The Culinary Art

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
506
Date Released
12 Feb 1931
Length of issue (in feet)
814
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
4 / 7
Summary
NoS Summary - Chefs attend a display of food art.
NoS synopsis: "Every year the great Chefs of London gather together and devise new and more appetising methods of pleasing our tastes - " M/S of group of men at an exhibition of food art. "Any ham tastes nicer when "dressed" suitably - " C/U of hams which have been decorated with painted scenes of a bird and what looks like a woman dancing. "Lobsters and prawns too!" C/U of a model of Little Bo Peep which is presumably made partly from seafood. "A novelty - electrically cooks your food on your plate, or acts as a hot plate or radiator!" Chef demonstrates a saucepan which has heating elements inside it. The saucepan is placed on top of a plate of food to heat it. "Art in salt" is next with an ornate building made from salt on display. Two women admire a biplane made from salt. "This one is made of potatoes - fried." A basket of flowers which is apparently made from fried potatoes is featured. "And the sweetest art of all - sugar models." A basket of fruit made from sugar is seen in C/U. A middle eastern style building is shown. We see it in C/U with one of the people attending pointing out the delicately made figure of a man and little tables. M/S of a woman looking at a model of Blackpool Tower - possibly made from salt. C/U of the front of the Tower model.
Researcher Comments
A short handwritten shot list for this item is present in the Pathe boxfile.
Keywords
Food and cooking; Arts and crafts
Footage sources
Pathe
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.206
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No. EP206
Pathe Eve 494-515 Boxfile   Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue
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Production Co.
British Pathe Ltd.
Length of story (in feet)
140

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How to cite this record

'The Culinary Art', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 506, 12 Feb 1931. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/332655 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)