If we are what we eat, then some of the most famous figures from history may not be who we thought they were. Who would have thought that one of England’s most famous novelists, Jane Austen, loved nothing better than a cheese toastie – or that Ernest “Papa” Hemingway made the best hamburgers around? From Honest Abe’s appetite for apples to Mark Twain’s odes to oysters, here are some of the often surprising favourite foods of historic figures.