[Sca-cooks] Scappi information was OMG! SCAPPI IS HERE!!!
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Tue Dec 30 07:36:43 PST 2008
Only the beginning and end all of Renaissance Italian cookery books.
Bartolomeo Scappi (c. 1500-1577) was the cook for several Cardinals and
later became the personal cook for two Popes. Unlike other cooks, he
actually compiled his own cookbook, which just happens to be "the
largest cookery treatise of the period to instruct an apprentice on the
full craft of fine cuisine, its methods, ingredients, and recipes.
Accompanying his book was a set of unique and precious engravings that
show the ideal kitchen of his day, its operations and myriad utensils,
and are exquisitely reproduced in this volume."
If you've done any work with kitchen images you've seen those illustrations.
The book //has more than one thousand recipes along with menus that
comprise up to a hundred dishes. It's this huge source of intriguing
recipes. Many of us bought the Forni volume
in facsimile and have used that volume, but price has made that option
unattractive.
https://www.fornieditore.com/flex/FixedPages/IT/ShowOpera.php/L/EN/IDMateria/FF/IDArgomento/-1/SKU/2292%203
To get a taste of what the book offers, see
http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/
Mistress Helewyse fell in love with the volume and over the past few
years has done a number of translations using the recipes and posted
them on her website.
The major problem for most people is that the work was never translated
into English... until now. Finally Professor Terence Scully has
completed the first English translation of the work. "His aim is to make
the recipes and the broad experience of this sophisticated papal cook
accessible to a modern English audience interested in the culinary
expertise and gastronomic refinement within the most civilized niche of
Renaissance society."
Devra will have copies shortly.
Johnnae
Heleen Greenwald wrote:
> What is SCAPPI?
>
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