SC - autumn feast report (long)

[david friedman]

>I will try to track down the details if possible.  I know the lady who did
>this research quite well, and I am sure at least that she went to Mantua
>and claimed to have found such documentation :)  Unfortunately she has not
>been involved in the society for a while, at least in part because she has
>been writing up her PhD.

I had wondered if perhaps she had come across a modern Italian secondary
source (I now suspect  more than one, since you site a different one from
the one I knew about), and the story had been converted into her finding
the recipe in the archives herself in the process of multiple
repetitions--a process quite common in my experience.

>---------
>Torta Moscardini
>Taken from "Cucina Mantovana del principe e popolo" (1989) R. Quazza (?)
>and
>Archivio di Stato, Milan
>a Mantuan cookbook of 1615.
>---------

So now if some enterprising person can locate a copy, ...

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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