Private chef to Pope Pius V, Bartolomeo Scappi's cookbook Opera is
credited with laying the foundations of modern Italian cuisine.
Beautifully illustrated, Opera is the most expensive cookery book in
the world, which boasts over 1,000 recipes and demonstrates the high
point of Renaissance cookery. Nearly 500 years after its publication,
awardwinning food writer and presenter Antonio Carluccio travels to
Italy to tell the fascinating story of the world's first celebrity
chef in Carluccio and the Renaissance Cookbook. Lush scenery and
mouth-watering ingredients create a visually stunning feast with
Antonio delving into recipes over 500 years old: cooking eel in
Venice, porcini mushrooms in Lombardy, and stuffing a suckling pig in
Rome, where he ends his journey with a banquet fit for a Pope. A
combination of history and culture, Carluccio and The Renaissance
Cookbook sees Carluccio embark on a pilgrimage to discover the many
influences that inspired Scappi to cook ahead of his time and become
known as
'Michelangelo of the kitchen'.
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