[Sca-cooks] Metal Poisoning from the fork
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Sun May 11 10:53:45 PDT 2014
So far, I have seen utterly no evidence that they have.
When I say I have seen no evidence, that is after reading a fair number of
church canons and various monastic rules and various other prime sources in
both French and Latin. The Church certainly didn't object to spoons being
used to convey organic food to the mouth; St. Radegund is approvingly
described as helping the poor with these.
So far the only hint of this rule comes from an after-the-fact
interpolation into Peter Damian's eleventh century work.
So before we try to answer "how and why" something happened, shouldn't we
first establish that it did?
Jim Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/)
Beyond Apicius (2): recipes from other Roman sources
_http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/05/beyond-apicius-2-recipes-from-other.ht
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(http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/04/beyond-wine-water-and-beer-what-else.html)
In a message dated 5/11/2014 10:37:50 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
lordhunt at gmail.com writes:
We are getting away from the theory that the Church prohibited using metal
instruments to convey organic food to the mouth. How and why did priests
come to interpret a Biblical passage as meaning the fork was prohibited?
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