COMMENTS
"In creating "Shakespeare's Kitchen," Francine Segan has employed the same intelligence and passion directors of plays and films use in making the Bard relevant to us and to our times. Not content with collecting and reproducing a hundred intriguing Elizabethan recipes, she updated them as well and in the process made her book authentic, usable and useful. The fare she found and resuscitated is far more sophisticated than those cinematic visions of nobles gnawing on haunches of various animals had led us to believe. Still, the bold sensuality of the age is recognized and brilliantly reflected in Tim Turner's beautiful photographs. It is clear all manner of appetites were stimulated at table in Shakespeare's time, and, through Francine Segan's book, will be again."
William Rice,
Food and Wine Columnist, Chicago Tribune
"Shakespeare's Kitchen treats 400 year old recipes with a freshness that will keep this cookbook selling for years and years to come. As enlightening as they are appetizing, Francine Segan's recipes bring the exuberance of the Elizabethan era into the modern American kitchen. You'll want to try them all."
Moira Hodgson,
Cookbook Author and
Restaurant Critic for New York Observer
"I've had to pleasure of dining at Francine's table many times and always walk away singing. I loved reading Shakespeare's Kitchen.
Maybe now I can learn to cook! A hit, a very palpable hit."
Betty Buckley,
Tony Award Winning
Broadway Actress/Singer
"What a splendid cooking book. If music be the food of love, Francine Segan's love of food is music to us all."
Michael Kahn, Artistic Director
The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington DC
"I found the book both enlightening and entertaining. This Festival gives the author and photographer two thumbs up."
R. Scott Phillips
Managing Director
Utah Shakespearean Festival
"The book is a work of art! The anecdotes about the time period are as delicious as the recipes."
Bonnie J. Monte, Artistic Director
The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ
"Feasts, friends, and food from Shakespeare's table: can anyone think of greater delights? Francine Segan creates sensual pleasures of the palate to accompany William Shakespeare's words : both are sublime… Pleasures of the flesh and pleasures of the spirit find themselves cohabiting in Francine Segan's world of Shakespeare's feasts."
Tina Packer, Artistic Director
Shakespeare and Company
Lenox, MA
"Shakespeare's Kitchen, a stunningly beautiful book and makes me want to race into the kitchen right away."
Richard Garner
Producing Artistic Director
Georgia Shakespeare Festival
"Francine Segan has done us a delectable turn in bringing a Renaissance feast to our contemporary tables. Through her connection to Shakespeare's delicious words and times she entices us with culinary delights that are sure to please any palate."
David A Dreyfoos
Producing Director
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
