See this: Food Glorious Food

 

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Everyone has childhood memories of food, good and bad, be it their mum's cooking, school dinners or being told to 'eat your greens'.

Food Glorious Food is new exhibition at the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, which explores how food affects our everyday lives, comparing our diets today with those of the last hundred years, including Edwardian, Second World War, post-war, and the 1980s. The exhibition also looks at how food is grown and where it comes from, who does the cooking, changes in food preparation and the pleasure of eating.

Perhaps it will tell us how to make everyone in our families eat the same thing at the same time, without complaining, or is that just a ridiculous unattainable dream?

Food Glorious food,
The Museum of Childhood,
Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9PA 

29th January - 8th May

Comments

[R. Kellock]

As a young boy living through the second world war, we had no choices, other than eat what was available.Subsequent scientific investigation however has proven my generation ,now in their eighties,were given a highly nutritional diet.
A highlight of this diet was Spam fritters which I note,continues to be widely advertised
Granddad K

[amanda]

Hey Grandad K and fab to have you reading us! And how right you are, eating what's available, grown locally and not hyper processed is surely the first step towards sensible eating? You only have to watch Hugh Fernley Whitingwhat'shisname to see how bonkers we have got about food these days, throwing all those poor dead fish back in the sea because of some Euro rule.
This season I am enlarging my vegetable patch, to allow us to taste and pick vegetables as close to their peek season as possible. In facy off to research seed potatoes today.....Ax

[materfamilias]

Oh, thanks for this alert. I'm really interested in this topic and will definitely include this in a spring visit to London.