Dinner Time by Frederick Morgan, South Shields Museum & Art Gallery
Frederick Morgan (1847-1927) Dinner Time, about 1865 oil on panel This charming setting is a prosperous cottager’s home. This is indicated by the blue and white pottery and glass on the white tablecloth, and the presence of a joint of ham on the table, presided over by mother. Until comparatively recently, meat MIS not a regular daily food for-most people.
In this exhibition, visitors can discover South Tyneside’s evolving food and drink story, from Roman times up to the present day, and learn of the origins of some of the borough’s most iconic eateries, including Colmans fish and chips, Dicksons pork butchers and Minchella & Co’s ice cream. In the decades following the Second World War, culinary horizons were expanded with the introduction of flavours from places far beyond UK shores.
