Bartolomeo Scappi (c. 1500 – 13 April 1577) was a famous Renaissance chef. Events 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth" Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere A chef is a person who cooks professionally In a professional kitchen setting the term is used only for the one person in charge of everyone else in the kitchen the executive The first known fact in his life is April 1536, when he organized a banquet while he was in the service of Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio. A banquet is a large public meal or feast complete with main courses and desserts A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official usually a bishop, of the Catholic Church. Lorenzo Cardinal Campeggio (1471 or 1472 &ndash 1539 was an Italian cardinal and politician [1] He served several other cardinals after this, then began to serve pope Pius IV, entering the service of the Vatican kitchen. Pope Pius IV ( March 31, 1499 &ndash December 9, 1565) born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was Pope from 1559 to 1565 He continued to work as a chef for the pope Pius V. Pope
He acquired fame in 1570 when his cookbook Opera dell'arte del cucinare was published. In the book he lists approximately 1000 recipes of the Renaissance cuisine and describes cooking techniques and tools, giving the first known picture of a fork. Cuisine (from French cuisine, "cooking culinary art kitchen" ultimately from Latin coquere, "to cook" is a specific set As a piece of Cutlery or Kitchenware, a fork is a tool consisting of a handle with several narrow tines (usually two three or four on one end [2] He declared parmesan to be the best cheese on earth,[3] and noted that "the liver of [a] domestic goose raised by the Jews is of extreme size and weighs [between] two and three pounds",[4] indicating that Jews of the time were practicing the overfeeding needed to produce foie gras. Parmigiano-Reggiano is a hard fat Granular cheese, cooked but not pressed named after the producing areas of Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Reprints of Opera were continually published from 1570 to 1643. [5]
Scappi revolutionized the kitchen of his time through new preparation methods and the use of ingredients imported from America.
Scappi died on 13 April 1577 and was buried in the church of SS. Events 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople Vincenzo ad Anastasio alla Regola, dedicated to cooks and bakers. [6]
The Opera dell'arte del cucinare was partially translated in Catalan (Libro de cozina (1599) by Diego Granado Maldonado) and Dutch (Koocboec oft familieren keukeunboec (1612) by Antonius Magirus). [7][8]
Notes
- ^ Coquinaria - An Italian recipe from the sixteenth century URL accessed December 31, 2006.
- ^ (Rolland 2006, p. 273).
- ^ (Rolland 2006, p. 481).
- ^ (Ginor 1999, p. 11).
- ^ (Levillain 2002, p. 303).
- ^ (Benporat 2005).
- ^ (Schildermans 2007).
- ^ Schildermans - A Dutch translation of Bartolomeo Scappi’s Opera (1612) URL accessed December 19, 2007.
References
- Ginor, Michael A. (1999), Foie Gras: A Passion, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-29318-0.
- Levillain, Philippe (2002), The Papacy: An Encyclopedia, Routledge (UK), ISBN 0415922283.
- Rolland, Jacques L. (2006), The Food Encyclopedia, Robert Rose, ISBN 0778801500.
- Schildermans, Jozef M. (2007), Lieve schat, wat vind je lekker? Het Koocboec van Antonius Magirus (1612) en de Italiaanse keuken van de renaissance, Davidsfonds, ISBN 9789058265005.
- Benporat, Claudio (2005), Bartolomeo Scappi, il mistero svelato, Appunti di gastronomia, nr. 46.
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