[Sca-cooks] Nutrition based on the four humors

[Euriol of Lothian]

Is that article online? and is there a link to it if it is?

 Euriol




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From: David Walddon <david at vastrepast.com>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wed, November 3, 2010 6:38:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Nutrition based on the four humors

Martino also speaks about adjusting the main ingredient in a dish with a sauce 
to correct the humors. 

See Fish: Food From the Waters Oxford 21997(?) Pesce Cane article by David 
McDonald. 

Also known as David Walddon and Eduardo Lucrezia. 
They certainly were aware of humoral theory sometimes explicitly other times I 
am sure less so. 


Eduardo 


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On Nov 3, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Euriol of Lothian wrote:

> I would have to disagree and say that the Great Cooks were acutely aware of the 
>
> four humors. Terence Scully mentions in, The Art of Cooking in the Middle Ages, 
>
> the following:
> 
> "“In choosing or in elaborating a sauce a cook accepted an enormously serious 
> responsibility. At this time an
> ignorance of the humoral complexion of any ingredient could easily lead to a 
> charge of inadvertently undermining
> someone’s health, or even murder. A cook’s job was in many respects an offshoot 
>
> of that of a physician; he had
> almost as much responsibility.”
> 
> I would also that Martino in Libro de Arte Coquinaria mentions in a number of 
> his recipes the suitability/unsuitability of a dish for particular types of 
> people. The humoral theory was so ingrained in European cultures, and really 
> only was replaced by modern nutrition in the late 19th/early 20th century. 
> 
> 
> Herbals that were printed in the 16th & 17th centuries will note the humoral 
> quality of most of the plants listed in them. In fact there was a push in the 
> 16th century to write herbals in the language native to a region (as opposed to 
>
> Latin) so that the apothecaries were sure to have the correct information about 
>
> the humors of the various herbs that were now more available to them.
> 
> Euriol
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> From: Suey <lordhunt at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Wed, November 3, 2010 5:51:54 PM
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Nutrition based on the four humors
> 
> 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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> 
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>> E.
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>> From: Elaine Koogler<kiridono at gmail.com>
>> To: Cooks within the SCA<sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] another spam or hijacked e-mail
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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.
>> 
>> Kiri
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Susan Lin<susanrlin at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Don't know if anybody knows this good gentle but they might want to give
>>> him
>>> a heads-up to check that his e-mail account has not been hacked.
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