Abstract
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine the smell, texture, and taste of a memorable meal. It is a dish you order repeatedly at your favorite restaurant in spite of your best intentions to try something new. Perhaps the meal is associated with a particular event, like the scene of your first date, or a memorable celebration. It is a meal you would like to experience over and over again, and you frequently try. Like theatrical performances, attempts at culinary repetition and their contexts are never exactly the same. Measurements cannot be precisely duplicated, onions are substituted for shallots, and one dinner companion substituted for another.
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Tamar Adler, An Everlasting Meal: Cooking With Economy and Grace (New York: Scribner, 2011), 2.
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Vidler, L.L. (2014). Introduction: Critical Theory and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Performance. In: Performance Reconstruction and Spanish Golden Age Drama. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137437075_1
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