Caterina de' Medici, the Florentine Queen of France, admired Michel de Notre Dame, better known as Nostradamus, and asked him several times to reveal her the mysterious influxes of the stars on the human destinies.What did they talk about during their meetings? Surely they looked to the signs of the sky, searching in the Zodiac the keys of happiness and health: but for sure they used to speak of other things. What if they used to meet in the kitchen talking about food and recipes?Caterina brought to Paris food and tastes from her Tuscany, beside the sophisticated conviviality of the Renaissance Fests. Nostradamus, author of prophecies but also doctor and chemist knew the properties of fruits and flowers, of aliments and their preparation. They are two figures symbols of a kitchen tasting and healthy, original and reliable in the meantime in harmony with the nature, in which the pleasure marries the sense of measure, the cure of themselves, the respect of guest's health. A cuisine expressed in dishes as easy to make as excellent at the table. Recipes that could have been written by themselves at four hands, in their mysterious speeches, and that have been dictated in dream to Claudio Nobbio, who proposes us in this book, that is not only a book, not only a poetical recipies book, but also a fantastic tale that have for main characters Beauty and Wisdom.