Andrew Boorde, 1490-1549

[Falcon]

Andrew Boorde was, amongst other things, a spy for Henry VIII, as well as a physician and playwright. However, he also had this to say:

"Bread made of wheat maketh a man fat, especially when the bread is made of new wheat. Evil bakers will put wheat and barley together. Bread made of these aforesaid corns may fill the gut, but shall never do good to man, no more than bread made of beans and pease will do. Hot bread is unwholesome for any man, for it doth lie in the stomach like a sponge, yet the smell of new bread is comfortable to the head and the heart. Old or stale bread doth dry up the blood, or natural moisture in man, and doth engender ill humours, and is evil and tardy of digestion; wherefore is no surfeit so evil as the surfeit of eating naughty [unwholesome] bread".


Mr Boorde: you rock!

[BigKhanz]

Nice find.

[Falcon]

I just love his terminology: "evil bakers"... Yep!