[Sca-cooks] Nutrition based on the four humors

[Suey]

Emilio wrote in reference to problems of documentation of the late 
Middle Ages:
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> Alas, there is no detailed documentation either. They state a few passages back:
> "According to the physicians of the age ...".
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> Three of them are highly relevant for 12th century Spain, Maimonides, Averroes
> and Avenzoar. However, two questions remain.
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> First, which aspects of their statements go back to the ancient tradition and
> which are based on experience of their own time?
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> Second, what can one conclude from the prescriptive and doctrinal medical
> writings to actual food habits?
Here there is a lot I do not understand. Yes, I have tried to study the 
ancients and of course paid a lot of attention to Maimonides, Averroes 
and Avenzoar. I find I cannot grasp the four humors. When I plan a menu 
I am not thinking: Sanguine, Choleric, Melacholy or Phegmatic and I 
don't think any medieval cook was either unless he was a PhD in nutrition!

I understand Maimonides when he prescribes chicken broth! - Grammy and 
mom did too. Today, we understand Avenzoar with his use of aloe vera but 
I am overwhelmed with medieval menus - to me they are common sense 
prescribed by Ziryab.
Suey






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> I do know Mistress Olwen and I have sent her a message regarding this, but
> it's been going on for some time...I've not received a response from her but
> will try again.
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> Kiri
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> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Susan Lin<susanrlin at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> In my spam folder I just found an e-mail from someone called Olwin the Old.
>> The body of the e-mail looked suspect so I just deleted it but it came into
>> the SCA-Cooks group.
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>> Don't know if anybody knows this good gentle but they might want to give
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>> a heads-up to check that his e-mail account has not been hacked.
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>> Shoshana
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