BOUN APPETITO, YOUR HOLINESS

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1998. Hardcover. Teal and white boards. Fine, in fine dust wrapper. 377 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. The authors reveal not only the culinary secrets of the papal kitchens but offer many of\ the favorite recipes with which the Holy Fathers regaled themselves. We meet the thirteenth-century Pope, Martin IV, whose excessive love of eels literally killed him; Leo X, who favored sugared capons covered in gold leaf; and Pius IX, known as an ascetic, who always ate a simple but nutritious lunch, punctually at two o'clock, invariably washed down with a glass of the finest Bordeaux. Recipes included. Interior, boards, and dust wrapper pristine. Covered in protective mylar.