Regency food
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Regency food was very different from present-day English fare in almost every single respect. For one thing, it would not be possible, in our modern safety-conscious world, for anyone to consume the sheer quantity of food and drink normally taken at a single Regency meal, except under close medical supervision. Indeed, when the BBC covered the Regency period in their Supersizers series, one of the presenters, Sue Perkins, temporarily swelled up to five times her normal size and was forced to confine herself to radio work for several weeks. Her co-presenter, Giles Coren, fared little better, suffering a badly aggravated unstressed syllable.
Breakfast
Breakfast was normally taken at around 10AM and consisted largely of bread and various forms of cake, it being several decades before the arrival of John Harvey Kellogg's alternatives to the products of master baking.
