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Anthimus - On the Observance of Foods (Paperback)
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Anthimus was a Greek doctor condemned by the Emperor in
Constantinople to a life of exile at the court of Theodoric the
Ostrogoth, barbarian ruler of Italy at the beginning of the 6th
century AD. In the course of his 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 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.
This work by Anthimus has long been studied for the light it sheds
on the linguistic transition from classical to medieval Latin, but
rarely has it been treated for what it was: a cookery and medical
treatise. It shows cooking on the cusp between the bread, vegetable
and oil based cuisine of the Mediterranean and the meat dominated
cookery of the northern forests. This short treatise is essential
to an understanding of the development of West European medieval
and early modern cooking. This version was first published by
Prospect Books in 1996 and is being brought back into print due to
continuing demand.
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