Eating and Drinking
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 2,000 items relating to eating and drinking in Glasgow which date from between 1750 and 1994. This collection comprises cutlery and crockery, furniture, fixtures and fittings, photographs, food containers and packaging, items for food preparation, bottles, glassware, cooking implements, ration cards, menus, advertising material and other ephemera. These items come from a range of eating establishments, such as tearooms, cafes, fast-food takeaways and restaurants, and include items designed by Charles Rennie Macintosh for the tearooms run by Miss Cranston. Eating and drinking in the home is also represented by serving dishes, cookers and kitchen goods as well as items relating to drinking tea and coffee. Learning to cook is covered by a range of items including cookery books, textbooks and other items used in school and college classes. Items related to alcohol include the public house interior fixtures and fittings collected from the Mitre Bar in Brunswick Street and an 18th century punchbowl used at the Saracen's Head Inn.
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