SC - Welcome Aethelwulf & a recipe

[Seton1355@aol.com]

    You can bet that within six months of publication, the cook of SOME rich
so-and-so in Firenza  had a copy. Cooks were as competitive back then as
they are now. They may not have had Amazon.com, but the DID have very canny
booksellers, especially in northern Italy, where the written word was
greatly respected. 20 years after initial publication? Go for it! (I'd be
willing to bet it was very well known as far away as Vienna and Prague by
then!)

    Sieggy

> I'm cooking a feast for a neighboring group in November.  Originally, it
> was going to be Venice, ca. 1495.  I planned to use Platina, since his
> work would have been known there for about 20 years {1st edition in
> Venice was ca. 1472 if I remember right off the top of my head}.  Now,
> they are keeping the same date, but moving the location to Florence.  My
> question is, would Platina still be appropriate or is there another
> source I should turn to that was popular in Florence during that era?