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For other enquiries email me: eleanor.barnett@aol.com

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Recent Notices

Upcoming Conference: Food on the Move!

With the University of Warwick, I’m co-organising an evening to explore how the pandemic has changed the food industry & our eating habits (9 July 5-7pm). For details and to reserve your FREE space click here!

Conference Talk: ‘Pious Eating in Protestant England and Catholic Italy, c. 1560 – c. 1640’

I’ll be speaking at the ‘Reformation and Everyday Life’ conference at the Aarhus University (Denmark) on 1 June. See the programme here!

New Patreon Post: ‘These tarts may be thought very odd’: a brief history of rhubarb!

01/05/21 May’s food history article is now live! I explore the strange history of rhubarb, and early rhubarb tart recipes!

Join Patreon to gain immediate access to this and other articles  ‘Cucumbers and Water Monsters’, and ‘Dragon Fruit, Dragon’s Blood, & Botanical Exploration in the Early Modern Period’ + much more food history content!

New Article: Food and Religious Identities in the Venetian Inquisition!

26/03/21 My latest academic article looks at food and Protestantism, Judaism and witchcraft in Counter Reformation Venice. It has now been published in Renaissance Quarterly – click here to read!

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A Breakfast Piece by Herbert Badham (Australian, 1936) 🍞
Still life with plums, by Alfred Arthur Brunel De Neuville (French, 1851-1941) 🍈
“Nowadays, no American expects or receives less than a heaping saucer of ice cream at a time", noted Fullerton Muirhead, an Englishman travelling through America in the 1890s... by the end of the 19th century, ice cream had truly taken off in the United States, where it was produced on a mass scale🍦
‘Don’t Forget Green Vegetables Keep You Fit’! 🥦
A giant strawberry from Hieronymous Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (Dutch, 1490- 1510), perhaps here a symbol of promiscuity or the transient nature of earthly pleasures🍓
Portrait of a Girl Eating Grapes by Irma Stern (South African, 1933) 🍇

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