Clara Peeters, A glass of red wine, a sprig of rosemary, and sweetmeats on a pewter platter (also known as Allegory of Marriage), c. 1607. Current whereabouts unknown. In early November, I participated in EMROC’s Transcribathon, and I ended up transcribing a seventeenth-century recipe for gingerbread. The recipe opened up a fascinating window into the…
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Your Kitchen is a Time Machine: An interview with Marissa Nicosia of Cooking in the Archives
By Cynthia Houng I’ve been following Marissa Nicosia and her food history/cooking blog, Cooking in the Archives, for a few years now. I was delighted when Marissa graciously consented to an interview with Ars Longa. Marissa is a true polymath: a scholar of Renaissance/Early Modern literature, food history, and political theory, a professor at Penn…
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