SC - medicinal cooking

[Thomas Gloning]

Two of our printed German 16th century cookbooks are explicitly made "for
the sick".

- -- Ein Köstlich new Kochbuch Von allerhand Speisen/ an Gemüsen/ Obs/
Fleisch/ Geflügel/ Wildpret/ Fischen vnd Gebackens. Nit allein vor
Gesunde: sondern auch vnd fürnemlich vor Krancke/ in allerley Kranckheiten
vnd Gebrästen (...) künstlich vnd nützlich zuzurichten vnnd zugebrauchen.
(...) Mit fleiß beschrieben durch F. Anna Weckerin/ Weyland Herrn D.
Johann Jacob Weckers/ des berümbten Medici, seligen/ nachgelassene Wittib.
Amberg 1598. [roughly: A valuable (?) new cookbook ... not only for
healthy people but also and above all for sick people with all sorts of
illnesses and sufferings ... by Anna Weckerin, widow of the famous medical
doctor Johann Jacob Wecker.] -- Reprint München 1977.

- -- W. Ryff (Gualtherius Ryffius): Kochbuoch/ Für die Krancken (...).
Frankfurt a.M. 1545. [roughly: cookbook for the sick.] -- Reprint Lindau
1979. There is a bibliography on the works of Ryff by J. Benzing in
Philobiblon 2 (1958) 126-154 and 203-226.

In addition, there are several articles or book chapters about the
connection between medieval cooking recipes and medical beliefs by
- -- Terence Scully,
- -- Trude Ehlert, 
- -- Ria Jansen-Sieben
- -- Melitta Weiss-Amer (in 'Du Manuscrit à la table'
A cook can contribute to _preserve_ good health, but she or he can also
contribute to regain good health. Anna Wecker says about her husband, that
he preferred 'healing from the kitchen' to 'healing from the apothecary'
("jederzeit lieber auß der Kuchen/ dann auß der Apotecken curirt vnd
geholffen").

Cheers,
Thomas 













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