Love-in-idleness, Part One: Adapting an early modern recipe for heartsease cordial
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Marissa Nicosia
Marissa Nicosia adapts an early modern recipe for heartsease cordial. This purple pansy syrup was used to “clear the heart” – to treat the chest and lungs or to reduce fever – but also for healing heartaches and other amorous ailments.
In 1595, English writer William Fiston (or Phiston) produced a translation of a French book of manners for children. Topics included proper behavior that was important for Church and school, but also a section on table manners. Here, Fiston admonishes…
Poetic Pairings: Anne Bethel Spencer and Pedro Ximenez
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Folger Theatre
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters: Say Her Name’ is an online writing seminar that celebrates the poetry of Black women in America. We are pleased to bring you a special collaboration with DCanter wines, pairing a poem from the Shakespeare’s Sisters curriculum with a recommended wine each Monday of the seminar.
Poetic Pairings: Francis Ellen Watkins Harper and Ripasso
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Folger Theatre
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters: Say Her Name’ is an online writing seminar that celebrates the poetry of Black women in America. We are pleased to bring you a special collaboration with DCanter wines, pairing a poem from the Shakespeare’s Sisters curriculum with a recommended wine each Monday of the seminar.
Poetic Pairings: Phillis Wheatley and Provisioner Red
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Folger Theatre
'Shakespeare's Sisters: Say Her Name' is an online writing seminar that celebrates the poetry of Black women in America. We are pleased to bring you a special collaboration with DCanter wines, pairing a poem from the Shakespeare's Sisters curriculum with a recommended wine each Monday of the seminar.
Modern Witchcraft: A Biodynamic Wine List from DCanter
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Folger Theatre
To accompany our October 7 discussion of 'Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch' by Rivka Galchen, our friends at DCanter have curated a biodynamic wine list especially for our conversation.
The three most popular recipes from Before 'Farm to Table'
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Shakespeare & Beyond
With the Folger’s four-year Before ‘Farm to Table’ project drawing to a close, we’re revisiting three of the most popular early modern recipes adapted by the project team and shared on the Shakespeare & Beyond blog. Before ‘Farm to Table’:…
Before there were Starbucks and the quirky coffeeshops masquerading as cozy work corners for many of us, there was the mid-17th century coffeeshop boom in England. During the 1600s, the general conversation about coffee nodded to its status as the…
Recipe: A 17th-century potato pie with marrow and dates
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Elizabeth DeBold
Sweet potato pies, a beloved staple of North American fall and winter cooking, are baked out of mashed or blended sweet potatoes mixed with condensed milk, eggs, and spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, mace, and allspice. Few Americans and Canadians would think of such a dish as traditionally English, yet many cookery books written in England during the seventeenth century show that English people made and enjoyed pies like this. We decided to try one of these recipes, found in the Folger collection, during our recent Pi Day celebration.
To accompany our February 4 discussion of ‘The Moor’s Account’ by Laila Lalami, our friends at DCanter have curated a wine list especially for our conversation.
