SC - Period cookshop at Pennsic?

Cindy M. Renfrow cindy at thousandeggs.com
Fri Sep 1 09:52:47 PDT 2000


I found a lot of information about both Maestro Martino and Maestre Chiquart in
Barbara Santich's "The Original Mediterranean Cuisine".  I posted some time ago
that Jessica Biscuit had it on sale for a really cheap price, but I'm not sure
whether they still have it or not.

Kiri

"Adler, Chris" wrote:

> >>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.>>
>
> Hello,
> The name of the book is "Renaissance Recipes (Painters & Food) " by Gillian
> Riley. It's out of print, according to Amazon. I got the book as a prize
> from an A&S competition, and also don't recommend the redacted recipes since
> they're very modernized (and there's no original recipes cited).
>
> The artwork is quite beautiful and yes, the forward talks at length about
> various famous cooks - it's interesting, but I don't know enough yet to know
> if it's very accurate. Can anyone comment on the veracity of this book's
> text material?
>
> Katja
>
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