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I'm a little late in posting this, but back in April, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam launched a new website that documents pre-industrial utensils and tools (a lot food-related) found in paintings and prints in their collection. The site is called ALMA (Afbeelding Linkt met Artefact). For example, it breaks down Pieter Aertsen's De pannekoeckebackerij [Pancake Bakery] (1560) by different utensils contained therein and links to historical/archaeological information for each artifact.



There are also essays, like this one on the history of the [primarily Netherlandish] frying pan.

Oh, and in case anyone who doesn't read Dutch stumbles on the Dutch language version of the site, you can switch to the English version via a link in the upper right corner of the page. I have the Dutch skills of a 4th grader, so I was thrilled to discover the English site...only three months after starting to read it.

Very very interesting. I'll bookmark it and look at it in more detail. Thx.

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Toria

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W. Shakespeare

Cool beans! (in a manner of speaking). Thanks for posting this.

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Gypsy Boy

“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?” (Julia Child)