Tag: Histories of Vegetarianism

  • Victorian Vegetarians: Nineteenth-Century Christmas Puddings (veggie edition)

    Victorian Vegetarians: Nineteenth-Century Christmas Puddings (veggie edition)

    By Fabia Buescher (fb586@cam.ac.uk) Christmas in the nineteenth-century was, as it is today, a time for celebrating, laughing and eating together. To such conviviality, a lavish Christmas dinner couldn’t go amiss. The Victorian Christmas tables were filled with mince pies, Christmas puddings and roasted meat, including turkey, beef and goose. Yet not everybody chose to…