[Sca-cooks] Looking for a woodcut

Johnna Holloway johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Tue Apr 3 08:38:41 PDT 2007


How about this one--
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food-art/field_kitchen.gif
It's one of the ones out of Scappi
Il Cuoco Segreto Di Papa Pio V (The Private Chef of Pope Pius V), by 
Bartolomeo Scappi, Venice, 1570.
It's at */The Medieval/Ren Food Clip-Art Collection/ 
(**http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food-art/* 
<http://www.pbm.com/%7Elindahl/food-art/>*):

Johnnae
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Michael Gunter wrote:
> A while back I saw a woodcut of a period camp spit setup.
> It basically resembled a sawhorse with the horizontal bar
> having pots hanging from it and then along one side of the
> legs there were hooks which held spits upon which birds
> and sausages were roasting.
> I've looked all over and can't find the bloody thing now.
> I'm working with some folk here in Ansteorra on building
> a couple. The design is simple but I would like to find this
> thing to use as a reference. Does anyone have this or
> know where I could find it? snipped
> Gunthar
>




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