SC - cheese to begin was desserts

[Gaylin J. Walli]

Bonne asked:

>isn't the beginning of the feast still the wrong place, medievally 
>speaking, no matter the sort of cheese?

I think Platina would say so:

Aged cheese is difficult to digest, of little nutriment, not good for 
the stomach or
belly, and produces bile, gout, pleurisy, sand grains, and stones. 
They say a small
amount, whatever you want, taken after a meal, when is seals the opening of the
stomach, both takes away the squeamishness of fatty dishes and benefits the
digestion and head. (Milham translation, pg. 159)

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