BOOK REVIEW-The Joys of Excess, extracts from the diary of Samuel Pepys

Part of a series of twenty short paperbacks celebrating historical writing on food, “The Joys of Excess” offers selected extracts from the diary of Samuel Pepys that mention food and its effects (particularly excessive quantities of it). The book is arranged into ten chapters each covering one of the years from 1660-1669 that Pepys kept his (first and most famous) diary, every Chapter title a nod to one of the more obscure or eventful entries contained therein.

Start:Stop - Fasting and Feasting

Paul Cézanne, ‘Still Life with Skull' (ca. 1895-1900) 

You can hear an audio recording of this reflection at this link. Hello, my name is Phillip Dawson, welcome to our Start:Stop reflection from St Stephen Walbrook for the first week of Lent. We begin with two short verses from the Gospel of Luke.