Butter in the Bard: Reading Between the Viands of Wm Shakespeare

By Robert D. Bernoskie

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0962828319
• ISBN13: 9780962828317
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Original Traveling Chef
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Food and Literature

You'll never again experience Shakespeare without noticing a little Butter in the Bard, as this book exclusively and exhaustively spotlights for the first time in over four centuries ALL references to food, drink, drinking, cooking, eating, feasting and culinary activity found in the ENTIRE works of William Shakespeare. Includes: unparaleled tally of vivand in verse surpassing 10,000; seventeen Chefspearean Classifications showcasing (verbatim) the culinary commentaries of Romeo, Cleopatra, Hamlet, Caesar, Macbeth, Othello, Falstaff, et. al., from the COMPLETE thirty-seven plays. Discover how The Shakespeare Vivands (articles of food) create the visionary basis for the FIRST Pan-Cultural Cuisine in the world! Learn about the "missing" Shakesperean breakfast; The Shakespearean Loop-Holes; Guidelines for Chefspearean Cooking; The Chefspeare Society, global brotherhood and more! This superbly stylized expose offers so rare, fresh and unique a perspective on Shakepeare AND food, that we thrice guarantee you'll never even experience the culinary art again, without noticing a little Bard...in the butter! -- from book's back cover