# Shakespearean Food & Drink with Sam Bilton

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Podcast: [The British Food History Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-british-food-history-podcast-4064947)
Published: 2025-11-05T06:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

My guest on The British Food History Podcast today food historian and friend of the show Sam Bilton, podcaster and author of Much Ado About Cooking Delicious Shakespearean Feasts for Every Occasion , published by Headline and commissioned by Shakespeare’s Globe. It was, of course,  a great opportunity to talk about the food of Shakespearean England as well as the food and drink references in Shakespeare’s plays, and what they meant to those watching the plays at the time they were first performed. We talked about lots of cookery manuscripts, the importance of keeping historical recipes relevant, capons, Early Modern bread and greedy Falstaff’s sack, amongst many other things. Those listening to the secret podcast can hear about horrible, sweet spinach tarts, Early Modern cakes, possets and more! Much Ado About Cooking by Sam Bilton Sam’s website Follow Sam on BlueSky, Insta and Threads @mrssbilton Comfortably Hungry Ais for Apple: An Encyclopaedia of Food & Drink Remember: Fruit Pig are sponsoring the 9th season of the podcast. Visit their website www.fruitpig.co.uk to learn more about them, their journey, to find your local stockist and access their online shop. If you can, support the podcast and blogs by becoming a £3 monthly subscriber, and unlock lots of premium content, including bonus blog posts and recipes, access to the easter eggs and the secret podcast, or treat me to a one-off virtual pint or coffee: click here . This episode was mixed and engineered by Thomas Ntinas of the Delicious Legacy podcast . Things mentioned in today’s episode The Globe T heatre Who is Falstaff? Books discussed or mentioned and further reading First Catch Your Gingerbread by Sam Bilton Knead to Know: A History of Baking by Neil Buttery A Dark History of Sugar by Neil Butte…

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