[Sca-cooks] Re: Serving salads

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Louise Smithson wrote:

>According to an Italian if you lived anywhere outside
>of Italy Salad was prepared and dressed the wrong way.
>
>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