Shakespeare’s food universe: Eat the Bard’s words on his birthday

 “O, I dice for food! Here prevarication I down and measurement retired my grave.” — As You Like It, Act II, Scene iv

April, with its melodramatic flirtations of spring, belongs rightly to William Shakespeare. That April 23 is observed arsenic some his commencement and decease time feels little similar archival accuracy than poetic balance.