Elisa Tersigni

Elisa Tersigni

etersigni@folger.edu

Digital Research Fellow, Before 'Farm to Table': Early Modern Foodways and Cultures

Awards

• Pantzer New Scholar Award, Bibliographical Society of America (2020)

Critical Editions

• "Upon the Crown Imperial" (Poem 53), The Pulter Project

Exhibitions

• Tastes of the Mediterranean, Pop-up exhibition on March 31, 2019

Scholarly Blog Posts

• Before the Thanksgiving Turkey, There Was the Banquet Peacock
• Not Shakespeare's Cup of Tea: Consuming Caffeine in Early Modern England
• Tastes of the Mediterranean: Italian Food Before Italy
• Code Makers: The Hidden Labour Behind the Folger Shakespeare Library's Recipe Book Corpus
• Code Breakers: The Hidden Labour Behind the Folger Shakespeare Library's Recipe Transcriptions

Recipe Recreations

• Much Ado About Stuffing: Recreating an Early Modern Stuffing Recipe, with Jack B. Bouchard, Julia Fine, and Michael Walkden
• Savory Biscuits from a 17th-Century recipe, with Jack B. Bouchard

Presentations

• "From Aqua Mirabilis to Spice: Muslim and Jewish Influences in Early Modern English Recipes," Food and the Book 1300-1800 (October 2020)
• "Two Sides of the Same Book: The Creation and Use of Early Modern English Receipt Books," Annual Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America (January 2020)
• Woolley Week: New Discoveries in the Life and Work of a 17th-century Woman Writer, (May 2019)

Media

• Episode 64: Elisa Tersigni and the History of Cookery, Kitchens, and Food in Shakespeare, That Shakespeare Life (July 2019)