[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 124, Issue 15

[Galefridus Peregrinus]

JIMCHEVAL at aol.com said:

In the West, I think that's easy: Anthimus (who includes actual recipes 
in

what is essentially a dietetic work). Cato doesn't touch on the idea in 
his

  collection of recipes and Galen's passing instructions on preparing 
food

are too  cursory to be recipes. (Pseudo-) Apicius doesn't touch on the 
idea

at all.



I'd surprised if you get any further back than works attributed to

Hippocrates for the general theory, though I believe he's thought to 
have had

older models. Going forward, Aldebrandino and Arnaldus may have been the 
first

to provide some detailed instructions for making food as part of 
dietetic

works.  It's more implied than specific in the first cookbooks, though 
Scully

does a  good job of teasing out the humoral underpinnings of the 
original

Viandier (as  opposed to the highly corrupt first published version).

Yeah, I'm pretty certain that there's nothing prior to Hippocrates, and 
I had already figured out what you say in your first paragraph. In the 
East, Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq (10th century) appears to be the earliest 
extant source to integrate humoral practice into a cookbook. But I note 
that Hippocrates' Regimen is very detailed, and I want to do an item by 
item comparison with the Taqwim al-Sihha (11th century) to see whether 
Ibn Butlan used Hippocrates as his primary source.


-- Galefridus