[Sca-cooks] Re: Serving salads

[Johnna Holloway]

His dates are 1546-1616.
Johnnae


> 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
>