[Sca-cooks] yet another new topic (TM)

[Elaine Koogler]

I guess the most obvious one is that oysters are good for sexual
enhancement...or so I'm told.  I do know that primitive peoples often
considered that eating part of an animal would give the person that animal's
characteristics...for example, eating the heart of a lion, etc. would give
the person the courage, etc. of that beast.

Kiri
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From: "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at efn.org>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 10:59 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] yet another new topic (TM)


> Hello all!
>
> Yes, Akim, I am interested in what folks are planting. I planted roses at
> Dad's house in Sutherlin but that's as far as I got.
>
> But...
>
> I was wondering (and the thought process is a little convoluted here, so
> bear with me). I"m working on a *special project* (as in my Dearest Love,
> maybe you should skip this paragraph) and needed to find out the
> theological/philosophical properties of flowers as seen in the Middle Ages
> to have something appropriate to put in capitals (I _told_ you this was
> convoluted!) on a scroll. As in violets are for fidelity, etc. I finally
> found what I needed- at least I am satisfied that I can do what I wanted
> there....
>
> Now- what I am thinking and wondering about- do we know of similar
> properties for food? Beyond the four humours, that is. I know that there
> are associations with pears (lust and fecundity being the most immediate)
> and I am wondering are there others? Surely there are. And did people ever
> serve/eat specific food for that reason? Got to be some going on, if
> Chaucer saw fit to use it as a motif in the _Merchant's Tale_.
>
> Does food impart properties, like killing and eating a particular animal
> might give you it's properties- fierceness, bravery, swiftness, whatever?
> Did they think about this in a deliberate manner, or as an afterthought?
> Were there punitive foods? (I believe rice cakes to be a punitive food!)
>
> So, whaddya think?
>
> 'Lainie
> I think it's time for look for a snack!
>
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