[Sca-cooks] The prohibition of the metal fork to convey organic substance...

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

That's clear. What's not clear is why you think such a prohibition  existed.
 
You began by quoting (as I understand) a Spanish critic who gave no source  
for his claim. When you provided a possible source, it turned out that 
tracked  back to a story from Peter Damian - with the very large hitch that 
someone had  added language which does not exist in Damian's original. Nor is 
there any  evidence that this idea was even referenced before the second half 
of the  twentieth century.
 
So all we seem to have at this point is one critic's unsubstantiated claim, 
 no?
 
Why then would we be trying to locate a passage in the Bible that relates  
to a prohibition that may never have existed? Shouldn't the first step be to 
 find some evidence that it DID exist?
 
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 5/14/2014 4:59:21 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
lordhunt at gmail.com writes:

My  intention is that we try to locate a passage in the Bible that could 
mean that  the metal fork was prohibited because if used to convey organic 
food to the  mouth it could poison the user and he could, therefore, die of “
the plague"  incurred by  this.