| Anthimus: On the Observance of Foods Contributor(s): Grant, Mark (Editor), Grant, Mark (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1903018528 ISBN-13: 9781903018521 Publisher: Prospect Books (UK) OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2007 Annotation: Anthimus was a Greek doctor at the court of Theodoric the Ostrogoth, and was often sent as ambassador to the king of the Franks, for whom he wrote a letter about foods. His text may reasonably be called the first French cookery book; this is a new and more accurate modern language edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | History |
| Dewey: 641.300 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (1.90 lbs) 142 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the course of Anthimus' 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 text 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. |