[Sca-cooks] Shakespeare's Kitchen

[johnna holloway]

Thought I would do some booknotes for all
those looking for interesting volumes--

Forthcoming this October is this new volume.

Shakespeare's Kitchen : 
Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook 
by Segan, Francine 
Random House 
Hardcover - 288 pages . $35.00 

This volume is already turning up in various online
bookstores as forthcoming. Publishers Weekly reviewed
it in their June 23, 2003 issue.

Described as "William Shakespeare’s world 
with recipes updated from classic sixteenth- and 
seventeenth-century cookbooks. 
Her easy-to-prepare adaptations shatter the myth 
that the Bard’s primary fare was boiled mutton.... 
with and the texts of the original recipes, 
complete with antiquated spellings and eccentric directions. 
Fifty color images by photographer Tim Turner 
span the centuries. Patrick O’Connell provides the 
Foreword to this edible history. 
Want something new for dinner? 
Try something four hundred years old." 
see:
http://www.randomhouse.com/randomhouse/publicity/catalog/display.pperl?0375509178

PW mentions "Individual meat pies with 
Cointreau marmalade were served by vendors
catering to the theater crowd," so we may already
question how accurate the adaptations are going
to be. "Lemony sweet potatoes with dates and Lobster
Tails with Wildflowers" are also mentioned.

Johnnae llyn Lewis