A book review of The King’s Peas by Meredith Chilton, the companion publication to the Gardiner Museum exhibition, Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment. See this issue of CFS/RCÉA for Jennifer O'Connor's review of Savour. It is difficult not to like The King's Peas, the genteelly designed and generously produced 'cookbook' published as a companion to the Gardiner Museum's 2019-20 exhibition, Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment. At the same time, however, it is also rather hard to like it uncritically, largely because of the celebration of power and colonialism that it represents.        

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• Szanto, D., (2025), "Mind Your Ps, Ask Your Qs: a review of The King’s Peas by Meredith Chilton", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.444)

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1. colonialism
2. dinnerware
3. enlightenment
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Original publication: Szanto, David. "Mind Your Ps, Ask Your Qs: a review of The King’s Peas by Meredith Chilton." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 7, no. 2, 2020, pp. 85-87. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.444. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.