[Sca-cooks] What's cooking in Medieval Italy?

Gretchen Beck grm at andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Nov 2 15:06:29 PDT 2007



--On Friday, November 02, 2007 2:22 PM -0700 "Laura C. Minnick" 
<lcm at jeffnet.org> wrote:

> Is the boiled v.
> roasted meat thing common to medieval medical theory?


This impression I've gotten it's not so much roasted vs boiled (which 
would, of course, be easy), as that you have to roast and boil the right 
types of meats and the right cuts, and eat them in the right seasons of the 
year to balance the humors.

toodles, margaret



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