The table as political language
Elite Renaissance banquets communicated wealth, alliances and cultural sophistication. Orbis will connect court records, ingredients, techniques and the wider food system rather than reducing culinary history to famous anecdotes.
LEGEND OR TRUTH?
Stories linking Catherine de’ Medici to the invention or introduction of many French dishes are often repeated far more confidently than the surviving evidence allows. Orbis will label these claims by evidence level.