Subject: Re: Potatoes

From: [email-masked] (David L. Tallan)
Date: 1 May 1993 15:44:57 GMT

There are quite a large number of pre-tomato cookbooks
from Italy around today. Unfortunately, most of them
are (surprise, surprise) available only in Italian.

Available in English translation are:

_On Honest Indulgence (De honesta voluptate)_
Platina Venice, L.De Aguila, 1475
Available from Falconwood Press
193 Colonie St. Albany, NY 12210
_Epulario, Or, The Italian Banquet_
(English translation 1598 of a significantly older
work which is identified by Stephen Mennell in
_All Manners of Food_ as a colection by Giovanni
de Rosselli (1513) largely based on Martino [who,
incidentally, was also the basis for Platina's
work])
Also available from Falconwood Press

If anyone knows of other pre-seventeenth century Italian
cookbooks that have been translated, I would be most
delighted to hear of them.

Hoping this has helped,
-- 
David Tallan
aj 406  OR
[email-masked]