As well as being the most celebrated diarist of all time, Samuel Pepys was also a hearty drinker, eater & connoisseur of epicurean delights, who indulged in every pleasure seventeenth-century London had to offer. Whether he is feasting on barrels of oysters, braces of carps, larks' tongues & copious amounts of wine, merrymaking in taverns until the early hours, attending formal dinners with lords & ladies or entertaining guests at home with his young wife, these irresistible selections from Pepys' diaries provide a frank, high-spirited & vivid picture of the joys of over-indulgence
- & the side-effects afterwards.