[Sca-cooks] Re:Polenta
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Sun Aug 10 06:17:50 PDT 2003
Much the same information appears in "Food, A Culinary History" of which,
Montanari is one of the editors.
Bear
>> There are references to the use of maize in Europe as early as 1539, but
>Durante's is the first to specifically mention polenta. Leonard Fuchs
>states in his Herbal (1545) that maize was common, grown in many gardens
and
>used to make bread.
> Bear >
>
>I just finished reading Massimo Montanari's "The Culture of Food." He gave
>the same time period for the use of maize as Bear noted. He indicated that
>there were a couple of problems with documentation. <clipped>
>
>John le Burguillun
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