# A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig & Other Essays

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- Authors: [Charles Lamb](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-lamb)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-580-2
- Published: 2011-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A rapturous appreciation of pork crackling, a touching description of hungry London chimney sweeps, a discussion of the strange pleasure of eating pineapple and a meditation on the delights of Christmas feasting are just some of the subjects of these personal, playful writings from early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb. Exploring the joys of food and also our complicated social relationship with it, these essays are by turns sensuous, mischievous, lyrical and self-mocking. Filled with a sense of hunger, they are some of the most fascinating and nuanced works ever written about eating, drinking and appetite.