An edition of The Neapolitan Recipe Collection (2000)

The Neapolitan Recipe Collection

Cuoco Napoletano

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An edition of The Neapolitan Recipe Collection (2000)

The Neapolitan Recipe Collection

Cuoco Napoletano

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The fields of cookery and medieval food have recently drawn the attention of those interested in a panoramic picture of aristocratic and bourgeois social life in the late Middle Ages. In the fifteenth century, wealthy courts in the Italian peninsula led all of Europe in gastronomical achievement. The professional cooks in palaces such as those of the Este, Medici, and Borgia families were the most advanced masters of their craft, and some of them bequeathed a record of their practice in manuscript collections of recipes.
Outstanding among these early cookbooks is the one written by an anonymous master cook in Naples toward the end of the century. In its 220 recipes, we can trace not only the Italian culinary practice of the day but also the very refined taste brought by the Catalan royal family when they ruled Naples. This edition--with its introduction touching on the nature of cookery in the Neapolitano Collection, and its commentary on the individual recipes and its English translation of those recipes--will give the reader a glimpse into the rich fare available to occupants and guests of one of the greatest houses of late medieval Italy.

The Neapolitan Recipe Collection offers a particularly delicious slice of the primary documentation necessary for understanding the nature of medieval society and one of its most important aspects.

Terence Scully is Professor Emeritus of French, Wilfrid Laurier University, and the author, with D. Eleanor Scully, of Early French Cookery, also published by the University of Michigan Press.

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The Neapolitan Recipe Collection: Cuoco Napoletano
Jan 12, 2015, University of Michigan Press
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Cover of: The Neapolitan Recipe Collection
The Neapolitan Recipe Collection: Cuoco Napoletano
February 8, 2000, University of Michigan Press
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Hardcover
Number of pages
264
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10.2 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches
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1.9 pounds

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9780472109722
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