By: Tom Kearney | Feb 12, 2012 | #
Pre-Industrial Dinner
It’s funny how naming a dinner “Pre-Industrial” can arouse so many people to want to attend. I suppose it demonstrates how desperate we are for a an honest connection to our food, or a simpler more kindred one. Maybe it’s pure curiosity. Nevertheless, working with a food historian (Sarah Lohman) and doing a healthy leaf-through of food history ended up being a little disillusioning. Turns out shit wasn’t that great on the food front. Ever hear of “swill milk”? Google it and that’ll set the mood. So with our newly informed sense of food in the 1850’s we decided to take inspiration from the best practices of the time and let our instincts lead the way. Have a look at some of the evening:
