World-renowned chef René Redzepi leaned over a 17th-century volume in Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library and studied a recipe for pickling an “old, fat goose.”
Redzepi snapped a couple of photos of the page with his smartphone. Around the room, other distinguished chefs from across the globe perused some of the earliest cookbooks known to exist — all housed at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Field Prize
The Theron Rockwell Field Prize is awarded for a poetic, literary, or religious work by any Yale student. The prize was established in 1957 by Emilia R. Field in memory of her husband, who was a member of the Class of 1889.
This year’s graduate and professional student recipients were:
William Tanner Allread graduates with Distinction in the History major and as an Education Studies Scholar, with a record that reflects his forthright commitment to public service and the superb quality of his intellect and spirit.
A recent workshop on an extinct and very rarely studied language opened a “brand new door to fresh historical perspectives” for Yale graduate student Yuan Chen.