SC - re: accommodating at feasts

[kat]

Karen Oughton asks:

>It makes you wonder about how people historically must have survived, with
>food allergies - without modern medecine, it must have been difficult to
>identify.

Here's my take on it:

Little Henry, son of a minor landed noble who raises primarily beef on his 
land, has always been a "sickly" child--growing slower than the others, 
always sniffling, seeming to always suffer from some ailment or other.  His 
mother, who dotes on him, believes that cow's milk and plenty of butter and 
cheese will help him grow healthy and strong, and her cook is eager to aid 
her in this process.

Little Henry turns eight (or whatever age) and goes and fosters with a 
cousin's family, way up north near the border where they raise mostly sheep 
or goats.  Amazingly enough, the "change of climate" has cured Henry's 
ills, and he soon grows into a strapping young laddie who is handy with a 
sword.

Lactose intolerance?  What's that?  What cured him was getting him away 
from the warm, moist air and into the cool, dry climate of the hills.  Or, 
perhaps in his father's opinion, getting him away from his overbearing 
mother.  ;-)

Just my two denarii...

	- k


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