Room for Dessert: Shakespeare and the Invention of Dinner's Final Act


 New Swan Shakespeare Center     Nov 15 2017 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Le Pain Quotidien, Fashion Island

room for dessert

The UCi Shakespeare Center is happy to contribute programming to this fundraiser for the Osher Life-Long Learning Institue. This illustrated lecture includes food and drink provided by our generous hosts at Le Pain Quotidien (Fashion Island).

Lecture by Professor Julia Lupton will explore when and why sweets began to separate from savories and become their own course; how Shakespeare’s plays incorporate sweet endings into their delicious dramaturgy; and why dessert is under threat in today’s eat-in-your-car culture.

But we are in no danger when Fashion Island's Pain Quotidien hosts us to a marvelous array of signature hand-crafted savories and beautifully designed mini-pastries. Le Pain Quotidien (the daily bread) creates mouth watering baked goods. “Sitting together around the idea of pleasure” for Le Pain Quoditien is a way of life that we will share in this lecture on food ways.

$60 per person. All proceeds benefit the Osher Institute for Life-Long Learning. Please contact Toni Dwyer for ticket information: Toni Dwyer .