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The Jane Austen Cookbook
by: Maggie Black, Deirdre Le Faye

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9780714127699
ISBN: 0714127698
Label: British Museum Press
Manufacturer: British Museum Press
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: March 25, 2002
Publisher: British Museum Press
Studio: British Museum Press
Sales Rank: 276671




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Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Nice little introduction to Jane Austen's food
This is a lovely and shortish introduction to cooking and culture of eating and entertaining for the late Georgian period when Austen was alive. I loved the fact that this was about cooking and eating rather than some of the less universally approachable subjects (letters, literary criticism). Maggie Black and Deidre Le Faye have both written Jane Austen style and culture type books before so both understand the period and are able to draw on a large resource of appropriate information.

The introduction is very much about how people ate - what was available, how it got to houses, and why this was so. There is some division by class (upper class, middle class and lower class are all discussed) but also the divisions by Geography ... Read More:



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A super book.
Just the stuff if you want to know more about the cooking and eating habits of Jane Austen and her friends.


 
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