Revisting Cooking in the Archives - Sensing Shakespeare Final Project
Link to Original Project - Click Here For this assignment, I chose to revisit this work because I felt there was more I could delve into in terms of the choices I made and the connections I could draw between my experiences and those of the people of the past. As one of the replies to my initial post read from Sydney Slate, in the modern day where food is once again becoming a symbol of wealth, exploration of food in time periods where wealth disparity was as extreme as it is today can make us feel, as she puts it "closer to the lower class." In this revision, I wanted to understand more about that closeness and explore it further, in addition to delving deeper into my fellow classmates' ideas about this project and their work that they completed this semester. Exploring my classmates' posts, I particularly enjoyed reading one by my classmate Myra Montoya. Her post was from the same assignment I completed, though she chose to make something called Oven Cakes. Her re...