Author : Susan M. Rossi-Wilcox
Publisher : Prospect Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Dinner for Dickens by : Susan M. Rossi-Wilcox
Download or read book Dinner for Dickens written by Susan M. Rossi-Wilcox and published by Prospect Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Dickens, under the pseuonym of Lady Maria Clutterbuck, wrote a little book called What Shall we Have for Dinner? Satisfactorily Answered by Numerous Bills of Fare for from Two to Eighteen Persons in 1851. It had two subsequent editions in 1852 and 1854. The foreword was contribured (anonymously) by her husband, Charles. Susan Rossi-Wilcox reprints this work and contributes asn engaging study of the domestic arrangements of the Dickens household together with a culinary commentary on the recipes and foodstuffs mentioned in the original work.