SC - Re: Substitution - Response Phlip
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Seton1355 at aol.com
Fri Apr 21 10:39:32 PDT 2000
Really good post cousin!! Makes me want to try even harder to make an
authentic meal!!
Phillipa S
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Problem the first:
We are so used to a wide availability of different foods in all seasons,
that it is often difficult for us to remember that they might not have had
access to, ....SNIP...we need to know that they had it available out of
season, at least
occasionally.
Problem the Second
Their health theories, regarding the balance of the humors, are very
different from our modern theories regarding the balances of flavors and
nutrition.
The reason for sticking to the exact recipes and menus they produced is to
get an understanding for how they balanced their foods and menus, and how
far they might have allowed a particular food's humor to be out of balance.
We do the same sort of things today, just from a different point of view.
How many of us enjoy a cold beer with a bowl of hot chili? Or a dry red wine
with a beef roast? As good as that tastes to us, a Medieval person might
well have wanted a different, sweeter wine, to balance the perceived hot,
dry nature of mature beef.
Phlip
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