Dinner with the Charles Dickens Museum
Christmas means food, drink and dickens, so the Charles Dickens Museum has decked the halls and put out the (artificial) food in a celebration of a Dickensian Christmas.Whether feasting for the rich or scraping by for the poor, food was a massive cost for the household, far more than today, when a typical family would spend around a third of their income on the cost of buying food.
So it’s no surprise really that food plays such an important role in Charles Dickens novels, and as someone b
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