[Sca-cooks] printed cookbooks prior to 1501 -- Platina

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Nov 8, 2009, at 6:05 PM, emilio szabo wrote:

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>> In this sense (or: according to this criterion), Platinas book might
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>> be called a dietetic treatise (which includes the recipes of  
>> Martino).
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> All true and perfectly fair. On the other hand, since the recipe
> sections are as detailed and voluminous as a number of roughly
> contemporary sources that clearly are cookbooks, it might be said to
> be a little misleading to suggest it isn't a cookbook, probably to a
> similar extent as calling it just a cookbook.
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> Adamantius >>
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> I agree.
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> So, we could call it a dietetic treatise which includes/ contains /  
> incorporates the detailed and voluminous cookbook of Martino.

Sounds good to me. I'm just a bit compulsive about the responsible  
transmission of information. Sometimes being right isn't all that's  
required; sometimes you have to head people off at the pass and  
prevent them from making some of the mistakes, if you can...

A.






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when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's  
bellies."
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