Bartolomeo Scappi was a famous italian renaissance chef. He served several important people of his time and is considered as a master of the cooking technique even today. Some aspects of his life are still a mistery and most of things we know about him come from his monumental cookbook, the Opera, one of the most complete cookbook of Renaissance. Opera is a sort of culinary treatise where we can find a lot ot cooking techniques, recipes and menus, food preservation, details to prepare banquets and first recipes adapted for the sick an for convalescents together with health-food recipes and first notes on food hygiene.
