Red Classics Great Food the Joys of Excess - Softcover

Pepys, Samuel

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9780241951125: Red Classics Great Food the Joys of Excess

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ISBN 10: 0241951127 ISBN 13: 9780241951125

Publisher: Penguin UK, 2011

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As well as being the most celebrated diarist of all time, Samuel Pepys was also a hearty drinker, eater and connoisseur of epicurean delights, who indulged in every pleasure seventeenth-century London had to offer. Whether he is feasting on barrels of oysters, braces of carps, larks' tongues and copious amounts of wine, merrymaking in taverns until the early hours, attending formal dinners with lords and ladies or entertaining guests at home with his young wife, these irresistible selections from Pepys's diaries provide a frank, high-spirited and vivid picture of the joys of over-indulgence - and the side-effects afterwards.

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Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was a naval administrator, Member of Parliament and best remembered as a diarist. Kept between 1660-1669 and written in Shelton's shorthand, Pepys' diary recorded major historical events, like The Plague and The Great Fire of London alongside his more personal concerns and activities, including politics, his work in public life and rows with his wife, Elizabeth. Throughout are his fulsome thoughts on food, including his first encounters with drinking chocolate.

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A visceral, earthy writer -- Hermione Lee Vigorous, precise, enchanting ... the most ordinary and the most extraordinary writer you will ever meet -- Claire Tomalin

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