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  • A cook holding a saucepan and wooden spoon, while in the background another cook roasts meat on a spit. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Lord Lyndhurst, as a cook with a large ladle in his hand, is roasting beef on the spit as a large kettle boils. Etching by W. Heath, 1829.
  • Cichorium intybus L., Asteraceae. Chicory, succory. Distribution: Uses: 'Cichory, (or Succory as the vulgar call it) cools and strengthens the liver: so doth Endive' (Culpeper, 1650). The Cichorium sylvestre, Wilde Succorie, of Gerard (1633) and the leaves cooked into a soup for ill people. Linnaeus (1782) reported it was used for Melancholia, Hypochondria, Hectica [fever], haemorrhage and gout. Root contains 20% inulin, a sweetening agent. Dried, roasted and ground up the roots are used as a coffee substitute, best known as Camp coffee (Chicory and Coffee essence). This used to be sold in tall square section bottle with a label showing a circa 1885 army tent with a Sikh soldier standing and serving coffee to a seated officer from the Gordon Highlanders. The bottle on the label has now moved on, and since 2006 it shows the same tent but the Sikh and the Scot are now both seated, drinking Camp coffee together. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Prevention of food poisoning by cooling hot food quickly, shown by a roast joint on a dish. Colour lithograph, ca. 1962.
  • Roast lamb with sun-dried tomatoes / Meat & Livestock Commission.
  • Roast lamb with sun-dried tomatoes / Meat & Livestock Commission.
  • A kitchen in which Sir Watkin Williams Wynn MP is rotated on a spit before a fire. Engraving, 1745.
  • A communal house, the men sit drinking around a table while the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cook. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.
  • A communal house, the men sit drinking around a table while the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cook. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.
  • A communal house, the men sit drinking around a table while the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cook. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.
  • The inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands offering to Captain Cook the sacrifice of a pig. Etching by S. Middiman and J. Hall, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Chicorium intybus (Chicory or Wild Succory)
  • French troops loading a ship for the invasion of England. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.