Bling Cookery from the Renaissance! - Carluccio & The Renaissance Cookbook - BBC

Join chef Antonio Carluccio on his pilgrimage around Italy, with the 500 year old cookbook of Bartolomeo Scappi as a guide. The Smeraldo restaurant in Dumenza has a special Scappi menu using authentic dishes from Scappi's Opera. Here Carluccio helps bring Scappi back to life by cooking Riso alla Lombarda, a rice dish that exemplifies Scappi's characteristic use of spices and sugar. From the fascinating BBC cookery programme Carluccio and the Renaissance Cookbook. Watch more high quality videos on the Food YouTube channel from BBC Worldwide here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcfood

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