Medieval Ideas About Food

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17 points·simplegeek··5 comments

An interesting article on a terribly unfriendly platform.

Full-page modal that I'm shamed into "dismissing without supporting LitHub", Starlink ads covering half the content; a video ad featuring a guy holding a lapel mic floats over the right side of the page as I start reading, and every two paragraphs get sandwiched between more repeat ads. Hard pass.

I do not see anything like that. Just text with a few pictures. Turn off JS, end of problem.

Yes. I have started to really empathize with the people who choose not to read the linked articles.

I'm continually baffled that there are people on HN that browse the internet without a content blocker. UBlock origin on Firefox, I see none of what you describe. I just wouldn't read anything except Wikipedia if I didn't use them.

The hot/cold food idea seems very similar to that in South Asia, and is fundamental to Ayurvedic traditional medicine.

Some vegetables may have been actually different because they have been bred heavily since, or different varieties have become available.

There were differences between lifestyles.

This article quotes many different sources from places that were far apart. Most sources are 14th or 15th century, but one is 11th century. things probably changed over three or four centuries, and would have been even more different a few centuries earlier.

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