The history of eating - the Roman banquet, the medieval feast, coffee, tea, tobacco and the men who first tried them - by a physician's son who wrote gossip better than anyone of his day. Doran edited Notes and Queries and knew every anecdote worth knowing. This edition is 58 plates after paintings by Jean Béraud, John Everett Millais, George Harvey and Francis Grant, dating from 1843 to 1910.