[Sca-cooks] Martino Corno's pasta recipe?

[Terry Decker]

I particularly enjoyed the version of this bumpf that had Martino working 
for the Matriarch of Aquiliea.   A female prelate in the Roman Catholic 
Church?

My take is Martino Corno is Maestro Martino de Rossi who authored Libro de 
arte coquinaria (about 1464/65).  During his career, he was cook to 
Fransesco Sforza of Milan, Ludovico Trevisano, the Patriarch of Aquiliea, 
and Grandduke Giacomo Trivulzio.  He was a friend of Bartolemeo Sacchi 
(Platina) and his recipes are incorporated into Platina's De honesta 
voluptate (1474).

I think the Corno is a typographical error for Como, as Platina refers to 
Martino as Martino of Como.

Bear

> Does anyone here know of a translation of Martino Corno's cookbook that 
> contains a recipe titled "De arte Coquinaria per vermicelli e macaroni 
> siciliani (The art of cooking Sicilian vermicelli and macaroni)"?
>
> I find many references to this recipe, circa 1000 A.D., but not the recipe 
> itself! Argh!
>
> Gianotta