[Sca-cooks] Happy about Scappi

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:

> My copy has arrived.  I am pleased, and not just because it's a
> translation of a significant period cookbook in a language I don't
> read.  Now I can see which recipes in Granado were (or were not)
> plagiarized from Scappi.

So far I'm a little thrown by the recipes that call for a single  
salted mushroom to be soaked to desalinate. I'm wondering about  
translation issues...

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