Food History

A Little Dinner at Timmins's

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Thackeray’s story of 1848, from Punch: a young barrister and his wife, in a small London house and not rich, decide to give one grand dinner for people they hope to impress. Everything that can go wrong, with the cost, the hired help and the guests, does. It is short and painfully funny, and every hostess in the books around it would recognise it.

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Reading time

About 45 minutes

Where to find it

On the Food History shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #2859. In the public domain in the United States.