[Sca-cooks] Renaissance Banquet Video

[Elise Fleming]

There is a one-hour lecture available online, "Playing the Scalco: 
Serving Meals Directly from Renaissance Banquet Literature". It was 
originally given at the Getty Center (CA) in January 2016. Here's the 
description: "Ken Albala, professor of history at the University of the 
Pacific and author of over 20 books on food, discusses the large body of 
cookbooks, banquet guides, and carving manuals of early modern Europe, 
while sharing his personal experience of organizing and serving meals 
from them. These books were clearly meant to be used by culinary 
professionals, but how good was their advice?" URL is 
http://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/art_of_food/index.html#albala 
I have not yet seen this video but thought it might be of interest to 
you all. Alys Katharine

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Elise Fleming
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