[Sca-cooks] Anything going on?
Galefridus Peregrinus
galefridus at optimum.net
Thu Sep 1 08:05:12 PDT 2016
Resending with apologies and a meaningful subject line.
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
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