[Sca-cooks] Trionfi and April trip

[Johnna Holloway]

If the weather doesn't cooperate--- not a whole lot.
But there's a peacock on the table.....

Johnna

Sue Clemenger wrote:

> Gosh, no! <completely insincere grin>
> So what kind of "trionfi" are you making?
> --maire
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> Johnna Holloway wrote:
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>> What are Trionfi or Trionfi di Tavola ?
>>
>> Trionfi, according to John Florio’s Italian dictionary of 1611,means 
>> “triumph.” Here the word refers to the sweet sculptural components of 
>> the Renaissance and Baroque Italian banquet. No funeral, festival, 
>> procession, wedding, state visit or state banquet was complete 
>> without an elaborate display of created sugar works or trionfi.
>>
>> Can you tell that there's a handout and that there will be an article?
>>
>> Johnnae
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