The Victorian Diet and Cuisine
- Colin Spencer Explains Why Was Victorian Cooking so Bad
- The Decline of British Cooking and Its Consequences for the Poor
- Victorian Middle Class Ambivalence towards Food
- Transportation Technology, Milk, and Disease
- The invention of canning and its effect on what Victorians ate
- What the housewife used to cook meals: fireplace hangers, pot cranes, fire and cup dogs, tongs and other implements
- Eneas Dallas on Salad
Links to Related Material
- Rushlight: How the Country Poor Lit Their Homes
- “Adulteration, and its Remedy” — an article in the 1860 Cornhill Magaizne
Food in Victorian Literature
Bibliography
Broomfield, Andrea. Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.
Eating with the Victorians. Ed. C. Anne Wilson. Sutton, 2004.
Spencer, Colin. British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History. New Yoek: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1983. pp. 48-49, 50-51.
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