[Sca-cooks] Leonardo's Kitchen Notebooks

David Walddon david at vastrepast.com
Sat Sep 17 21:36:24 PDT 2011


Let me just say one more time. 

Smile, you're on candid camera. 

He is a humorist, not a food historian. 

Eduardo 


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David Walddon
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On Sep 17, 2011, at 8:18 AM, Johnna Holloway wrote:

> 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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