[Sca-cooks] Metal Poisoning from the fork
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Wed May 14 12:57:51 PDT 2014
I quite agree. But that's not a Biblical prohibition; it was what one might
call "strategic". He didn't cite Biblical passages because his point
wasn't that it was prohibited by the Bible, simply that it was of dubious
association. He could hardly have referenced the passages cited because those do
not single out horse or hare, but in fact also forbid meat like pork; it is
very unlikely then that he had those in mind. But it's also true that pe
ople of Latin culture (which Zachary, though Greek, was) simply disapproved
of eating horse and had for centuries:
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/12/killing-pegasus-history-of-horse-meat.h
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So part of this is simply cultural.
Anyway you cut it, Zachary did not cite a Biblical source himself and it's
hard to reconcile the Church's shifts on these two foods with any
consistent Biblical injunction. Centuries later, the monks' table blessings at St.
Gall included thanks for "the sweet meat of wild horses".
Note by the way that for a long time it was forbidden to fast on
Saturdays, which were viewed as the Jewish Sabbath. Then, all of a sudden, after the
tenth century, fasting on Saturdays became obligatory; and in theory still
is:
"Though the Roman Pontiffs have constantly refused to abrogate the law of
abstaining on Saturday, special indults dispensing with the obligation have
been granted to the faithful in many parts of the world."
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01067a.htm
Again, which corresponds to a Biblical injunction? If either.
Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com
Beyond Apicius (2): recipes from other Roman sources
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/05/beyond-apicius-2-recipes-from-other.htm
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In a message dated 5/14/2014 12:18:19 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
cmupythia at cmu.edu writes:
A quick google book search strongly suggests that Zachary's prohibition
had to do with the practice of non-Christian German tribes of ritual horse
slaughter with a feast following. The theory being "pagan practice = bad",
he forbid it in an attempt to differentiate converted Germans and prevent
backsliding.
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