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Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy - Bartolomeo Scappi's Paper Kitchens (Paperback)
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Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy - Bartolomeo Scappi's Paper Kitchens (Paperback)
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Though Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera (1570), the first illustrated
cookbook, is well known to historians of food, up to now there has
been no study of its illustrations, unique in printed books through
the early seventeenth century. In Food and Knowledge in Renaissance
Italy, Krohn both treats the illustrations in Scappi's cookbook as
visual evidence for a lost material reality; and through the
illustrations, including several newly-discovered hand-colored
examples, connects Scappi's Opera with other types of late
Renaissance illustrated books. What emerges from both of these
approaches is a new way of thinking about the place of cookbooks in
the history of knowledge. Krohn argues that with the increasing
professionalization of many skills and trades, Scappi was at the
vanguard of a new way of looking not just at the kitchen-as
workshop or laboratory-but at the ways in which artisanal knowledge
was visualized and disseminated by a range of craftsmen, from
engineers to architects. The recipes in Scappi's Opera belong on
the one hand to a genre of cookery books, household manuals, and
courtesy books that was well established by the middle of the
sixteenth century, but the illustrations suggest connections to an
entirely different and emergent world of knowledge. It is through
study of the illustrations that these connections are discerned,
explained, and interpreted. As one of the most important cookbooks
for early modern Europe, the time is ripe for a focused study of
Scappi's Opera in the various contexts in which Krohn frames it:
book history, antiquarianism, and visual studies.
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