Mmmm, chicken nuggets
Bee Wilson: The Victorian Restaurant Scene, 15 August 2019
The London Restaurant: 1840-1914
by Brenda Assael.
Oxford, 239 pp., £60, July 2018,978 0 19 881760 4 Show More
by Brenda Assael.
Oxford, 239 pp., £60, July 2018,
“... possibilities for eating out in London were far more extensive and varied than one might imagine. Brenda Assael’s book – which is full of rich and original research – concentrates on what what she calls the city’s ‘gastro-cosmopolitanism’: a rather off-putting term for a useful concept. Like modern Londoners, the Victorians could have Indian ... ”
