A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays (Penguin Great Food)
Charles Lamb(1775-1834) was an English essayist best known for  his humorousEssays of Eliafrom which the essay "A Dissertation  Upon Roast Pig" is taken. Lamb enjoyed a rich social life and became  part of a group of young writers that included William Hazlitt, Percy  Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge with whom he  shared a lifelong friendship. Lamb never achieved the same literary  success as his friends but his influence on the English essay form  cannot be underestimated. His book,Specimens of the English  Dramatic Poetsis remembered for popularizing the work of  Shakespeare's contemporaries.