El cocinero cómico: Maestro de los fogones y de la palabra

Abstract

Although it has some antecedents in the Dorian Sicilian Comedy and the Old Comedy, the figure of the cook acquires special features in the Middle and New Comedy, where it appears well characterized. Together with his absolute lack of shame and his fondness of robbing, it stands out his charlatanry among his defining features, which he often uses to hide the others. With a lofty and sententious language, he exposes in long parliaments cookery rules and his own skills to raise his trade to the category of art and fool his interlocutors.