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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. Best copy of this book I have seen. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The seventeenth century brought enormous changes and varied additions. The potato became a popular food tea coffee chocolate the tomato and other vegetables became known and table manners were a great deal less primitive. There are cookery books of the period which show increasing skill and imagination in the preparation of food not only for great occasions or even for great houses but among the well-to-do middle classes. The modern meal began to take shape. Samuel Pepys for instance describes a dinner-party he gave in Janu- ary 1665 which started with oysters proceeded to a hash of rabbit and lamb a chine of beef a great dish of roast fowl a tart fruit and cheese. But there was another innovation at this time which has stayed with us to the present-the habit initially English of ending the meal with a pudding a tart a sweetmeat of some kind which other nations though they have grudgingly and sporadically accepted it at first regarded as an example of English gluttony. (SP)