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LIQUID ASSETS.(A History of the World in 6 Glasses)(Book Review)
A typical day's drinking for Samuel Pepys in early Restoration London might go like this. At about ten o'clock, he would have his "morning draft"--usually "small" (or weak) beer, but sometimes regular beer or even wine. Cakes might be eaten with the draft, but dinner was the day's main meal, then taken at noon, and, at least on some occasions, this was washed down with wine--possibly watered, given the volumes that Pepys records knocking back. During the rest of the working day, more wine might be consumed: Rhenish wine (sometimes sugared); "sack" (sherry or Spanish white wine); claret (red Bordeaux); "Florence" wine; "burnt" or "mulled" wine; wine flavored with wormwood. ...
- Christmas with Sam and Elizabeth. (holiday festivities with Samuel and...
- Magazine article from: History Today White, Ron December 1, 1997 700+ words
...was always eaten cooked in the Pepys household, fresh fruit being...health point of view. One thing Pepys could not abide was meat cooked...Christmas day. So were theatres. Pepys was a great theatre-goer and...of beef `and plenty of good wine of my own', he set off to...
- Mr Pepys erupts
- Magazine article from: New Statesman Maguire, Kevin May 19, 2008 700+ words
...book plugger John Prescott. The Samuel Pepys of new Labour, who describes Uncle Gordie...my snout was awakened from slumber by Mr Pepys shouting that the PM must either sack her...his own. My mole, sipping warm white wine as Harri waved goodbye to a lobbying firm...
- Samuel Pepys: the Unequalled Self.(The Man Who Drew London: Wenceslas Hollar in...
- Magazine article from: History Today Pierce, Patricia November 1, 2002 700+ words
...BOOKSHOP PRICE 16.99 [pounds sterling] SAMUEL PEPYS WAS FASCINATED WITH HIMSLE. Pepys's curiosity is so deeply compelling that the...with her usual care and perception. The diarist Pepys and the exiled Bohemian artist Wenceslaus Hollar...
- The irrepressible Pepys.(17th century diarist Samuel Pepys)(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Allen, Brooke January 1, 2003 700+ words
Samuel Pepys's Diary (1660-1669) is an extraordinary...but its most extraordinary aspect is that Pepys seems to have had no model for it. In terms...interests of philosophical inquiry, which Pepys did not--and in any case Pepys had not...
- A new life of Samuel Pepys. (Reviews).(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Taylor, Roberta April 1, 2003 700+ words
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Claire Tomalin. Viking. [pounds...chosen a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson's comments on Pepys as her subtitle: Stevenson was writing about Pepys' sincerity which made his diary 'a miracle among books...
- Samuel Pepys a Life.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Dawson, Mark S. August 1, 2002 700+ words
...Coote ventures insight into both Samuel Pepys and his diary. If biography aims to recapture...strikes a hopeful note when he observes that Pepys's "identity as a man was firmly rooted...political. Providing a ready synthesis of Pepys's involvement in main events of the later...
- Family of Brands - It's All in the Pepys Family.
- Press release article from: Business Wire September 14, 2009 700+ words
...But this isn't just any family. The Pepys family goes to the ABC (All Baby and Child...for the juvenile products industry. The Pepys family is a family of brand builders that...revenues in the millions of dollars. Shirley Pepys - Founder of NoJo, Inc., Mompreneur...
- Pepys's marriage to Elizabeth de St Michel: December 1st, 1655.(December's...
- Magazine article from: History Today December 1, 2005 700+ words
...celebrated as their real wedding anniversary. Pepys remembered that Elizabeth, who was then...penny and it was evidently a love match. Pepys was the son of a poor London tailor, but...1640. The family fell on hard times and Pepys, who by contrast was on his way up in...