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Breakfast, dinner and supper in Georgian Dublin

Breakfast, dinner and supper in Georgian Dublin

No one went hungry in Delville, Glasnevin, Dublin, the home of Mrs Delany, chronicler of all things eighteenth-century—including fine dining. Katherine Cahill outlines a typical day’s cooking.

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