We’re doing Henry VIII (which also goes by the highly inaccurate name of ‘All is True’) on Sunday, so it’s time to go hunting for appropriate recipes. (Is it just me, or do recipes disappear out of cookbooks when you…
Category: Shakespeare cooking
Shakespeare Cooking: Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Yeah, I drastically overcatered. Drastically.
Shakespeare: The Aftermath
There are a lot of posts I need to write. I need to write the gargantuan photographic post about Pericles (NB: There was definitely enough food.). I need to write about going to the market and finally – finally! –…
Shakespeare Cooking: Pericles!
We’re doing Pericles tomorrow, which is basically Shakespeare’s Ancient World Road Trip play, complete with Deus Ex Machina, riddles about incest (and really, you’d think that any self-respecting Evil Overlord would realise that if you are sleeping with your daughter,…
Recipe: Apricot and Orange Sweetmeats
We’re doing Pericles tomorrow, which means I am cooking like a maniac to prepare a middle-eastern themed feast, and my head is full of lists of things to make, things to decorate, things that need to be set out, things…
Shakespeare Feast: Cymbeline
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More thoughts on Roman cooking
I was going to write a beautiful, illustrated post on making curd cheese today. Alas, O my readers, I can do nothing of the sort, because the cheese, which I have made successfully at least twice before, was a dire…
Ancient Roman Inferiority Complex
This blog will probably be on the quiet side for the next couple of days. I do, however, have the best possible reason for not writing much about food – I’m going to be far too busy cooking it. One…