Episode 64: Elisa Tersigni and The History of Cookery, Kitchens, and Food in Shakespeare's Plays

When it comes to Food in Shakespeare's England, there were superstitions, recipes, kitchens, and even cooking methods attached to the metaphors Shakespeare intended when he used food references in his works.

All of this effusive history behind food in early modern England is at the heart of the Folger Shakespeare Library's latest project caled Before Farm to Table. Our guest this week Elisa Tersigni, the Digital Research Fellow for "Before 'Farm to Table': Early Modern Foodways and Cultures", and she joins us today to share what's going on at The Folger with this new project, and how we can better understand Shakespeare as a result of what they discovered.