The Book of Sent Sov?: Medieval Recipes from Catalonia

The oldest Catalan cookery book.

The Book of Sent Sov?, 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 Sov? 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.

Author: Joan Santanach
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Barcino-Tamesis
Published: 06/19/2008
Series: Textos B #51
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781855661646