Book description
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.
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.
