Martin Gayford

Remarkable and imaginative: Fitzwilliam Museum’s The Art of Food reviewed

Feast & Fast is filled with edible and inedible glories

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  • Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500–1800

    Fitzwilliam Museum, until 26 April 2020

Eating makes us anxious. This is a feature of contemporary life: a huge amount of attention is devoted to how much we eat, when we eat it, where it comes from, to toxic foods, organic and inorganic ones, environmentally damaging groceries, those that tot up too much mileage or cause damage to the rainforest.

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