9 février 2023
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RA Kashanipour, « Dinner and a Show: Magic Tricks at the Medieval Table », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tdd6
By Vanessa Da Silva Baptista Le Vivendier is a fifteenth-century anonymous French cookbook, surviving in a single miscellany of medical, botanical, and household recipes. It retains an innocuously titled recipe ‘To make a chicken to be served roasted’ [1] But this is no ordinary recipe for a roast dinner: the cook is instructed to pluck and paint a live chicken so that it appears roasted and place its head under its wing to render the bird unconscious. When the chicken was cut for serving, ...