Diet and Food Pharmacy across the Centuries
Monday 3 October 2022 - SOLD OUT
Wednesday 5 October 2022
This course explores the concepts of superfoods and food pharmacy. From Roman health guidance on meat and knowing how the animal had lived, to the cooling and heating properties of vegetables and their use in treatments, and Anglo-Saxon guidance and theories on the causes of disease, the day will investigate how attitudes to diet have changed as a result of new developments in food and science.
We will make Anglo-Saxon lung pottage and medieval treatments for conditions for coughs and open wounds as well as an inhalation from the 18th century and compound barley water from 100 years later. As the philosophy and knowledge of medicine changes and we discover diet drinks and strengthening broths, we track the corresponding emphasis on diet both to avoid and treat disease together with the discovery and re-discovery of the therapeutic properties of some foods.
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Monday 3 October 2022 - SOLD OUT
Wednesday 5 October 2022
This course explores the concepts of superfoods and food pharmacy. From Roman health guidance on meat and knowing how the animal had lived, to the cooling and heating properties of vegetables and their use in treatments, and Anglo-Saxon guidance and theories on the causes of disease, the day will investigate how attitudes to diet have changed as a result of new developments in food and science.
We will make Anglo-Saxon lung pottage and medieval treatments for conditions for coughs and open wounds as well as an inhalation from the 18th century and compound barley water from 100 years later. As the philosophy and knowledge of medicine changes and we discover diet drinks and strengthening broths, we track the corresponding emphasis on diet both to avoid and treat disease together with the discovery and re-discovery of the therapeutic properties of some foods.
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