Plenty and Want: A Social History of Food in England from 1815 to the Present Day


Plenty and Want: A Social History of Food in England from 1815 to the Present Day
Plenty and Want: A Social History of Food in England from 1815 to the Present Day by John Burnett

What did Queen Victoria have for dinner? And how did this compare with the meals of the poor in the nineteenth century? This classic account of English food habits since the industrial revolution answers these questions and more.

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