‘The Feasts of Autolycus: The Diary of a Greedy Woman’ with Sam Bilton (premium content)

Welcome to this special bonus episode of The British Food History Podcast. I always make an extra episode for my monthly £3 subscribers. I wanted to make an episode where I talk with another food historian about a book. I asked Sam Bilton and she chose The Feasts of Autolycus: The Diary of a Greedy Woman by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1899). An author I was not familiar with – and I really enjoyed reading the book and having this discussion.

We talk about Elizabeth Robins Pennell and how Sam discovered her, the expectations of women and greediness in the late Victorian period, food and morality, Camp coffee, stirring savouries, magnificent mushrooms, and kidneys – lots and lots of kidneys.