Shakespeare's Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook

Authenticity mavens be warned! The author says up front she's not trying to recreate the recipes exactly and she makes some "interesting" choices (where did that beef come from? cream soup?) I wish she'd have included more of the originals or cited where each recipe comes from (she doesn't) but in the realm of historical cookbooks this one is the prettiest by far with slick photographs that will...more

Authenticity mavens be warned! The author says up front she's not trying to recreate the recipes exactly and she makes some "interesting" choices (where did that beef come from? cream soup?) I wish she'd have included more of the originals or cited where each recipe comes from (she doesn't) but in the realm of historical cookbooks this one is the prettiest by far with slick photographs that will make you drool. Little snippets of elizabethan history are also interestingly dispersed throughout. Worth buying and experimenting with but not for the super authentic cook. --fkv   hide