The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Girolamo Benzoni (1519 - 1570)
Italian historian Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Benzoni Authority - early modernReferences in Documents:
Houswifery and Houshold-stuff.
of the Root of the Hyjucca Mexicana.
They first pound it,
and press out the Juyce; which is of a
noxious (say some,
of a deadly) quality: and the Pulp of the Root is reduced e)
De script.
Hort. Farnes
Out of
nerdesand
Oviedus
to a Cake. These Cakes they fry, or rather
bake over a gen
tle fire, and so set them in the Sun to
dry, for their Bread.
The thicker Cakes, called Cassavi, and
eaten by the poorer
sort. The thiner, called Sciam Sciam, by the Rich. (e) In
f)
all the Ships that were bound from
f)
Americ. l. 4.
c. 28
with Cassavi-Bread. That is, instead of Bisco't.