Open AccessMind Your Ps, Ask Your Qs: a review of The King’s Peas by Meredith Chilton
Author(s) -
David Szanto
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
canadian food studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2292-3071
DOI - 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.444
Subject(s) - exhibition , enlightenment , art history , art , power (physics) , media studies , sociology , philosophy , theology , physics , quantum mechanics
A book review of The King’s Peas by Meredith Chilton, the companion publication to the Gardiner Museum exhibition, Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment. See this issue of CFS/RCÉA for Jennifer O'Connor's review of Savour.
It is difficult not to like The King's Peas, the genteelly designed and generously produced 'cookbook' published as a companion to the Gardiner Museum's 2019-20 exhibition, Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment. At the same time, however, it is also rather hard to like it uncritically, largely because of the celebration of power and colonialism that it represents.