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Year in review: Top Shakespeare & Beyond stories of 2019

What were some of our most popular stories this year? Let’s take a look.

Chopping chocolate. Photo by Teresa Wood.

Chopping chocolate. Photo by Teresa Wood.

Recipe adaptations and blog posts about food culture

We published several recipes in conjunction with First Chefs: Fame and Foodways from Britain to the Americas (Jan 19 – Mar 31, 2019), including one for pirate botanist William Hughes’s hot chocolate, which he called the “American nectar”. The First Chefs exhibition and these accompanying recipes were the work of the Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures team at the Folger. But it’s not just about recipes: Some of our most popular blog posts explored the cultural and economic forces that shaped food production and consumption in the early modern period.