[Sca-cooks] Re: Castelvetro

[The Sheltons]

> >On salads from Giacomo Castelvetro
> >Translation from "The fruit, herbs & vegetables of
> >Italy: an offering to Lucy Countess of Bedford. 
> >Giacomo Castelvetro, Gillian Riley.  1989 Viking, New
> >York, NY.  A copy of which was provided to me by
> >Johnnae Ilyn Lewis last year. 
> >The right way to make a good salad <snippy snip>
> >
> Gosh, you thought that today's authenticity mavens could be snippy?  
> Maybe it IS period to say that something isn't period!
> Or close enough anyway, Castrelvetro was early 17th Century, yesno?
> 
> Selene Colfox

His book was written in 1614. He was pretty critical of German salad
making, but he thought the English were totally hopeless.

John le Burguillun