[Sca-cooks] Nutrition based on the four humors

David Walddon david at vastrepast.com
Wed Nov 3 16:51:12 PDT 2010


Not online. 
It is available in the proceedings and also available in the Feudal Gourmet series. 
Eduardo


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Food is life. May the plenty that graces your table truly be a VAST REPAST. 

David Walddon
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On Nov 3, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Euriol of Lothian wrote:

> 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
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> 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. 
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> Eduardo 
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> Food is life. May the plenty that graces your table truly be a VAST REPAST. 
> 
> David Walddon
> david at vastrepast.com
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> On Nov 3, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Euriol of Lothian wrote:
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>> 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>
>> To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
>> 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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>>> E.
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>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 17:08:07 -0400
>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> Shoshana
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