SC - Cooking Equipment in Scappi
Linda Taylor
lmt_inpnw at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 9 01:45:02 PST 2000
Hello, Listies,
I was looking through the illustrations of kitchen equipment and kitchen
scenes from Bartolomeo Scappi's book _Opera, Dell'Arte del Cucinare_ 1570,
as reproduced in the 1996 edition of Elizabeth David's _Italian Food_. Wow!
Lots of drawings of pans, cauldrons, ladles, knives, griddles, and some
folks at work in their kitchens. Among the things shown are people rolling
out pasta (on a table labelled _tavola da pasta_) with a rolling pin, which
appears to be an untapered cylinder about 16-18 inches long and 1-1/2 to 2
inches in diameter. Also, I remember someone asked about graters a while
back - in the utensils section there is an item labelled _gratta casio_,
cheese grater. It is a flat square plate marked all over with dots - I can't
tell whether they are supposed to be holes punched through or something
else, the picture is very small. It has a leg attached to the back to keep
it propped up, which tells us something about the way it was used.
There is too much here to try to describe it all at once, but I'll be happy
to try if anyone wants to ask about anything in particular.
BTW, does anyone know whether the whole Scappi manuscript is out there
somewhere? How many pages of pictures does it have in all? I have 6 pages of
kitchen scenes and 7 of cooking equipment. I don't have any text other than
the captions in the pictures.
Morwyn
Morwyn of Wye, O.L.
Barony of Three Mountains, An Tir
(Portland, OR, USA)
mka Linda Taylor, lmt_inpnw at hotmail.com
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