[Sca-cooks] Metal Poisoning from the fork

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

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?