Soho 1851: The Greatest Christmas Meal Ever Cooked

Christmas dinner for 22,500 hungry Victorians.

It was, as the Observer noted, “The most extraordinary Christmas dinner that was ever partaken of in this metropolis.” 25 December 1851 saw four tonnes of cooked meat donated from a Soho courtyard, along with enough potatoes to balance your family car. In today’s Londonist: Time Machine, we look at perhaps the greatest act of Christmas charity ever unde…