SC - Spanish food/health manual

[david friedman]

At 1:20 AM -0500 1/21/00, Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:
>I just got in an intersting book via ILL.  It's a modern reprint of a 16th
>century Spanish food/health manual.  (In Spanish -- it hasn't been
>translated that I know of.)
>
>The book is "Banquete de Nobles Caballeros" ("Banquet of Noble
>Gentlemen") by Luis Lobera de Avila, who was physician to the Spanish
>Emperor Carlos V...

This sounds a lot like the _Taciunum Sanitatas_, which is a Latin 
version of an Arabic original. We have two modern editions in 
translation with illustrations, _A Medieval Health Handbook_ and _The 
Four Seasons of the House of Cerrutti_ (that's by memory, so I may 
not have them exactly right.) This book gives, for each food or 
activity, its nature by the theory of the humors, its benefits, its 
risks, and how to neutralize the risks.

Elizabeth/Betty Cook

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