[Sca-cooks] A question about meat-
Antonia Calvo
dama.antonia at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 12:44:05 PST 2010
Gretchen Beck wrote:
>> Apparently, Charlemagne's doctors were after him to eat only boiled
>> meats, but he loved roasted meat so that's what he ate, dammit! So I'm
>> wondering, does boiling vs roasting change the fat and/or cholesterol etc
>> ratios?
>>
>
> Isn't it a matter of humoral theory? Roasted meats would be dry (and those
> meats that started out "dry" in nature, dryer still), while boiled meats
> would be "wet" (or at least moist).
>
I'm afraid I don't have a book on this subject to hand, but I believe
boiled meats are considered cooler than roasted meats. (AFAIK, the fat
content wasn't the issue, and fat wasn't really condemned by medical
science until centuries later.)
--
Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
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Habeo metrum - musicamque,
hominem meam. Expectat alium quid?
-Georgeus Gershwinus
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