A talk from Prof. Harry West, on Tuesday 23 July at the Horniman Museum. Given as part of the Collections People Stories project. www.horniman.ac.uk/about/collections-people-stories

1. stories of cheese making
told by its tools
the horniman museum
23 july 2013
harry g. west
professor of anthropology
chair, food studies centre
soas, university of london

2. VAT
fir staves, iron hoops
height: 315 mm
diameter at top: 135 mm
made: 1945
acquired: 1957
village of salva,
district of nasaud,
region of cluj,
romania

9. creaming spoon village
of straja
maple wood
district of radauti
length: 285 mm region of
suceava
made: early 20th c. romania
acquired: 1957

10. tally stick
maple wood village
of salva
length: 345 mm district of
nasaud
width: 20 mm region of
cluj
made: 1944 romania
acquired: 1957

12. curd breaker and stirrer village of salva
maple wood and Hazel twigs district of
nasaud
685 mm x 220 mm region of
cluj
acquired: 1957
romania

21. whey ladle
maple wood
village of salva
length: 810 mm district
of nasaud
width of bowl: 190 mm region of
cluj
made: 1944
romania
acquired: 1957

23. straining basket acquired:
1990
plant fibre cyprus
98 mm x 125 mm

28. belt mould acquired:
1959
wood and twine switzerland
57 mm x 250 mm

35. strainer
ceramic denmark
80 cm x 21 cm
made: 18th c.

36. mould acquired:
1927
dark wood england
92 mm x 215 mm

37. draining mould acquired:
1962
wood and iron netherlands
184 mm x 186 mm

46. press
wood
185 mm x 135 mm
date and
provenance
unknown

47. press acquired:
1963
wood and metal poland
736.6 mm x 558.8 mm

60. cheese gouge acquired: 1962
brass, wood, metal england
518mm x 38mm

63. corer
sheep bone
114 mm x 27 mm x 17 mm
acquired: 1927
england

64. cutter
acquired: 1904
iron and wood
cambridgeshire
blade: 239 mm x 109 mm x 3 mm england
handle: 145 mm x 70 mm x 37 mm

69. cigarette card acquired:
2011
67 mm x 35 mm london,
england

71. mould village
of vrincioaia
acacia and cherry wood hamlet of poiana
180 mm x 290 mm x 65 mm district of
vrancea
made: 1916 region of
galati
acquired: 1957 romania

72. cheese hen
dried curd
acquired: 1959
Poland

89. mould
acquired: 1959
poland

90. cheese horse acquired:
1959
dried curd poland

91. thanks to:
sarah byrne, johanna zetterstrom-sharp, tom
crowley, fiona kerlogue (horniman museum)
ivan day (food historian, museums and country
house consultant)
laura mason (co-author, traditional foods of
britain: a regional inventory)
elisabeth luard (trustee director of the oxford
symposium on food and cookery)
david lockwood (neal’s yard dairy)
patricia michelson (la fromagerie)
ewa spohn, and kazimierz furczon (gazdowie - the
tatra-beskid producers cooperative)