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Jack Bouchard
was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Culture project, a Mellon-funded research initiative at the Folger Shakespeare Library. He holds a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and is a historian of the sixteenth century north Atlantic fisheries.
Photo credit: Brittany Diliberto, Bee Two Sweet Today, turkey and stuffing are central fare on the holiday table. But turkeys weren’t even known in England until the 1520s, when they were introduced by explorers returning from the Americas. Turkey was…
Interested in adding variety to your Thanksgiving dinner? Try this modernized 17th-century recipe for savory biscuits based on a manuscript in the Folger collection.
In the spirit of Oktoberfest: Food, drink, and changing times in early modern Europe
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Jack Bouchard
As October comes to an end, we celebrate food, drink, and culture in the German cities of Shakespeare’s day, including the creation of beer and wine and the harvest festivals each fall, marked by our modern-day tradition of Oktoberfest.
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