Treat in store at museum

Senior exhibition curator Teresa Whittaker prepares some vintage food packaging for a new exhibition at Sheffield's Weston Park Museum.

Food Glorious Food, which tells the story of food from field to fork, opens to the public tomorrow.

Displays will include food packaging through the decades and the labour-saving gadgets, historic culinary devices and unusual recipes of the last half a century. Television cook Prue Leith, the Government's school dinners champion, will open the doors to the exhibition tomorrow morning.

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A Museums Sheffield spokesman said: "Food – how we grow it, prepare it and eat it – is at the very heart of our society. What we eat, when, and who we share it with reflects who we are and forms a large part of our daily lives.

"The exhibition has drawn on the British Library's vast oral history archive and interviews with people from across the region to look at what's gone from our farms, into our shopping trolleys and onto our plates over the last 50 years."

Picture: Chris Lawton