Beschreibung:
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.
1: 1660: Wine from the Rhine and a Cupp of China Tea 2: 1661: Botargo, Bread and Butter by Moonshine 3: 1662: Boiled Great Oysters and a Brace of Stewed Carps 4: 1663: Eeles, Teales and a Hot Umble-Pie 5: 1664: Cake for a Wake and a Good Hog's Harslet 6: 1665: The Meanest Dinner, in the Meanest Manner, to the Basest Degree 7: 1666: Preventing the Parmazan from Perishing 8: 1667: Bellyfuls of Milk and the Best of Cheese-cakes 9: 1668: Curds and Whey Won't Keep Belly-ake at Bay 10: 1669: Mightily Magnified Sawce for Flesh, Foul or Fish