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Insatiable Appetites: Eating Out in Georgian London

Insatiable Appetites: Eating Out in Georgian London

Ross, Peter

Hardcover

General World HistoryBritish History

Publisher Price: $45.00

ISBN10: 1851246649
ISBN13: 9781851246649
Publisher: Bodleian Library
Published: Jun 2 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Step into the kitchens, streets, and chop houses of Georgian London--one day, one city, and countless appetites.

From dawn until past midnight, Londoners dined at taverns, coaching inns, oyster rooms, confectioners, coffee shops, chocolate houses, soup shops, and dining rooms. For the poor, the streets bustled with vendors offering early versions of fast food: hot green peas, baked potatoes, suet puddings, curds and whey, rice milk, gingerbread, pastry pigs, and the now-forgotten saloop, a warming drink made from orchid roots. After dark, sex workers and their clients indulged in a glass of jelly, then considered an aphrodisiac, as a precursor to a visit to the brothel. As the empire expanded, culinary influences poured in: London's first Indian takeaway appeared in 1773, while the East End became home to Jewish fried fish, Italian boloney, and German sausages.

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