[Sca-cooks] polenta

[Ana Valdés]

I Leonardo da Vincis cookbooks (it´s still contested if they are 
authentic or not) he speaks about the polenta. He loathes it and speak 
about the polenta as "poor man food". He tried to change the alimentary 
habits of the court in Milano, where he was the main chef.
Ana

Huette von Ahrens wrote:

>--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net>
>wrote:
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>>Because of its natural sweetness, maize appears
>>to have become the polenta
>>grain of choice sometime during the 16th
>>Century.
>>
>>Bear
>>    
>>
>
>I just looked up polenta in the Oxford Companion
>to Food and it says that maize became the grain
>of choice during the mid-17th Century, which I am
>inclined to believe, unless you have a period
>reference to maize and polenta that they don't
>know about?
>
>Huette
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