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[Adler, Chris]

>>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