[Sca-cooks] Re: Humors & end of meals

[iasmin at comcast.net]

> Consider that one generally wants to "close the stomach" after a meal.  the[...]
> Food and drink that will close the
> stomach, like cheeses, would be desirable at the end of a meal [....]
> I lack good references at hand to give examples, though.

Platina's entries on cheese are a great place to start:

"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." 

Platina. (c. 1465/1998). De honesta voluptate et valetudine (On Right Pleasure and Good Health). Mary Ella Milham, translator. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Board of Regents for Arizona State University. ISBN: 0866982086.  


Iasmin