Today would have been Shakespeare’s 461st Birthday!
Happy Birthday William!
Some Shakespeare Food Quotes:
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? Twelfth Night, 2.3.114
Hark, villains, I will grind your bones to dust,
And with your blood and it I’ll make a paste,
And of the paste a coffin I will rear,
And make two pasties of your shameful heads…Titus Andronicus, 5.2.190
Thift, thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish for the marriage tables.Hamlet, 1.2.87
Let the sky rain potatoes! Merry Wives of Windsor, 5.5.19
If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked.Henry IV, Part 1, 2.4.487