The cookery book by Antonius Magirus (1612) and historical gastronomy in general
Posted in History of gastronomy, News on Feb 2nd, 2011
The Heritage Library Hendrik Conscience in Antwerp received a rare 17th-century handwritten cookbook as a gift from her friends association. On the website of the Heritage Library you can find the digital version of the book in pdf format.
Cookbooks from that period are extremely rare. From the seventeenth century only a dozen culinary manuscripts have survived in [...]
Posted in History of gastronomy on Dec 26th, 2007
In Lieve schat, wat vind je lekker besteden we ruime aandacht aan het leven van Bartolomeo Scappi, wiens Opera dell’arte del cucinare een was voor het Koocboec van Antonius Magirus en waar de BBC op 27 december 2007 om 21 uur .
Hoewel de auteur van de Opera met naam en toenaam vermeld staat op de [...]
Posted in History of gastronomy, News on Dec 19th, 2007
The BBC airs an hour long documentary on Bartolomeo Scappi and his Opera on 27 December at 8pm. The Indepedent has seen a preview and is very positive:
Carluccio and the Renaissance Cookbook gives us an insight into the excesses and flights of fancy of Italian Renaissance cookery, with its fashionable emphasis on sugar and [...]
Posted in History of gastronomy on Nov 22nd, 2007