According to Desmond Seward in _The Monks of War_ (Penguin 1995),
Enrique de Villena, who became Master of the Order of Calatrava
in 1404 and died in retirement in 1434, "...compiled the first
Spanish cookery book, the _Arte Cisoria_. So bizarre are the
latter's recipes that some historians believe they hastened his
early demise".

Anyone got some samples?

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