Re: SF Cookbook?

The Stars Dispose and the Stars Compel, by Michaela Roessner is set in
Florence c. 1530, with Tommaso, a young sous-chef who becomes
Michaelangelo's lover.  They are pretty nice books, with some magic,
plague, and dark plotting going on, though I don't think she finished
the series.

Anyway, much of the plot context concerns food and she includes a list
of 5-6 recipes at the end of the 2nd book.

The interesting thing is how different recipes of that time are,
because they are missing New World ingredients.

Can you think of Italian cooking without tomatoes???