[Sca-cooks] Leonardo as cook?

Stefan li Rous StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Wed Sep 14 20:39:32 PDT 2011


 From the Lochac list.

Stefan

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:26:50 +1200
From: tamara at suncrow.com
Subject: [Lochac] Hell's Kitchen: Leonardo
To: "Shambles \(Lochac\)" <lochac at sca.org.au>

http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/kitchen-appliances.php

"Master Leonardo da Vinci?s kitchen is a bedlam..."  from a letter
written Sabba da Castiglione.  Frankly, "bedlam" is an understatement.


http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/top-chef-old-master.php

How about at the next feast we take a page out of Sforza's book by
?tethering beribboned rabbits to the chairs of his table guests, that
they may wipe their grease-ridden hands on the beast?s backs" ?  Some
protocol hints from the da Vinci as well, including that a guest
should "not place unpleasing or half-chewed pieces of his own food
upon his neighbor?s plate without first asking him", and how best to
arrange seating if an assassination is planned.

Kazimira

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