Galicia on a plate. The cook’s and consumer exhibition in Lwów, 1908

On October 3–18, 1908, the capital of the largest province of Austria-Hungary, Lemberg (Lwów in Polish, Lviv in Ukrainian), hosted an international jubilee cook’s and consumer exhibition. According to the organizers, the event was intended to demonstrate local gastronomic and consumer culture. The best chefs, restaurant owners, and hospitality industry representatives attended the exhibition. The event was very popular among numerous visitors. The exhibition was intended to introduce the public to the best chefs and producers of Galician cuisine to place them in the gastronomic context of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. An indirect result was an increase in the number of Polish and Ukrainian cookbooks published in the following decades and the creation of culinary training ­courses. Unfortunately, this was the last event in this part of Eastern Europe, and its history and results were unknown to researchers for many years.