[Sca-cooks] Thoughts on food as medicine

[Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps]


As your focus is Italian you might wish to to check the Islamic connection 
via Sicily around the time of it's conquest by the Normans as well as 
Venice's commerce with the Ottoman empire.  That recent issue of Saudi 
Aramco World has a short article on medicine in our period and discusses 
what was translated out of Arabic.

Daniel