[Sca-cooks] A question about meat-

[Johnna Holloway]

What comes to mind is another book for you to look at--

Medieval dietetics: Food and drink in regimen sanitatis literature  
from 800 to 1400 by Adamson?
(Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1995)
The book explores the connection between cooking and preventive  
medicine by centering on the food and drink section, cibus et potus,  
in 23 medieval Latin and German regimina sanitatis. A brief history of  
the four-humor theory and the six non-naturals is followed by the  
analysis of each regimen, including information on the text, the role  
of cibus et potus
within the non-naturals, its contents (general guidelines on nutrition,
dietetic lists of foodstuffs, and culinary recipes), use of the gradus- 
system, as well as sources and dependencies with other regimina.
In the conclusion the results are arranged in chart-form; an appendix
contains the transcription of a 15th-century German translation of
Anthimus' «De observatione ciborum.»
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Copies are really expensive, if one can be found at all. I would try  
interlibrary loan.
I bought my copy in 2005. It was both expensive and time consuming.

Johnnae
On Feb 16, 2010, at 2:14 PM, Laura C. Minnick wrote:

> As I mentioned just a minute ago, I'm rummaging around in  
> Carolingian France, and I saw something interesting that sort of  
> piqued my curiosity. 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? Were his doctors  
> actually on to something? I haven't been able to find any sort of  
> answer here. (And I'd bet Bear knows where to find out...)
>
> 'Lainie