Food

I chose the food topic. This is because food is an essential component of human life, and because there has never been a suitable human body fuel that could supplement it, there has been an abundance of food lore spread throughout human society.
Food has a different significance for each individual. Culture, clans, relatives, and an individual's identity are all influenced by the foods they eat and the ways they cook and serve them.
Today, we will investigate the effect of rapidly evolving technology and globalization on food and food-related topics. This clay model of four cows was made in Egypt over 5000years ago. It was placed in the grave, perhaps to provide its owner with food in the afterlife. Egypt cows were used as a source of life in the harsh desert environment and whole cows were sometimes buried with the people.

Later the cows were worshipped as the goddess Bat-The protector and mother of pharaoh.

Domestication of cows: Cows were first domesticated in North Africa in 8000BC. After the Ice Age the earth had grown warmer and the lush savannah was transformed into the Sahara desert. As the climate became drier people became restricted to the Nile Valley where they relied on cows for food and as of beast of burden to carry water. Cows were also domesticated independently in the

Middle East and today all cattle across the world are descendants of these Middle Eastern cows.



b) RED CROSS BUTTER TIN FROM COLDITZ CASTLE

This Tin was part of the Red cross parcel, sent to Allied officers imprisoned during the second world war.

The amazing part is that according to museum curator, the tin is likely to have been used by would-be escapees when digging one of the main tunnel out of the castle.











c) CHOCOLATES PRESENTED TO TROOPS NY 1900

These chocolates were presented from Queen Victoria to the troops in the Boer war in South Africa and the chocolates were made by Cadbury.



d) EARLY PORCELAIN PLATE

This plate was passed down the family. These plates were from the Midlands and the exact place and date made is not known.



e) OLDUVAL OXE



This hand axe made of given volcanic lava represent a traditional of tool making which began about 1.6 million ago.

The smaller hand axe became the common handheld tools used for cutting meat or woodworking.

The hand axe was produced with great skills by ancestors we would then recognise as becoming human. The maker of the hand axe ae the first human to spread across Africa into Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Hand axe reflect the first great spread of humankind and the establishment of a way of life in which we recognise the beginning of our human characteristic.

It’s also important to note that no other humanly made object that has been made has spread over such a wide geographical area.



FUNCTION, DESIGN AND STYLE IN ONE

This artifact is one of the oldest objects in the British museum.

This hand axe was found in 1931 by Louis Leakey in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania about 1.2 million years ago. This hand tool would have been efficient for the range of task involved in animal butchery from slicing hide and filleting meat to disjointing carcasses. The effectiveness of the hand axe is reflected in there widespread use across Africa, and from a million years ago in Asia and Europe.

Although the hand axes were first made in Britain some 600000 years ago they were still being used by Neanderthal only 40000 years ago and even though some may ask how these tradition were passed down from one generation to another over such huge distance of time then perhaps this is simply an efficient tool that was reinvented time and again.

The Hand axe is said to be status symbol perhaps to attract mating partners or indicate power while other say that the specific shape were used to indicate group identity.



f) BAKERS DELIVERY VAN

A baker’s delivery van. This horse drawn delivery van was used to deliver bread throughout the Radstock Area and similar van would have been found throughout the country delivering bakery products to households.

The Radstock society formed in 1868 and has been both a constant employer and continual assist t the community.

The society developed its own farm, built a bakery, a dairy and housing for workers alone with the more familiar retail activities.







g) CLOAM OVEN

The cloam oven at the old post office Tintagel is a good example. The cloam oven was made at the bideford in Devon and Lake’s pottery. The oven which has a sealable cloam door was filled with furze and fired till red hot. Ashes were then quickly raked out and bread or a joint put in to bake. After these were baked smaller article like cakes were baked before the oven cooled.

The whole Victorian period, the old post office was run as a form by Symons family. The Cloam Oven was used successively by Margret Symons and her daughters Betsy, Millar, Emma Parnell and Mary Emitt.











h) CIDER APPLE MILL



This was once the staple drink of Cornish farm workers and orchards were more common than today.

This apple mill and horse round came from pill farm at Lostwithiel and produced 315 gallons of cider per hour. The cider mill was made by engine maker John Edgcumbe of Lostwithiel and cost around €50 in 1808.

To make cider apple first put into a wooden hopper at the top of the apple mill Falling into fluted cast-iron rollers, they were pressed between granite rollers driven by a shaft drive linked to a horse round. The round was a donkey, speed of about 2.5 miles per hour could be achieved as they walked round and round.

The apple was then pressed between cloths in cider press and the juice fermented in vats.







i) SILVER TEA-POT MADE IN BANFF

The tea-pot made about 1715-20 is one of the oldest surviving silver tea-pots in Scotland and is one of the largest existing pieces of Banff silver. This tea-pot was capable of producing sophisticated silverware equal to being produced in Edinburgh.

There was also a succession of silversmith who produced a variety of silver goods including Mugs and cutlery. Although the county of Banff was a winter residence the making of such a style of tea-pot by a Banff silversmith at this time demonstrated that despite its apparent remote situation on the Moray firth coast, the town had easy access to the latest fashionable ideas from the down south through mercantile shipping links.







ELLIOT’S SHOP

TAMAR VALLEY PROTECTION SOCIETY. The Elliot’s shop was opened all hours rather than 24-hours opening, in there was personalized and not self-service also there was nothing like buy one get one free offer. The Elliot’s shop which was a Cornish shop frozen in the time was handy for ferry and railway but when the Saltash bridge was built it was bypassed and therefore had to close its doors in 1970 after 70 years of trading.

According to Frank Elliot the last shopkeeper, Decimalization and high business rates were to be blamed for the closing of the shop Elliot’s shop is a place where memories stirred from old gaslight, a grocery delivery bike, and fry’s emergency chocolate ration to gaudily decorated Tunis cake and Babycham. After the closing of the shop Frank Elliot and his brother ate their way through the stock, they opened tins of meat from the bottom, then carefully washed out then returned them to the shelves. The Jars of jam were left since they were not Frank’s favorite.





SIR JOHN ROSS’S BEEF CAN

This was a humble and slightly battered Tin can is remarkable well travelled and has quite a story to tell. The can is the first to be recorded in 1812 when it went on voyage to Bermuda. By 1812 it had been acquired by John Ross and accompanied him on his first Arctic expeditions in search of the North West passage. Ross was one of the best known explorers.



This beef Can went back to Arctic with Ross in 1829 and returned, still unopened in 1833.Later Ross presented this Can to the stair Family of Lochinch Castle where it remained for years. In 1869 the can was finally opened to mark the 21st birthday of Earl of stair. Despite the meat age it was eaten and was pronounced to be quite good and all the party guest survived the meal.

l) ROMAN JUG WITH DECORATED HANDLE

This rare jug was decorated with female figure on the handle, from the collection of the Hunterian Museum was selected by Louisa hammersly postgraduate student at the department of Archaeology University of Glasgow. According to Louisa the copper-alloy jug was recovered from Sadlerhead, Lanarkshire the handle is exquisitely decorated with female figure standing beside an altar or pedestal holding a bird in her right hand. On the basis of typological parallel with a jug recovered alongside elven bronze vessels from Rheinzabern, Germany dated to the 2nd century. The jug is said to be a 2nd century import to Northern Britain.