Status Updates From Food And Drink In Britain: ...

"The trend toward a simpler, less highly spiced diet was already becoming apparent at the end of the eighteenth century, and it continued during the nineteenth. In the Victorian era there was a belief that high thinking should be coupled with plain living, and that a simple diet was morally healthier"

How to tell when your 18th Century cuisine has jumped the shark: "Pigeons could be transmogrified, which meant that each bird was tucked inside a large, hollowed cucumber, with it's head and legs sticking out at each end and a bunch of barberries in its bill by way of decoration."

In the middle of section on Cereals, potherbs and pottage - lots of names of vegetable and plants I've never heard of and am finding it most fascinating to see what our ancestors ate.
I skipped the chapter on milk, cheese and butter, so looking forward to that.