A promissory for furtherness
Apr. 4th, 2013 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjAs part of reading the source materials for the recent Perfectly Period Feast, I was perusing the various menus cited in Messisbugo (mid-16th c. Italian cookery manual). And I started noticing some regular similarities between the menus. So of course I created a spreadsheet to analyze them. (You knew there was going to be a spreadsheet in here somewhere.) And this tied in with my offer to do a small 16th century Italian dinner for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thread_walker at Mists Coronet this weekend. So I started thinking about how those regularities between the menus could be used to identify the essential structural components of a mid-16th century Italian menu, so that in condensing the structure, I could retain the essence. I also started thinking about how I could compare the Messisbugo menus to Scappi's menus, and to menus any other 16th c. culinary Italian culinary sources, and ... well, but that's a different project.
At any rate, I did sufficient analysis to be comfortable coming up with a small menu of 4 courses of 3 dishes each (not counting what's on the table to begin with or the sweets course after the tables are cleared).
For which I am currently cooking.
Menu (analysis and results) and recipes will be forthcoming. I won't actually have the final recipes until I've cooked the dishes, although I have the general notion sketched out already. There may be pix, if I remember.
thread_walker at Mists Coronet this weekend. So I started thinking about how those regularities between the menus could be used to identify the essential structural components of a mid-16th century Italian menu, so that in condensing the structure, I could retain the essence. I also started thinking about how I could compare the Messisbugo menus to Scappi's menus, and to menus any other 16th c. culinary Italian culinary sources, and ... well, but that's a different project.At any rate, I did sufficient analysis to be comfortable coming up with a small menu of 4 courses of 3 dishes each (not counting what's on the table to begin with or the sweets course after the tables are cleared).
For which I am currently cooking.
Menu (analysis and results) and recipes will be forthcoming. I won't actually have the final recipes until I've cooked the dishes, although I have the general notion sketched out already. There may be pix, if I remember.
