Past Futures: How Londoners Imagined 21st Century Dining

Snack to the future, with Victorian protein pills and cubic luncheons.

Sep 06, 2023

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A Victorian couple sit down to dinner in a black and white engraving. Speech bubbles show them discussing bizarre food choices — Background image: iStock. Captions by the author.

What’ll you be eating tonight? The similitude of mutton? A turtle lozenge? Or perhaps you’ll dine out and choose Saline Lactative Dinner No. 6 from the menu. The Victorians and Edwardians had some entertaining ideas about the future of fo…

Past Futures: How Londoners Imagined 21st Century Dining

Snack to the future, with Victorian protein pills and cubic luncheons.

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