The unknown Leonardo / edited by Ladislao Reti

- Acknowledgments. - Foreword / by Dottore Marino Albinesi. - Leonardo in the kitche: an outline of his "gastronomic" life. * THE CODEX ROMANOFF OF LEONARDO DA VINCI. - Introductory note: On the table manners of my lord Lodovico and his table guests. - On the correct manner to choose a cheese. - On a alternative fo filthy tablecloths. - Leg of loon. - Bernardo's boiled cow legs. - Merry almond soup. - Sealion. - On the correct positioning of diseased guests at table. - On the requeriments of a good kitchen. - White pudding. - On saffron in wine. - Elder flower pie. - Porrdige with sprouts. - My favourite porridge dishes. - Pig tails in porridge. - Picled birds. - Pierced pigs' ears. - On feasts. - The machines I have yet to design for my kitchens. - A Christmas pudding. - Roasted peackock. - Salai's egg disch. - Sheeps testicles with honey and cream. - Cocks' combs in crumbs. - Battered loond. - Goat's head pie (for poor persons and rough people). - On sadness from porridge. - Four simple soups. - Storks and cranes. - Dish of rawnesses. - Dead rabbit. - On the reason so few persons eat storks or cranes. - The dishes I do abhor (but which still good battista does insist o serve me). + Jellied goat. + Hemp bread. + Elder tree pudding. + A spanish dish. + Indeible turnips. + Eel balls. + Tendril pie. + Boiled intestines. - For salai to note. - Marzipan. - Shoulder of serpent. - Dish of newts. - Boiled coot. - Dish of mixed knuckles. - Jelly fish. - On goasts in kitchen. - Anecdote. - On grasses. - Pot tops. - Horse soup. - Frog soup. - Soup of turnip-top. - Further on pot tops. - On the benefits of a moderate diet. - On simple dishes. - Boiled eggs. - Broken eggs. - Hard-boiled eels. - On ridding your kitchens of pestilential flies. - Dishes for the plague-ridden. - My simple dishes. - On the many and curious uses of the cucumber. - On the improper use of blanc-manges. - Porcupine. - Bear. - On unseemly behaviour at My Lord's table. - Remains. - On wine. - Fried flowers. - Cabbage jam. - Items. - The serving of snails. - Snail soup. - On the eating habits of some others I have met in high places. - On eating artichokes. - Butter lamb. - Bee pie. - Anchovy soup. - Three more simple soups. - For salai to get. - To remove blood from the tablecloth. - A list of lenten mortification dishes. - On appointing a new taster. - On liquorice. - On the parts of a pig. - A thought. - Further on lenten mortification dishes. - Observations upon vegetables. - More dishes for poo people. - Forg in a box. - On the properties of Lettuce. - The sausage of Leo x. - Cooking with poisons. - Tasks for salai. - On bread and meat (I). - Snail soup. - - On bread and meat (II). - More on blanc-manges. - On an aid to the digestion. - On coelius apicius. - On the correct seating of teh assassin at table. - Stuffed dormouse. - On the character of Goffredo Giuliani. - On the medical properties of some herbs. - Uncooked Chicken. - Roman prune and Cauliflower soup. - Shepherd's pie (I). - Shepherd's pie (II). - Cow patrie. - Bread and ox-cheeks (I). - Bread and ox-cheeks (II). - Gaudio's smoky sicilian soup. - Mock dormice. - On the Dual Properties of Lemons. - Cow Pastilles. - Donkey Omelette. - Cow Cakes (or Ox Cubes). - False Sausage (I) and (II). - On the Qualities of a Good Confectioner. - On a Disturbed Night in Piacenza. - On the Potential of the Cornet. - Little Platter of Trout's Intestines. - Oysters. - Some Curious Facts about Vinegar. - A List of Edible Insects. - On the Preservation of Foodstuffs. - On the Most Beneficial Quantities of Fodds and Liquids to be consumed each day. - On a Balanced Selection of Foodstuff. - Further Observations upon some Vegeatles and their Various Properties.