Exhibition and catalogue by Paola Benussi, Michela Dal Borgo e Monica Del Rio

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body, but it is also tradition, commerce, recipes and ingredients as well as being a symbol and metaphor and it is a topic that we can investigate through the documents conserved in the State Archives of Venice. There are many possibilities to discuss food from a historical point of view; we have chosen to pursue four different paths, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, to put our carte (this is a play on words: carte in italian means papers and also cards) on the table: