SC - Italian Ren Feast

[david friedman]

At 1:38 PM -0500 10/12/98, Richard & Lara Campbell wrote:

>Items donated so far:
...
> 40# Potatoes

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> 5kg of Calibaut Belgian Dark Chocolate

...

> 50# of Corn Meal

As you may already know, potatoes, chocolate, and maize are all from the
New World, so inappropriate for an Italian Renaissance feast.

You might want to look through the webbed Miscellany (and other sources)
for recipes from Platina, who is Italian, late 15th c. Two other sources
(very closely related to Platina) are Martino's cookbook, a little earlier
(there is no translation into English that I know of), and Epulario, which
is a c. 1600 English translation of an Italian cookbook, probably c. 1480.

The Miscellany is at:

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/miscellany.html

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


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