A review by elizabethcaneday
Dinner with Mr. Darcy: Recipes Inspired By the Novels and Letters of Jane Austen by Pen Vogler

5.0

I read this for fun, and not for the recipes; I learned a great deal about cooking in the late Regency Era. (As an aside, the YouTube series The Victorian Way by English Heritage is another a fun and educational way to learn about previous methods of cookery.) That being said, The recipes looked fairly straightforward. The author modernized the recipes and included photos for most, as well as the original receipts. But I cannot testify to the flavor of the food, though no doubt it would have been usual fare back then and thus strange to our palates today, so perhaps it is just as well I did not try any of the recipes.
The book also did an excellent job explaining the context of the food; when it would have been served and to whom, as well as where in her novels Austen mentioned it (or something like it; food has a minimal but important role in her novels, Emma and Pride and Prejudice for example).