[Sca-cooks] sauces and humoral theory [OOP]
Antonia
dama.antonia at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 16:36:17 PDT 2010
On 9/09/2010 6:06 a.m., David Friedman wrote:
>> There's a decidedly interesting post at The Old Foodie today about
>> which sauces are appropriate for which meats, though she's discussing
>> the 17th century. Quite a list of herbs for sauces humorally hot or
>> cold.
>>
>
> It occurs to me that the modern equivalent of this is _Diet for a
> Small Planet_, which was about how to combine various plant proteins
> to get "complete proteins," and was for a while very popular. I gather
> the current view is that there was little or nothing to it.
There is and there isn't. If you're a vegetarian, you do need to eat a
variety of foods to get all your essential amino acids. You don't need
to do it at every meal, though.
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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
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