The Art of Wine & Food

ABOUT US

.The Art of Wine & Food was established in 1990 with the objective to promote interesting wine & food-related objects,
culinary curiosities, old cookbooks, winemaking & viticulture texts & ephemera
for anyone interested in wine & food, or its fascinating history.. Now also very affordable art.

OUR SHOWROOM

THAT VINTAGE EMPORIUM

300 Botany Road
ALEXANDRIA  NSW. 2015
AUSTRALIA

​Trading Hours Daily 10am to 5pm

TVE Contact - 0488 236 250

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Website - www.thatvintageemporium.com.au

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FEATURED ITEM

    Food-Related Books from the Eighteenth to Twentieth Century

​One of the focuses of the business in recent years has been cookbooks & food-related editions, in English & French.
 
Cookbooks by Escoffier, Curnosky, Ali-Bab, Toulouse-Lautrec, Berthe, Gilbert, Dumont, Mathiot, Saint-Ange, Pellaprat & Montagne are all names that we have available in French.
 
In English you’ll find two editions of Physiologie du Gout by Brillat-Savarin, Beeton’s All About Country Life, a well-used The London and Country Cook from 1749, as well as Julian Street’s 1912 Paris a la Carte to compliment the selection.

Les Cuivres de Cuisine by Jean-Claud Renard a fascinating history into the history & use of copper cooking utensils published by Les Editions de l'Amateur 1997

OUR HISTORY

The plan to open a retail business in Sydney specialising in wine & food-related antiques had been an idea of wine enthusiast John Cunnington for decades.
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From a large old wooden box of corkscrews, a collection of early drinking glasses & decanters, years of interest in wine-related antiques & Australian wine & its history, The Art of Wine & Food opened in Sydney in 1990.

The business soon became a favourite for 'foodies' & chefs from around the world. Local wineries, food stylists, 'props' buyers, & collectors of old menus, corkscrews, early glassware, cookbooks, decanters, champagne coolers, absinthe-related material, vineyard implements, copper cooking pots, or books on winemaking & viticulture became regulars.

In the past three decades a number of memorable items have flowed through the business. These  included a well-provenanced 19th century duck press identical to the first one used at La Tour d'Argent, a full-size cider press from Normandy, first edition books by Escoffier, absinthe glasses featured in the movie Moulin Rouge, two complete sets of cooper's tools sold to a local vineyard & Air France posters by Roger Bezombes.
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Today areas of interest include foie gras, the truffle, early books on viticulture and winemaking, old menus, the history of the duck press, absinthe, champagne ephemera, Les Chevaliers du Tastevin, 19th century French faience with culinary themes
& Australian wine ephemera.   ​