[Sca-cooks] Leonardo's Kitchen Notebooks

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Sat Sep 17 08:18:46 PDT 2011


I have owned a copy since 1987. Let me state again as in an earlier  
post that it is
not a serious work or as Stefan wanted "a scholarly work." It's a  
funny work and some booksellers list it under "Cookery Humor Books."  
It was intended to be funny. Here's a good description:

"An extreme consequence of Leonardo's worldwide fame can be seem in  
works such as the best selling Leonardo's Kitchen Notebooks, published  
for the first time in 1987, which has led many, even the well- 
educated, to think that Leonardo, in partnership with Botticelli, ran  
a trattoria in Florence. The clever author even went so far as to  
describe an imaginary Codex Romanov full of drawings of absurd kitchen  
implements, menus and recipes concocted by Leonardo."

http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/itineraries/itinerary/Leonardism.html

Actually the web also has quite a bit on the author.
The article on the author should provide enough details as to his  
sense of humor.

http://sites.google.com/site/satiristsguild/Home/ourfounder

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jonathan-routh-prankster-star-of-candid-camera-who-later-became-a-painter-and-the-author-of-the-good-loo-guide-842128.html

Johnnae

On Sep 17, 2011, at 10:47 AM, kdp at tiac.net wrote:

> Full title:
> Leonardo's Kitchen Notebooks: Leonardo Da Vinci's Notes on Cookery  
> and Table Etiquette.
> About twenty years ago there was a fair amount of debate that I  
> didn't follow so I don't know if the issues were authenticity of the  
> data, validity of translations, or something else entirely.  A  
> google search produced nothihng of value.
> Eithne



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