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The show must go on…the table

Theatrically themed foods throughout the ages
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- Words and recipes by Ellie Shortt Food Photography by Don Denton

If all the world’s a stage, then is everything we do, create, even consume, a performance? Are the seemingly simple daily tasks of grocery shopping, cooking and eating some sort of presentation signifying, perhaps, our preferred or perceived roles in the great show we call life?

Even if that feels like a bit of a stretch to you, I know I have put on dinner parties which certainly felt like major productions.

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