The Cookbook in the Bard's Trunk (More on Adam Mickiewicz's Cookbook)

• Authors: Ziembinski J.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article explores the puzzle of Adam Mickiewicz's cookbook, a copy of the first edition of Stanisław Czerniecki's 'Compendium ferculorum or a Collection of Dishes' published in Cracow in 1682. There are two different accounts of how it came into Mickiewicz's possession. One is based on the evidence of 'Letters from My Travels' by the poet's close friend Antoni Edward Odyniec. His remark suggests that Mickiewicz got the book in the 1820s in St Petersburg, possibly as a gift from Maria Szymanowska. The other version is based on some notes found in the poet's drafts of 'Pan Tadeusz'. They indicate that the history of Wojski's cookbook was inspired by one Mickiewicz received during his stay in Wielkopolska from Honorata Skórzewska of Kopaszewo. As he was regularly invited to parties where exquisite food was a matter of his hosts' honour in St Petersburg and in Wielkopolska, either place could have occasioned Mickiewicz's getting an Old Polish culinary compendium. Nevertheless it is the latter which we find more plausible (without rejecting all of Odyniec's version).

Keywords

EN

MICKIEWICZ'S ADAM COOKBOOK

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Ruch Literacki
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 4-5
• Pages: 355-367
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ziembinski J.

• J. Ziembinski, Uniwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, Wydzial Filologiczny, pl. Sejmu Slaskiego 1, 40-032 Katowice, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA00932161