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Free Thinking: 2015 Festival: The Free Thinking Essay

Free Thinking: 2015 Festival: The Free Thinking Essay: Part 7: New Generation Thinkers: Inside a Pirate's Cookbook - A Culinary Journey through the 17th Century

New Generation Thinkers: Inside a Pirate's Cookbook - A Culinary Journey through the 17th Century

Part 7 Part 7: New Generation Thinkers: Inside a Pirate's Cookbook - A Culinary Journey through the 17th Century

2015 Festival

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Joe Moshenska explores the travels of astrologer, diplomat and gourmet Sir Kenelm Digby.

Joe Moshenska explores the travels of Sir Kenelm Digby, a member of Charles I's privy council as well as a philosopher, diplomat, privateer and collector of recipes.

The 1667 recipe book by Sir Kenelm Digby featured tea with eggs brought from China, sugared mallow-leaves that cured gonorrhea and 'pan cotto' cooked by Roman Cardinals. Digby had journeyed far and wide to collect his dishes, feasting with pirate chieftains in Algiers and munching melons in the eastern Mediterranean.

Joe Moshenska of the University of Cambridge explores Kenelm Digby's culinary travels, revealing startling contacts between Britain and the East, between alchemy and cookery, and between the past and the present.

The New Generation Thinkers are the winners of an annual scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics at the start of their careers who can turn their research into fascinating broadcasts.

The Essay was recorded in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead. If you want to hear Joe Moshenka discuss his research you can download The Essay and conversation as an Arts and Ideas podcast. 

Producer: Torquil MacLeod.d.

Free Thinking: 2015 Festival

The Free Thinking Essay

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Events from the 2015 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'tearing up the rule book'

Series of events from the 2015 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'tearing up the rule book'

Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at Free Thinking 2015

Series in which Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead for the 2015 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'tearing up the rule book'

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