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During the last centuries of the Middle Ages there was, all throughout western Europe, a veritable frenzy for gastronomy, for enjoying the pleasures of taste in new and unusual ways. As so it happens nowadays with Michelin star chefs, the then cooks of kings, popes and great nobles began to write down their recipes, which hadn’t been done since the De re coquinaria of the roman Marco Gavio Apicio. In the Iberian Peninsula the oldest text containing one of these recipe books is preserved precisely at the Historical Library of the Universitat de València, and that is the Llibre de Sent Soví, containing 72 recipes from the remote bases of our culinary culture. 

Numerous pieces from not only Valencian museums and archives but also from Spanish and European facilities will illustrate this journey of the senses, including the Sent Soví text itself as well as other related elements, such as account books on banquets, cookers, mortars, trivets, gilded ceramic plates, cooking utensils, cutlery, jugs, glasses, goblets and even some food from the 15th century which, almost miraculously, have been preserved. On top of it all, images from the gothic art illustrating these moments as well as interactive montages will be added to bring the visitors to a lost world of taste and smell.