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LONDON, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) – A new exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum, inaugurated Wednesday, explores the crucial role of food in the life and novels of the author.
On the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the publication of A Christmas Carol, while the first family home of Charles Dickens dresses for Christmas, the Food Glory Food: Dinner with Dickens exhibition was opened for examine Dickens' report to food and the epic menus of dishes and drinks served. by the Dickens family to their many guests.
This shows that his dinners – full of activity, wit, comedy and people and their peculiarities – were an essential food for his imagination.
Pen Vogler, co-curator of the exhibition and author of Dinner with Dickens: Recipes Inspired by the Life and Work of Charles Dickens, said the exhibition also looked at the deep reason why Dickens needed to entertain and share the food – his hidden childhood memories. of hunger – and his belief, clearly explained in his stories, that the rich and the poor have the right to have a meal and a drink and that children deserve the safety of a proper meal.
"Food is ubiquitous in Dicken's stories and almost always meaningful," said Vogler. "Food, and its absence, are at the heart of Dickens' work."
The exhibition is presented from Wednesday to April 2019 in all rooms where lived Charles Dickens and his family. They entertained countless friends and organized dinners for some of the most influential and interesting members of Victorian society. It features household cooking utensils used by Dickens and letters and first-hand testimonials from Dickens' guests to paint a stark picture of the dining experience with Dickens.
The Charles Dickens Museum is located at 48 Doughty Street, in Bloomsbury, in the London mansion in which Dickens moved in with his growing family in 1837. It's in this house that Dickens created Oliver Twist, a novel that talks about hunger and the need for food. as much as one of his tales, the importance of food in Dickens stories. The tragic situation of the orphan Oliver Twist testifies to the difficulties of his childhood and the poverty and hunger that drove him to staring at the grocery store windows like a child and which remained secret until his death.
Cindy Sughrue, director of the museum, said the social point about food that Dickens had presented in his stories is still topical, in particular.
"There are still a lot of people living in food poverty in Britain today, who do not know where the next meal will come from, so all Dickens has written," he said. worry and psychological problems of not being nurtured, is incredibly relevant today It is really good if this exhibition helps people to think about it a little, "she told Xinhua.
The Charles Dickens Museum houses the most comprehensive collection of Dickens-related documents in the world. When he and his wife moved into the home of Doughty Street, he was a little-known writer, but about three years later he became an international star after writing The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Nicholas Nickleby.
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