Food History

Table Traits, with Something on Them

by John Doran

John Doran, an editor and historian of the theatre, gathered this book of anecdotes about eating and drinking in 1854: feasts, cooks, gluttons and table customs from antiquity to his own day. It is gossip with footnotes. Like most Victorian table-talk, it believes nearly everything it was told.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 11 hr 40 min

Where to find it

On the Food History shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #69859. In the public domain in the United States.