme and Giacomo Casanova. Taking us on a journey from Venice to St Petersburg via Paris, London and Rome, this study day attempted to recreate some of the travel experiences of a below-stairs chef and an above-stairs Venetian gambler, with telling insights into why gastronomy became a craze in the 18th C. and what these men's lives tell us about the debates that raged on art, luxury, food and libertinism in the Revolutonary Age.

Please follow the link below for details.

http://www.camdfas.com/E_Anglia_Study_Day_26_Oct_20110001.pdf