Food History

The Curiosities of Food

by P. L. Simmonds

Peter Lund Simmonds wrote on trade and the produce of the empire, and in 1859 he gathered what the world ate from the animal kingdom: birds’ nests, insects, snails, sea slugs and stranger dishes. It is a Victorian survey and sees the world from London. It is also a reminder that one table’s curiosity is another’s supper.

The librarian

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

Reading time

About 7 hr 30 min

Where to find it

On the Food History shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #71509. In the public domain in the United States.