[Sca-cooks] Bardic Feast, was Sugar Plate/Paste; Stained Glass Sugar

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Pixel, Goddess and Queen wrote:


> Umm. Where do you think the barbaric Franji got the idea in the first
> place? Much of the medieval/Rennaissance medical theory (which includes
> the idea that the humors of raw fruit are unhealthy for you) was Galen and
> contemporaries filtered through--you guessed it--Arab medical treatises.
>
> This is not to say that people didn't eat raw fruit, just that the medical
> theory of the time frowned upon the practice. In both Europe and the Near
> East.

Which treatises, had King John read and observed them more carefully,
might have saved his life. Seems he ate a surfeit of peaches and
apricots, and they turned into lampreys in his stomach and killed him.

Adamantius
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