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Jul 30, 2026
What could you eat in Georgian London?
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20:14Peter RossGUEST
The, the Georgians have an obsession with buns, so all those famous buns that we know about still today, the Chelsea bun, the Bath bun you've mentioned, they do seem to date from the Georgian period.
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20:23Peter RossGUEST
It may be that we were influenced by the French that you, you could eat sweet breads at breakfast.
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41:42Lauren GoodHOST
We've talked about dishes that many listeners will recognize, but where do you most notice Georgian influences coming up with what and when we eat?
Peter Ross, "Insatiable Appetites: Eating Out in Georgian London" (Bodleian Library, 2026)
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27:54Miranda MelcherHOST
So what would they serve somewhere like that, and how would they manage the kind of logistics of such a large quantity for so many people?
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28:05Peter RossGUEST
So Vauxhall Gardens were a, a pleasure gardens that developed over the Georgian period.
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28:11Peter RossGUEST
It was in Vauxhall, obviously, which is on, on, uh, the River Thames, so a, a little outside the City of Westminster.
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36:18Miranda MelcherHOST
So if we go to the East End in the Georgian period, what sort of popular things would people have been eating later in the day?
Peter Ross, "Insatiable Appetites: Eating Out in Georgian London" (Bodleian Library, 2026)
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31:09Miranda MelcherHOST
So what would they serve somewhere like that? And how would they manage the kind of logistics of such a large quantity for so many people?
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31:20Peter RossGUEST
So Vauxhall Gardens were a pleasure gardens that developed over the Georgian period.
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40:58Miranda MelcherHOST
So if we go to the East End in the Georgian period, what sort of popular things would people have been eating later in the day?
Peter Ross, "Insatiable Appetites: Eating Out in Georgian London" (Bodleian Library, 2026)
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29:25Miranda MelcherHOST
Donc, qu'est-ce qu'ils serviraient à quelque part comme ça? Et comment ils gèrent la logistique de cette grande quantité pour tellement de gens?
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29:34Peter RossGUEST
Les jardins de Vauxhall étaient des jardins de plaisir qui ont été développés au cours de la période georgienne.
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29:41Peter RossGUEST
C'était à Vauxhall, évidemment, qui est sur la rivière Thames, donc un peu à l'extérieur de la ville de Westminster.
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29:52Peter RossGUEST
Il s'ouvrait seulement dans les mois de l'été, donc si le temps était bon, ces mois de l'été pourraient durer plus longtemps.
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29:57Peter RossGUEST
Il s'ouvrait vraiment à 5h du matin, donc c'était quelque part où vous alliez le matin.
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38:16Miranda MelcherHOST
Donc, si nous allions à l'est de la période georgienne, quelles sortes de choses populaires devraient les gens manger plus tard dans le jour ?
Peter Ross, "Insatiable Appetites: Eating Out in Georgian London" (Bodleian Library, 2026)
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29:39Miranda MelcherHOST
So what would they serve somewhere like that? And how would they manage the kind of logistics of such a large quantity for so many people?
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29:50Peter RossGUEST
So Vauxhall Gardens were a pleasure gardens that developed over the Georgian period.
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29:56Peter RossGUEST
It was in Vauxhall, obviously, which is on the River Thames, so a little outside the city of Westminster.
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30:07Peter RossGUEST
It only opened in the summer months, so if the weather was good, those summer months could last longer.
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30:13Peter RossGUEST
It really opened about five o'clock in the evening, so it was somewhere you went in the evening.
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38:04Miranda MelcherHOST
So if we go to the East End in the Georgian period, what sort of popular things would people have been eating later in the day?
Peter Ross, "Insatiable Appetites: Eating Out in Georgian London" (Bodleian Library, 2026)
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30:39Miranda MelcherHOST
So what would they serve somewhere like that? And how would they manage the kind of logistics of such a large quantity for so many people?
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30:50Peter RossGUEST
So Vauxhall Gardens were a pleasure gardens that developed over the Georgian period.
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40:04Miranda MelcherHOST
So if we go to the East End in the Georgian period, what sort of popular things would people have been eating later in the day?
Treasures of the Guildhall Library with Peter Ross
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23:42Peter RossGUEST
Who apparently did research at the older Guildhall Library, the Victorian building, and obviously liked it here because what he, when he founded the Wine and Food Society, um, they started gathering together a library, and he wanted it given to Guildhall Library.
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23:58Peter RossGUEST
And it arrived here, which then attracted attention to the sort of Cinderella collections we had before that.
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24:08Peter RossGUEST
And when Elizabeth David was, uh, in her old age, you might say, in the 1970s, uh, into the '80s when she was getting older, her books became more and more dense with historical research.
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24:22Peter RossGUEST
So particularly the book on English Bread and Yeast Cookery and the book on Harvest of the Cold Months.
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5/31/2026

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79:28Peter RossGUEST
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79:50Peter RossGUEST
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Eating Out in Georgian London with Peter Ross
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20:24Peter RossGUEST
It's difficult to say because lots of people were scamming other people by having small measures.
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20:30Peter RossGUEST
Although if you imagine a November morning before it's, you know, it's gonna be maybe wet and cold, it was hot and nourishing, and if it had sugar it would be nice and sweet.
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20:44Peter RossGUEST
Unfortunately, because of the people who were s- who gathered at these saloop stands where they often had a lamp, there would be a lamp there.
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‘Black rain’ in Iran and the environmental cost of war
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4:12Peter RossGUEST
I'd be worried about, uh, people that have asthma or COPD or other, uh, lung ailments.
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4:18Peter RossGUEST
So when we would have a forest fire or a major fire, uh, we would see an increase in emergency room visits.
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4:25Peter RossGUEST
We would see an increase in asthma attacks, and we would also increase-- see increases in mortality.
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4:34Peter RossGUEST
But in, uh, in this smoke, in addition to the sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or PAHs, we would also see benzene, toluene, uh, and a number of other explosive gases, uh, that are very, uh, very toxic.


