The Cook's Decameron

A novel with two hundred Italian recipes inside it: ten friends dine together for ten days, argue about food and cooks and country, and each day's talk ends in the day's menu.

New Century Sauce

3 pages in this part of The Cook's Decameron.

New Century Sauce

(Cream Nougat) 172 215. Crema tartara alla Cara- 225. Fish Sauce. 177 mella (Caramel Cream) 172 226. Sauce Piquante (for 216. Cremona Cake…

New Century Sauce: Marchesa

Sir John Oglethorpe had been her husband's oldest and best friend. He and the Marchese had first met in Sardinia, where they had both of…

New Century Sauce: Gradinger

Gradinger would call it 'anti-social,' whatever that may mean." "I should imagine that it is a term which might be applied to any scheme…

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