Online References on Medieval and Renaissance Cuisine

Multi-Regional Cuisine

English Cuisine
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened (17th Century)
The Forme of Cury (1390)

French Cuisine
Du Fait de Cuysine by Master Chiquart, English Translation (1420)
Enseignements qui enseingnent a apareillier toutes manieres de viandes (1300)
Le Ménagier de Paris (14th Century)
English Translation
Ouverture de Cuisine by Lancelot de Casteau (1604)
English Translation
Le Régime du corps by Aldobrandino da Siena (13th Century)
Le Viandier de Taillevent (14th Century)
English Translation

German Cuisine
Koch vnd Kellermeistery (1566)
Das Kochbuch des Meisters Eberhard (15th Century)
English Translation
Ein Kochbuch aus dem Archiv des Deutschen Ordens (15th Century)
English Translation
Alte Kochrezepte aus dem bayrischen Inntal (15th or 16th Century)
English Translation
Ein new Kochbuch (16th Century)
Another Transcription
English Translation
Another English Translation

Italian Cuisine
Anonimo Toscano, Libro della Cocina (Late 14th or Early 15th Century)
English Translation
Liber de coquina (14th Century)
Opera di M. Bartolomeo Scappi (16th Century)

Portuguese Cuisine
Um Tratado da Cozinha Portuguesa de Século XV (15th Century)
English Translation (Work in Progress)

Roman Cuisine
De re Coquinaria by Apicius

Another Transcription
English Translation

Spanish Cuisine
Libre del Coch (1529)
An Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook of the 13th Century English Translation (13th Century)




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