The Sources of Food is part of a pair of prints dedicated to eating included in the scrolls. The first of these features images of bees, sheep, and hogs, among others, and the food derived from each, very much in the manner of the aforementioned Geology and Mineralogy.
The second image, Different Kinds of Food is text based and features a comprehensive list of foods available in the early 19th century. The variety of the diet is striking and would have been marked by a high degree of seasonality, with foods preservable only through means such as pickling and salting, and storage in external ice houses, usually found in the grand estates of the aristocracy. Surprisingly, red meat is not listed here, with a strong emphasis instead on a variety of fish and fowl, perhaps an indication that the intended audience could not afford such luxuries. The list also includes what might be regarded as more modern, or at least exotic foods, such as ketchup, soy, anchovies, nectarines and pineapples.
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