SC - Renaissance Cooks

[Philip & Susan Troy]

> << Platina >> 
> Platina was not a cook, SFAIK. He was a university professor and he was 
> librarian at the Vatican. Oftentimes you see references to 'this person or 
> that person' cooks something this or that way. There is no indication in his 
> works that he actually cooked himself.
> 

The orange book on renaissance italian cooking and artists (the recipes
are NOT period) has some biographical material on the italian cooks,
including the guy that Platina got his recipes from. Of course, i can't
remeber th title or anything, and the book is at hme.

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