[Sca-cooks] Hoopoe

[emilio szabo]

<< I'm sure someone will correct me, but I can't find that Boccaccio ever 
wrote the Satyricon. >>


It is Petron (Petronius). The text is online. See also _cena trimalchionis_.


<< She is just writing, not checking facts.  And, that's what blogs are for 
- expressing one's own opinions and not necessarily providing "true facts". >>


If I am not mistaken, she took the whole text from another blog with due credit. 
Which make things not better in matters of reliability and use of primary 
sources.

I  found one sentence in an article: Jordi Salas-Salvado and others: Diet and 
dietetics in al-Andalus. In British Journal of Nutrition (2006), 96, Suppl. 1, 
S100-S104.


"Duck, goose, pigeon, partridge and even small birds were a habitual part of the 
diet." (S103).


Alas, there is no detailed documentation either. They state a few passages back: 
"According to the physicians of the age ...".


The principal authors and sources they quote are: 'tratado Nazari sobre 
alimentos', Averroes, Avicenna, Ibn al-Jatib, Ibn Wafid, Avenzoar (Ibn Zuhr), 
and Maimonides.


Three of them are highly relevant for 12th century Spain, Maimonides, Averroes 
and Avenzoar. However, two questions remain. 



First, which aspects of their statements go back to the ancient tradition and 
which are based on experience of their own time?


Second, what can one conclude from the prescriptive and doctrinal medical 
writings to actual food habits?


E.