SC - Re: Vegetarians, Balanced Meals, and Humors

[Michelle]

I'm really interested in the humors concept - have you got any more
information on it? From what I knew, it wasn't so much hot and cold or wet
or dry as the colours it was - is this wrong?

Michelle

Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:23:37 -0700 (MST)
From: Mary Morman <memorman at oldcolo.com>
Subject: SC -

In reading and writing today about non-meat dishes for feasts, my mind
began to form an analogy.  We've debated on this list before whether
period cooks and diner were -really- that concerned with humoral theory or
whether it was just a little used idea.

Maybe our period counterparts were as culturally set on a humoraly
balanced meal as we are on having one that includes the four food groups.
Not that they wouldn't eat something that wasn't humoraly balanced,
anymore than we will refuse to eat a pizza, but at the same time there's a
strong, learned, cultural imperative when preparing a meal to fix a meat,
a starch, a veggie, and a dessert.  Perhaps the cultural imperative was
just as strong in 1442 to eat or prepare a meal that balanced warm and
cool foods with dry and moist ones.

Just a thought.

Elaina


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