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Renaissance cooking: Food historian Francine Segan and a recipe for 'pears' in broth (they're not really pears)
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Renaissance cooking: Food historian Francine Segan and a recipe for 'pears' in broth (they're not really pears)

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Esther French

Francine Segan is a food historian with a taste for the Renaissance. She’s the author of six cookbooks, including Shakespeare’s Kitchen (2003) and the Opera Lover’s Cookbook, which was nominated for a James Beard award. This year she’s been spending…

Feasting on (Second) Shepherd's Pie
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Feasting on (Second) Shepherd's Pie

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Folger Theatre

Tending to the flock, stealing sheep, walking to Bethlehem, playing the music that underscores it all…the company of The Second Shepherds’ Play does this and more, night after night. It’s no wonder, then, that such a hectic schedule helps them work…

From the archive to the oven: How to make a sweet potato pudding
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From the archive to the oven: How to make a sweet potato pudding

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Amanda Herbert

“Let the sky rain potatoes… I will shelter me here.” Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor is referring here to a food that had but recently arrived to England, but was already on its way to popularity. A team of Folger researchers…

Recipe: How to make a sweet potato pudding
Sweet potato pudding ingredients
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Recipe: How to make a sweet potato pudding

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Amanda Herbert

The Folger is home to the largest collection of early modern western European recipe books in the United States, and a team of Folger researchers recently uncovered a very early European potato recipe in our archives. This recipe, “to make a…

A perfect pairing: A recipe for almond jumballs and a podcast episode on "Recipes for Thought"
Wendy Wall, Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern Kitchen
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A perfect pairing: A recipe for almond jumballs and a podcast episode on "Recipes for Thought"

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Shakespeare & Beyond

Early modern kitchens, food, and recipes offer an intriguing window on the world in which Shakespeare lived. Our new Shakespeare Unlimited podcast episode is a fascinating interview with Wendy Wall, who explores the role of food, kitchens, and other related subjects in…

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