Foods & Festivities in Elizabethan England

Foods & Festivities in Elizabethan England

Join us for a hilarious presentation on the fanciful feasts of Shakespeare’s day with food historian Francine Segan!

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In honor of Shakespeare Day (April 23), the Bard’s unofficial birthday, enjoy a festive talk on how Elizabethans dined and entertained. Dinner guests were treated to concoctions like a fire-breathing roast peacock and enormous savory pies with claws poking through the crust. Learn the incredible reasons they clinked glasses to make a toast and why, in fact, it was called a “toast.” We'll discuss why gentlemen and ladies refused to eat with forks and why “4 and 20 blackbirds” really were served in a pie! Samples of the bawdy jokes, puns and riddles served up to Queen Elizabeth I along with the food will be sprinkled throughout the lecture.  

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