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Just over 180 years ago, a writer working with an illustrator, conjured up an image that became one of the most famous and influential food-filled works of art in history.

The year was 1843 and the 26-year-old illustrator, John Leach,

was turning the words of a 31-year-old Charles Dickens into pictures. And so on a page of a Christmas carol, there it is, a room with bare wooden floorboards and two figures, one of which

is surrounded by the most enticing looking feast. It's the ghost of Christmas present.

There's this huge figure dressed a bit like Father Christmas, but in a green kind of coloured cape, and a very startled, frightened-looking Scrooge.

Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn.

Great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince pies, barrels of oysters, red hot chestnuts,

cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges,

luscious pears, and seething bowls of punch. And amongst them sat a jolly giant, glorious to see.

And if you look very carefully, you can see that his right foot is on a plum pudding,

one of those sort of round cannonball types of plum pudding.

And his left foot is on a 12th cake, which was the thing that you had at the very end of the 12 days.

The plum pudding is the food of Christmas Day. So you basically got a kind of culinary calendar there of the whole

Christmas festival in this wonderful image. There are also two bowls of a smoking, steaming

punch, Bishop, but it's largely lost on a 21st century audience.

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