[Sca-cooks] Cookbooks for Beginners

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Mon Jun 2 14:21:47 PDT 2008


And if you are doing Martino there's also the very nice CD-rom edition
http://www.octavo.com/editions/mrtlac/
Martino: Coquinaria (Edition, 1 CD) 1-891788-83-3
Commentary by Gillian Riley,
- Foreword by Alice Waters of Chez Panisse
- Essay: Maestro Martino’s Cookery Book and Its Manuscripts, by Bruno 
Laurioux
Searchable, cross-linked English translation of the Italian text by 
Gillian Riley
- Note on the calligraphy by Paul Shaw
- Magnify up to 400%

It's nice to have both in one's collection and of course the true 
completist will also
want Claudio Benporat's works that feature Martino too. Those can be 
purchased
and shipped in from Italy.

Johnnae


Doc wrote:
> Thanks for the info on this.  As I said before, I
> generally don't do Italian, so it can be hard for me
> to keep up with things.  I'll have to take a look at
> AoC ... and maybe buy a copy. 
>
> - Doc
>
>
> --- Barbara Benson <voxeight at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>> I completely forgot about Italy (as usual, sorry).
>>> The Neapolitan Recipe Collection: Cuoco Napoletano
>>> - Doc
>>>       
>> If I were going for a manuscript as opposed to an
>> overview this is not
>> the book I would purchase. For the cost I,
>> personally, do not think it
>> is worth it. Instead I would get
>> The Art of Cooking
>> Maestro Martino
>> # ISBN-10: 0520232712
>



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