Shakespeare in the Kitchen Book Talk

Join us at the Hill-Physick House on Thursday, July 16th at 6:30 PM to hear about Marissa Nicosia's new book Shakespeare in the Kitchen.

Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils of the table. Marissa Nicosia's new book, Shakespeare in the Kitchen, asks what Shakespeare’s works can tell us about Renaissance culinary recipes, and what these recipes can tell us about Shakespeare’s works. In this talk, she will consider how preparing the recipes that permeate the canon can help us interpret food references such as festive cakes in Twelfth Night. From Shakespeare's London to colonial Philadelphia to the present day, Marissa explores how the physical act of cooking can transform our understanding of Shakespeare's works—then and now.

Tickets are $15 (entry) and $55 (entry and book). Books will be available for purchase at the event.

Marissa Nicosia is a scholar, writer, and cook. She lives in Philadelphia and is Professor of Renaissance Literature at The Pennsylvania State University–Abington College. Marissa is the author of Shakespeare in the Kitchen (2026), Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590–1660 (2023), and the public history website Cooking in the Archives.