[Sca-cooks] Cooking for Power

[David Walddon]

Here is an excellent link to the introduction of the University of  
California Press translation of the Martino Manuscript.
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9423/9423.intro.php
It gives you the low down on Martino.

David


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REPAST.

David Walddon
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On Nov 25, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Suey wrote:

> Elaine Koogler wrote:
>> What about Maestro Martino?  He was a chef, mostly in Sicily,  
>> IIRC, to the
>> Norman ruler there.  Also Bernardo Scappi who, as I understand it,  
>> cooked
>> for several Cardinals, then reached the pinacle of his career  
>> cooking for a
>> couple of Popes?
>>
>> Kiri
>>
> 'Cooking for Power', why did you title your message as such?
> Please enlighten us ignorants a little. I try not to study Aragon  
> as my realm in Castile is so vast so I cannot remember Martino's  
> era but I thought it after Nola. I thought the Norman rulers went  
> out long before Martino you know like soon after Roger the Anjou  
> bring replaced by the House of Aragon. Marintino is after Ferran,  
> Alfonso the V's bastard, no???
> What does IIRC mean?
> Scappi rings a bell. Was he a Borgia cook or am I off? But you know  
> there is a great subject there. - The cooks for the Borgias!!! Ha  
> and the cooks for the Medicci!!! I seem to remember a Lorenzo in  
> Florencia. . .
> Suey
>
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