Soup and sensibility — Eating with Jane Austen

22/11/2025 29 min
Soup and sensibility — Eating with Jane Austen

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that we all eat. Whether we’re considering the menus of last week or last century, food helps us to understand ourselves, our neighbours — and even our most treasured literary characters. When we read the novels of Jane Austen with an eye for the culinary, what might we discover?