Platina's On Right Pleasure and Good Health
Author: Platina
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 252
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Platina's On Right Pleasure and Good Health
Author: Platina
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 220
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Author: Platina
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 536
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most popular book by the Italian philosopher Platina (1421-81), in facing pages of Latin and English, is introduced with a 45-page biography, a 45-page account of the text and its revisions, and a chronological list of Platina's works. The text itself is highly annotated mostly with references to his sources. The introduction and text are indexed separately. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Eating Right in the Renaissance
Author: Ken Albala
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-02-01
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0520927281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of information on food and an intriguing account of the differences between the nutritional logic of the past and our own time, this inviting book examines the wide-ranging dietary literature of the Renaissance. Ken Albala ultimately reveals the working of the Renaissance mind from a unique perspective: we come to understand a people through their ideas on food. Eating Right in the Renaissance takes us through an array of historical sources in a narrative that is witty and spiced with fascinating details. Why did early Renaissance writers recommend the herbs parsley, arugula, anise, and mint to fortify sexual prowess? Why was there such a strong outcry against melons and cucumbers, even though people continued to eat them in large quantities? Why was wine considered a necessary nutrient? As he explores these and other questions, Albala explains the history behind Renaissance dietary theories; the connections among food, exercise, and sex; the changing relationship between medicine and cuisine; and much more. Whereas modern nutritionists may promise a slimmer waistline, more stamina, or freedom from disease, Renaissance food writers had entirely different ideas about the value of eating right. As he uncovers these ideas from the past, Ken Albala puts our own dietary obsessions in an entirely new light in this elegantly written and often surprising new chapter on the history of food.
The Art of Cooking
Author: Maestro Martino of Como
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2005-01-03
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780520928312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaestro Martino of Como has been called the first celebrity chef, and his extraordinary treatise on Renaissance cookery, The Art of Cooking, is the first known culinary guide to specify ingredients, cooking times and techniques, utensils, and amounts. This vibrant document is also essential to understanding the forms of conviviality developed in Central Italy during the Renaissance, as well as their sociopolitical implications. In addition to the original text, this first complete English translation of the work includes a historical essay by Luigi Ballerini and fifty modernized recipes by acclaimed Italian chef Stefania Barzini. The Art of Cooking, unlike the culinary manuals of the time, is a true gastronomic lexicon, surprisingly like a modern cookbook in identifying the quantity and kinds of ingredients in each dish, the proper procedure for cooking them, and the time required, as well as including many of the secrets of a culinary expert. In his lively introduction, Luigi Ballerini places Maestro Martino in the complicated context of his time and place and guides the reader through the complexities of Italian and papal politics. Stefania Barzini's modernized recipes that follow the text bring the tastes of the original dishes into line with modern tastes. Her knowledgeable explanations of how she has adapted the recipes to the contemporary palate are models of their kind and will inspire readers to recreate these classic dishes in their own kitchens. Jeremy Parzen's translation is the first to gather the entire corpus of Martino's legacy.
The Basic Art of Italian Cooking
Author: Maria Liberati
Publisher: art of living, PrimaMedia,Inc.
Published: 2010-06-22
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1928911196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book selected as Best Italian Cuisine Book in the USA by Gourmand World Cookbook Awards-in this second edition now a chapter on the Feast of the Seven Fishes. Includes 100+ recipes, charming short stories of the author's memoirs of Holidays spent at her villa in Italy, Holiday tips, cocktails, non-alcoholic cocktails, and some kid friendly recipes. Folowing up to the success of The Basic Art of Italian Cooking, the book that is sold all over the world and has over 100,000 Blog subscribers. Sure to be another Holiday classic and an indispensable part of your kitchen library,
Sicilian Seafood Cooking
Author: Marisa Wilkins
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
Published: 2015-01-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781742576602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSicilians love seafood and seasonal produce. Sicilian Seafood is an intriguing compendium of 120 unusual traditional recipes for seafood and its accompaniments--including a great variety of first and second-course dishes, food for feasts, special sauces, delicious vegetables. A lively, authoritative book, it celebrates the great diversity of Sicilian food, which is intensely regional. The author takes readers on a culinary journey around Sicily, using seasonal produce and traditional cooking methods and techniques, layered with fascinating information about the origins of recipes and information about sustainability issues.
The English Housewife
Author: Gervase Markham
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780773511033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1615 Englishman Gervase Markham published a handbook for housewives that contains "all the virtuous knowledges and actions both of the mind and body, which ought to be in any complete housewife". Markham instructs and advises on everything from the plague to baldness and bad breath. Woodcut illustrations add a richness to this look at life during the Renaissance.
The Cookbook Library
Author: Anne Willan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-03-03
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0520244001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis gorgeously illustrated volume began as notes on the collection of cookbooks and culinary images gathered by renowned cookbook author Anne Willan and her husband Mark Cherniavsky. From the spiced sauces of medieval times to the massive roasts and ragoûts of Louis XIV’s court to elegant eighteenth-century chilled desserts, The Cookbook Library draws from renowned cookbook author Anne Willan’s and her husband Mark Cherniavsky’s antiquarian cookbook library to guide readers through four centuries of European and early American cuisine. As the authors taste their way through the centuries, describing how each cookbook reflects its time, Willan illuminates culinary crosscurrents among the cuisines of England, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain. A deeply personal labor of love, The Cookbook Library traces the history of the recipe and includes some of their favorites.
On Food and Cooking
Author: Harold McGee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-03-20
Total Pages: 898
ISBN-13: 1416556370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA kitchen classic for over 35 years, and hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn to for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly they're made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and delicious. For its twentieth anniversary, Harold McGee prepared a new, fully revised and updated edition of On Food and Cooking. He has rewritten the text almost completely, expanded it by two-thirds, and commissioned more than 100 new illustrations. As compulsively readable and engaging as ever, the new On Food and Cooking provides countless eye-opening insights into food, its preparation, and its enjoyment. On Food and Cooking pioneered the translation of technical food science into cook-friendly kitchen science and helped birth the inventive culinary movement known as "molecular gastronomy." Though other books have been written about kitchen science, On Food and Cooking remains unmatched in the accuracy, clarity, and thoroughness of its explanations, and the intriguing way in which it blends science with the historical evolution of foods and cooking techniques. Among the major themes addressed throughout the new edition are: · Traditional and modern methods of food production and their influences on food quality · The great diversity of methods by which people in different places and times have prepared the same ingredients · Tips for selecting the best ingredients and preparing them successfully · The particular substances that give foods their flavors, and that give us pleasure · Our evolving knowledge of the health benefits and risks of foods On Food and Cooking is an invaluable and monumental compendium of basic information about ingredients, cooking methods, and the pleasures of eating. It will delight and fascinate anyone who has ever cooked, savored, or wondered about food.
