Florentines : a Tuscan feast / Lorenza de' Medici ; illustrations by Giovanna Garzoni 1600-1670.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De' Medici Stucchi, Lorenza, 1926-

Contributor:

De Gex, Jenny, originator, editor, designer, writer of introduction.

Fordham, David, originator, editor, designer.

Garzoni, Giovanna, 1600-1670, illustrator.

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, Italian--Tuscan style.

Cooking, Italian.

Penn Provenance:

Grad, Laurie Burrows (donor)

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[5]-107, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 23 cm

Edition:

First U.S. Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [1992]

Contents:

Foreword / Lorenza de' Medici

Introduction / Jenny De Gex

Spuma di Foie Gras in Salsa di Melone

Of Fruit and Vegetables / Giacomo Castelvetro

Crema di Cipolle alle Mandorle

Of Their Manner of Eating / Fynes Moryson

Crema di Patate e Porri

Passato di Spinaci alle Nocciole

Giovanna de' Medici's Marriage Feast / Guido Biagi

Uova in Gelatina al Basilico

Riches of the Soil / Fynes Moryson

Risotto agli Scampi

The Mereato Vecchio / Giuseppe Conti

Mischief at Court / Janet Ross

Tagliatelle alle Noei

A Banquet at the Palazzo Vecchio / Janet Ross

Faraona alle Pesche

A Monastic Repast in the Appenines / Lady Anne Miller

Spuma di Prosciutto e Fichi

A Marriage between the Rucellai and Medici / Guido Biagi

Palombe alla Ghiotta

Dslds fi Pere

Of the Grape they Feed / Sir Robert Dallington

Cherries like Plums ... / Hester Piozzi

Polpette in Salsa di Mele

La Festa di San Giovanni / Giuseppe Conti

Coniglio alle Prugne

A Grand Chariot Race / Giuseppe Conti

Salsa di Ciliege

Of the Wines of Italy / Fynes Moryson

Arista di Maiale al Finocchio

Fave in Salsa al Limone

A Guild Dinner / Giuseppe Conti

Carciofi con Piselli in Umido

A Renaissance Extravaganza / Piero di Marco Parenti

Cetrioli alle Noei

Cestini di Piselli

Of the State of Tuscanie / Sir Robert Dallington

Vos' Signoria ha Desinato? / Fynes Moryson

Uva e Cipolline

La Festa del Grillo / Giuseppe Conti

Of Florentine Everyday Life / Giuseppe Conti

Sorbetto di Uva

Schiacciata con L'Uva

Fichi Secchi al Porto

Il Giuoco del Caleio / Richard Lassels

Crostata di Pere al Cioccolato

Crostata di Fichi e Limoni

Of Local Produce / Fynes Moryson

Salsa di Fragole

Biscotti alle Mandorle.

Notes:

"Anthology conceived, edited and designed by Jenny De Gex and David Fordham."

Originally published in Great Britain by Pavilion Books Limited, London, 1992.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Laurie Burrows Grad.

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket with transparent protective cover retained.

ISBN:

0679418504 :

OCLC:

26014762

Online:

Laurie Burrows Grad Collection Home Page