On the Observance of Foods
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In the course of Anthimus' life in Ravenna, he was sent as ambassador to the King of the Franks and wrote, perhaps as a sweetener to his fierce yet royal host, a letter about foods which were good for you, which bad, and, sometimes, how to cook and serve them. It may reasonably be called the first French cookery book; and this is a new and more accurate modern language edition, printed with the Latin and English in parallel text on facing pages. Mark Grant provides a general historical introduction which corrects various errors of fact in earlier editions, a Latin text based on the editio princeps of 1864, a modern English translation, and a full commentary on the work itself, with many cross-references to classical medical treatises, the literature of classical cookery and modern scholarship insofar as it knows anything of the food and cookery of the early Merovingian Franks.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781903018521 |
Publisher: | Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd |
Imprint: | Prospect Books |
Pub date: | 01 Oct 2007 |
DEWEY: | 641.300902 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 142 |
Weight: | 206g |
Height: | 214mm |
Width: | 140mm |
Spine width: | 9mm |