07/14/2026
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm
Lucy Mookerjee will present “English Cookery or Plantagenet Propaganda? The Forme of Cury and the Politics of Culinary Authority” at the Norfolk Library on Tuesday, July 14 from 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. The Forme of Cury is the first cookbook in the English Language; it was compiled in the late 14th-century by the master cooks of King Richard II and contains around 200 recipes. Lucy will discuss the overlooked history of The Forme of Cury, revealing how the medieval cookery was not merely a culinary manual, but moreover a political and performative text tied to the crisis of authority in the last decade of the reign of Richard II
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