[Sca-cooks] 1500'S French cookbooks

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius1 at verizon.net
Wed Dec 5 15:11:05 PST 2007


On Dec 5, 2007, at 5:54 PM, Terry Decker wrote:

> These are referenced at www.oldcook.com , but I don't have enough  
> French to
> give you any idea about them:
>
> Platine en francoys (1505) - Early French translation of Platina
>
> Livre de cuysine tresutile et proufittable (1542)
>
> Le livre des confittures de Nostrodamus (Lyon 1555)
>
> You might also check out the Grewe collection at the U of Barcelona:
>
> http://www.bib.ub.es/grewe/grewe1.htm  (first page of three)

IIRC, isn't at least one of the editions of the Vivendier (believed  
related to, but not completely the same as the Viandier de Taillevent)  
16th century?

Adamantius



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