The exhibition “The Little Things in Life” is dedicated to culinary and technical innovations of the 19th and the early 20th centuries.
The hall “Urban cuisine of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries” shows typical Saint Petersburg cuisine as it is described in the cookbook “A Gift to Young Housewives” written by Elena Molokhovets.
At the turn of the 20th century, kitchens were arranged in accordance with the latest sanitary requirements, and households adopted new technology. There was a lot of kitchenware on the shelves — huge brass bowls and dishes for cooking jam. Groceries were stored in tins and porcelain jars. Some of the kitchen utensils presented at the exhibition are still used today: a beater, a whisk, a soufflé mold, and a cabbage cutter. Others, such as the sugar knife, have long gone out of use.
An interior of the confectionery of the second half of the 19th century was created in the hall “Petersburg Confectionery”. Citizens came to such cafés for shopping. There they could relax, read the latest newspapers, and drink a cup of coffee with a new cake.
The confectionery history of the 19th-century Saint Petersburg is distinguished by the names of the “kings of the chocolate world”: Georges Bormann, Alexey Abrikosov, Georg Landrin, and Theodor Einem. At the end of the 19th century, their confectionery products were popular both in Russia and abroad.
The hall “Urban cuisine of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries” shows typical Saint Petersburg cuisine as it is described in the cookbook “A Gift to Young Housewives” written by Elena Molokhovets.
At the turn of the 20th century, kitchens were arranged in accordance with the latest sanitary requirements, and households adopted new technology. There was a lot of kitchenware on the shelves — huge brass bowls and dishes for cooking jam. Groceries were stored in tins and porcelain jars. Some of the kitchen utensils presented at the exhibition are still used today: a beater, a whisk, a soufflé mold, and a cabbage cutter. Others, such as the sugar knife, have long gone out of use.
An interior of the confectionery of the second half of the 19th century was created in the hall “Petersburg Confectionery”. Citizens came to such cafés for shopping. There they could relax, read the latest newspapers, and drink a cup of coffee with a new cake.
The confectionery history of the 19th-century Saint Petersburg is distinguished by the names of the “kings of the chocolate world”: Georges Bormann, Alexey Abrikosov, Georg Landrin, and Theodor Einem. At the end of the 19th century, their confectionery products were popular both in Russia and abroad.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.
