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> Lady Brighid,
> Yes, I've seen kid/lamb as alternatives to veal as well. 
> Would you please share the health manual you mentioned (full
> name etc.)?
> 
> Serian

Here's the record from the Library of Congress website.

LC Control Number: 97214852  
Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.) 
Personal Name: Lobera de Avila, Luis, 1480-1551. 
Main Title: Banquete de nobles caballeros / Luis Lobera de Ávila. 
Edition Information: 1. ed. 
Published/Created: San Sebastián : R & B Ediciones, 1996. 
Description: 227 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. 
ISBN: 8488947593 
Subjects: Gastronomy--History--16th century.
Cookery, Spanish--History--16th century. 
Series: Coleccíon Textos gastronómicos ; 12. 
Variant Series: Collección de textos gastronómicos ; 11 
LC Classification: TX641 .L62 1996 
Dewey Class No.: 641/.01/3094609031 
Other System No.: (OCoLC)37275713 


Lobera de Avila was the court physician to the Spanish emperor Carlos V.  His 
health manual has commentaries on various foods and their effects on health.  
(Which ones are dry or damp, hot or cold, and how they affect the humors.)  He 
quotes a lot of the classical authorities ("Avicenna says that blah blah blah 
interferes with digestion and promotes the flow of blah blah blah...").

Anyway, I took a quick look at what he had to say about beef, and none of it 
was complimentary.  Platina agrees (of course, he's mostly quoting the same 
classical authorities) that beef is not as healthy as veal.

Brighid



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