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Be my little honey

The earliest surviving opera is Jacopo Peri’s Euridice of 1600. So anything edible which occurs in that opera will be the first instance of food being mentioned in the whole history of opera, and therefore the mainspring of the idea behind the Opera Kitchen articles. Peri, however, did not rise to this challenge very well:...

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