Lifting the Lid: 400 Years of Food and Drink in Scotland

Using the Library’s rich collections of manuscript and printed recipe books, our summer exhibition explores Scotland’s changing relationship with food and drink over the centuries, as part of the Year of Food and Drink 2015.

This exhibition uses a variety of material – manuscripts, books, household accounts and tradesmen’s bills, and amateur and government films about food – to contrast the richness and diversity of Scotland’s larder with the myths and traditions associated with its people’s diet.