Product Information
The Book of Sent Soví , composed around the middle of the fourteenth century, is the oldest surviving culinary text in Catalan. It is anonymous and, like the majority of medieval cookery books, is the product of a complex process of transmission, with multiple manuscript copies and readers who have left their mark on it. The contents are eminently practical. Successive cooks have recorded their own methods of preparing the dishes and recipes included, blending several culinary traditions in a single work. Sent Soví is also a reliable source of information on the cookery of the territories of the Crown of Aragon before the revolution caused by the arrival of products from the Americas.This edition includes both an English translation, by Robin Vogelzang, and the original Catalan version. It has been the editor's aim to clarify the difficult passages in the book - sometimes corrupted because of the complex manuscript tradition - so that it can be understood as easily as possible by its twenty-first-century readers.JOAN SANTANACH lectures on medieval literature at the University of Barcelona.Published in association with Editorial Barcino.Product Identifiers
PublisherBoydell & Brewer, The Limited
ISBN-101855661640
ISBN-139781855661646
eBay Product ID (ePID)89627412
Product Key Features
Book TitleBook of Sent Soví : Medieval Recipes from Catalonia
Number of Pages200 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicRegional & Ethnic / Spanish, European / Spanish & Portuguese
GenreCooking, Literary Criticism
AuthorRobin Vogelzang
Book SeriesTextos B Ser.
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.2 oz.
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in