Our Favorite Breakfast Brunch Recipes Cookbook or Art of Cooking

Our Favorite Breakfast & Brunch Recipes Cookbook

Author: Gooseberry Patch

With over 60 delicious recipes and as many time-saving tips, Gooseberry Patch's Our Favorite Breakfast and Brunch Recipes comes in a convenient size for taking along on-the-go and giving as a gift. The book features charming, original hand-drawn illustrations too.

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Art of Cooking: The First Modern Cookery Book (California Studies in Food and Culture Series, Vol. 14)

Author: Luigi Ballerini

Maestro 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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Maestro Martino: The Carneades of Cooks
Luigi Ballerini

The Art of Cooking
Composed by the Eminent Maestro Martino of Como

How to Make Every Sort of Victual
How to Make Every Type of Sauce
How to Make Every Sort of Torte
How to Make Every Sort of Fritter
How to Cook Eggs in Every Way
How to Cook Every Type of Fish
The Riva del Garda Recipes
The Neapolitan Recipes

Maestro Martino Today: Fifty Modernized Recipes
Stefania Barzini

Textual Note
Jeremy Parzen

Selected Bibliography
Index