From the Art of the Medicis to the Tables of Today Carla Geri Comporesi Cookbook
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From the Art of the Medicis to the Tables of Today
Carla Geri Comporesi
Barbara Golini
2001, maria pacini fazzi editore
Printed in Italy
Paperback, 142 pages
This book introduces 50 recipes linked to 50 still life colour reproductions of the Medici collections that are kept in the Uffizi Gallery deposits, in the Palatine Gallery and at the Medici’s Villa of Poggio Imperiale.
So we can find “Prunes” by Bartolomeo bimbi, next to ”Chicken breast stuffed with prunes” and “Sweet cake with prunes” together with “Fruit and flowers” by Bartolomeo Ligozzi we can find the description of “Guignoline pears” and “Dates filled with pear sorbet” and “Unripe fig jam”….
An elegant presentation that combines figurative arts to what may be considered a ‘minor’ art, but just as meaningful: that of cooking and the table, set in a historical context, the Renaissance, that has made conviviality, taste and the “feast”, particular elements on which the concept of a refined civilization are based.
Pages unmarked. Minor shelf wear to cover at edges and corners.