wedding celebrations Reference library
Ivan Day
The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
...Wedding , Jane Bridgeman describes a truly remarkable wedding feast held in Pesaro in 1475 celebrating the marriage of Costanzo Szorza and Camilla Marzano d’Aragona. Compared to most modern wedding receptions, this was a truly lavish affair. It included many sweet elements that have survived into modern times, so it is worth giving a fairly full account of the occasion here. A banquet consisting of twelve courses was served in the great hall of the ducal palace in Pesaro, its ceiling decorated with stars and astrological blessings. The first six courses...
Casciotta d’Urbino Reference library
Marta Bertolino
The Oxford Companion to Cheese
...Casciotta d’Urbino is a semisoft, semicooked cheese produced across the entire province of Pesaro-Urbino, Italy. It received the European recognition of protected designation of origin (PDO) in 1996 . The most well-known consumer of Casciotta d’Urbino was the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, who—appreciating the cheese—leased enough land to sheep and goat herders that they could pay their rent to him in cheese. Casciotta d’Urbino is cylindrical in shape, with slightly rounded sides, a straw-yellow color, and a thin rind (1 milimeter)....
trompe l’oeil Reference library
Jane Lear
The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
...and purity; the durability of refined sugar under optimal circumstances; and the ease with which it could be combined with ingredients such as almonds. In Charlemagne’s Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting ( 2004 ) , Nicola Fletcher takes note of an account of a wedding in Pesaro in 1475 : “The entire table service was made out of sugar: plates, cutlery, and even wineglasses that remained waterproof for the duration of the feast (they were broken and eaten afterward), as well as imitation fruit, nuts, and berries for decoration.” Sugar plate, which...
sugar sculpture Reference library
Ivan Day
The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
...“representations of the membra virilia, pudenaque muliebria , which were formed of pastry, or sugar, and placed before the guests at entertainments.” In Italy sugar sculptures were known as trionfi di tavola . At the wedding of Costanzo Sforza and Camilla Marzano D’Aragona in Pesaro in 1475 , they were used as edible props in a complex allegorical performance that took place during a 12-course feast. See wedding . Costumed performers playing the role of the messengers of the gods announced the dishes of each course, some bearing emblematic trionfi to...
