On the custom of starting a meal with a salad
Bartolomeo Platina, a Renaissance humanist writer who worked as a tutor for the noble Gonzaga family, gained great fame for his treatise on gastronomy, food hygiene and recommendations entitled De honesta voluptate et valetudine (“On honourable pleasure and health”). This book examined in great depth the properties of vegetables and salads and inaugurated a […]
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