Dining With William Shakespeare : Thirteen Complete Shakespearean Feast Menus, Spiced With Essays And Comments On The Food And Social Customs Of Elizabethan England

Lorwin, Madge

New York, 1976

By Atheneum
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Hard cover with dust jacket, 434 pages, 6.50x9.25 in, [16x23.5 cm], B&W illustrations.
Condition

Bottom fore-edge corner of the textblock moisture stained and slightly wrinkled; age-tanned; dust jacket torn, price clipped, creased and stained.
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This book explores the food and dining customs of Elizabethan England through the lens of Shakespeare’s plays. In Dining with William Shakespeare, Madge Lorwin assembles thirteen complete period feast menus inspired by passages from the dramas, presenting original historical recipes alongside carefully researched modern adaptations, with each menu followed by an essay examining aspects of Elizabethan cuisine and social practice.


Notes adapted from the publisher's information.
ISBN

0689107315
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