Excerpt from In Foreign Kitchens: With Choice Recipes From England, France, GermanyFor quantity as quality, and in one of the old inns near the Temple - the dim rooms haunted still by the shades of the men who once sat there: Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb, and that host of worthies - they served weekly the pudding which has made it famous. This inn or co¿'ee-house is the Cheshire Cheese, and the pudding is the beefsteak-pudding which all Americans who seek out every trace of old London make.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.