In my last post I wrote about the three adopted sisters in Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes and how they seek to improve their fortunes through performance, both acting and dance. Continue reading “Food and performance”
Tag: Shakespeare
Male friendship and food
There is a general assumption that men and women operate very differently when it comes to friendships: whereas for women the focus is on emotional intimacy and support with a smaller number of friends, men tend to have more friends but their friendships are more transactional and based on shared activities and interests. Continue reading “Male friendship and food”
From blog post to plate
Whilst my blog is grounded in cooking that I actually do, inspired by the plays, novels and poems I have read, I suspect that, for the vast majority of my readers, my blog provides them with reading matter (rather than with recipes). Continue reading “From blog post to plate”
Food and grief
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020, Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet imagines the relationship between William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway, and the death of their son Hamnet. Continue reading “Food and grief”