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