Plenty and Want, Third Edition: A Social History of Food in England From 1815 to the Present Day

by John Burnett

What did Queen Victoria have for dinner? And how did this compare with the meals of the poor in the nineteenth century? This classic account of English food habits since the industrial revolution answers these questions and more.

Genres: History, Food, Nonfiction

380 pages, Paperback

First published April 6, 1989

Reviews

[Jake R · Rating 5 out of 5]

Impressively comprehensive and largely sensitively written. I read the 2nd Ed., which came out in 1979, need to track down the other two to see the differences in the post-1945 stuff.