SC - Borrowing (was Ginestada)

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

And it came to pass on 12 Jul 00,, that Vincent Cuenca wrote:

> I guess copyright was a pretty flexible thing back then...

I think "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" was one of the mottos 
of the publishing industry back then.
 
> The 1529 Castilian edition of "Libro de Cozina" takes an entire chapter on
> household management from the writings of St. Bernard, and that
> 16th-Century Spanish cookbook that Cariadoc has imaged on his website
> lifts the meat-carving instructions almost verbatim from de Nola.

Did I mention that Granado also contains most of de Nola?  It might be 
interesting to compare the carving instructions in there with those from 
the 1423 _Arte de Cortar_ by de Villena.

> I wonder how much was added to and changed in its translation from Catalan
> to Castilian...

I don't know, since I haven't yet gotten a copy of _Libre de Coch_.  The 
Catalan recipes I've seen quoted from it in Santich's _Original 
Mediterranean Cuisine_ look extremely close to their Castilian 
"descendants" in de Nola.  I have looked up some recipes from de Nola 
in the _Libre de Sent Sovi_, but the ones I have compared are not 
identical in ingredients or in wording.
 
> hmm... could be a paper there...

Could be a book...  :-)


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