From The New York Times, October 14, 2010:
“[Dickens] had this whole punch ritual,” Mr. Wondrich explained during a recent interview at a bar near his own home in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn. “This whole punch performance. He liked to set the liquor on fire.”
There’s a recipe for Dickens Punch taken from his letters. This will become important within the next few weeks. Stay tuned.
-Norm De Plume
[...] not un-Dickensian staff in a birthday celebration that will run all day. There will be cake and punch, and on the Library’s panoramic wide screen there will be projected four Dickens film [...]