A brief guide to the Food Collection

"A Brief Guide to the Food Collection" by Bethnal Green Museum is an informative book from the 1870s, offering a look into the Food Collection at the Bethnal Green Branch of the South Kensington Museum. The book teaches people about the different types of food that were important for everyone, no matter how rich or poor they were. It divides food into two groups, Alimentary, which covers the important parts of food and what they are made of, and Medicinal, which includes things like alcohol and spices that change how food tastes or how they affect your body. The guide tells you all about what's in different foods, explaining how they relate to what the body needs and where they come from, like plants, animals, or minerals. The goal of the authors is to help readers understand how nutrition works and why it matters every day, while also pointing out how the source of food and how it's prepared affects the economy.